Women’s football has become the flavour of the month for many of our local ‘experts’. The recently concluded CONCACAF Girls Under-17 Football Championships gave an insight into the current state of the women’s game and the realities of the future.
Guyana finished their Group-D campaign winless, losing to Barbados 1-5 and Cuba 0-8 in lopsided contests. While fleeting moments of quality were witnessed from the hosts during the two encounters, the aforesaid score-lines did not truly reflect the huge disparity in the standard of play between the visitors and the hosts.
Development was the term adopted by the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) as the objective of the tournament. How does women’s football fit into that spectrum when the talent pool is basically nonexistent? The GFF continues to place the cart before the horse in the interest of political publicity and mileage.