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Reggae Boyz gunning for Gold
Jamaica head into next month’s CONCACAF Gold Cup riding high on a wave of improved form and increased hopes. The Reggae Boyz jumped up nine places in the latest instalment of the FIFA/Coca-Cola World Ranking and now go into the much-anticipated continental showpiece with perhaps their best side since the one that made history in 1998.
“We are completely focused on the Gold Cup,” said national team head coach and former midfielder Theodore Whitmore, an influential member of the only Jamaican side ever to reach a FIFA World Cup™, 13 years ago in France. “We’ve not done particularly well in recent Gold Cup tournaments [the side went out in the first round in 2009 and failed to even qualify in 2007], but we’re not too far off the successes we achieved in 1998,” added the boss, who scored both goals in Jamaica’s only FIFA World Cup tournament win against Japan in those heady days at the tale end of the 20th century.
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Jamaica head into next month’s CONCACAF Gold Cup riding high on a wave of improved form and increased hopes. The Reggae Boyz jumped up nine places in the latest instalment of the FIFA/Coca-Cola World Ranking and now go into the much-anticipated continental showpiece with perhaps their best side since the one that made history in 1998.
“We are completely focused on the Gold Cup,” said national team head coach and former midfielder Theodore Whitmore, an influential member of the only Jamaican side ever to reach a FIFA World Cup™, 13 years ago in France. “We’ve not done particularly well in recent Gold Cup tournaments [the side went out in the first round in 2009 and failed to even qualify in 2007], but we’re not too far off the successes we achieved in 1998,” added the boss, who scored both goals in Jamaica’s only FIFA World Cup tournament win against Japan in those heady days at the tale end of the 20th century.
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