In preparation for the Caribbean Zone 2015 Women’s Olympic Qualifiers, the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) has officially reappointed former Lady Jaguars head tactician Mark Rodrigues yesterday to the helm of the resuscitated programme.
Rodrigues, in a brief comment said that he was very excited to be reappointed to the post adding that it was simply a continuation of when he was appointed in 2009 and what the team achieved in 2010 by qualifying for the CONCACAF Gold Cup.
According to Rodrigues, the achievements of the female project in 2010 helped with the launch of youth development in the nation, especially from the female perspective.
Guyana is currently in group-4 along with the Cuba and hosts St, Kitts and Nevis and will open their campaign on August 21st against the host nation. They will then end their tourney on August 25th against Cuba.
Group-1 which will be hosted by Puerto Rico, will comprise of Grenada, Haiti and Aruba while group-2 will consist of St Lucia, Antigua and Barbuda, the Cayman Islands and hosts Trinidad and Tobago.
Suriname will act as hosts for group-3 and will battle the likes of Dominican Republic, Dominica and Jamaica for a berth in the next round. Unlike the male version which has an u-23 age limit, the female edition will not have an age stipulation for the qualifiers.
Following the conclusion of the CFU stages, the top three teams will progress to the 2016 CONCACAF Olympic Tournament.