The eventual champion of the inaugural One Guyana President’s Cup football will pocket $2,000,000, with players set to receive a minimum of $80,000 per match amongst the many financial incentives penciled for the championship, according to an official release.
The correspondence stated that players and coaches will receive financial compensation for each fixture in the regional tournament.
“Apart from the $2M up for grabs for the winner, each player will pocket $80,000 per match. Team captains will receive $100,000. The head coach of each team will receive $100,000, while members of his coaching staff are to receive $80,000. Each team advancing to the quarter-finals will pocket $200,000, and each semi-finalist will collect $400,000. Second place team to get $1M and third place $500,000. For the current Inter-Ward stage, cash prizes are awarded to the respective winners”, the release stated.
Guyana Football Federation (GFF) President Wayne Forde said, “With the huge committed incentives being offered by President Ali, I would like to encourage more young men to step forward and represent their community thus increasing their chances of making the final regional squad.”
He added, “The One Guyana President’s Cup has opened up a new frontier in Community football. We are already seeing quality young players that we not part of the established football grid.”
President Irfaan Ali has asked for the full commitment of the players.
“This doesn’t take away the community football and the small goal football. That is an important part of community life and building up capacity. But, here is where you have a serious national tournament that is geared at identifying a pool of national players that will go into an academy, that will have a three-year engagement to ensure that they’re doing the right thing, that they are disciplined, that they’re practising and having the right nutrition and they are having an opportunity to have a future after football,” he declared.
