Minister of Sport Dr. Frank Anthony gave some words of encouragement to the female football squad who will be representing Guyana over the next few days against French Guiana and Suriname in the Inter Guiana Games (IGG) Competition.
The Minister along with Director of Sport Neil Kumar paid a visit to the team yesterday at the National Gymnasium during their final practice session before the commencement of their match-up today against French Guiana at the Ayanganna Ground.
He stressed that this was the first ever female football championships and how essential it was to win “you are the first ever female team to represent Guyana at the IGG and it is important that you make a good impression by winning and setting the bar.” “If you have the mindset to win you will do well and defeat your opponents in the process but you must want to win and it will happen once you apply yourselves and maintain discipline” Anthony further added.
Kumar congratulated the team on being the first ever female IGG football team and is positive that from what he has seen in their practice that he will be backing a winning team today.
Coach Nigel Humphrey is confident that they will perform well “we came to Georgetown to represent Guyana and our training has been going very good. We’ve had training sessions both morning and afternoon and once you put together a team and they are learning they will perform.”