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<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=1 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR><TD><SPAN class=TopStory>Reid says he learnt a lot in Norway - ... But now he wants more</SPAN>
<SPAN class=Subheadline>Football</SPAN></TD></TR><TR><TD>By Livingston Scott Observer staff reporter
Saturday, November 13, 2004
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<P class=StoryText align=justify>Although national full-back, Garfield Reid spent only three months in Norway the Rivoli United player said he profited greatly from the experience and is now looking to bigger things. <P class=StoryText align=justify>Reid, who returned home recently following the closure of the Norwegian football season, said he learnt "a lot" playing in the northern European country and has become a better player.<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=5 width=360 align=center border=0><TBODY><TR><TD>
</TD></TR><TR><TD><SPAN class=Description>REID (left)... I am looking something better right now, somewhere people can see me</SPAN></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><P class=StoryText align=justify>"I've been there for three and a half months. For the first few weeks it was just hard work because you have to work harder than those there before you - so they see that you are a very serious worker - if you want to get into the squad," he declared.<P class=StoryText align=justify>"When I go to training if they do five laps, I do 10 just to catch up on them. It is cold and you feel lazy sometimes, but I went there and gave all I could," he said.
Reid, who went on a trial before joining the club, Hamar Kameratene - also called Ham Kam - said he created a good early impression.<P class=StoryText align=justify>"The first game I played for the second team I had two assists and a goal. And in my second game with them I scored a hat-trick and we won 6-4.<P class=StoryText align=justify>"Even while we were doing some drills and we were practising shooting, they were really impressed by what I had to show and that I'm a good kicker of the ball," he said.<P class=StoryText align=justify>The unfortunate thing for Reid was that he was only able to play in the last five matches of the season for the first team.
Reid, an accustomed left full-back in Jamaica, claims that in the time allowed he had already begun to establish himself as one of the better players at Ham Kam.<P class=StoryText align=justify>"They also made me play left midfield because they saw me as a better attacker than some of the other players there. But the season had already started when I went there so actually I was only able to play five games as the season ended on the 8th of last month," he said.<P class=StoryText align=justify>"The league there is much different from Jamaica," he continued, "It's a much more high-intensity game with more running. When these guys have the ball they don't stop running they don't waste time. Even if it's a defender, as long as he has space he is going to take it so you'll have to run him down," he explained.<P class=StoryText align=justify>"In Jamaica it's much different, you pass the ball to someone, he stops, beat a man, pass it, gets it back and the same man that he beat a while ago would be tackling him again.
"In Norway when they beat you with the ball, there is no way you can get back, someone else has to cover you because they are not stopping for you to get a second chance," Reid said.<P class=StoryText align=justify>"So coming back here after learning so much over there has made me a better player here," he argued.
He hailed the virtues of playing abroad.
"Going away and playing is much better because you learn the real thing. The facilities are also much better and you are more comfortable. I can't speak for everywhere, but where I was, I was quite comfortable," he said.<P class=StoryText align=justify>Now Reid is looking to go
<SPAN class=Subheadline>Football</SPAN></TD></TR><TR><TD>By Livingston Scott Observer staff reporter
Saturday, November 13, 2004
</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>
<P class=StoryText align=justify>Although national full-back, Garfield Reid spent only three months in Norway the Rivoli United player said he profited greatly from the experience and is now looking to bigger things. <P class=StoryText align=justify>Reid, who returned home recently following the closure of the Norwegian football season, said he learnt "a lot" playing in the northern European country and has become a better player.<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=5 width=360 align=center border=0><TBODY><TR><TD>
</TD></TR><TR><TD><SPAN class=Description>REID (left)... I am looking something better right now, somewhere people can see me</SPAN></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><P class=StoryText align=justify>"I've been there for three and a half months. For the first few weeks it was just hard work because you have to work harder than those there before you - so they see that you are a very serious worker - if you want to get into the squad," he declared.<P class=StoryText align=justify>"When I go to training if they do five laps, I do 10 just to catch up on them. It is cold and you feel lazy sometimes, but I went there and gave all I could," he said.Reid, who went on a trial before joining the club, Hamar Kameratene - also called Ham Kam - said he created a good early impression.<P class=StoryText align=justify>"The first game I played for the second team I had two assists and a goal. And in my second game with them I scored a hat-trick and we won 6-4.<P class=StoryText align=justify>"Even while we were doing some drills and we were practising shooting, they were really impressed by what I had to show and that I'm a good kicker of the ball," he said.<P class=StoryText align=justify>The unfortunate thing for Reid was that he was only able to play in the last five matches of the season for the first team.
Reid, an accustomed left full-back in Jamaica, claims that in the time allowed he had already begun to establish himself as one of the better players at Ham Kam.<P class=StoryText align=justify>"They also made me play left midfield because they saw me as a better attacker than some of the other players there. But the season had already started when I went there so actually I was only able to play five games as the season ended on the 8th of last month," he said.<P class=StoryText align=justify>"The league there is much different from Jamaica," he continued, "It's a much more high-intensity game with more running. When these guys have the ball they don't stop running they don't waste time. Even if it's a defender, as long as he has space he is going to take it so you'll have to run him down," he explained.<P class=StoryText align=justify>"In Jamaica it's much different, you pass the ball to someone, he stops, beat a man, pass it, gets it back and the same man that he beat a while ago would be tackling him again.
"In Norway when they beat you with the ball, there is no way you can get back, someone else has to cover you because they are not stopping for you to get a second chance," Reid said.<P class=StoryText align=justify>"So coming back here after learning so much over there has made me a better player here," he argued.
He hailed the virtues of playing abroad.
"Going away and playing is much better because you learn the real thing. The facilities are also much better and you are more comfortable. I can't speak for everywhere, but where I was, I was quite comfortable," he said.<P class=StoryText align=justify>Now Reid is looking to go
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