Not one Steths player on the U20 squad??

[Stonigut]

How is it possible that not one Steths player could make this squad after the incredible season they had.

Seems very unusual to have three from dinthill and JC, two from Georges and Cornwall and not one from Steths.

Jamaica Football Federation ( J.F.F )
The National Under 20 squad preparing for first stage CFU Qualifiers in the Dominican Republic, June 13 - 19 will play a practice game at Drax Hall, St. Ann on Saturday, May 14th at 6:00pm against a St. Ann All Star Team.
The squad will practice this evening, Friday, 13th at the JFF Football Center, UWI at 4:00pm.
Akeem Prawl St Georges College
Gregory Messam St Georges College
Ajeanie Talbot J.C.
Maliek Howell J.c.
Tyreek Mcgee J.c.
Sheldon Mckoy Harbour View FC
Ahmaad Duncombe Harbour View FC
Steve Barnett Harbour View FC
Javain Brown K.C.
Jahwahni Hinds Wolmers Boys
Fabian Grant Camperdown High School
Shamar Nicholson Boys Town FC
Luca Levee Overseas Based
Lee Nicholson Overseas Based
Christopher Grey Overseas Based
Akeem Chambers St Jago High School
Nicholas Nelson Hydel High School
Ajay Higgins Frasers Whip FC
George Brown Dinthill Tech High School
Kimmani Campbell Dinthill Tech High School
Rodave Murray Dinthill Tech High School
Deshane Beckford Ruseas High School
Peter Lee Vassell Cornwall College
Jourdain Fletcher Cornwall College
Nicholas King Manchester High School
Kevon Lambert Glenmuir High School
Siegel Knight Clarendon College
Fitzroy Cummings Lennon High School

[Peter R]

Hm! an dem bring een t'ree snowballah! .... just saying.

[Rockman]

True!

Find it terribly odd that Stewart and Mashall are not on the squad.You NEVER leave home without those two players.
My guess is they drew names from a hat.

[Gamma]

Hmmm Jawges shevaun Stoddard and Alex Marshall are notable absentees

[Gamma]

Lawd gad just a see your post on the same point

[Sir X]

Suh Butler and Bibi failing the youths ?

[Gamma]

I don't know. There are probably legitimate reasons..injuries eg.

I have seen Marshall in training g with the local senior team contingent on several occasions so I don't know

[Jawge]

Easy Stoni. You know, I thought I was the only one that saw something in Akeem Prawl (since that Petersfield game). Anyway Bibi and Butler saw it too.
Any team with Prawl and Vassel must be a good team.

You may just see for the first time a technically sound Ja team (all round). This means they can hold the ball and pass with fluidity. I give them the benefit of the doubt here.

I really want to see this U20 play because my guess is that we may finally see a "bomb" Ja side at the youth level.

Just my take on it all.

[Stonigut]

Yow, you know there is something about winning that is hard to replicate in non winners. Dinthill was beaten twice in two major finals last year and they get three players and Steths have no players. Seems unusual!! You see how Jamie Vardy play ball, hard. Kick hard, run hard, celebrate hard, bredda is not afraid to put it on the line, like the rest of the Gritty team. We also need to consider winners in the selection equation all other things being relatively equal!! Anyway looking far-ward 😃with interest.

[Karl]

At the U-20 and below levels we have enough talented players

to put on the field each year 2 or 3 TOP WORLD TEAMS!
...but talent alone does not cut it! Missing ingredient knowledge of THE GAME OF FOOTBALL! ...grasping the concept of "WHY TEAM"!

Takes these 3 factors:
- The teacher-coaches being knowledgeable of and on that concept!
Look, it is all about, GARBAGE IN, GARBAGE OUT!

Assuming good teachers:
- Players grasping the concept and putting in the effort!
Look, not one of our players lack the mental ability to grasp the concept and thus to both mentally and physically put in the effort!

- Provision of playing time...adequate playing time against TOP WORLD COMPETITION!!!

Simple, isn't it!

Aside: There is a reason why before and since 1998 we have produced only TWO HOME GROWN PLAYERS - Lindy Delapenha & Ricardo "Bibi" Gardner - WHO HAVE PROVEN IN A TOP WORLD LEAGUE to be WORLD TOP RATED!

Facts:
- Our football teacher-coaches, schools and clubs have graduated only these two to TOP OF THE WORLD league status. The records of these two and their clubs' while they were playing supports this.

Other graduates have made lesser impact: "Wily-Boo" Fuller, Theodore "Tappa" Whitmore, Richard Austin, Ian "Pepe" Goodison...but that is a supporting point; "lesser than top impact".

It is morally corrupt and in a real sense, 'silly' to blame the students and not the schools and teachers for the poor graduate results. Such action would also....or at the very least point to acceptance of our talented youngsters as inherently mentally deficient. That, I am sure, we would all agree is, 'just not on'!!!!

[Don1]

to put on the field each year 2 or 3 TOP WORLD TEAMS!
...but talent alone does not cut it! Missing ingredient knowledge of THE GAME OF FOOTBALL! ...grasping the concept of "WHY TEAM"!

Takes these 3 factors:
- The teacher-coaches being knowledgeable of and on that concept!
Look, it is all about, GARBAGE IN, GARBAGE OUT!

Assuming good teachers:
- Players grasping the concept and putting in the effort!
Look, not one of our players lack the mental ability to grasp the concept and thus to both mentally and physically put in the effort!

- Provision of playing time...adequate playing time against TOP WORLD COMPETITION!!!

Simple, isn't it!

Aside: There is a reason why before and since 1998 we have produced only TWO HOME GROWN PLAYERS - Lindy Delapenha & Ricardo "Bibi" Gardner - WHO HAVE PROVEN IN A TOP WORLD LEAGUE to be WORLD TOP RATED!

Facts:
- Our football teacher-coaches, schools and clubs have graduated only these two to TOP OF THE WORLD league status. The records of these two and their clubs' while they were playing supports this.

Other graduates have made lesser impact: "Wily-Boo" Fuller, Theodore "Tappa" Whitmore, Richard Austin, Ian "Pepe" Goodison...but that is a supporting point; "lesser than top impact".

It is morally corrupt and in a real sense, 'silly' to blame the students and not the schools and teachers for the poor graduate results. Such action would also....or at the very least point to acceptance of our talented youngsters as inherently mentally deficient. That, I am sure, we would all agree is, 'just not on'!!!!

Absolutely no need for JA to go through all this Bull Shiit development crapola...Much too much werk dat

But keep Hope Alive!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Juss dial up 8-10 mediocre English ReggaeBozy to Watch every 4 years (fi di next 50+) an' wi kriss....Dat deh English Crock Pot cyaan dun!!!

Cost & Time Effective ops wi seh!!!!

[Me]

A STETHS youth in the Copa America provisional squad.

[Jawge]

Stoni when's the last time (at the youth level) did Ja put a technically sound team on the field? A technically sound team will have the ability to possess the ball and not boot it back to the opponent.

Winning mentality will come Stoni, first let's get qualified.

[Karl]

Absolutely no need for JA to go through all this Bull Shiit development crapola...Much too much werk dat

But keep Hope Alive!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Juss dial up 8-10 mediocre English ReggaeBozy to Watch every 4 years (fi di next 50+) an' wi kriss....Dat deh English Crock Pot cyaan dun!!!

Cost & Time Effective ops wi seh!!!!

You miss the point!
The players are churned out year over year with tremendous technical skills...'all the world' acknowledges that! The missing ingredient - Knowledge of the game = tactical skills! = subject matter dealing with how to use those technical skills for benefit of TEAM!

What Simoes said - "Bunch of (performing) seals"?
Every foreign coach who has led players speak of them being tactically poor, poor discipline, etc., etc. Any and every facet of the game that deals with application of logic derided.

Look if a school or a set of schools consistently churn out students who cannot apply logic at acceptable levels we label the school failure or schools or failures respectively.

As fact, our football schools = clubs (high schools, clubs and youth teams) consistently graduate students who do not know the game = tactically dumb. Who should we blame the students or the schools = teacher-coaches?

To me the answer is simple!!!

As I have said before, I have had personal experiences of our supposedly good players rejected in Europe on the basis of "do not know the game"!!!

Dem guh a fi wi school dem = football school dem fi larn di game of football!!!
...han dem graduate has "do not know the game"!

[Don1]

Don1 nuh miss any point whe valuable......Mi mek dem