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Seven of Guyana’s most talented young football players will participate in the Sporting Kansas City trial matches scheduled for Trinidad and Tobago next week.
Sporting Kansas City is an American professional soccer club based in Kansas City, Missouri.
The club, which changed its name from the Kansas City Wizards for the 2011 season, participates in Major League Soccer.
According to the Kashif and Shanghai Organisation, the club will host a series of trial matches next week in the twin-island republic to draft players into the club for them to participate in the American Soccer League.
Matches are scheduled for December 2, 4 and 5.
The Kashif and Shanghai Organization said they will take care of the players’ airfare, meals and accommodation while they are in Trinidad.
The players selected were Colin Nelson (Beacon United), Clive Andries (Buxton United), Richie Richards (Alpha United), Chris Camacho (Alpha United), Denvor Dennis (Buxton United) and Chris DeNobrega (Milerock).
Ryan Crandon was also selected to participate in the project but will miss the trials as he has been selected to the Guyana Golden Jaguars team.
The players were selected by a committee comprising of Guyana’s top football coaches in Wayne Dover, Collie Hercules and Linden France.
Yesterday, President of the FC Santa Rosa, Keith Look Loy, who heads FIFA’s Win in CONCACAF programme, and who is responsible for assembling players from around the globe for the tryouts, attended a press briefing with Aubrey Major and Kashif Muhammad along with the seven selected players. There, Look Loy said that this was a project that the Sporting Kansas City has put into motion to scout young football talent from around the world between the ages of 17 and 22 and give them an opportunity to try and make it to a higher level of football.
He said so far there have been approximately 50 players from three continents that were selected for the tryouts and if all goes well the following year that number will increase.
Look Loy stated firmly that this is part of a development programme for football and the players and in no way has the Kashif and Shanghai organization or any other body involved, received compensation for the selection of the players for the programme.
The Kashif and Shanghai organization stated that this was just another way of them helping the development of football in Guyana. They said they have been doing it over a decade as they see that football in Guyana really needs to be developed.
