Surinamese Voetbal Bond

Surinamese Voetbal Bond (SVB)
founding	1920
FIFA accession	1929
CONCACAF accession	1961
president	John Krishnadath (since April 2013)
Secretary General	Johan Rozenblad (since April 2017)
National teams	Men : national team Women : national team
Clubs (approx.)	111 (end of 2016)
Members (approx.)	17,500 (end of 2016)
Teams (approx.)	556 (end of 2016)
Homepage	http://www.svb.sr/

The SVB secretariat at Letitia Vriesdelaan 7 in Paramaribo, which was renovated in 2012

The Surinaamse Voetbal Bond ( abbreviated SVB ) is the Surinamese football association . He organizes the games of the national teams of Suriname and also oversees the highest Surinamese leagues . However, there is no professional league.

Like the football associations of the neighboring countries Guyana and French Guiana , the SVB does not belong to the South American continental association CONMEBOL , but to the North and Central American CONCACAF .

history

• October 1st, 1920 : The Surinaamse Voetbal Bond is founded.
• January 28, 1921: First international match of the Surinamese national football team against the then British Guiana . Guiana won 2-1 goals.
• 1923/24: The first state championship is held. The first football champion of Suriname was the Olympia club.
• May 18, 1929: The SVB becomes an official member of FIFA .

CONCACAF Champions Cup

Clubs from Suriname participated successfully in the CONCACAF Champions' Cup , which has been held since 1962, especially in the 1970s and 1980s. It was the two most successful clubs in the history of Surinamese football that attracted international attention:

• the SV Transvaal with 2 CONCACAF and 3 runner-up championships and
• the SV Robin Hood 5 CONCACAF vice championships.

organization

Sports

The SVB has 19 member associations that organize football regionally under the umbrella of the SVB. Every year around 325 teams with a total of 8950 registered members take part in the game rounds.

Since the 2017/18 season, the top division of the SVB's men has been the league with sixteen clubs, renamed from Topklasse - to Eerste Divisie . The national champion is determined from among these clubs. Under the Eerste Divisie , the subordinate league with eleven clubs, which was renamed the Tweede Divisie in 2017 by Hoofdklasse , plays its games. As a further substructure, district championships are being played in the outlying districts of the capital and in some of the ten districts of Suriname.

In addition to the men, the national women's championship is also held with seven teams.

As the successor to Ro Kolf, Biswajeet Kali was hired as the new technical director of the SVB on August 15, 2017.

Board

For the period from 2005 to 2009 the following were chosen:

Louis Giskus - President

Ronald Koorndijk - Vice President

Harold Felter - General Secretary

Waldo Gobardhan - Treasurer

Arnold Bilkerdijk - game master, press officer

Bidjaikoemar Mankoe - assessor

Gerrit Niekoop - assessor

On March 27, 2009, Louis Giskus was re-elected for the third time in a row. For the period from 2009 to 2013 the following were chosen:

Louis Giskus - President

Arnold Bilkerdijk - game director, security and youth national teams

Harold Felter - 2nd Secretary, Referee Committee and Women's Football

Waldo Gobardhan - Treasurer, Senior National Teams Department

Bidjaikoemar Mankoe - 2nd Treasurer, Squares and Buildings Departments and Indoor Soccer

Dayasankar Mathoera - Vice President, Member Associations and Training Departments

Antonius Stienstra - General Secretary, Marketing Department

The latter two are new to the board.

On May 1, 2009, Gordon van Sichem was appointed the new director of the SVB for a period of two years. In this position he had already worked for the Moengo Sport Bund for several years . His new role is to head the SVB secretariat.

On April 26, 2013, John Krishnadath was elected as the new SVB Chairman for four years with 20 of 31 votes. John Krishnadath was re-elected for a second term on April 5, 2017. The board consists of:

John Krishnadath - President

Dayasankar Mathoera - Vice President

Johan Rozenblad - General Secretary

Bidjaikoemar Mankoe - Treasurer

Waldo Ghobardan - Assessor

Roy Samuels - assessor

Guilliano Snip - assessor

Roy Samuels and Guilliano Snip are new to the board.

Bribery charge

In the run-up to the FIFA presidential election, a propaganda meeting of the presidential candidate Mohamed bin Hammam took place in Trinidad on 10 and 11 May 2011 . This meeting, in which the then chairman of the SVB Louis Giskus also took part, was organized by the Caribbean Football Union under the chairmanship of Jack Warner . At the end of the event Giskus received as a gift a video projector , a laptop and 40,000 US dollars in cash. After the incident became public, the SVB had to answer to the FIFA Ethics Committee. In Zurich, chairman Giskus said that he had received the gifts from Jack Warner and that they should come from CONCACAF and the Caribbean Football Union. Its intended purpose should be the promotion and development of the sport of football in Suriname. At the beginning of July, the ethics committee decided that the SVB had to transfer the 40,000 US dollars to a FIFA account at Credit Suisse .

Sports complex

New construction of the SVB sports complex, March 2015

In 2015/2016, FIFA financed a new SVB building project in Paramaribo on Letitia Vriesdelaan, diagonally opposite the SVB secretariat shown here. Under the project name Owru Cul , a sports complex with several artificial turf pitches, a clubhouse with a fitness room and a groundskeeper apartment was built here. Owru means “old” in Sranantongo and Cul is the abbreviation for “Cultuurtuinlaan”, the previous name for Letitia Vriesdelaan. The entire project was valued at around $ 1 million .

The sports complex was officially put into operation on April 11, 2017 in the presence of FIFA President Gianni Infantino with the opening of the SVB fan shop and the Owru Cul Sports & Entertainment Center .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Magazine Parbode, issue August 2019 Dutch, accessed on August 7 of 2019.
2. ↑ Biswajeet Kali nieuwe Technische directeur SVB In: Starnieuws from August 15, 2017, Dutch, accessed on December 26, 2019.
3. ↑ dwtonline.com, April 6, 2017 Dutch, accessed May 31, 2017.
4. ↑ FIFA topman Infantino op bezoek in Suriname. In: Starnieuws. NSS, April 12, 2017, accessed May 31, 2017 (Dutch).