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Screensize: 640 x 480 800 x 600 1024 x 768 1280 x 1024 UserName: Password: Format Mode: Basic  Help  Prompt  Format: Font Andale Mono Arial Arial Black Book Antiqua Century Gothic Comic Sans MS Courier New Georgia Impact Lucida Console Script MT Bold Stencil Tahoma Times New Roman Trebuchet MS Verdana   Size 1 2 3 4 5 6   Color Black Red Yellow Pink Green Orange Purple Blue Beige Brown Teal Navy Maroon LimeGreen Message: * HTML is OFF * Forum Code is ON Smilies [quote][i]Originally posted by Karl[/i] [br] AFTER GOLD CUP EFFORT... SEAN A WILLIAMS, Observer staff reporter Saturday, July 23, 2005 BOXHILL ... We are not going home with the Cup, but I am certain that the experience and the exposure gained, especially for the young players, will auger extremely well for the future of Jamaica's football President of the Jamaica Football Federation (JFF) Crenston Boxhill has urged corporate Jamaica to throw their financial backing behind the Reggae Boyz for the future following the team's good showing at the CONCACAF Gold Cup in the USA. "I want to appeal to corporate Jamaica and the fans at large to come on board and support the programme and the players. As far as I am concerned, the commitment that these players showed, the sky is the limit to what we can achieve," he said from the team's Boston hotel last week. The Boyz, made up of all home-grown talent, qualified for the quarter-final of the Cup after a win, a draw and a loss to Guatemala (4-3), South Africa (3-3) and Mexico (0-1), respectively, in Group C, but went down 1-3 to the USA in the elimination round. Boxhill said when his administration announced its new direction of placing the emphasis on home-grown talent, the detractors cackled and gave the new-look Boyz little chance of achieving anything. They went on to win the inaugural Digicel Caribbean Cup and went 16 matches unbeaten until they were stopped by Mexico. "When we embarked on this new route, it was not something that was readily accepted by the public at large, but we knew what we had in mind and what we wanted to achieve and stuck to it and it has paid dividends...," said Boxhill, who has been in office for some year-and-half now since beating long-serving president Captain Horace Burrell in the 2003 polls. "To an extend I can understand why we had doubters, something like confidence is not something you demand, but something that is earned. The doubt in our new direction does not only rest with journalists or the normal man in the street, but to the business community as well," Boxhill explained. "I am not surprised and disappointed that Jamaicans will want to stay back a little and watch what's happening." Boxhill, a former manager of the national senior team, said while he was disappointed with the rendition of the Boyz in the USA match, he was pleased with their overall showing. "I am personally satisfied with the team in the tournament, of course I am disappointed with the performance in the USA game, you know nobody wants to lose and the fact that we lost one, we will feel a sense of disappointment...," he noted. ".We know this (losing) is a part of it, as we do not expect that we are going to just continue winning and winning at this level," he added. More than anything else, he hailed the opportunity that was given to some of the younger players in the group and said this will be good for the future of Jamaica's football development. ".We are not going home with the Cup, but I am certain that the experience and the exposure gained, especially for the young players, will auger extremely well for the future of Jamaica's football," he added. Also, he lifted his hat to the players for their desire and commitment to play for their country and said he was moved when it seemed money was not the motivation. "We came to this tournament on a shoe-string budget and what we offered the players as appearance fees for this tournament is even less than what we offered them for the Digicel Cup and if you watched the games you could see the hunger and commitment they showed out there," Boxhill said. "The point I am trying to make is that money was not a factor and I really want to applaud the players," he added. He also wanted to point out that not only were the players all home-grown, but so too were the members of the technical staff. "I want to also emphasis that all the players are home-grown talent, and the fact that they came here and did so well made us proud. Not only that, but the staff is also fully Jamaican and that goes to show that as Jamaicans we only need the opportunity," he told Sporting World. In the past, Jamaica's senior football team was made up of a number of British-born professionals and Brazilian coaches, but since the failed 2006 World Cup qualifying campaign, the JFF has shifted focus and has decided to invest in local talent. [/quote]   Check here to include your profile signature.