-General Secretary Adonis
General Secretary of the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) Noel Adonis said yesterday this issue of former national player Anthony `Awo’ Abrams’s unauthorized transfer from Alpha United to Suriname Club Leo Victor was engaging the attention of his organization.
“This is a matter that has been engaging our attention. It is an important issue and one we have to address. It is a matter of an individual who, as far as we are concerned, operated outside of the transfer regulations of FIFA,” Adonis told Stabroek Sport in an invited comment yesterday.
On Thursday at a press conference held at the Waterchris Hotel, president of the Alpha United Football Club Odinga Lumumba called on the GFF to address the issue.
Adonis said the GFF was dealing with the issue.
“We are in contact with the Suriname Football Federation (FVB) We can’t go directly to the club. They are the ones to contact Leo Victor. He added:”There are channels. We don’t feel those channels have been exhausted but some people tend to believe that things should happen more quickly than the regulations permit.
The fact of the matter is that we don’t think the issue warranted the type of prominence it received but other people will have different opinions.”
Questioned as to whether Abrams did receive a transfer from the GFF Adonis responded by saying. “What I can say is that initially his move to Suriname was legitimate but subsequently there were new developments in that he came back, was playing in Guyana and then he decided to go back in contravention of the rules and regulations pertaining to football transfers by FIFA.”
Adonis had called on the authorities to ban the player for approxitamely two to three years but according to Adonis the GFF had suspended Abrams since last November on account of the issue.
“It’s indefinite,” he said of the extent of the suspension adding “Until we would have been able to resolve it.”