Former Upper Demerara Football Administrator and Coach to be buried today in Linden
Jan 25, 2025
Kaieteur Sports- One of Linden’s foremost football administrators and businessman, 66-year-old Patrick Dey, who is popularly known P Dey, who died last Monday, is to be laid to rest today in Linden.
P Dey, was at the time of his death, the Second Vice President of the Upper Demerara Football
Association (UDFA) and President of the Amelia’s Ward Panthers Football Club.
Patrick Dey (Demerara Football Administrator)
P Dey played football for the Mackenzie YMCA FC during the 1970s and early 1980s before he turned to coaching and at one time the coach of the Mackenzie Sports Club Lions.
Following that he took to coaching youths in the Upper Demerara and served as coach of several UDFA youth teams and the Amelia’s Ward United FC which at one time became UDFA Senior League winners.
During to his love for football, P Dey then turned to coaching youths in Amelia’s Ward and was instrumental in the formation of Amelia’s Ward Panthers FC and was President and Coach.
United States-based former Senior National defender Monty Mentore, who was a member of the Mackenzie YMCA, which included such other national players like Neville ‘Zipper’ Johnson, Dennis Solomon, Vibert ‘Bartica’ Defreitas, Bonny ‘Oiler’ Anthony and Ken O’Donaghue, becoming Senior National Club Champions during the 1970s, remembered the fallen football stalwart.
He paid P-Dey this tribute: “P Dey was on the YMCA squad in the 1970s that played the home and away games against Suriname’s top Club Robinhood in the CONCACAF Club tournament. He didn’t make the traveling team, the year was 1976, but he was a promising left winger. At that time as you know, the competition was very tough to make YMCA starting team, but later in his career he played a few games as a starter, but generally he was a great person on and off the field.”
His remains will be at his home in Amelia’s Ward at 11.00am and taken to the Linden Foundation Secondary School where the funeral service will be at 12.00 noon, following which, his burial will be at the Bamia Cemetery on the Linden Highway.
(Former Upper Demerara Football Administrator and Coach to be buried today in Linden)
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