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Nodley Wright, Staff Reporter
Orane Sterling, injured in a car accident in Negril on Sunday morning. - file
A career as a national footballer could have ended even before it started with Jamaica Under-20 invitee Orane Sterling being admitted to the University Hospital in serious condition following a motor vehicle accident in Negril on Sunday morning.
The 17-year-old former Herbert Morrison Technical High School student was one of three pas-sengers in a motorcar which ran into a parked truck in the early hours of the morning. Sterling, according to reports, received head injuries and after being taken to the Cornwall Regional Hospital was airlifted to the University Hospital, where he has been a patient since.
St. James footballers have not fared well in motor vehicle accidents with former national representatives Steve Malcolm and Winston Anglin dying as well as youth representative Omroy Wilson who died just over two months ago. Both Wilson and Sterling were seen as the best two schoolboy defenders in Western Jamaica. With Wilson's passing, Sterling was expected to step into his shoes.
"Based on what I hear it does not look good. I understand that he is in a coma but there is some sign of movement," said Garfield Anderson mentor for Sterling and president of Catherine Hall Football Club.
"Based on what is happening there seems to be something mystically wrong with the footballers down here. Look at the number of accidents that our footballers have been involved in. The last one before him was Omroy Wilson," Anderson added.
Anderson, himself a Herbert Morrison past student and former president of the St. James Football Association, was hoping that the player would pull through.
"We just have to pray for him right now and send him some positive energy because that is the only thing that can save him now. He is a fighter but he is in the toughest fight of his life," Anderson said.
National Under-20 coach Dean Weatherly who has seen Sterling play in the daCosta Cup and who just recently invited him to train with country's Under-20 team had only positives to say about him.
"He has a very good attitude to the sport. He is disciplined and very serious-minded when it comes on to the game. He is a vibes man and one you would always want to have around," said Weatherly.
He added: "As a footballer he is very good. He is a hard-tackling defender or midfielder. He has good speed, especially over short distances and heads the ball well and is also a good reader of the game. I am hoping and praying that he recovers."
Nodley Wright, Staff Reporter
Orane Sterling, injured in a car accident in Negril on Sunday morning. - file
A career as a national footballer could have ended even before it started with Jamaica Under-20 invitee Orane Sterling being admitted to the University Hospital in serious condition following a motor vehicle accident in Negril on Sunday morning.
The 17-year-old former Herbert Morrison Technical High School student was one of three pas-sengers in a motorcar which ran into a parked truck in the early hours of the morning. Sterling, according to reports, received head injuries and after being taken to the Cornwall Regional Hospital was airlifted to the University Hospital, where he has been a patient since.
St. James footballers have not fared well in motor vehicle accidents with former national representatives Steve Malcolm and Winston Anglin dying as well as youth representative Omroy Wilson who died just over two months ago. Both Wilson and Sterling were seen as the best two schoolboy defenders in Western Jamaica. With Wilson's passing, Sterling was expected to step into his shoes.
"Based on what I hear it does not look good. I understand that he is in a coma but there is some sign of movement," said Garfield Anderson mentor for Sterling and president of Catherine Hall Football Club.
"Based on what is happening there seems to be something mystically wrong with the footballers down here. Look at the number of accidents that our footballers have been involved in. The last one before him was Omroy Wilson," Anderson added.
Anderson, himself a Herbert Morrison past student and former president of the St. James Football Association, was hoping that the player would pull through.
"We just have to pray for him right now and send him some positive energy because that is the only thing that can save him now. He is a fighter but he is in the toughest fight of his life," Anderson said.
National Under-20 coach Dean Weatherly who has seen Sterling play in the daCosta Cup and who just recently invited him to train with country's Under-20 team had only positives to say about him.
"He has a very good attitude to the sport. He is disciplined and very serious-minded when it comes on to the game. He is a vibes man and one you would always want to have around," said Weatherly.
He added: "As a footballer he is very good. He is a hard-tackling defender or midfielder. He has good speed, especially over short distances and heads the ball well and is also a good reader of the game. I am hoping and praying that he recovers."
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