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President, Guam Football Association：Richard Lai

Guam is an unincorporated territory of the USA with limited self-governing authority. Naturally, the influence of American culture has made baseball, basketball and American football the most popular sports on this island. Football is played occasionally as one of the seasonal sports, but not many children play competition football on a continuous basis. Guam being a paradise in the middle of the Pacific, it seems that the peaceful island life had little concern about developing football. For two years from March, 2003, Sugao Kambe supervised the national team as head coach. Kambe believed that the future lies in the hands of the youth and volunteered to work on the development of the youth age group and to reconstruct the overall foundation of football in Guam. He went around the island, visiting schools and clubs to search for youngsters with potential for becoming a good footballer. Many of the talent he scouted have since improved their skills and have been called to the national “A" team. In last March's 2nd East Asian Football Championship Preliminary Competition, Guam sent a young team of ten teenagers, including 1989-born Randy Iriarte and 1988-born Pele Torres. Recognizing the importance of developing players at club level, Guam established its first two-division national league, generating more competition with a promotion/relegation system. There is still a long way to go, but the seeds have been sown.