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Letter to the Sports Editor – Golden Jaguars: Wayne Forde GFF unprofessional
Dear Sports Editor,
We the players of the Guyana National Football Team (Golden Jaguars) are forced to highlight our plight under the Wayne Forde-led administration of the Guyana Football Federation.
Last week, Mr. Forde did a big interview and as it seems to us, taking credit for the achievements of the national team in the current Concacaf Nations League.
Based on how we see it, his promotion of self is enabled by a weak administration that allows him and his Technical Director Bryan Joseph to run the GFF as a two-man show.
We wish to point out the following:-
- The GFF owes players for engagements since August of this year with no official word from the GFF. They send a letter before each engagement stating what the match fees and other financial arrangements will be which we must sign before travel. But after that, the GFF never meets the deadline for payment and no one in the GFF has the courtesy (not the President, the General Secretary, or the Technical Director) to communicate with the players that payment will be late. Instead, it is always the Manager Rawle Adams and Coach Jamaal Shabazz who have to come and speak to us and pacify a situation.
So much so that is unknown to the public if Coach Shabazz had not convinced us to focus on the game and he will ensure we get paid before November, the Golden Jaguars would not have played.
- Mr Forde has signed a MOU with a group Blackpool to bring “top players to the programme”. This was another PR stunt.
Those of us based in England laughed at the release since no Premier League player will come to play for Guyana under the current administrative conditions.
Flight arrangements are terribly done…Sometimes you get your itinerary hours before leaving whether it’s from Guyana, UK or North America.
So instead of creating a more professional environment, Mr. Forde is looking to bring in Premier League players with his administration operating in amateur mode.
- Another big factor is that, while Mr Forde uses every opportunity to self-promote very few people in the public know the players. There is no plan by the GFF to market the players, at home or abroad. Yet if you check the media over the last four years Wayne Forde is the star of the show.
- Local league football is at its lowest with the GFF running a one-round league where each team played only nine matches. Now, the GFF running a league cup where each team plays four matches. This puts the locally based players at a serious disadvantage when it comes to team selection.
Under Mr Forde’s administration in eight years, Guyana has played less league football than under the Fifa-appointed Normalization Committee in two years.
- We feel that if the Guyana Golden Jaguars are to achieve its full potential Mr. Forde may have to step down or make the Guyana Football Federation a more professionally run organization.
As players who give our best for Guyana, we think we deserve better than what the current GFF administration is giving.
Senior Players Representative of the Guyana Golden Jaguars.
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