{"id":2576,"date":"2011-07-10T21:45:39","date_gmt":"2011-07-11T01:45:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.guyanalive.com\/blog\/?p=2576"},"modified":"2011-07-13T23:54:28","modified_gmt":"2011-07-14T03:54:28","slug":"digicel-school-football-government-technical-institute-gti-are-region-4-champs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stories.guyanalive.com\/?p=2576","title":{"rendered":"Digicel School Football: Government Technical Institute (GTI) are Region 4 Champs!"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2634\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2634\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stories.guyanalive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/gti-winners.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2634\" title=\"gti-winners\" src=\"https:\/\/stories.guyanalive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/gti-winners.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2634\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Region 4 School Football Champions<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Head of Digicel Guyana Gregory Dean believes that the Schools Football Championships sponsored by his company augers well for the sport locally and in effect will only lead to a higher level of football at the national level.<\/p>\n<p>Dean was present at the Region 4 finals at the Carifesta Sports Club ground between Charlestown Secondary and Government Technical Institute (GTI) on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The CEO added that because of the exposure given to players at the school level &#8220;in one way it may make the Guyana Football Federation&#8217;s (GFF) job a bit harder in terms of picking available players but in the end it will benefit the country as a whole in terms of quality representation&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>He however said such development would not happen over night but views the competition as a step in the right direction in addition to other developmental programmes.<br \/>\nMeanwhile in the day&#8217;s action an aggressive and confident GTI overcame a resilliant Charlestown Secondary.<\/p>\n<p>Darren Fraser scored the first goal of the encounter in the 13th minute in favour of GTI. After the early breakthrough a relentless attack was launched on Charlestown&#8217;s goal.<\/p>\n<p>The attack took its toll on the defense and could be seen clearly in the 39th minute when Dennis Fung scored an own goal to seal the victory for GTI.<\/p>\n<p>The winners now await the rest of the regional finals to conclude to find out who they will be up against when vying for the national title.<\/p>\n<p>From all indications officials believe the city side will have a tough battle ahead since several regional teams have shown significant skill.<\/p>\n<p><strong>By &#8211; Andrew Ross<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.guyanalive.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/gti-winners.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" class=\"imageleft\"\/>Head of Digicel Guyana Gregory Dean believes that the Schools Football Championships sponsored by his company augers well for the sport locally and in effect will only lead to a higher level of football at the national level.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[66,694,736,718],"class_list":["post-2576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","tag-digicel","tag-football","tag-gti","tag-sports-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stories.guyanalive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stories.guyanalive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stories.guyanalive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stories.guyanalive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stories.guyanalive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2576"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/stories.guyanalive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2686,"href":"https:\/\/stories.guyanalive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2576\/revisions\/2686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stories.guyanalive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stories.guyanalive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stories.guyanalive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}