Guyana Football Federation (GFF) President Christopher Matthias said CONCACAF’s Director of Legal Affairs Marco Leal and FIFA’s Head of Member Associations Primo Calvalho, will be arriving on local shores today to begin the process of creating a normalization committee.
Speaking exclusively to Stabroek Sports, Matthias said: “To the best of my knowledge they will be here until Wednesday and they are coming to have a committee established to resolve the statutes of the GFF.”
Asked if the GFF welcomes the installation of the committee and if he thinks it will solve the current issues plaguing the sport,
Matthias said: “We will welcome anything that will develop Guyana’s football and rid the institution of all those persons who are not serious of development.
“Once you have individuals bent on having their own personal agenda, the issue will not be solved but minimized”.
Questioned if there is a stipulated time frame by world body for the setting up of the body, he said “I am not too sure, when they arrive they will have the briefing,” he added.
Quizzed who is expected to head the committee, the GFF boss said “I am not too sure. The terms of reference will be made to known to us.”
Asked if the GFF member associations are aware of the new development, he declared “A document will be going out to them.”
“I would have said that with or without me, football will be developed. We can’t continue of yesteryear with no structure. We are talking about structured football. Their reluctance to manage and administer at the association and club levels will have to be reconsidered.”
“The success of all our corporate institutions is because of structured development and it is unthinkable that an arm of FIFA would think there can be development without a structure and this has been encouraged for a number of years. With the absence of structure, you have in the midst individuals fighting for power,” he said.
Matthias added “The entire region is saddened that since the time I got elected, these men spent at entire year and half seeking to destabilize the institution.
Their development plan was to plan how to destroy another person’s development plan.”
