U15 Boys Going Through A Fitness Regimen In Preparation For The Upcoming Tournament
Training for the various National teams will be intensified in the coming weeks as the countdown to their participation in key Caribbean Football Union (CFU) and Concacaf youth tournaments in the July – September window draw closer.
Guyana is scheduled to participate in six youth tournaments: Concacaf Women’s Under-20 Qualifiers, 13th-21st July 2019 to be held in Guyana; preliminary Round of Men’s Under-23 Olympic Qualifier (home & away match), 17th– 21st July 2019; CFU Girl’s Under-14, 1st – 12th August 2019 (Group 5) to be held in the Dominican Republic; Concacaf Under-15 Boy’s Championship, 4th-12th August 2019 to be held at the IMG Academy, Concacaf Under-17 Women’s Championship, 21st – 25th August and the Caribbean Football Union Boy’s Under-14 scheduled for September 2019.
Bryan Joseph
Preparations, which began in May, saw teams engaged in a weekly schedule of training at the GFF National Training Centre, Providence: “The preparation is taking the form of two weekly sessions for all the youth teams utilizing week days from 16:00hrs – 18:00hrs and weekends when available for an additional two hours,” said Bryan Joseph, GFF’s Youth Development Officer. “We have been implementing or applying the new strategy relative to how we prepare national teams so we’re not doing short, compressed preparation anymore. We’re doing preparation over a longer period. While the number of sessions do not increase, what increases is the period of time that we are actually spending in preparing the groups,” Joseph added.
Commenting on the composition of the technical squad, Joseph said this is being led by the Technical Department: “We haven’t yet been able to confirm the staff for the various groups even though respective individuals have been identified and have been working with the various groups. There is some overlapping taking place but as we get closer to tournament date and encampment, we’ll finalize the respective staff.”
Players are taken from the various Academy Training Centres (ATCs) as well as from scouting activities and those identified by the various Technical Development Officers (TDOs). Detailed lists of provisional squads will soon be available
For the Concacaf Women’s Under 20 Qualifiers, Guyana has been placed in Group A along with Bermuda, Antigua and Barbuda, Suriname and St. Lucia. Matches are scheduled for the National Track and Field Centre, Leonora (Guyana) and Warner Park, St. Kitts & Nevis.
The match schedule for Guyana is as follows:
13th July – Guyana vs Bermuda @ 18:00hrs; 19th July – St. Lucia vs Guyana @ 18:00hrs and 21st July – Guyana vs Suriname @ 16:00hrs
Training schedule for national teams is as follows:
| Day | Morning | Evening
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| Monday | 4pm U14 Boys
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| Tuesday | 4pm U23 Boys/
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| Wednesday | 4pm U17/20 Girls
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| Thursday | 4pm U15 Boys
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| Friday | 4pm U23 Boys
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| Saturday | 10am U14 Boys
12noon U15 Boys |
2pm U14 Girls
4pm U17/20 Girls
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