The GFF through its president and new Public Relations Consultant, Robert Sam, at the Ocean View International Hotel's Convention Centre, yesterday made Dos Santos meet with the media at a special briefing.

They also took time out to acknowledge the passing of Bertram Hamilton who was vice-president of the Upper Demerara Football Sub-Association and a member of the GFF Council and Kester Alves who was the GFF's Public Relations Consultant.

Dos Santos is here on a provisional one-year contract, which could mature into a four-year programme based on discussions, which will take place after one year, between himself and the GFF.

Klass said the first year would be basically a period of assessment, after which a plan will be put together by the Technical Director, for the way forward for football in Guyana.

The GFF president said the government's involvement is, so far as the Ministry of Youth Culture and Sport is concerned, its blessing and for the releasing of a visa prior to the Brazilian's arrival here for his stint.

Klass said he expected that on a progressive basis "we will see football in Guyana turning around" as any other high expectations just would not be possible. He said the sky would be the limit once everyone gave full cooperation to the Technical Director who is aware of the Caribbean way of life.

With this in mind, Klass said Dos Santos has come to take up the challenges here and will be willing to spend considerable time in making his stay here a very successful one.

Dos Santos, the third such technical football person to have held the important post in recent times, has served as assistant technical director to the senior national team of the Cayman Islands and also had stints as head coach for the Cayman Islands Under-20 team and a technical director to one club there; while prior to that he was Technical Director to a club side in the Middle East.

Klass, in his introductory remarks, said having spoken about a Technical Director it has now been realised.

The Technical Director is to work with a technical department, which will start with two persons and will be like an on-and-off board arrangements depending on costs over a period. The GFF boss pointed out football has been going through various changes over the past decade and many of these changes were reflected, as far as the media and a number of other persons were concerned, in bad administration.

Klass said, "We have been able to assess it and break it down primarily to a lack of technical development, tactical development in our football. And I think this has been the determining factor".

Klass agreed that migration has had an impact on football' s development process .He remarked that the 1987 absconding of nearly all the senior national players in the United States is still being felt in football in Guyana.

He said, "We have not fully overcome the 1987 exodus, so there is an entire new structural development and we think that as a result of what happened in 1987 - not only loss of players but loss of technicians - we had to arrive at some position whereby we would need to have help".