Following the chaotic period that had engulfed Guyana’s football landscape prior to the installation of the Clinton Urling-led Interim Management Committee (IMC) and his subsequent victory at the November 2015 Electoral Congress, Guyana Football Federation (GFF) President Wayne Forde had promised a new approach to the governance of the sport.
In his acceptance speech, Forde, shortly after thanking members of the football fraternity for expressing their confidence and faith in his team to transform the sport’s image, spoke of the years they had listened to the cries for a new style of governance that would be inclusive and impartial and offer the possibility of real development.
“I can tell you with complete confidence that change has come to Guyana’s football. We expect that this is going to be a challenging task, but I am confident in the members that I have here before me and I am also very confident in the support that we will receive from the football fraternity, the media, the Government, the private sector and all stakeholders,” Forde told the gathering of supporters.