Guyana's Football team, the Yana Dòkò, finally leaves for Belize, this Wednesday, November 13, as part of the Concacaf Nations League. They will arrive tomorrow Thursday on site to play their match in the evening. A decision by the new management of the Guyana Football League which is explained on Guyane La 1ère.
Published on November 13, 2024 at 10:09 a.m.,
updated November 13, 2024 at 10:10 a.m.
After a multitude of adventures, the Yana Dòkò will play their match tomorrow evening in Belize.
This Wednesday, November 13, the players of the Guyana football team will finally take off from Felix Eboué airport to reach this country on the east coast of Central America, via Miami.
The Yana Dòkò will arrive tomorrow, Thursday, and will play this Gold Cup play-off match against Belize the same day in the evening.
The decision was taken by the brand new president of the Guyana Football League, Steven Caroupanapoullé.
According to him, “we must not miss this deadline”. The outgoing president of the League had decided to renounce the participation of Yana Dòkò in the Concacaf Nations League, “for budgetary reasons”. President since 2010, Marcel Bafau resigned last Sunday.
For Steven Caroupanapoullé, newly elected, he “We had to find solutions to protect ourselves from major sanctions to come.”
According to the new president of the League, if the Guyana selection did not participate in the competition, it would have been fined 100,000 euros for each match. The League also risked losing the $850,000 paid in two stages by Concacaf.
Another possible sanction: the removal of Guyana, all categories combined within Concacaf. For Steven Caroupanapoullé, it would have been “destroyer for the League” to forfeit.
“Monday evening, we were almost forfeited, in a critical situation in terms of financial investments, but on Tuesday, we found a possibility” to make the players leave, explains the new president of the League on Guyana La 1era.
This movement is done with “drastic reductions on the number of people in the delegation and on the profiles of the selected players”he adds.
The selection is made up only of local players from our championship. There are no players playing in France. In addition, they are accompanied by Laurent Viltar, U23 coach. The coach of Yana Dòkò, Jean-Claude Darcheville, and his staff decided not to leave in such degraded conditions.
“We have mobilized all the necessary resources,” specifies Steven Caroupanapoullé.
Objective number 1 was to avoid withdrawal and sanctions, objective number 2 is to obtain qualification.
Steven Caroupanapoullé, president of the League
“We are all in this together and we must be resilient and put our differences aside”he adds, ruling out any conflict with Yana Dòkò coach, Jean-Claude Darcheville.
Finally, the players of the local football team will defend the colors of Guyana by competing in the play-off matches for the Gold Cup between Guyana and Belize, starting tomorrow evening. There will also be the return match.
