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Hyde And The 'Super' Season
Published: Thursday | October 23, 2014
When the Wolmer's Boys' football team was knocked out of the ISSA Walker Cup, I breathed a sigh of relief. It meant to me that World Junior and Youth Olympic champion Jaheel Hyde would get a rest.
With his football and track commitments, he has been training and competing in one sport or the other since last September. It seemed that a little break was needed.
I love football, but my track-dominant heart was being gleefully selfish. Then, it hit me. Being a big side, the 2012 and 2013 Walker Cup winners had qualified for the new ISSA Super Cup. The missed Walker Cup matches had been replaced, I thought, and rest for Hyde went out the window.
Don't get me wrong. This new competition is a brilliant idea. On a year-to-year basis, it will answer the question fans want answered: Is schoolboy football stronger in the urban areas or in the rural areas?
For all I know, it may also reshape schoolboy football. In the long run, an expanded Super Cup could possibly replace the urban and rural knockout tournaments, the Walker and Ben Francis cups. With time limited for student-footballers in the Christmas term, schedule pressure and interest in rural-urban competition may eventually squeeze the Walker Cup and the Ben Francis Cup. Failing that, schoolboy football could extend into the Easter term.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/2...s/sports2.html
Published: Thursday | October 23, 2014
When the Wolmer's Boys' football team was knocked out of the ISSA Walker Cup, I breathed a sigh of relief. It meant to me that World Junior and Youth Olympic champion Jaheel Hyde would get a rest.
With his football and track commitments, he has been training and competing in one sport or the other since last September. It seemed that a little break was needed.
I love football, but my track-dominant heart was being gleefully selfish. Then, it hit me. Being a big side, the 2012 and 2013 Walker Cup winners had qualified for the new ISSA Super Cup. The missed Walker Cup matches had been replaced, I thought, and rest for Hyde went out the window.
Don't get me wrong. This new competition is a brilliant idea. On a year-to-year basis, it will answer the question fans want answered: Is schoolboy football stronger in the urban areas or in the rural areas?
For all I know, it may also reshape schoolboy football. In the long run, an expanded Super Cup could possibly replace the urban and rural knockout tournaments, the Walker and Ben Francis cups. With time limited for student-footballers in the Christmas term, schedule pressure and interest in rural-urban competition may eventually squeeze the Walker Cup and the Ben Francis Cup. Failing that, schoolboy football could extend into the Easter term.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/2...s/sports2.html
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