Latest update January 20th, 2025 4:00 AM
GFF Youth Teams intensify preparations for CFU and CONCACAF tourneys
Training for the various National teams will be intensified in the coming weeks as the countdown to their participation in key Caribbean Football Union (CFU) and Concacaf Youth tournaments in the July – September window draw closer.
The U-20 Girls during a warm up exercise.
Guyana is scheduled to participate in six youth tournaments: Concacaf Women’s Under-20 Qualifiers, July 13-21 in Guyana; the preliminary Round of Men’s Under-23 Olympic Qualifier (home & away match), July 21; CFU Girl’s Under-14 – August 1-12 (Group 5) to be held in the Dominican Republic; Concacaf Under-15 Boy’s Championship – August 4-12 at the IMG Academy; Concacaf Under-17 Women’s Championship – August 21- 25 and the Caribbean Football Union Boy’s Under-14, scheduled for September, next.
Preparations, which began in May have seen teams engaged in a weekly schedule of training at the GFF National Training Centre, Providence: “The preparation is taking the form of two weekly sessions for all the youth teams utilizing week days from 16:00hrs – 18:00hrs and weekends when available for an additional two hours,” said Bryan Joseph, GFF’s Youth Development Officer.
Some of the U-14 Boys in training.
“We have been implementing or applying the new strategy relative to how we prepare national teams so we’re not doing short, compressed preparation anymore. We’re doing preparation over a longer period. While the number of sessions do not increase, what increases is the period of time that we are actually spending in preparing the groups,” Joseph added.
Commenting on the composition of the technical squad, Joseph said this is being led by the Technical Department: “We haven’t yet been able to confirm the staff for the various groups even though respective individuals have been identified and have been working with the various groups. There is some overlapping taking place but as we get closer to tournament date and encampment, we’ll finalize the respective staff.”
Under-15 Boys going through a fitness regimen in preparation for the upcoming tournament.
Players are taken from the various Academy Training Centres (ATCs) as well as from scouting activities and those identified by the various Technical Development Officer (TDOs). Detailed lists of provisional squads will soon be available.
For the Concacaf Women’s Under 20 Qualifiers, Guyana has been placed in Group ‘A’ along with Bermuda, Antigua and Barbuda, Suriname and St. Lucia. Matches are scheduled for the National Track and Field Centre, Leonora (Guyana) and Warner Park, St. Kitts & Nevis.
The match schedule for Guyana is as follows:
Date Team Team Time
July 13 Guyana vs Bermuda 18:00hrs
July 19 St. Lucia vs Guyana 18:00hrs
July 21 Guyana vs Suriname 16:00hrs
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