FIFA Developmental Officer, Keith Look Loy announced at a press conference held on Tuesday, June 17, that Anguilla has been accepted to be a part of the GOAL Project, a FIFA programme committed to the infrastructural development of football around the world.

The announcement was in response to an application that was made last year by the President of the Anguilla Football Association (AFA), Raymond Guishard, for Anguilla’s inclusion in the GOAL Project.
The annex at the James Ronald Webster Park is the site for the proposed project which would include a football field, grand stand, changing rooms for officials and players, lighting and fencing. The estimated US $1 million facility will be funded in part by AFA and GOAL. US$400,000 has been earmarked by GOAL while the Government of Anguilla is expected to donate the land.
The project will be executed in a three stages. The first stage of the project, approval of AFA’s recommendation by GOAL Bureau, has already been satisfied. The next two phases involve the submission of project proposals to the Bureau by mid-September and the approval of proposals at a meeting of the Bureau in October of this year. Mr. Look Loy is confident that the proposal will meet with success. He referred to the project as an “Anguillian project”, “a national project”. When questioned on the challenge of the AFA raising the necessary funds, Mr. Guishard explained that the Ministry of Finance is presently working on a business plan, and that he would be enlisting the support of other institutions. He added that “[We will] be using anybody we can find in Anguilla to help us with this.”
Anguilla is one of nineteen countries likely to benefit from the GOAL Project. GOAL has twelve offices around the world. Its the head office for the Caribbean is in Trinidad.

L-r: Keith Loy and Raymond Guishard

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