GFF launches phase one of Forward Project

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Associates took place,” he added.

“This is a monumental step for the development of football. The design emphasis of the facility is one where we can produce the best possible players so much of the conceptual design that you see is going to be tweaked a bit so that facility caters for the development of those athletes,” he said. GFF is not involved in that by any means. This is a business relationship between Greenfield and FIFA Developmental Arm,” he said.

Quizzed about the total price of the project, Forde said, “We don’t know that yet because they are some tweaking that will be done to the existing concept that has been developed and with that they will be cost implications so we don’t know that as yet. But they are certain specific aspects of the designing that will certainly influence costs. Once we know that we will share that information. at one of our press conferences, is that we also negotiated with FIFA to have one synthetic surface in each member association and we are working very hard so that is done as well.”

“We want to have a situation where football is not interrupted by the weather pattern we usually experience in Guyana but at the same time our members can have a venue that they can call their own. It is unfortunate that after so many years, the GFF is still working towards having a home of its own but this is the situation that we are in and we have to make the best of it. The way that we project the installation of the synthetic turf within our member associations, the next member we are targeting would be Linden and then the third member we are looking at will be the Rupununi Football Association. Thereafter we will reevaluate the situation and prioritize the next three members in line,” he said.