<TABLE cellSpacing=0 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR><TD class=news_byline></TD></TR><TR><TD style="HEIGHT: 9px"></TD></TR><TR><TD class=news_summary>National women's football coach and manager of the national under-17 squad, Vin Blaine, has resigned with immediate effect from both posts. <SPAN class=news_body>
The Jamaica Football Federation (JFF) decided to increase the technical staff of the national women's programme because of the number of upcoming tournaments, but Blaine was upset with how the information was relayed to him.
The national senior team is due to contest the Pan American Games in Sao Paulo, Brazil while the national under-15, under-17 and under-20 squads are slated to contest regional competitions shortly.
The CONCACAF qualifiers to the FIFA under-20 women's World Cup in Chile in 2008 is also set to begin in May.
Three Caribbean teams will qualify for the eight team CONCACAF final round.
Blaine, who was appointed to the post in 2005, has launched a scathing attack on the JFF.
“After all the work that Xavier Gilbert and myself have put into this under 17 programme and because of somebody else’s hidden agenda, I’m not calling any names, but because of somebody’s hidden agenda to get rid of me as <SPAN class=kLink style="FONT-WEIGHT: 400; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: blue! important; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana,Arial; POSITION: relative">head </SPAN><SPAN class=kLink style="FONT-WEIGHT: 400; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: blue! important; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana,Arial; POSITION: relative">coach</SPAN> in this programme,” said Mr. Blaine.
“The president has taken upon himself to make a decision without consultation or even referring to me and saying this is what his intentions are and that is what ticks me off the most,”
“You cannot have a person who has given his all to a programme and you make a decision whether is unilateral or otherwise, I don’t know what kind of decision that was, but I know that decision was made with consultation with other people and that is what my concern is,” he continued.
Blaine guided the national senior squad to fourth place in the CONCACAF qualifiers for the senior and under-20 women's World Cup in Los Angeles and Mexico.
A fourth place finish at the CONCACAF <SPAN class=kLink style="FONT-WEIGHT: 400; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: blue! important; BORDER-BOTTOM: blue 1px solid; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana,Arial; POSITION: relative; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent">Gold</SPAN> Cup also secured qualification for the <A id=amzn_cl_link_2 href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0008I9JBU?ie=UTF8
The Jamaica Football Federation (JFF) decided to increase the technical staff of the national women's programme because of the number of upcoming tournaments, but Blaine was upset with how the information was relayed to him.
The national senior team is due to contest the Pan American Games in Sao Paulo, Brazil while the national under-15, under-17 and under-20 squads are slated to contest regional competitions shortly.
The CONCACAF qualifiers to the FIFA under-20 women's World Cup in Chile in 2008 is also set to begin in May.
Three Caribbean teams will qualify for the eight team CONCACAF final round.
Blaine, who was appointed to the post in 2005, has launched a scathing attack on the JFF.
“After all the work that Xavier Gilbert and myself have put into this under 17 programme and because of somebody else’s hidden agenda, I’m not calling any names, but because of somebody’s hidden agenda to get rid of me as <SPAN class=kLink style="FONT-WEIGHT: 400; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: blue! important; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana,Arial; POSITION: relative">head </SPAN><SPAN class=kLink style="FONT-WEIGHT: 400; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: blue! important; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana,Arial; POSITION: relative">coach</SPAN> in this programme,” said Mr. Blaine.
“The president has taken upon himself to make a decision without consultation or even referring to me and saying this is what his intentions are and that is what ticks me off the most,”
“You cannot have a person who has given his all to a programme and you make a decision whether is unilateral or otherwise, I don’t know what kind of decision that was, but I know that decision was made with consultation with other people and that is what my concern is,” he continued.
Blaine guided the national senior squad to fourth place in the CONCACAF qualifiers for the senior and under-20 women's World Cup in Los Angeles and Mexico.
A fourth place finish at the CONCACAF <SPAN class=kLink style="FONT-WEIGHT: 400; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: blue! important; BORDER-BOTTOM: blue 1px solid; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana,Arial; POSITION: relative; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent">Gold</SPAN> Cup also secured qualification for the <A id=amzn_cl_link_2 href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0008I9JBU?ie=UTF8
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