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2017 Caribbean Club Championship teams, groups & schedule announced
CONCACAF
CONCACAF announced Monday the clubs, groups and schedule for the 2017 Caribbean Club Championship.
A record 20 sides from 11 countries – headed by Trinidad & Tobago’s Central FC, the two-time defending champion – qualified for the 19th edition of the competition, which will determine the region’s representatives to the next edition of the Scotiabank CONCACAF Champions League.
The first round consists of five groups of four teams, which will play a round-robin format from late February through March. Greenbay Hoppers FC (Antigua & Barbuda), Don Bosco FC (Haiti), Montego Bay United FC (Jamaica), Central FC (Trinidad & Tobago) and System 3 Sport Academy (St. Vincent & the Grenadines) will host the group stage.
Group Stage Venues
Group A: Antigua Recreation Ground – St. John's, Antigua & Barbuda,
Group B: Stade Sylvio Cator – Port-Au-Prince, Haiti
Group C: Montego Bay Sports Complex - Montego Bay, Jamaica
Group D: Ato Boldon Stadium. – Port of Spain, Trinidad & Tobago
Group E: Victoria Park - Kingstown, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
The five group winners will advance to the final round, scheduled to be played from May 13-21.
The Caribbean Club Championship has been contested annually since 1997 (with the exception of 1999 and 2008), when United Petrotrin of Trinidad & Tobago captured the inaugural title. A champion has been crowned 16 times, with DirecTV W Connection, also of Trinidad & Tobago, lifting the trophy a record three times.
Besides Central FC, the 2017 field includes two former Caribbean champions: San Juan Jabloteh (Trinidad & Tobago) and Portmore United (Jamaica). Additionally, Transvaal, a past CONCACAF club champion (1973, 1981) qualified for the event as runner-up in the 2015/16 Surinamese league.
2017 Caribbean Club Championship Participating teams (alphabetical order)
Bequia United FC (St. Vincent & the Grenadines)
Central FC (Trinidad & Tobago)
Cibao FC (Dominican Republic)
Club Barcelona Atletico (Dominican Republic)
Club Sportif Moulien (Guadeloupe)
Don Bosco FC (Haiti)
Elite Sport Club (Cayman Islands)
Flames United SC (Sint Maarten)
Greenbay Hoppers FC (Antigua & Barbuda)
Grenades FC (Antigua & Barbuda)
Inter Moengo Tapoe (Suriname)
Montego Bay United FC (Jamaica)
Police FC (Montserrat)
Portmore United FC (Jamaica)
Racing FC des Gonaives (Haiti)
San Juan Jabloteh FC (Trinidad & Tobago)
Scholars International (Cayman Islands)
SV Transvaal (Suriname)
System 3 Sport Academy (St. Vincent & the Grenadines)
USR Sainte‐Rose (Guadeloupe)
First Round Schedule
GROUP A (Antigua & Barbuda)
February 22, 2017
Racing FC v Inter Moengo Tapoe
Greenbay Hoppers v Bequia United FC
February 24, 2017
Bequia United FC v Racing FC
Greenbay Hoppers v Inter Moengo Tapoe
February 26, 2017
Inter Moengo Tapoe v Bequia United FC
Greenbay Hoppers v Racing FC
GROUP B (Haiti)
March 1, 2017
Police FC v Cibao FC
Don Bosco FC v USR Sainte-Rose
March 3, 2017
Cibao FC v USR Sainte-Rose
Don Bosco FC v Police FC
March 5, 2017
USR Sainte-Rose v Police FC
Don Bosco FC v Cibao FC
GROUP C (Jamaica)
March 1, 2017
Club Barcelona Atletico v Elite Sport Club
Montego Bay United FC v Grenades FC
March 3, 2017
Grenades FC v Club Barcelona Atletico
Montego Bay United FC v Elite Sport Club
March 5, 2017
Elite Sport Club v Grenades FC
Montego Bay United FC v Club Barcelona Atletico
GROUP D (Trinidad & Tobago)
March 8, 2017
Scholars International v Portmore United FC
Central FC v SV Transvaal
March 10, 2017
Portmore United FC v SV Transvaal
Central FC v Scholars International
March 12, 2017
SV Transvaal v Scholars International
Central FC v Portmore United FC
GROUP E (St. Vincent & the Grenadines)
March 8, 2017
Flames United SC v San Juan Jabloteh
System 3 Sport Academy v Club Sportif Moulien
March 10, 2017
San Juan Jabloteh v Club Sportif Moulien
System 3 Sport Academy v Flames United SC
March 12, 2017
Club Sportif Moulien v Flames United SC
System 3 Sport Academy v San Juan Jabloteh
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These people need to get their geography correct about TT. ATO is not in PoS. Chaguanas.
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What are the predictions for the TT clubs in this tournament. Will they follow the same faith of the NT team? Or will they perform well enough as past Trini teams who have "dominated" this tournament. See the DJW team is not in it, then there should be no issues of match fixing, right? So, both Central and especially Jabloteh should be trying to prove the point that they are not like the MNT.
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Love the large field, still a shame half the Caribbean isn't represented though.
Jabloteh's group is straight-forward - I'm usually the one preaching caution about fellow Caribbean teams, but Flames united are very weak and Vincy football isn't at the standard of their neighbours at the moment. CS Moulien might present more of a challenge, but I don't expect Jabloteh to get less than 7 points in that group.
Central, on the other hand, have been dealt a crap hand - I find it hard to believe that placing 1st can give you such a terrible draw as compared to Jabloteh's 2nd place. Portmore are an excellent team - one of the top 10 or maybe even top 5 in the region, whilst Transvaal have the potential to cause an upset (again, I preach caution when dealing with the Guyanas, they're tough when on their game). Scholars are perhaps the weaker side, but they aren't a walkover like perhaps other teams are.
Group A is definitely the most competitive. You'd expect Racing to win perhaps, but Moengotapoe will give them a run for their money. Greenbay Hoppers and Bequia are also middling teams for the region, so they'll be interesting to watch.
Group B is also competitive, although I imagine Police (MSR) will do well to keep matches below 5 goals against. They have a lot of strong competition - Don Bosco are a good shout for reaching the Semi-finals under the usual format, Cibao are rebuilding into a professional team, while Sainte-Rose are a side that can compete.
Montego Bay will have little trouble in Group C, which perhaps represents the 2nd least competitive after Jabloteh's. Atlético have some potential, as do Grenades, to compete, but I doubt they'll get much of a sniff at Montego Bay. Elite are a wild-card, but I wouldn't expect more than a win from the group.
Predictions;
A
- Racing
Moengotapoe
Hoppers
Bequia
B
- Don Bosco
Cibao
Sainte-Rose
Police
C
- Montego Bay
Atlético
Grenades
Elite SC
D
- Central FC
Portmore
Transvaal
Scholars
E
- Jabloteh
CS Moulien
System 3
Flames Utd
Final Round;
1.Central
2.Montego Bay
3.Jabloteh
Don Bosco
Racing
There's a lot of scope to be wrong though - Don Bosco could bring a surprise or two - Jabloteh might be under threat from them.
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CONCACAF Champions League unveils new format without group stage
BY JEFF CARLISLE (ESPN).
CONCACAF has announced a revised format for the CONCACAF Champions League that eliminates the group stage starting in the 2017-18 edition of the tournament.
The tournament will now involve 31 clubs and be comprised of two stages. The first stage will see 16 teams from the Caribbean and Central America compete in a tournament that runs from August to October.
The winner will then move on to the second stage, where it will be joined by clubs from MLS (five teams, assuming the winner of the Canada Cup is an MLS team), Liga MX (four teams), the winner of the Caribbean Club Championship, as well as the overall champions from El Salvador, Costa Rica, Panama, Honduras, and Guatemala. This stage will be contested from February to May.
"The expansion of the CONCACAF club competitions platform to 31 clubs is an important step forward in the Confederation's efforts to include more Member Association representation and increase participation at the highest levels of our competitions," said CONCACAF president Victor Montagliani.
"The continued growth of club competition in CONCACAF is representative of the strengthening of the sport throughout the region, and along with the new format for the Champions League, provides the base for a formidable club championship structure that will entertain and engage fans region-wide for years to come."
The effect of the format changes, at least as it relates to MLS and Liga MX clubs, is that the group stage that used to take place in the latter half of the calendar year, has been eliminated, thus helping to ease fixture congestion.
But MLS has long complained that the timing of the knockout stage of the tournament -- which has historically run during preseason and the early months of the regular season -- took place when its teams were far from peak form. The revised format will do little to change that.
A CONCACAF spokesman explained that the stakeholders from all of the leagues were consulted, and that MLS was asked whether it preferred to have the knockout stage run from August to October. MLS selected the option for it to run from February to May.
"One of the challenges that we were made aware of by MLS was that the August to October [timeframe] was likely to conflict with some important days on their league calendar, like Decision Day and the playoffs," said the spokesman. "So that was a challenge for them, among others, and alleviating fixture congestion was one of their goals."
As for why games have to start in February as opposed to March or April, the spokesman explained that when international fixture windows are taken into account, a March start date wouldn't allow for enough time to squeeze in eight matchdays.
"A March start would take up almost every midweek date, which just wasn't feasible," the spokesman said.
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Which TrinTo club allyuh think go make it into the first stage?
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Wow big change and not for the better. Phase 1 will be poorly televised and attended, seems skewed in USA and Mexico's favour. One rep instead of 3 in the final tourney, unless they win phase 1. Belize royally screwed and Central America cluttering phase 1 with 3 overall teams each in the tournament?
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Jabloteh off to CONCACAF Champions League qualifying.
ttproleague.com.
Keith Jeffrey, head coach of former Caribbean champions San Juan Jabloteh, is bracing for a baptism of fire when he leads the San Juan Kingsinton Group E action of the Caribbean Football Union (CFU) 2017 Club Championship—the Caribbean’s qualifying tournament to the CONCACAF Champions League—this week.
Jabloteh, whose 20-man squad left for St. Vincent today, will open against Sint Maarten’s Flames United SC on Wednesday 8 March (5:30 pm), then face Guadeloupe’s Club Sportif Moulien on Friday 10 March (5:30 pm), before completing the first round round-robin stage against hosts System 3 Sport Academy (7:30 pm) on Sunday 12 March. All matches will be contested at Victoria Park in Kingstown, St. Vincent.
Team captain and Jamaican defensive midfielder Damian Williams will lead Jabloteh’s 20-man squad which includes goalkeepers Javon Sample and Guyana’s Andrew Durrant; defenders Akeem Benjamin, Jerome Mc Intyre, Josiah Trimmingham, Jevon Morris and Jamaican Adrian Reid; midfielders Elijah Manners, Keyon Edwards, Jamaican Keithy Simpson, Kion Joseph, Panamanian Jairo Lombardo, Kennedy Hinkson, Nathan Lewis and Micah Lansiquot; and forwards Jamal Gay, Tyrone Charles, Kadeem Corbin, and Guyana’s Vurlon Mills.
According to Jabloteh coach Jeffrey, the San Juan club has already secured the signature of unattached Trinidad and Tobago international Carlyle Mitchell. However the T&T defender was unavailable for selection due to a groin injury picked up in training with the national team preparing for upcoming FIFA World Cup qualifiers against Panama and Mexico on 24 and 25 March respectively. Also on the injury list is defender Aquil Selby while forward Brent Sam is still on trial in Portugal.
Jeffrey, who travelled to St. Vincent ahead of his team, will be joined by assistant coaches Nigel Henry and Gilbert Bateau, goalkeeper coach Joshua Lamb, and team manager Michael Watson.
“I have no idea about our opponents,” Jeffrey told ttproleague.com today. “But we know one thing for sure, they will be fired up against us. They will all see us as the powerhouse in the group. Trinidad and Tobago is at the top of the list in football in the Caribbean but we are not underestimating the other teams.
“I have spoken to the coach of the ‘Vincy’ team (System 3 Sport Academy) and they have been looking us up on Youtube, and I would think it’s the same with our other opponents. The most we got about them online is their standings and some results. System 3 have also strengthened their team, adding some players from the United States and from within their St. Vincent league.
“We will have to do the things necessary to make us successful even if it means some tactical changes after getting to understand our opponents as the game progress.
“What is also important for us is that our players understand that they are not only representing Jabloteh, but representing Trinidad and Tobago.”
Jabloteh, champions in 2003, last competed at the Caribbean Club Championship in 2010, finishing third behind champions Puerto Rico Islanders and now defunct, runners-up Joe Public.
Jabloteh’s runners-up finish in the 2015/16 Digicel Pro League season qualified them along with champions Central FC for this season’s Caribbean Club Championship.
“This shows [Jabloteh’s] management made a good decision in putting me here to get Jabloteh back into CFU,” said Jeffrey back then. He was installed as technical director/head coach when the four-time Pro League champions, Jabloteh, resumed top-flight operations for the 2013/14 season following a one-year hiatus due to financial strains after then major sponsor—CL Financial—went into receivership.
Jabloteh, now, are coming off a third place finish in the just concluded 2016/17 Pro League season behind three-peat champions Central FC and runners-up W Connection.
Central FC, the two-time Caribbean defending champions, heads a record 21 clubs from 12 countries who have qualified for the this season’s edition of the CFU competition, which will determine the region’s representatives to CONCACAF’s expanded competitions platform.
The five group winners will advance to the final round, scheduled for May 14 – 21. Central, who received a bye as reigning champions, will host the final round in Trinidad.
“Only the group winners will be going forward,” added Jeffrey. “And we want to play before the supporters in Trinidad. So it’s important for us reaching the final six, and with the support of the home advantage—the 12th man—we want to go all the way to the final.”
Haitian outfit Racing FC (Group A), Dominican Republic’s Cibao FC (Group B) and Antigua and Barbuda outfit Grenades FC (Group C) have already secured their final round berths after topping their respective groups. The final round will be played in two groups of three, with both group winners facing each other in the final.
The champions of the Caribbean Club Championship earns a place in the newly re-formatted CONCACAF Champions League, while the second, third and fourth-placed clubs will participate in the Confederation’s newly launched club championship tournament for Caribbean and Central American clubs, which kicks off in August.
GROUP E (St. Vincent & the Grenadines)
March 8, 2017
Flames United SC (St. Maarten) v San Juan Jabloteh (T&T)
System 3 Sport Academy (St. Vincent & the Grenadines) v Club Sportif Moulien
March 10, 2017
San Juan Jabloteh v Club Sportif Moulien
System 3 Sport Academy (St. Vincent & the Grenadines) v Flames United SC (St. Maarten)
March 12, 2017
Club Sportif Moulien (Guadeloupe) v Flames United SC (St Maarten)
System 3 Sport Academy (St. Vincent & the Grenadines) v San Juan Jabloteh (T&T)
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Match day ...any chance of us gehhin a glimpse of the proceedings?
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Match day ...any chance of us gehhin a glimpse of the proceedings?
I may have to eat my words. That is wishful thinking.
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San Juan Jabloteh began their 2017 CFU Club Championship in style with a 9-0 demolition of Sint Maarten’s Flames United.
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San Juan Jabloteh began their 2017 CFU Club Championship in style with a 9-0 demolition of Sint Maarten’s Flames United.
Goals from Keithy Simpson (x3), Nathan Lewis (x3), Jairo Lombardo, Tyrone Charles, Jamal Gay
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well played.
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Lewis and Simpson on fire as Jabloteh out Flames 9-0 in CCL qualifying.
ttproleague.com.
Nathan Lewis and Keithy Simpson both grabbed hat-tricks as Trinidad and Tobago Pro League outfit San Juan Jabloteh dumped Sint Maarten’s Flames United 9-0 on Wednesday in the opening clash of Group E of the 2017 Caribbean Football Union (CFU) Club Championship at Victoria Park in Kingstown, St. Vincent.
Trinidad and Tobago international, Lewis, completed his hat-trick in the first half with goals in the 21st, 40th and 44th minutes after Simpson opened the scoring in the 11th minute for the former Caribbean champions who took a 4-0 cushion into the break.
Jamaica national Simpson, who started along countrymen Damian Williams and Adrian Reid, made it 5-nil six minutes into the second half before completing his hat-trick on the hour mark--by which time Jabloteh were leading 7-0 inclusive of a 57th-minute item from Panamanian midfielder Jairo Lombardo.
Substitutes Tyrone Charles and Jamal Gay, who replaced Simpson and Guyana’s Verlon Mills respectively with twenty-three minutes left, completed the 9-0 rout with goals in the 72nd and 81st minutes, respectively.
Gay, however, will miss the remaining Group E fixtures against Guadeloupe’s Club Sportif Moulien on Friday (10 March) and host team System 3 Sport Academy on Sunday (12 March) due to a knee injury and is expected to be replaced by utility player Kennedy Hinkson.
Jabloteh coach Keith Jeffrey was happy for the victory but says his side were guilty of wasting a number of scoring opportunities.
“We could have been double the amount [at the end] but, like over the years without natural goal scorers, we weren't able to finish off the team early,” lamented the Jabloteh coach.
“Against Flames, who I would say can compete in the Super League (T&T’s second tier of football), we had around eight or nine chances in the first ten minutes but didn’t score.”
The result, however, put Jabloteh top of Group E but only ahead of Moulien by goal-difference, after the Guadeloupe outfit defeated System 3 Sporting Academy 4-0 in the second game of Wednesday’s Victoria Park double-header.
Jeffrey expects a tougher challenge from the Guadeloupe champions Moulien from 5:30pm on Friday in the virtual group final.
“I’ve had a look at them (Moulien) against the local side System 3 and they played a nice game and won 4-0,” Jeffrey said.
“It’s a virtual final for us on Friday. If we want to progress to the final six stage of the tournament we need to be more lethal. Our execution with and without the ball must also improve. Once we win on Friday we own Group E.”
A record 21 clubs from 12 countries, headed by two-time defending champions Central FC of Trinidad and Tobago, qualified for this season’s edition of the Caribbean Club Championship, which will determine the region’s representatives to CONCACAF’s expanded competitions platform.
The five group winners will advance to the final round of the Caribbean Club Championship, scheduled for May 14 – 21. Central, who received a bye as reigning champions, will host the final round in Trinidad.
Haiti’s Racing FC (Group A), Dominican Republic’s Cibao FC (Group B) and Antigua and Barbuda side Grenades FC (Group C) have already secured their final round berths after topping their respective groups. The final round will be played in two groups of three, with both group winners facing each other in the final.
The champions of the Caribbean Club Championship earns a place in the newly re-formatted CONCACAF Champions League, while the second, third and fourth-placed clubs will participate in the Confederation’s newly launched club championship tournament for Caribbean and Central American clubs, which kicks off in August.
Group E Results
San Juan Jabloteh 9 (Keithy Simpson 11', 51', 60', Nathan Lewis 21', 40', 44', Jairo Lombardo 57', Tyrone Charles 72', Jamal Gay 81') vs Flames United 0, at Victoria Park, St. Vincent;
System 3 Sport Academy 0 vs Club Sportif Moulien 4, at Victoria Park, St. Vincent.
Group E Standings
# Team MP W D L GF GA GD Points
1 San Juan Jabloteh 1 1 0 0 9 0 +9 3
2 Club Sportif Moulien 1 1 0 0 4 0 +4 3
3 System 3 Sport Club 1 0 0 1 0 4 -4 0
4 Flames United 1 0 0 1 0 9 -9 0
San Juan Jabloteh team vs Flames United
Javon Sample (GK), Damian Williams (capt.), Akeem Benjamin, Jevon Morris, Adrian Reid, Kion Joseph, Elijah Manners, Keithy Simpson (Tyrone Charles 67th minute), Jairo Lombardo (Kadeem Corbin 75th minute), Nathan Lewis, Vurlon Mills (Jamal Gay 67th minute).
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San Juan Jabloteh continued their winning ways in the 2017 CFU Club Championship with a 4-1 come-from-behind victory over Guadeloupe’s Club Sportif Moulien. Jabloteh played the last 20 minutes of the game with 10-men after captain Damian Williams was sent off. Jabloteh’s goals were scored by Jairo Lombardo Escobar (2), Vurlon Mills, and Nathan Lewis. Moulien’s goal was scored by Minnji Gomez.
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well played
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Up, up and away. May it long continue.
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Lombardo double virtually qualifies 10-man Jabloteh for Caribbean final round.
ttproleague.com.
San Juan Jabloteh looks set to join Trinidad and Tobago Pro League compatriots and two-time reigning champions Central FC in the Caribbean Club Championship 2017 Final Round to be hosted in Trinidad from May 14 - 21.
This after 10-man Jabloteh improved their stranglehold of Group E in St. Vincent with a 4-1 comeback win over Guadeloupe’s Club Sportif Moulien on Friday at Victoria Park in Kingstown.
Nineteen-year-old Panamanian midfielder Jairo Lambardo scored on either side of the break to cushion Jabloteh, after the San Juan Kings needed an equaliser through Verlon Mills after midfielder Minji Gomez had first put Moulien ahead.
Nathan Lewis capped off the victory with a late item but Jabloteh, already without injured striker Jamal Gay, must do without influential captain Damian Williams in their final group stage game against second-positioned System 3 Sport Academy on Sunday.
The Jamaican defensive midfielder received a direct red card midway in the second half. His position will be filled by Kion Joseph, Elijah Manners or Keyon Edwards, who according to coach Keith Jeffrey, have all “stepped up their game making the selection process a difficult one.”
The win, however, kept Jabloteh perfect with 6 points and a superior goal-difference of +12 ahead the clash against Vincentian team System 3 who have 3 points and a +3 goal-difference.
System 3, with a mountain of a challenge against Jabloteh, crushed Flames United 9-2 in the second game on Friday, jumping ahead of Moulien (3 points / +1 goal-difference) on goal-difference, while Flames, who will face the Guadeloupe side in their final game on Sunday, are anchored at the bottom without a point.
While a win or a draw will see Jabloteh through to the Final Round, a loss – based on the goal margin – can also suffice.
“We want to leave with 9 points,” said Keith Jeffrey, who plans to rotate his squad against System 3.
“We want to finish as shining group winners, but this game also allows us the opportunity to give other players more playing time, such as Tyrone Charles, Kadeem Corbin and Kennedy Hinkson, and give the team some fresh legs.”
The Jabloteh coach credited the performances of such players as Nathan Lewis, Keithy Simpson, Lombardo and Verlon Mills as “tremendous”, and said the competition within his entire team has been brilliant. He also singled out the performances of goalkeepers Javon Sample against Flames United and Andrew Durant against Moulien as great for the team.
Moulien had grabbed the lead on 13 minutes through Gomez and Jeffrey conceded that his side was outplayed for the first 20 minutes against the Guadeloupe outfit.
“I was very much impressed by Moulien,” said Jeffrey. “They were similar to Central FC in Trinidad, good structure in their play and all. But they (Moulien) didn’t have the speed to complement their play. Our speed and movement made the difference for us.”
Mills equalised for Jabloteh on 17 minutes, the Guyana winger's second goal of the tournament, before left-footed talent Lombardo gave the Pro League outfit a 2-1 lead by the 20th-minute.
Lombardo completed his double in the 68th-minute with his third goal of the campaign before he was replaced injured.
Lewis, who scored a hat-trick against Flames in Wednesday’s 9-0 opening win, got his fourth goal of the campaign five minutes from the end as Jabloteh moved one step closer to the Final Round.
Central, as reigning champions received a bye to the Final Round which will be contested in two groups of 3, with the overall group winners advancing into the title match and the Caribbean’s place in the newly re-formatted CONCACAF Champions League.
Haiti’s Racing FC (Group A), Dominica Republic’s Cibao FC (Group B) and Antigua and Barbuda side Grenades FC (Group C) have already qualified for the Final Round of the Caribbean Club Championship, while Puerto Rico Islanders, Jamaica’s Portmore United, Cayman Islands’ Scholars International and Suriname’s SV Transvaal will contest Group D in Puerto Rico from March 14 – 19.
Teams finishing second, third and fourth in the Caribbean Club Championship will participate in the Confederation’s newly launched club championship tournament for Caribbean and Central American clubs which kicks off in August. The winner of that tournament will also qualify for the CONCACAF Champions League.
Results
San Juan Jabloteh 4 (Verlon Mills 17’, Jairo Lombardo 20’, 68’, Nathan Lewis 85’) vs Club Sportif Moulien 1 (Minji Gomez 13’), at Victoria Park, St. Vincent;
System 3 Sport Academy 9 vs Flames United 2, at at Victoria Park, St. Vincent.
San Juan Jabloteh team vs Club Sportif Moulien - Andrew Durrant (GK), Damian Williams (capt.) (Red Card), Akeem Benjamin (Josiah Trimmingham), Jevon Morris, Adrian Reid, Kion Joseph, Elijah Manners, Keithy Simpson, Jairo Lombardo (Tyrone Charles), Nathan Lewis, Vurlon Mills (Micah Lansiquot).
Group E Standings
# Team MP W D L GF GA GD Points
1 San Juan Jabloteh 2 2 0 0 13 1 +12 6
2 System 3 Sport Club 2 1 0 1 9 6 +3 3
3 Club Sportif Moulien 2 1 0 1 5 4 +1 3
4 Flames United 2 0 0 2 2 18 -16 0
Upcoming Games
(Sunday 12 March 2017)
Club Sportif Moulien (Guadeloupe) v Flames United SC (St Maarten), at Victoria Park, St. Vincent;
System 3 Sport Academy (St. Vincent & the Grenadines) v San Juan Jabloteh (T&T), at Victoria Park, St. Vincent.
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San Juan Jabloteh double scorer Jairo Lombardo, third from left, is congratulated by his teammates during their 4-1 win over Club Sportif Moulien in their Caribbean Club Championship 2017 Group E clash at Victoria Park in Kingstown, St. Vincent on 10 March.
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San Juan Jabloteh qualifies for the final round of the 2017 Caribbean Club Championship after a Tyrone Charles header gave them a 1-0 win over St. Vincent and the Grenadines' System 3.
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Charles heads Jabloteh into Caribbean's final round of CCL qualifiers.
ttproleague.com.
Tyrone Charles scored off his head to seal San Juan Jabloteh's place in the Final Round of the 2017 Caribbean Club Championship—the region's qualifying tournament to the newly re-formatted CONCACAF club platform—with a 1-0 win over Group E host team System 3 Sport Academy on Sunday at Victoria Park in Kingstown, St. Vincent.
Jabloteh finished with maximum 9 points and ahead of, in descending order, Guadeloupe's Club Sportif Moulien (6 points), System 3 Sport Academy (3 points) and Sint Maarten's Flames United (0 point), to join another Trinidad and Tobago Pro League side, Central FC, in the Final Round to be hosted in Trinidad from May 14 - 21.
Central, the two-time Caribbean holders, received a bye to the final round as defending champions. While Jabloteh becomes the latest team to qualify for the Final Round after Haiti’s Racing FC (Group A), Dominica Republic’s Cibao FC (Group B) and Antigua and Barbuda side Grenades FC (Group C).
Puerto Rico Islanders, Jamaica’s Portmore United, Cayman Islands’ Scholars International and Suriname’s SV Transvaal will tackle each other in Group D in Puerto Rico from March 14 - 19 for the sixth and final berth into the Final Round which will be contested in two groups of three, each headed by Central and Jabloteh.
Both Final Round group winners will contest each other for the Club Championship title and Caribbean's spot in the CONCACAF Champions League.
Teams finishing second, third and fourth in the Caribbean Club Championship will join 13 Central American teams in the newly launched club championship tournament – set to begin in August – to battle for a trophy which guarantees the winner a place in the CONCACAF Champions League where they will join 15 other teams.
In the previous two seasons, Central FC defeated fellow Trinidad and Tobago Pro League compatriot W Connection in both Caribbean finals.
“We want it to be an all-Trinidad and Tobago final [again],” said San Juan Jabloteh head coach Keith Jeffrey, looking ahead to the 2017 Final Round. “We want to continue doing well in the tournament and we want to wish Central the very best also in the big six (Final Round).
“Both Central and Jabloteh being in the Final Round tells the rest of the Caribbean that the [Trinidad and Tobago] Pro League is the place to be. Our league is very competitive and we have the best players in the Caribbean.”
Flames United, Club Sportif Moulien and System 3 Sport Academy are the champions of their respective country, said Jeffrey.
“Our supporters back home and our community expected us to take full nine points and we are happy to be returning home having achieved in full—topping the group and with 9 points. We wanted to do well for Trinidad and Tobago and by extension the Pro League.”
Jabloteh were in control of Group E, with wins over Flames United and Moulien 9-0 and 4-1 respectively, ahead of Sunday’s final game against the hosts System 3 Sport Academy who, backed by their home supporters, did put up a valiant effort according to Jeffrey.
The decisive item arrived on 64 minutes for Jabloteh when Tyrone Charles, for his second goal of the tournament, headed into the back of System 3 Sport Academy’s net off an Elijah Manners corner.
But Jeffrey felt his side should have “finished off” the Vincentians by the first half.
“This was the best performance by System 3 during the tournament,” Jeffrey said. “They [also] had a good 12th-man in the home crowd but we should have finished them off since in the first half.”
Jeffrey had to do without injured striker Jamal Gay and suspended Jamaican defensive midfielder Damian Williams, who picked up a direct red card against Moulien on Friday. The Jabloteh coach also opted to start the fresher legs of Charles and Kadeem Corbin for star performers Panamanian Jairo Lombardo and Verlon Mills respectively, while veteran Keyon Edwards started in place of the unavailable Williams.
Jabloteh will return to Trinidad on today. Midfielders Tyrone Charles and Nathan Lewis will re-join the Trinidad and Tobago national team training squad preparing, under coach Dennis Lawrence, for crucial FIFA World Cup 2018 qualifiers against Panama and Mexico on March 24 and 28 respectively at the Hasely Crawford Stadium in Port-of-Spain.
Jeffrey, though, explained that his work has only just begun with the new Pro League season set to start in May, the same month his side, along with three-time reigning Pro League champions Central FC, must compete with the Caribbean's best-of-the-best for the regional crown and a place in the CONCACAF Champions League.
Group E Results
Club Sportif Moulien 8 vs Flames United 0, at Victoria Park, St. Vincent;
System 3 Sport Academy 0 vs San Juan Jabloteh 1 (Tyrone Charles 64’), at Victoria Park, St. Vincent.
San Juan Jabloteh team vs Club Sportif Moulien: - Andrew Durrant (GK), Damian Williams (Capt.) (Red Card), Akeem Benjamin (Josiah Trimmingham), Jevon Morris, Adrian Reid, Kion Joseph, Elijah Manners, Keithy Simpson, Jairo Lombardo (Tyrone Charles), Nathan Lewis, Vurlon Mills (Micah Lansiquot).
Group E Standings
# Team MP W D L GF GA GD Points
1 San Juan Jabloteh 3 3 0 0 14 1 +13 9
2 Club Sportif Moulien 3 2 0 1 13 4 +9 6
3 System 3 Sport Club 3 1 0 2 9 7 +2 3
4 Flames United 3 0 0 3 2 26 -24 0
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WATCH San Juan Jabloteh v. Flames United, Group Stage.
https://www.youtube.com/v/piHHHFot3qo
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WATCH San Juan Jabloteh v. CS Moulien, Group Stage.
https://www.youtube.com/v/TNGw42bx2dw
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Glad Excobar (Bostock II) not running out for Panama..but then again what they have must be better :worried:
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Boy! Is a good thing they have Caribbean qualifiers, because most of these teams would be slaughtered by Central American opposition. Not to mention Mex. and US.
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Boy! Is a good thing they have Caribbean qualifiers, because most of these teams would be slaughtered by Central American opposition. Not to mention Mex. and US.
not on dem break-ankle fields, not everybody could perform on dat yuh kno :laugh:
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Draw Determines Matchups for the Finals of the Caribbean Club Competition 2017
CONCACAF.com
The Confederation of North, Central America and Caribbean Association Football (CONCACAF) has conducted the draw to determine the matchups and calendar of the Finals of the 2017 Caribbean Club Competition.
The champion of the Caribbean Club Championship will qualify for the newly re-formatted Scotiabank CONCACAF Champions League, while the second, third and fourth-placed clubs will participate in the Confederation’s newly launched club championship for Caribbean and Central American clubs, which kicks off in August.
The draw, which was conducted by CONCACAF Director of Caribbean Football, Horace Reid, determined the groups and match schedule for the tournament that kicks off on May 14, in Trinidad and Tobago.
For the draw, the seeded teams were placed in positions A1 and B1, while the other four qualified clubs were sorted one by one. First, the name of the club was pulled from Pot 1, followed by the position from Pot 2.
Tournament host Central FC (TRI) was seeded into Group A and will face Cibao FC (DOM) and Grenades FC (ATG), while San Juan Jabloteh FC (TRI) was sorted with Portmore United (JAM) and Racing FC (HAI), in Group B.
The Hasley Crawford Stadium, in Port of Spain, will play host to all the matches of the regional club championship.
Group A
Central FC (TRI)
Cibao FC (DOM)
Grenades FC (ATG)
Group B
San Juan Jabloteh FC (TRI)
Portmore United FC (JAM)
Racing FC (HAI)
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Keith Jeffrey looks one step further with Jabloteh—eyes Caribbean final.
ttproleague.com.
His opponents are Haiti’s Racing FC and Jamaica’s Portmore United—two teams deep into their respective domestic national leagues. His side, San Juan Jabloteh, meanwhile are currently only in pre-season.
But Keith Jeffrey, the technical director/head coach of Jabloteh, is unfazed by the challenge his side faces in the Caribbean Football Union (CFU) Club Championship 2017 final round to be hosted in Trinidad from May 14 – 21 at the Hasely Crawford Stadium.
“We have to win at all costs,” Jeffrey said last week. “We are representing Trinidad (and Tobago) in this tournament. Racing are second in the Haiti League and Portmore just qualified for the Jamaica League big four. So it’s a situation where we will have to make up with home advantage—the 12th man. It’s always difficult when you are out of competition but we are not making excuses.”
One year ago Jabloteh, under the guidance of Jeffrey, secured a second-place finish in the 2015-16 Pro League to qualify for this season’s edition of the Caribbean Club Championship—the qualifier tournament to the Concacaf Champions League—their first return to the competition since 2009.
Jabloteh, the 2003 Caribbean champions, made an impressive return, cruising out of the first round group stage last March with wins over St. Maarten’s Flames United (9-0), Guadeloupe’s Club Sportif Moulien (4-1) and hosts System 3 Sporting Academy (1-0) in St. Vincent to enter the final round as the seeded team of Group B where they must take on Racing on 14 May and Portmore on 18 May.
Central FC, the two-time reigning Caribbean champions, received a bye to the final round and heads Group A where they must face Grenades FC of Antigua on 14 May and Cibao FC of Dominica Republic on 18 May. (See full schedule below)
The top team out of each final round group will contest Caribbean title match on May 21, with the champions earning automatic qualification into next season’s newly re-formatted Concacaf Champions League, which commences in February 2018.
The second, third and fourth place finishing teams in the CFU tournament will join 13 Central American teams in the Confederation’s newly launched club championship which kicks off in August. The overall champion team of the club championship for Caribbean and Central American clubs will also qualifying for next season’s Concacaf Champions League.
“We would like it to be an all-Trinidad final on May 21,” Jeffrey continued. “But if that doesn’t happen, we want to make sure at least one Trinidad team makes it to the final.”
Last year Central FC defended the Caribbean crown by prevailing over rivals W Connection in the final for a second consecutive time.
Caribbean Football Union (CFU) Club Championship 2017 (Final Round)
All matches will be contested at the Hasely Crawford Stadium, Trinidad
(Sunday, May 14, 2017)
San Juan Jabloteh vs Racing FC—5:30pm (Group B)
Central FC vs Grenades FC—8pm (Group A)
(Tuesday, May 16, 2017)
Portmore United vs Racing FC—5:30pm (Group B)
Cibao vs Grenades—8pm (Group A)
(Thursday, May 18, 2017)
San Juan Jabloteh vs Portmore United—5:30pm (Group B)
Central FC vs Cibao—8pm (Group A)
(Sunday, May 21, 2017)
Third-place
Group A runners-up vs Group B runners-up—5pm
Final
Group A winners vs Group B winners—8pm
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RESULTS (Sunday, May 14th 2017)
San Juan Jabloteh 2-0 Racing FC
Central FC 3-1 Grenades FC
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Nathan Lewis, Carlos Edwards fire Jabloteh, Central ahead in CFU Club Championship finals.
ttproleague.com.
The Caribbean Football Union (CFU) Club Championship could be on its way towards a third straight all-Trinidad and Tobago final on 21 May, after TT Pro League clubs San Juan Jabloteh and Central FC made winning starts to the finals on Sunday.
Jabloteh defeated Haiti’s Racing FC 2-0 in the first game of the opening double-header at the Hasely Crawford Stadium in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad to top Group B, before Central FC, who defeated Trinidadian rivals W Connection in the last two CFU Club Championship title matches, shook off an early deficit to dispatch Antigua and Barbuda’s Grenades FC 3-1 to lead Group A.
Nathan Lewis, for his fifth goal of the 2017 campaign, fired the 2003 Caribbean champions Jabloteh ahead five minutes into the second half before a Joseph Mitchelson’s own goal sixteen minutes from time put the game out of the Haitians’ reach.
Central, though, needed a Jason Marcano equaliser, a cannon-of-a-strike by Carlos Edwards, and a 25-yard Nathaniel Garcia cracker to get past Grenades after the Antiguans had taken the early lead through striker Tevaughn Harriette.
Harriette had the simple task of slotting home from close-up against the run of play, in what turned out the only real attack on the Central goal, after the defending champions new goalkeeper signing Ryan “Godda” Thompson was hung out to dry by his defence who failed to cut out a squared pass across the area by Grenades captain Rakeem Henry.
Grenades’ Jamaica ‘keeper Michaud Barrett preserved his side’s lead ten minutes later with a fine save to put wide a powerful left-footed attempt by another new Central signing, 23-year-old American, Graham Smith. Then seconds later Sean De Silva drilled a volley across the face of the visitors net.
But it was a warning of what was to follow and in the 38th-minute Marcano put Central – who received a bye to the final round as defending champions – level with a wonderful volley off Englishman Lloyd Bannister’s cross from the right.
Carlos Edwards, a T&T 2006 World Cup player and former England-based defender, then hammered past Barrett to give the 2015 and 2016 Caribbean champions the lead for the first time a minute from the half.
The 39-year-old former Wrexham and Sunderland player, turned back the clock from just inside the top of the box after running onto a sumptuous feed from De Silva.
But still, the new-look Central, due to a number of new player personnel changes, were nothing of the side that only two months ago recorded the historic Digicel Pro League three-peat although getting business done against the Antiguans.
It was not until five minutes from time that Garcia finally knocked the fight out of Grenades with his strike from distance to stretch Barrett’s onion bag once more.
Earlier, Jabloteh were the better side against Racing, but only took the lead on 50 minutes when Lewis, who combined brilliantly on the left with Kion Joseph, evaded two defenders before sending a low finish beyond the Haitian side’s goalkeeper Maurisseau Bergeot and into the far bottom corner.
Racing attackers Stevenson Guillaume and Daniel Jamesley had two excellent scoring opportunities for the visitors but failed to trouble Jabloteh goalie Javon Sample with wide attempts.
Their attempts of a comeback would suffer a blow in the 74th-minute when Mitchelson inadvertently directed a Keithy Simpson’s dangerous ball across the area past his own goalkeeper, Bergeot.
Racing and Grenades will wrap up their second and final group fixtures on Tuesday -- at the same venue -- against Jamaica’s Portmore United (5:30pm) and Dominica Republic’s Cibao (8pm), respectively, while Jabloteh and Central will complete group play against Portmore (5:30pm) and Cibao (8pm), respectively, on Thursday.
The overall group winners will face each other in the Caribbean final on Sunday 21 May from 8pm, which will be preceded by the third-place game from 5pm between the second-placed team of the respective groups.
The Caribbean champions will earn automatic qualification into next season’s newly re-formatted Concacaf Champions League which commences in February 2018.
While the second, third and fourth place finishing teams in the CFU tournament will join 13 Central American teams in the Confederation’s newly launched club championship which kicks off in August. The overall champion team of the club championship for Caribbean and Central American clubs will also qualifying for next season’s Concacaf Champions League.
Results
San Juan Jabloteh 2 (Nathan Lewis 50', Own Goal Joseph Mitchelson 74') vs Racing FC 0, (Group B)
Central FC 3 (Jason Marcano 38', Carlos Edwards 44', Nathaniel Garcia 85') vs Grenades FC 1 (Tevaughn Harriette 6'), (Group A)
Game 1
San Juan Jabloteh (T&T): 1.Javon Sample (GK); 6.Akeem Benjamin, 7.Elijah Manners, 9.Keithy Simpson, 11.Damian Williams (Capt.), 12.Kion Joseph, 16.Jairo Lombardo (10.Kadeem Corbin 70th minute), 17.Vurlon Mills (13.Julio Noel 76th minute), 18.Jevon Morris (5.Shakiyl Phillip 85th minute), 24.Adrian Reid, 27.Nathan Lewis.
Unused substitutes: 30.Shemel Louison (GK); 3.Josiah Trimmingham, 8.Micah Lansiquot, 14.Hayden Tinto.
Coach: Keith Jeffrey (T&T)
Racing FC (Haiti): 1.Maurisseau Bergeot (GK); 2.Laurent Estenio, 6.Joseph Mitchelson, 7.Fleurancier Marckenley, 8.Paul Danshley (22.Jean Jackson 82nd minute), 10.Ojulesse Valcourt (Capt.) (16.Dorisca Markens 90th minute), 11.Stevenson Guillaume, 13.Louissaint Kervenson, 15.Charles Bendy, 17.Daniel Jamesley (14.Jean Junior Odiles), 20.Senatus Earnso Ralph J.
Unused substitutes: 35.Jeune Janel (GK); 4.Philippe Junior, 9.Delva Adiles, 18.Jean Pierre Guerson.
Coach: Philippe Giuliano (HAI)
Referee: Ricangel de Leca (ARU).
Game 2
Central FC: 1.Ryan Thompson (GK); 5.Keston George (Capt.), 6.Carlos Edwards, 7.Jason Marcano (18.Tyrik John 87th minute, 8.Sean De Silva, 12.Taryk Sampson, 15.Lloyd Bannister, 19.Nathaniel Garcia, 24.Graham Smith (44.Callum Harris 58th minute), 28.Fresnel Simil, 42.Richard Pierre (11.Johan Peltier 62nd minute).
Unused substitutes: 30.Akel Clarke (GK); 10.Keron Cummings, 40.Clinton Olagunju, 46.Kaydion Gabriel.
Coach: Dale Saunders (T&T)
Grenades FC: 32.Michaud Barrett (GK); 4.Stefan Smith, 5.Christopher Harvey, 6.Lamar Hodges (23.Ranja Christian 55th minute), 7.Nazir Mc Bernette, 8.Zacchaeus Polius, 9.Tevaughn Harriette, 10.Rakeem Henry (Capt.), 12.Blake Thompson, 13.Karanjah Mack (15.Shkkimba Williams 73rd minute), 18.Okeem Challenger (17.Hakeem Joseph 65th minute).
Unused substitutes: 1.Prince Walter (GK); 14.Curtez Kellman, 19.Lloyd Matthews, 20.Tazio Williamson.
Coach: Derrick Edwards (ATG)
Referee: Sherwin Moore (GUY)
Table-A
Team GP W D L GF GA GD Pts
Central FC 1 1 0 0 3 1 2 3
Cibao FC 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Grenades FC 1 0 0 1 1 3 -2 0
Table-B
Team GP W D L GF GA GD Pts
San Juan Jabloteh 1 1 0 0 2 0 2 3
Portmore United 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Racing FC 1 0 0 1 0 2 -2 0
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WATCH: Highlights of San Juan Jabloteh’s 2-0 win over Haiti’s Racing FC
https://www.youtube.com/v/pnYHofz9gYk
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WATCH: Highlights of Central FC’s 3-1 win over Antigua and Barbuda’s Grenades FC.
https://www.youtube.com/v/YmAbtGlKnlI
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Good Luck to all the Trini teams.
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Carlos answer 4 questions and say obviously 13 times. Obviously like the word obviously lol No wonder people does lambast my school and call it the Jr. Sec of colleges ::)
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Despite netting the equaliser, ah find Marcano made (1). poor decisions and (2). generally doh look sharp.
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Carlos answer 4 questions and say obviously 13 times. Obviously like the word obviously lol No wonder people does lambast my school and call it the Jr. Sec of colleges ::)
What year you graduated from morne coco senior? ;D
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That bullet scored by the Central player was a scorcher.
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That bullet scored by the Central player was a scorcher.
That's Carlos Edwards.
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Carlos answer 4 questions and say obviously 13 times. Obviously like the word obviously lol No wonder people does lambast my school and call it the Jr. Sec of colleges ::)
What year you graduated from morne coco senior? ;D
I leave half way into 4th form ('90) to migrate so I was looking @ 92 after form 6
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Cool cool, had a brief stint there from 92 to 93. You were probably in class with Loregnard? I sweat against Miguel Mitchell and others back in 89
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Cool cool, had a brief stint there from 92 to 93. You were probably in class with Loregnard? I sweat against Miguel Mitchell and others back in 89
Loregnard was meh boy buh we din ha class together. Only man from the team I had class with briefly before I leave was Wally (GB). Is like all ah dem was concentrated in 2 classes. Me and Miguel does still keep in touch. If not for his illness I think he coulda be we brightest star footballer oui. I used to sweat with all ah dem normel and sharing dread beats too lol
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Portmore United 1 (Ricardo Morris 17’) vs Racing FC 0
Cibao FC 2 (Woodensky Cherenfant 53’, 56’) vs Grenades FC 2 (Tevaughn Harriette 85’, Own Goal César Danco García 86’)
Team GP W D L GF GA GD Pts
Central FC 1 1 0 0 3 1 2 3
Cibao FC 1 0 1 0 2 2 0 1
Grenades FC 2 0 2 1 3 5 -2 1
Team GP W D L GF GA GD Pts
San Juan Jabloteh 1 1 0 0 2 0 2 3
Portmore United 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 3
Racing FC 2 0 0 2 0 3 -3 0
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Cool cool, had a brief stint there from 92 to 93. You were probably in class with Loregnard? I sweat against Miguel Mitchell and others back in 89
Loregnard was meh boy buh we din ha class together. Only man from the team I had class with briefly before I leave was Wally (GB). Is like all ah dem was concentrated in 2 classes. Me and Miguel does still keep in touch. If not for his illness I think he coulda be we brightest star footballer oui. I used to sweat with all ah dem normel and sharing dread beats too lol
Lol, didn't know he had an illness, hope he is OK. Though we lost 2-0, is level jam he got in MF trying to run past meh, lol. He laugh lass though
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Lol, didn't know he had an illness, hope he is OK. Though we lost 2-0, is level jam he got in MF trying to run past meh, lol. He laugh lass though
Yeah he have Multiple Sclerosis. In conversation he say he make a few bad choices too eh but da illness woulda done him in the sport prematurely all the same
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Real sorry to hear that dread, hope he manages as best as he can...
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Real sorry to hear that dread, hope he manages as best as he can...
He seem to be doing okay, had surgery sometime last year
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Cibao edge 10-man Central to set Caribbean final date with Jabloteh.
ttproleague.com.
San Juan Jabloteh and Dominican Republic outfit Cibao FC will contest the final of the 2017 Caribbean Football Union (CFU) Club Championship from 8pm on Sunday after both sides progressed from the final round in Trinidad as group winners.
The new Caribbean champions will also secure the region's automatic spot at next year's newly re-formatted Concacaf Champions League which begins in February.
Jabloteh, who grabbed first half goals through Adrian Reid and Vurlon Mills, were held to a late 2-2 comeback draw by Jamaica powerhouse Portmore United before 10-men Central, the two-time holders, were edged 1-0 by, arguably the toughest side of the finals, Cibao, on Thursday—in the final double-header of group action.
Patrick Soko scored the decisive Cibao item eight minutes into the second half after Central, who were hoping to create history by becoming three-time consecutive Caribbean champions, lost midfielder Nathaniel Garcia to a second yellow card a minute from the break at the Hasely Crawford Stadium.
The result lifted Cibao (1-1-0; 4 points) ahead of Central (1-0-1; 3 points) to take Group A which also has Antigua & Barbuda side Grenades FC (0-1-1; 1 point), while Jabloteh (1-1-0; 4 points), with the point earned, cemented their place at the top of Group B, ahead of Portmore (1-1-0; 4 points) on a goal difference while Haiti's Racing FC (0-0-2; 0 point) are bottom.
Central and Portmore will contest the third-place match on Sunday from 5pm at the Hasely Crawford Stadium which will be followed by the CFU Club Championship final.
Central, Portmore and the Caribbean's runners-up -- as the region's second, third and fourth-placed teams -- will join 13 Central American teams in the newly launched Concacaf League which begins in August, in which the overall champions will also qualify for next season's Concacaf Champions League.
Jabloteh, who reached the CFU Club Championship finals as the best team of the first round group play earlier this year, had looked on their way for a fifth straight win of the campaign after leading 2-0 at the break.
Reid, one of three – team captain Damian Williams and Keithy Simpson the others – former Portmore players in the Jabloteh line-up, fired the San Juan Kings ahead from the penalty spot in the 34th minute after defender Kareem Manning bundled Mills to ground in a desperate attempt to clear a dangerous Nathan Lewis cross.
The Jabloteh penalty specialist left Portmore goalkeeper Shaven Sean Paul anchored to the ground as the ball entered the right bottom corner.
Mills then made it two nil four minutes from the half with a glancing header to beat Paul off a right side Williams’ free kick.
Sue Lae McCalla, who was replaced less than ten minutes after the break, had Portmore’s best attempt of the first half with an ambitious strike from distance which whisked past goalkeeper Javon Sample’s top corner.
It was business as usual for Jabloteh though, against a very physically Portmore side that forced top Guyanese referee Sherwin Moore to reach for his yellow card seven times, including the red shown to a frustrated Manning who was handed his second booking of the game over the 90-minute mark for dissent.
But the game had earlier turned sour for Jabloteh after a dreadful miss by Simpson, who struck the upright with the empty goal at his mercy just over the hour mark.
Lewis had initiated the counterattack out of the back before releasing Kadeem Corbin into an vacant Portmore half with only goalkeeper Paul at his mercy. Corbin on entering the Jamaicans’ penalty area forced Paul to commit before rolling the ball right to Simpson who, shockingly, hit the base up the upright.
Jabloteh head coach Keith Jeffrey, possibly expressing his fury, later replaced the midfielder with Kennedy Simpson, then with his team still holding the two-goal cushion followed with a double-change with Micah Lansiquot and Hayden Tinto replacing Elijah Manners and Corbin, respectively, with quarter-of-an-hour left.
But Portmore had earlier plans. Their head coach Linval Dixon had made changes too.
Substitute Jeremie Lynch pulled back a goal for the Jamaicans, beating Jabloteh goalie Sample five minutes from time after meeting a pass from Cleon Pryce inside the box.
Then two minutes later Portmore’s captain Ewan Grandison drilled in a low shot into Sample’s bottom corner after making contact to to Javon East's cross to level the scores at 2-2.
Jabloteh, who had missed second-half chances by Corbin and twice from Lewis, were rescued by Sample in stoppage-time when he kept out another Lynch attempt.
Cibao's Argentine goalkeeper Juan Pablo Dominguez—one of three staring changes made by former Barcelona youth coach Albert Benaiges Sala for the clash—also made a superb one-handed save on the night, tipping over Central’s Sean De Silva’s attempt in the first half of the second game.
Cibao later threatened with Ernesto Trinidad's glancing header off playmaker Charles Herold Jr.'s corner in the 37th-minute.
Central survived another scare two minutes from the half when American Gerard Paul Lavergne's powerful low drive cannoned off goalkeeper Ryan "Godda" Thompson's far upright.
But the Couva Sharks weren't spared seconds later by Aruban referee Ricangel de Leca who issued Nathaniel Garcia -- cautioned earlier for apparent time wasting -- a second yellow then the automatic red card following a tackle on defender Richard Damas.
Central responded with a tactical change, replacing Callum Harris with striker Tyrik John after the break, and within the last fifteen minutes gambled it all by replacing Haitian defender Fresnel Simil and defensive midfielder Graham Smith with attacking options Johan Peltier and Keron Cummings in search of the needed equaliser.
The Couva Sharks' troubles had earlier doubled on 53 minutes when Cibao winger Soko swooped in the area to hit past Thompson for a 1-0 lead following a giveaway in the Dominican side's half by Taryk Sampson and a gallop down the left by Domingo Peralta to provide the pass across the Central area.
A place in the final was at stake and didn’t came as a surprise when the action boiled over just over the hour mark, forcing referee De Leca to quell a fracas as Cibao players accused Simil elbowing goalscorer Soko as they prepared to defend a Central corner.
However the remaining half hour, though keenly contested, went goalless, setting the stage for new champions on Sunday.
Results
San Juan Jabloteh 2 (Adrian Reid 34’ pen., Vurlon Mills 41’) vs Portmore United 2 (Jeremie Lynch 85’, Ewan Grandison 87’)
Central FC 0 vs Cibao FC 1 (Patrick Soko 53’)
Group A
Team GP W D L GF GA GD Pts
Cibao FC 2 1 1 0 3 2 1 4
Central FC 2 1 0 0 3 2 1 3
Grenades FC 2 0 1 1 3 5 -2 1
Group B
Team GP W D L GF GA GD Pts
San Juan Jabloteh 2 1 1 0 4 2 2 4
Portmore United 2 1 1 0 3 2 1 4
Racing FC 2 0 0 2 0 3 -3 0
Game 1
San Juan Jabloteh (T&T): 1.Javon Sample (GK); 6.Akeem Benjamin, 7.Elijah Manners (8.Micah Lansiquot 76th minute), 9.Keithy Simpson (23.Kennedy Hinkson 70th minute), 10.Kadeem Corbin (14.Hayden Tinto 76th minute), 11.Damian Williams (Capt.), 12.Kion Joseph, 17.Vurlon Mills, 18.Jevon Morris, 24.Adrian Reid, 27.Nathan Lewis.
Unused substitutes: 30.Shemel Louison (GK); 3.Josiah Trimmingham, 5.Shakiyl Phillip, 13.Julio Noel.
Coach: Keith Jeffrey (T&T)
Portmore United (Jamaica): 1.Shaven Sean Paul (GK); 3.Andre Dyce (Yellow Card), 4.Damano Solomon (Yellow Card), 6.Kareem Manning (Yellow Card + Yellow Card = Red Card), 8.Ricardo Morris (Yellow Card), 12.Sue-Lae McCalla (10.Maalique Foster 54th minute), 15.Javon East, 17.Ewan Grandison (Capt.) (Yellow Card), 19.Cleon Pryce (Yellow Card), 20.Henrico Ricketts (16.Roberto Johnson 60th minute), 21.Michael Binns (9.Jeremie Lynch 68th minute)
Unused substitutes: 13.Kemar Foster (GK); 5.Ryan Wellington, 22.Kemo Gayle, 24.Damion Binns.
Coach: Linval Dixon (JAM)
Referee: Sherwin Moore (GUY)
Game 2
Central FC: 1.Ryan Thompson (GK); 5.Keston George (Capt.), 6.Carlos Edwards, 7.Jason Marcano, 8.Sean De Silva, 12.Taryk Sampson, 19.Nathaniel Garcia (Yellow Card + Yellow Card = Red Card), 24.Graham Smith (Yellow Card) (10.Keron Cummings 81st minute), 28.Fresnel Simil (11.Johan Peltier 78th minute), 44.Callum Harris (18.Tyrik John 46th minute), 46.Kaydion Gabriel.
Unused substitutes: 30.Akel Clarke (GK); 15.Lloyd Bannister, 40.Clinton Olagunju, 42.Richard Pierre.
Cibao FC (Dominican Republic): 12.Juan Pablo Dominguez (GK), 3.César Danco García, 4.Richard Dabas, 5.José Tafarel Ferreira, 7.Woodensky “Babalito” Cherenfant, 8.Paulson Pierre, 10.Charles Hérold Jr., 11.Domingo Peralta, 13.Rafael Leonardo Flores, 16.Patrick Serge Soko (6.Oscar Florencío 92nd minute), 22.Earnesto Trinidad.
Unused substitutes: 1.Luis Alexander Rodriguez Polanco (GK), 15.Rhonald García, 18.Gerard Lavergne, 20.Edward Acevedo Cruz, 21.José Jáquez Jr., 23.Diego José Ceara Muñoz.
Coach: Albert Benaiges Sala (ESP)
Referee: Ricangel de Leca (ARU)
Upcoming fixtures
(Sunday, May 21, 2017)
Third-place
Central FC vs Portmore United—5pm
Final
Cibao FC vs San Juan Jabloteh—8pm
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Central probably went into the game underestimating the Dominican team (thinking they already had the game won) and paid a price of defeat in the end.
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Central get beat by a DR team...they're know for baseball...wayyy Central...all dem ah talk ...that sad yea
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Maybe the team playing better. Plus Centrsl played part of the game a man down. Also is a new generation of Dominicans. They are taking the game seriously.
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The kicker is that Cibao is a mid-table team in the LDF this season.
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Re: Jabloteh v Portmore
In serious 11 v 11 football one rarely sees 3 attackers bearing down on a GK, 3 v 1 with the GK being the '1' ... Absolutely crazy that a goal wouldn't be the end product. I had to laugh watching that, but it was an embarrassing moment for local football.
Generally, a lot of the highlighted footage exposes the domestic league rather than provides an advertisement for the league.
Looking forward to seeing a proper final with improved quality.
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So, no live streaming from CFU to accommodate the masses across the CFU that would be eager to view a CFU club final?
It's likely Cibao FC will provide a stream. Will link it when it's up.
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What time this ting starting. I have to say ting because the local TV taking this final as another football ting.
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What time this ting starting. I have to say ting because the local TV taking this final as another football ting.
8pm TT
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WATCH CFU Club Championship final featuring San Juan Jabloteh v Cibao FC.
http://cdn.com.do/envivo.html
Enjoy!
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Plenty work for Jabloteh to do to walk away with this trophy. Paid the price for having defenders who didn't jump to challenge for the ball, others who were mannequins, and as a group who seemed to pass on responsibility.
I would like to see constructive football in midfield instead of by-passing the MF and not building a possession game.
Regardless, Nathan Lewis looks like he and composure are strangers.
Cibao is not in existence even three years. Come nah man Jabloteh!!!
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Big toots, no chief
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WATCH CFU Club Championship final featuring San Juan Jabloteh v Cibao FC.
http://cdn.com.do/envivo.html
Enjoy!
Boss I sorry I didn't know this link was available, I would've come home early....oh well.
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The equalizer almost came to make the second half a different scene. Tough luck, Jabloteh. That's two T&T teams poisoned by the same chalice.
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To be honest, the performances of the TT teams in the CCL is left much to be desired. Maybe this will be a wake up call to the pro-league teams, coaches, management that we not all that "great".
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unlucky...
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To be honest, the performances of the TT teams in the CCL is left much to be desired. Maybe this will be a wake up call to the pro-league teams, coaches, management that we not all that "great".
The battery on that clock alarm gone dead years ago. Plenty ppl doh even realize they still sleeping and just dreaming
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To be honest, the performances of the TT teams in the CCL is left much to be desired. Maybe this will be a wake up call to the pro-league teams, coaches, management that we not all that "great".
LOL @ wake up call.. dem will make excuse instead
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Cibao edge Jabloteh to take Caribbean crown and Concacaf Champions League place.
ttproleague.com.
San Juan Jabloteh let it slip in the final of the Caribbean Football Union (CFU) 2017 Club Championship, losing 1-0 against tournament newbies, Cibao FC, who lifted the Caribbean crown, and in the process took the region’s automatic spot at next season’s Concacaf Champions League.
Defender Richard Madas’ first-half goal at the Hasely Crawford Stadium in Trinidad was enough on Sunday night for the Dominican Republic outfit to hold off the 2003 champions, Jabloteh, who failed to convert a scoring chance seconds into the match and also had a second half goal ruled out, with an offside call, by second assistant referee Dane Ritchie of the Turks and Caicos.
Cibao, though, a club only in their third year of existence and coached by legendary former Barcelona academy coach, Spain’s Albert Benaiges Sala, had been outstanding while breaking barriers throughout the tournament.
Benaiges’ side had become the first Dominican Republic outfit to progress past the first round group stage, something Atletico Pantoja and Atlantico failed to achieve last season as the first two teams to participate in the Caribbean Club Championship from that country.
Cibao then dethroned two-time Caribbean crown holders Central FC last Thursday to reach the final, and now they are champions—the first international title for a Dominican Republic club.
Central eventually had to settle for a fourth-place finish, going under 5-3 on penalties against Jamaica’s Portmore United following 120 minutes of play and a 2-2 regular-time draw in the third-place match which preceded the final.
However all is not lost for Jabloteh, Portmore and Central, who, as the Caribbean’s second, third and fourth-placed teams, respectively, will gain valuable international experience at the newly formed Concacaf League, which kicks off in August, and includes 13 Central American teams.
The winner of the Concacaf League also secures a berth at next season’s newly re-formatted Concacaf Champions League which kicks off in February 2018, and will debut the bright orange of Cibao.
Cibao put the hurt on Jabloteh in the 31st-minute when defender Dabas beat Jabloteh goalie Javon Sample after the Trinidadian side failed to clear a corner from Haitian playmaker Charles Hérold Jr.
But Jabloteh had the earliest chance of the game when Trinidad and Tobago international winger Nathan Lewis headed tamely at Cibao’s Argentine goalkeeper Juan Pablo Dominguez with less than 25 seconds played.
Jabloteh also started strong in the second half and three minutes in, Jamaican midfielder Keithy Simpson had the ball in the back of Dominguez’s net, only to be denied by the flag after a brilliant move on the left by Lewis who combined with Vurlon Mills before playing the ball across the area.
Dominguez then pulled off a fine low save to beat away a Jairo Lombardo effort just before the hour mark after Lewis had picked out Mills in the area with a cross.
However, finding the equaliser was as elusive as the unicorn, and without a natural forward at their disposal, Jabloteh failed to find a way back against, arguably, their toughest opponents of recent years.
Earlier, Central, a far cry from their side that won the 2015 and 2016 Caribbean Club Championships, also struggled against 2005 champions Portmore, although finding their equaliser through captain Keston George with virtually the last kick of regular time to send the game into extra time.
Central had led the game after just four minutes and 4 seconds courtesy an innocuous Jason Marcano strike which looped over Portmore goalkeeper Kemar Foster.
But the Jamaicans fired back twice in the second half through substitute Maalique Foster and Cleon Pryce, against some slack defending in the 50th and 77th minutes, respectively, before George levelled Central late.
Then following thirty minutes of goalless play in extra time, Central shot themselves in the leg when midfielder Sean De Silva skied his side’s first attempt of the penalty shootout overbar.
Portmore were already in front with Michael Binns netting against goalkeeper Akel Clarke in the first kick of the shootout, and as Ewan Grandison, Damion Binns, Jeremie Lynch and Foster all found the back of the net for the Jamaican side, Central continued to trail although Carlos Edwards, George and Lloyd Bannister were clinical from the spot.
Results
San Juan Jabloteh 0 vs Cibao FC 1 (Richard Dabas 31’)
Central FC 2 (Jason Marcano 5’, Keston George 90’+2) vs Portmore United 2 (Maalique Foster 50’, Cleon Pryce 77’)
After Penalties: Central FC 3 v Portmore United 5
Kicks from the penalty mark
Portmore United (5) v Central FC (3)
Michael Binns (scored) - Sean De Silva (overbar)
Ewan Grandison (scored) - Carlos Edwards (scored)
Damion Binns (scored) - Keston George (scored)
Jeremie Lynch (scored) - Lloyd Bannister (scored)
Maalique Foster (scored)
Teams
San Juan Jabloteh (T&T): 1.Javon Sample (GK); 6.Akeem Benjamin, 7.Elijah Manners (10.Kadeem Corbin 81st minute), 9.Keithy Simpson, 11.Damian Williams (Capt.) (Yellow Card), 12.Kion Joseph (3.Josiah Trimmingham 87th minute), 16.Jairo Lombardo Escobar (23.Kennedy Hinkson 77th minute), 17.Vurlon Mills, 18.Jevon Morris, 24.Adrian Reid (Yellow Card), 27.Nathan Lewis.
Unused substitutes: 30.Shemel Louison (GK); 5.Shakiyl Phillip, 8.Micah Lansiquot, 13.Julio Noel.
Coach: Keith Jeffrey (T&T)
iCibao FC (Dominican Republic): 12.Juan Pablo Dominguez (GK), 3.César Danco García, 4.Richard Dabas, 5.José Tafarel Ferreira, 7.Woodensky “Babalito” Cherenfant, 8.Paulson Pierre, 10.Charles Hérold Jr. (15.Rhonald García 86th minute), 11.Domingo Peralta (20.Edward Acevedo Cruz 90th minute), 13.Rafael Leonardo Flores (Capt.) (Yellow Card), 16.Patrick Serge Soko, 22.Earnesto Trinidad.
Unused substitutes: 1.Luis Alexander Rodriguez Polanco (GK), 6.Oscar Florencío, 18.Gerard Lavergne, 21.José Jáquez Jr., 23.Diego José Ceara Muñoz.
Coach: Albert Benaiges Sala (ESP)
Referee: Mario Escobar (GUA)
Teams
Central FC: 30.Akel Clarke (GK); 5.Keston George (Capt.), 6.Carlos Edwards, 7.Jason Marcano, 8.Sean De Silva (Yellow Card), 10.Keron Cummings (15.Lloyd Bannister 76th minute), 11.Johan Peltier 12.Taryk Sampson, 28.Fresnel Simil (18.Tyrik John 115th minute), 29.Michael Kedman (40.Clinton Olagunju 59th minute), 46.Kaydion Gabriel.
Unused substitutes: 1.Ryan Thompson (GK); 17.Akeem Priestly, 24.Graham Smith, 44.Callum Harris.
Coach: Dale Saunders
Portmore United (Jamaica): 13.Kemar Foster (GK); 3.Andre Dyce, 5.Ryan Wellington (Yellow Card), 8.Ricardo Morris, 12.Sue-Lae McCalla (10.Maalique Foster 46th minute), 15.Javon East (9.Jeremie Lynch 71st minute) (Yellow Card), 16.Roberto Johnson (Yellow Card + Yellow Card = Red Card), 17.Ewan Grandison (Capt.), 19.Cleon Pryce (22.Kemo Gayle 87th minute), 21.Michael Binns, 24.Damion Binns (Yellow Card).
Unused substitutes: 1.Shaven Sean Paul (GK); 14.Osani Ricketts, 20.Henrico Ricketts.
Coach: Linval Dixon (JAM)
Referee: Gianni Ascani (TCA)