Letter to the Sports Editor...Concerned fans write Joseph Blatter, President of FIFA on Guyana’s football

Letter to the Sports Editor…Concerned fans write Joseph Blatter, President of FIFA on Guyana’s football

May 24, 2014 Sports

A group of football enthusiasts led by Jim Parks has written to FIFA President Joseph Blatter on the football situation in Guyana. Here is the letter:

Dear Mr Blatter,
Guyana’s Football is going through a period that requires intervention by the World Governing body. In Mr Klass’s time there was some level of inefficiency but accountability was the watch word.
Under this regime which was in office for one (1) year, the pilfering of the funds is evident and plentiful. The present President is running the football in a dictatorial manner, because all the decisions are being done by him and him alone due to the lack of Quorums at Executive Meeting. As a matter of fact only two (2) executives are functioning yet decisions are being made when the constitution calls for four (4) persons to be present. This Federation is unconstitutional and undemocratic.
The President, Mr Christopher Matthias has been spending in ways not conducive to football development. The Executives recently received increases in stipend, earning more money than staff who has been working in the office in excess of ten (10) years and the Federation is cash strapped and has lots of debtors.
Guyana has not played an International Match in excess of one (1) year and counting. Donors and Sponsors want less to do with Football. Even the Government is wary of the situation.
The money is being used for other reasons other than for football development. The Grass Root money came to Guyana but not one root was looked at and all the money is finished. Other monies came in and it was and or is being used for other areas.
In the last Congress, Mr Matthias fought off a motion of no confidence against him by using trickery. The Referees, Coaches, the Women Association, and three (3) of the largest affiliates Georgetown Football Association, East Demerara Football Association and East Bank Football Association wanted him removed. He used unbecoming tactics at the meeting which caused a walk out. He allowed three (3) Interim Management Committees to vote when that was against the GEE rules, custom and practice. FIFA is also being judged as a MAFIA after they had representatives here who concurred with all that was going on.
FIFA must send now, not later, a fact finding commission to have a look and see how football is being run in Guyana. Have confidential interviews with persons of interest, and you will be amazed with the skullduggery and lack of vision that is being perpetuated in Guyana.
Install an IMC to oversee the football and instruct them to have elections within a time frame after ensuring that all the other IMCs get their house in order.
Mr President of FIFA, I can go on and on, but send your troops down to little Guyana for a full and forensic investigation and then judge for yourself and see if that is what FIFA stands for.
Yours in Sport,
Jim Parks and other
Concerned Football Enthusiasts

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