Vibert Durdy Butts is a former
Guyanese soccer player best known for scoring
Guyana
Guyana ( or ), officially the Cooperative Republic of Guyana, is a country on the northern mainland of South America. Guyana is an indigenous word which means "Land of Many Waters". The capital city is Georgetown. Guyana is bordered by the ...
's first-ever
World Cup-qualifying goal during a 1976 match against
Suriname
Suriname (; srn, Sranankondre or ), officially the Republic of Suriname ( nl, Republiek Suriname , srn, Ripolik fu Sranan), is a country on the northeastern Atlantic coast of South America. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the north ...
, which helped Guyana to a 2–0 victory. In 2015, Butts was sentenced to three years in
prison for possession of 46 grams of
cannabis.
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