Zavon Hines, extremely talented.......

[Dunny]

Brought up through the famed West Ham academy that produced the likes of Frank Lampard,Rio & Anton Ferdinand,Joe Cole,Michael Carrick etc.
He had some set backs with injury but he has the potential to be a top player he scored 2 goals in 2 appearances for England u21. JFF Please get him on the programme before it's too late!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjYC9...eature=related

[TheDread]

But Dunny a no jamaica him born too?

[Skeng DX]

On 10 February 2009, Hines was called into the Jamaica team for their friendly international against Nigeria on 11 February.The game finished 0–0 and Hines did not play. Despite having been selected in a Jamaican squad, on 1 October, Hines was called-up for the England under-21 team for a game against the Macedonia under 21 team on 9 October, played at the Ricoh Arena, Coventry. Hines came on as a second-half substitute, for Theo Walcott, and scored twice on his under-21 debut, in their 6–3 victory

IS IT STILL POSSIBLE???

he played under-21 for England

[Dunny]

IS IT STILL POSSIBLE???

he played under-21 for England

It's still possible for him to play for JA, because u21 is not classed as a full international so he still can play for us.

[Dunny]

But Dunny a no jamaica him born too?

That is the reason why i am banging down the door for the JFF to call him up.

[TheDread]

The JFF needs to take a serious look at how they are approaching the team. The fact that they have yet to understand that the C team they sent to the Gold Cup is not good enough to qualify us for the world cup is very disturbing. The fact that we have thrown away many of our UK based players and have replaced them with players of lesser quality is very disturbing. The fact that we have not been scouting and testing quality Jamaicans playing abroad is disturbing. The fact that the JFF we keep using the current central defenders is not only disturbing..it's also insane.

The fact that ONLY A FEW ON THIS SITE ARE DISTURBED BY THIS JFF INCOMPETENCE IS VERY VERY DISTURBING.

[Dunny]

Hines makes Cherries switch


Thu, 22 Mar 15:11:34 2012

• Share
  
• retweet
  
• Email
• Print

Burnley have allowed Zavon Hines to join Bournemouth on loan until the end of the season.
The striker has made 16 appearances for his parent club this term but has found first-team opportunities hard to come by of late and has not featured for the Clarets since the 2-0 defeat to Southampton last month.
The 23-year-old is hopeful he will be able to kick-start his career on the Dorset coast, telling Bournemouth's official website: "I think this is a positive move for me. I have heard a lot about the club and hopefully I can help the club while I'm here.
"I'm a hard worker and I just want to do well for the club and myself and see where it takes us.
"Everyone at Burnley said that this was a good move for me and I didn't hesitate to join.
"It's been frustrating for me there. I've played a few games but not enough. I just want to play football and I'm happy to be at Bournemouth."

[Karl]

This guy should be in our Senior National Squad!!!!
JFF still do not realise that slow players condemn us to "also ran"!

This player is quality with 'tons' of speed!!!!

[Dunny]

This guy should be in our Senior National Squad!!!!
JFF still do not realise that slow players comdemn us to "also ran"!

This player is quality with 'tons' of speed!!!!

Long time me a say so, i hope this loan move work out for him, he needs to be playing more games.

[Paul Marin]

This guy should be in our Senior National Squad!!!!
JFF still do not realise that slow players condemn us to "also ran"!

This player is quality with 'tons' of speed!!!!

I saw him play a few years ago (2009) against Liverpool at Upton Park, he hit the post and was the player brought down (if I remember) giving WH a penalty that they scored. Liverpool thanks to Torres pulled out the win but I remember Hines being very fast and impressive. It goes to show how hard it is to be a professional footballer. Not an easy career - that's for sure.

[Dunny]

http://www.teamtalk.com/league-two/8...amaica-call-up



Zavon Hines is desperate for the next step in his remarkable career to be on the international stage with his beloved Jamaica.

The Kingston-born winger emigrated to England with his parents when he was a child, graduating from the West Ham academy without quite making the impact many expected.

However, his brave step to drop down into npower League Two with Bradford has been vindicated by the starring role he has played in the Bantams' astonishing charge to Sunday's Capital One Cup final.

Although Hines has declared himself happy with Bradford and expressed a willingness to help them climb back up the Football League ladder, once the dust has settled, a move to a higher level seems certain.

Yet he is also keen to put himself back in the minds of Jamaica's national selectors.

While there was a time when Hines admits he toyed with the idea of playing for England because it might benefit his career, the 24-year-old would love the chance to star for the Reggae Boyz, who are currently battling to reprise their 1998 World Cup finals appearance.

"If Jamaica came for me, I would definitely go back," he said.

"That is where I was born. That is where my family is from. I would never turn my back on Jamaica.

"I did play for England Under-21s because both myself and my agent at the time thought it would be better exposure for me.

"But I am fully Jamaican. If I had the opportunity to play for them I would run there if I had to."

[Karl]

I saw him play a few years ago (2009) against Liverpool at Upton Park, he hit the post and was the player brought down (if I remember) giving WH a penalty that they scored. Liverpool thanks to Torres pulled out the win but I remember Hines being very fast and impressive. It goes to show how hard it is to be a professional footballer. Not an easy career - that's for sure.

That was a match!
You are correct, sir.

There is much more to it than having great talent. ...the numbers of 'good' talent around is huge. Then having quality representation...the right representation/representatives/agents...and there is need for great amount of luck putting the player in the right place at the right time...

Just think on it in each country there are limited opportunities (professional clubs) and vast numbers of young talented players and appreciable numbers of fading professionals who refuse to step aside (cannot blame them) and who as they fade drop lower and lower down the ranks.

...but one such as Hines should be wooed by the JFF!!!! ...and immediately!!!

[Rockman]

All along I thought Jamaica was not his first option only to find out now I was wrong.
He is an eye-catching player,can't understand why he wasn't considered..

[Dunny]

Zavon Hines: Bouncing back from the brink of despair

Less than four years since last playing for England Under-21s, the former West Ham winger heads to Wembley with Bradford on Sunday after rediscovering his confidence thanks to the help of a sports psychologist and an understanding manager


Almost every player has his inner demons and almost every club has a way of helping clear them away. The Manchester City players are aware of the work of Paul McGee and his motivational best-sellers which implore them to be honest with themselves. Shut Up, Move On is the title of one volume they're all familiar with. Chelsea's strategy with Fernando Torres is to tell him to stop over-complicating things and to blame others less.


But the Bradford City manager, Phil Parkinson, will tell you that it's easier to help a player when he's on £100,000 a week than on the margins of football. What Sunday's League Cup finalists encountered when Zavon Hines walked through the door last summer was an individual whose self-belief had been crushed.

He was trying to pick up the pieces on a career which had crashed from its pinnacle of a two-goal England Under-21 debut, barely three years ago, to a search for redemption in professional football's lowest tier. Hines' close mates from his West Ham United academy days, Jack Collison and James Tomkins, told him he "shouldn't be playing down in League Two because I'm better than that", Hines relates. But the 24-year-old wasn't so sure when he first walked through the doors of Valley Parade.

Parkinson sensed that Hines had some self-belief to restore when he told his players about a young sports graduate he had worked with when manager at Colchester United and recommended another of that ilk – John Muranka – who has been around the Bradford scene since Peter Taylor's days as manager. Hines bit Parkinson's hand off.

"He said to me later, 'As soon as you mentioned a psychologist I couldn't get there quick enough'," Parkinson relates. "Players sometimes need help. Players at this level are playing for their futures. These players are not on big salaries. They worry about paying their mortgages and supporting the family."

For Hines, it was about reinstilling the self-worth which West Ham fans will remember seeing on the night he terrorised Jamie Carragher in Liverpool's 3-2 win in east London, just before his Under-21s call-up in October 2009.

A knee injury sustained the following January kept the winger out for the best part of a year but his belief that he deserved more football than Sam Allardyce was granting him led him to turn down a contract and move to Burnley in the Championship in the summer of 2011, for what turned out to be a professional catastrophe.

The Jamaican-born player started a mere two League Cup games all season for manager Eddie Howe, which was a dire type of inactivity for a 23-year-old, 200 miles from home in east Lancashire. "I'd go home and be upset for the rest of the day," Hines recalls. "Most things were happening because I wasn't playing."

Muranka has helped. "I spoke to him about how I used to feel; what I used to do," Hines says. "There were times when I'd be left out of the squad with no explanation. I was one of the best trainers but I'd just be left out of the squad. He just said I need to keep my head straight, that I'd probably reacted in a certain way."

It appears to have been a vicious circle: Hines reacting badly and Howe reacting to that. "When you're left out of the squad you don't feel part of it," Hines says. "So there's been times when I went home straight after the game, without saying, 'Congratulations'. With Eddie Howe that was a big thing. He probably thought my mentality wasn't right."

It has chastened a player who admits that "when you've played higher you have a bit of an ego and the mentality that 'I should be playing higher'." He acknowledges that his first thought when Bradford entered the reckoning was "I don't really want to play in League Two" and feels that there is not a whole galaxy of things to do in Bradford.

"It's different to London!" he says, though, as a young man lost in the North, he has learnt to find his own recreations. He is a natural history enthusiast, particularly keen on David Attenborough and his Africa series.

His rewards have been rich, of course: a part of one of lower league football's most extraordinary stories and, although he is not a guaranteed starter in League Two, the manager turned to him for both League Cup semi-final matches against Aston Villa. In some respects, the games against the Premier League sides – he started in the win on penalties against Wigan – have been easier than some of the League Two football.

"No disrespect to teams like Morecambe, but their pitch is not like ours," he says. "It's not easier, but more comfortable [against the Premier League sides]. I know what it's like to play them. I think I've had my best performances against them and others have said the same."

There'll be 17 of his London-based family heading west out to Wembley, where on Sunday he will be playing on the Wembley pitch for the first time since his second – and last – England Under-21s appearance, against Portugal. He cautiously posits the idea that the stage may be a way to prove to West Ham, a club he was desolate about leaving, that they failed to calibrate the depth of his talent.

But he is aware, too, of Swansea City's Leon Britton, another former young West Ham player who seemed to have the world at his feet, only to drop four leagues to Swansea and begin a 10-year climb to the top flight to display his wonderful talents with that club.

"Yes, I heard he used to play for West Ham," Hines says. "And watching him now he's just a very good player. It's encouraging to see him come through the leagues like that and he's done well. I've got belief in myself, too. But sometimes it's not just about belief. It's about who fancies you as well."

Hines factfile: Zavon's CV

Born 27 Dec 1988, Kingston, Jamaica

Club career

2007-11 West Ham United (3 goals in 31 matches)

2008 Coventry [loan] (1/7)

2011-12 Burnley (0/16)

2012 Bournemouth [loan] (1/8)

2012- Bradford City (1/28)

International career Two goals in two matches for England Under-21s in 2009.

* Zines scored on his West Ham debut 78 minutes against Macclesfield in 2008. After suffering a protracted knee injury, he returned to score a last-minute winner against Aston Villa in 2009 before again undergoing knee surgery.

* The forward was called up by Jamaica in 2009 but failed to play – before featuring for England Under-21s later that same year.

[Don1]

The really disturbing situation is the myopic, shrill focus by so many on UB40's "instant solution" when WC qualification starts and, conversely.... the lack of attention by Jamaicans headed by the JFF to the long term development of Jamaican players....yes those much maligned yutes in Jamaica who are the victims of this perverse fraud

The exception to that lack of attention to Jamaican player development is the occasional, token and perfunctory crocodile tears some shed over the waste

Now that's what's really disturbing