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but I accept that most times I am not that sharp either but tell me exactly how does this game benefits us?
We run off the plane and down 6-0 by half time then take the money at the end of the game and come back home, in the meanwhile the DPL teams chasing the title loses their better players and maybe the title in the process for what, loose change?
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Test of time - Boyz to play match same day they land in Germany
Sean Williams
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Jamaica's senior footballers depart the island today for their rushed friendly international against South Africa at the Offenbach Kickers FC Stadium in Frankfurt, Germany, tomorrow.
Coach Theodore Whitmore (fourth right) engages a group of local-based Reggae Boyz at a training session at the Edward Seaga Sports Complex in Kingston yesterday. (Photo: Karl McLarty)
Reggae Boyz (from left) Xavian Virgo, Ricardo Cousins, Navion Boyd and Richard McCallum go through their paces at the Edward Seaga Sports Complex in Kingston yesterday. (Photo: Karl McLarty)
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Coach Theodore Whitmore (fourth right) engages a group of local-based Reggae Boyz at a training session at the Edward Seaga Sports Complex in Kingston yesterday. (Photo: Karl McLarty)
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The 17-man squad will travel to Frankfurt via Atlanta, USA, where they are expected to join up with USA-based teammate Ryan Johnson to complete an 18-man line-up of mostly local-based talent.
In an effort to beef up the team, the Jamaica Football Federation (JFF) was up to late last evening trying to get the release of Scandinavia-based Demar Phillips, Rodolph Austin and Khari Stephenson, but those efforts did not bear fruits.
The Reggae Boyz, a last minute replacement for China, who last Friday pulled out of their scheduled match-up with South Africa, will take the field tomorrow at 8:30 pm (1:30 pm local time) -- a mere 10 hours after arriving in Frankfurt.
Coach Theodore Whitmore was able to sneak in a training session yesterday at the Edward Seaga Sports Complex in the middle of the mad-rush involved in making the game a possibility.
"Most of the players played in the DPL last night (Sunday), so there is not much we can do today (yesterday)," said Whitmore.
Only yesterday, 17 players, coaches and other team officials bundled into the German Embassy to process their visas that will allow them to land in the Shengen member state.
But with the Boyz desperate for a match, the JFF hierarchy was never going to frown upon the dreadfully late call from their South African counterparts to fill the void left by the Chinese withdrawal.
"We are very happy to help out our South African brothers in this situation, we know it's a huge challenge in terms of the time we have to pull it all together, but coach Whitmore agreed that it would be a great opportunity to have this game and we just went for it," said JFF boss, Captain Horace Burrell on Sunday.
Burrell said the South African Football Association will be picking up the tab associated with the trip.
The last time Jamaica (ranked 78th) and South Africa (88th) met was in November, 2009 in Bloemfontein and that game ended 0-0.
In three meetings before that, both played to a 1-1 tie in Kingston in 1999, then finished 0-0 in Cape Town three years later before playing to an exhilarating 3-3 result in the CONCACAF Gold Cup in Los Angeles in 2005 where South Africa appeared as a guest team.
Jamaica (from): Richard McCallum, Duwayne Kerr, Jermaine Taylor, Dicoy Williams, Richard Edwards, Nicholi Finlayson, Desmond Breakenridge, Jevaughn Watson, Keammar Daley, Kavin Bryan, Navion Boyd, Ricardo Cousins, Jerry Walters, Xavian Virgo, Romario Campbell, Mario Swaby, Devon Hodges and Ryan Johnson.
We run off the plane and down 6-0 by half time then take the money at the end of the game and come back home, in the meanwhile the DPL teams chasing the title loses their better players and maybe the title in the process for what, loose change?
Sport
Test of time - Boyz to play match same day they land in Germany
Sean Williams
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Jamaica's senior footballers depart the island today for their rushed friendly international against South Africa at the Offenbach Kickers FC Stadium in Frankfurt, Germany, tomorrow.
Coach Theodore Whitmore (fourth right) engages a group of local-based Reggae Boyz at a training session at the Edward Seaga Sports Complex in Kingston yesterday. (Photo: Karl McLarty)
Reggae Boyz (from left) Xavian Virgo, Ricardo Cousins, Navion Boyd and Richard McCallum go through their paces at the Edward Seaga Sports Complex in Kingston yesterday. (Photo: Karl McLarty)
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Coach Theodore Whitmore (fourth right) engages a group of local-based Reggae Boyz at a training session at the Edward Seaga Sports Complex in Kingston yesterday. (Photo: Karl McLarty) 1/2 The 17-man squad will travel to Frankfurt via Atlanta, USA, where they are expected to join up with USA-based teammate Ryan Johnson to complete an 18-man line-up of mostly local-based talent.
In an effort to beef up the team, the Jamaica Football Federation (JFF) was up to late last evening trying to get the release of Scandinavia-based Demar Phillips, Rodolph Austin and Khari Stephenson, but those efforts did not bear fruits.
The Reggae Boyz, a last minute replacement for China, who last Friday pulled out of their scheduled match-up with South Africa, will take the field tomorrow at 8:30 pm (1:30 pm local time) -- a mere 10 hours after arriving in Frankfurt.
Coach Theodore Whitmore was able to sneak in a training session yesterday at the Edward Seaga Sports Complex in the middle of the mad-rush involved in making the game a possibility.
"Most of the players played in the DPL last night (Sunday), so there is not much we can do today (yesterday)," said Whitmore.
Only yesterday, 17 players, coaches and other team officials bundled into the German Embassy to process their visas that will allow them to land in the Shengen member state.
But with the Boyz desperate for a match, the JFF hierarchy was never going to frown upon the dreadfully late call from their South African counterparts to fill the void left by the Chinese withdrawal.
"We are very happy to help out our South African brothers in this situation, we know it's a huge challenge in terms of the time we have to pull it all together, but coach Whitmore agreed that it would be a great opportunity to have this game and we just went for it," said JFF boss, Captain Horace Burrell on Sunday.
Burrell said the South African Football Association will be picking up the tab associated with the trip.
The last time Jamaica (ranked 78th) and South Africa (88th) met was in November, 2009 in Bloemfontein and that game ended 0-0.
In three meetings before that, both played to a 1-1 tie in Kingston in 1999, then finished 0-0 in Cape Town three years later before playing to an exhilarating 3-3 result in the CONCACAF Gold Cup in Los Angeles in 2005 where South Africa appeared as a guest team.
Jamaica (from): Richard McCallum, Duwayne Kerr, Jermaine Taylor, Dicoy Williams, Richard Edwards, Nicholi Finlayson, Desmond Breakenridge, Jevaughn Watson, Keammar Daley, Kavin Bryan, Navion Boyd, Ricardo Cousins, Jerry Walters, Xavian Virgo, Romario Campbell, Mario Swaby, Devon Hodges and Ryan Johnson.
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