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GFF completes two-phase upgrade at NTC
Kaieteur Sports – The Guyana Football Federation (GFF) is moving full speed ahead on a rapid development trajectory for the sport and especially national players, who will now benefit from two new additions to the National Training Center (NTC) at Providence, East Bank Demerara (EBD).
The Federation was able to recently complete the dormitories ($9.9M GYD) and a new state- of- the- art gym ($12.3M GYD) at the Providence facility; which was displayed to media operatives during a walk- through exercise on Wednesday.
The dormitories and gym are the initial two phases completed in an overall project which will include the Technical offices, laundry and other aspects that will amount to a combined $190,000 USD.
GFF President, Wayne Forde
The air- conditioned dormitory is now sporting new bunk beds with a capacity of up to 38 players at the moment. In addition, a separate self- contained room for a new initiative that the Federation is exploring also highlights the facility.
Speaking at the simple ribbon- cutting event on Wednesday, GFF President Wayne Forde gave some insight into the dorm’s purpose.
Forde explained, “The contact time between players and coaches are very important to their development and if we have good facilities where the boys and girls can enjoy and look forward to coming out here and spend weekends and weeks at a time during their preparation processes, then that will certainly bode well for the contact goals that we’ve set ourselves.”
“That room is dedicated for a parent who, once a youth national team comes into camp, we will interview the parent, of course do our due diligence and background and we will identify a parent who is willing to come and spend some time. Of course, we will compensate them for that time and be a second pair of eyes for the GFF,” Forde added regarding the additional room.
With equipment geared at improving strength and conditioning amongst national players, the ribbon was also cut for a new gym in the lower flat of the NTC.
Technical Director, Bryan Joseph said about the spanking- new facility, “I think this is another step in the right direction. It’s part of the transformation that we’ve been going through with all our national teams. We have, over the past couple of years, improved our performances at all the youth national levels but this component was always missing, not just for football. So, this gym gives us the opportunity to design and implement programmes to help with the strength and conditioning of our players.”
It was also revealed that the GFF will be moving to relocate its Technical Department to the NTC, so as to foster a more hands on approach by those officials.
“The Technical department would be relocated from the Guyana Football Federation secretariat and Mr. Bryan Joseph and his team will be working completely out of the National Training Center. It makes all the sense in the world, here is where the coaches will be, where all the programmes will be run so we want to bring the technical team closer to the action,” President Forde noted.
The GFF President also expressed a desire to make the facilities available to other sport disciplines, at a cost, should they make a request to utilise the GFF’s dormitory and gym facilities.
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