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Posted - Jul 05 2002 : 12:07:16 PM
St Bess
The time is now - TD CB.
Wed Jul 3 21:43:13 2002
209.214.5.201
Let's get cracking
Brown says 2006 World Cup programme
must start now
HURBUN WILLIAMS, Observer staff reporter
Thursday, July 04, 2002
THE next World Cup football finals is
2006 in Germany and the assigned
hosts, in anticipating the best ever
finals, have already earmarked 12
major cities for the proposed 64
games.
Jamaica are looking forward to the
spectacle and technical director
designate, Carl Brown, is already
fine-tuning a programme designed
to get the Reggae Boyz to their
second World Cup finals.
"World Cup 2006 is not far away and Jamaica
must begin their preparation from right now," the
former national skipper told the Observer
yesterday.
With four teams -- national seniors, women's,
Under-20s and Under-17s -- in training for
upcoming tournaments, Brown is on the hunt for
emerging talent from the seniors as well as the
Under-23 and Under-20 squads.
He then plans to mould the chosen players into a
competitive unit leading to qualification for World
Cup 2006.
"Qualification will not be easy," Brown conceded,
"so we have to start looking ahead from now. We
missed 2002 but our sights are firmly set on
being in Germany this time around."
However Brown -- previously an understudy to
Brazilians Rene Simoes, Sebastiao Lazaroni and
Clovis de Oliveira -- is also aware of the need for
a solid support system to be in place if Jamaica's
World Cup dream is to be realised once again.
"Without a particularly good level of co-operation
and assistance from both government and the
private sector, our chances of success, despite all
our best efforts, could be greatly diminished," he
said.
For the next World Cup programme to be
successful, according to Brown, "it is critical that
we get the type of support to enhance the
players' well-being".
"If you look at the current situation, we have to
be literally restarting the rebuilding process. We
have gone through two World Cups with literally
the same players and ... 60 per cent will not be
considered to play in our next campaign.
" ...We have to start the introduction of new
players from the Under-23 to put together a
squad which is a nucleus of the best local talent
to be prepared at home," he explained.
"Once we have this talent pool in place we have
to set about building on it. This means effecting a
programme of proper nutrition," said Brown.
He referred to the previous Road to France
campaign in 1998, spearheaded by JFF president,
Captain Horace Burrell, as "the model we want to
follow and to me all we need to do is to revisit
that scenario".
"It cannot be over emphasised, the need to feed
our players properly. We have to be able to feed
them three quality meals per day and give them
the sort of vitamins that will enable them to
sustain hard and rigorous training. Anything short
of this can greatly affect the players developing
into the quality of talent necessary for playing
and sustaining high levels of performances when
called upon to do so," Brown told the Observer.
Brown also cited the importance of player
exposure: "In the 1998 campaign we played
almost 50 games per year and made it to France.
In the 2002 campaign we played 22 games per
year. This was more than 50 per cent less than in
1998 and Jamaica failed to qualify.
"The approach to both campaigns showed a big
difference and demonstrated how exposure is
aided by number and quality of games," said
Brown.
"Once we can receive that same level of support
as we got in the 1998 campaign to expose our
players ... it will ... be a key element in our
preparation.
"We have to start to look at getting camps
overseas. To get the players somewhere in
Europe where they will be able to play some of
the best teams there during their preparation
periods," he said.
Brown said during the 1998 campaign, the
Reggae Boyz visited South America on three
separate occasions to gain valuable training and
exposure -- twice to Brazil and once to Argentina.
They played at least 30 games against some of
the top teams in each country, including Boca
Juniors, San Lorenzo, Flamengo, Corinthians and
Sao Paulo.
"These are some of the top teams in the world
and we played quality practice games. In
preparation for 2006 Jamaica will again have to
have in place a similar Programme and the
earlier the better.
"Germany may be four years away, but in
another year-and-a-half ... the World Cup
qualifying campaign starts ... we really need to
set our ... machinery in action right away. We
cannot sit back and wait until 2006 ...," Brown
said.
Karl |
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Posted - Jul 05 2002 : 12:09:46 PM
THEN... CRASH!
Mac
Another article: Ja football in crisis
Fri Jul 5 08:35:44 2002
130.91.16.87
Taken from www.go-jamaica.com (Gleaner)
Ja football in crisis
By Nodley Wright, Staff Reporter
Burrell
THE JAMAICA Football Federation (JFF) yesterday suspended the national football programme indefinitely with immediate effect due to a financial crisis.
In a press release sent out yesterday afternoon, the JFF said since the Sports Development Foundation (SDF) announced a 65 per cent cut in the subvention, a financial noose tightened around its neck.
That predicament, according to the release, was not helped by the fact that the National Stadium, at which the local body earned revenue from international matches, was closed for renovation to facilitate the World Junior Championships later this month.
The situation, according to JFF president Captain Horace Burrell, came to a head yesterday when goalkeeper coach Paul Campbell officially resigned and fitness trainer Glydiston Ananias refused to renew his contract.
"Given the current crisis, with immediate effect, all national programmes are suspended until the JFF finds a way forward financially," a part of the release read.
It continued: "Consequently, the women's team who have been preparing at G.C. Foster for their World Cup qualifiers on July 13 and July 23, and the senior men's team preparing for a tour of England later this month are being sent home until further notice."
But while the release stated that the programmes were suspended with immediate effect, technical director designate Carl Brown seemed unaware. In a call to his cell phone to get his view on the situation, The Gleaner was told by the person who answered it that Brown was occupied with a practice game between the country's Under-17 and Under-20 teams.
Patrick 'Jackie' Walters who directs the women's programme did not answer his phone.
Asked why he took such a drastic action so suddenly, Burrell said: "We have been making do with all the resources that we could pull together and we just could not go any further. With the resignation of these two people what could we do?"
He added that a meeting was held yesterday with Campbell and Ananias but things did not turn out well as under the current situation he could not give any commitments. "I have been pleading with the ministry (Sport) for some time and even from Japan but it was just promises.
As to the future he asked: "When you cut the subvention by 65 per cent what does it spell?
"I saw it coming. What people do not seem to realise is that the national programme is not just the Reggae Boyz. It involves the Under 17s, Under 20s, the women's team, the Under 23s and the senior men - all of whom have competitions coming up. It is the biggest sport in the country," said Burrell.
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