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Guyana men’s side in action today at Jr Pan Am Hockey Championship
By Rawle Toney
Kaieteur News – An enthused and excited Guyanese men and women side arrived in Barbados and are ready to get into action at this year’s Junior (U21) Pan Am Hockey Championship in Bridgetown.
The men’s side will be grouped with Barbados, the USA and Canada in Pool B, while the women’s unit is set to face Barbados, Canada and Chile in Pool B of their competition.
Pool A for the men’s competition will come from Argentina, Chile and Brazil. In the women’s tournament, the USA, Argentina and Uruguay are in Pool A.
Guyana’s Men’s Hockey team after arriving in Barbados ahead of the Junior Pan Am Hockey Championships.
While the Guyanese men will feature on the tournament’s opening day against the USA, the women’s side take the field on Day Two (April 11) against Canada.
Also on April 11, Guyana’s men’s team will play their game of the tournament, facing off with Barbados.
A clash with Canada on April 13 will wrap up the men’s team group play, where they will hope for a positive result that will see them being one of the two teams to play in the finals on April 17.
The women will play Barbados on April 12, followed by their final Pool B game on April 14 against Chile.
Men’s coach Robert Fernandes in a previous article published in the Kaieteur News said the level of preparation that went into the men’s team should see them being considerably successful in Barbados.
He highlighted that the team have been in preparation mode for almost two years while pointing to their December tour of Barbados, where they played four games against the ‘Bajans’, drawing three and winning their final game.
With the men’s team grouped with two of Pan Am Hockey’s powerhouses in Canada and the USA, Fernandes said his players are not fearful of their opposition.
“The group of players, we had to bring them down (to earth), because they think that there’s no other team in the world that could stop them. So we had to narrow their focus on the small things they need to do to beat these teams,” Fernandes said.
Former National player John Abrahams will be Fernandes’ assistant Coach for the tournament that serves as a Qualifier for the 2023 Junior World Cups.
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