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Sports => Football => Topic started by: Flex on August 06, 2014, 02:10:53 AM
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Alpha grab Jamal Jack.
T&T Express Reports.
CENTRAL FC'S Jamal Jack has joined Alpha United of Guyana on a six-month loan deal. Jack is a utility player who has played at central defence, right-back and midfield under former Central FC coach Terry fenwick since signing from Rangers in 2013-2014.
Yesterday, Central FC manager Norris Ferguson confirmed Jack's departure to Guyana, when last night he was due to play for Alpha in the Concacaf Champions League group stage against Olimpia of Honduras. Jack, 26, has also played for San Juan Jabloteh and is a goal threat from set-piece situations.
'He is there," Ferguson said, while explaining that Jack still remains a Sharks player.
"He has not left the club because he is still on Central FC's books."
Meanwhile, on Saturday, Central FC continued pre-season preparations with a 3-0 win over St Anthony's College. Central FC team featured numerous players on trial.
In was the second successive preseason match won by the Sharks, who also beat Oropune United 7-2 recently.
Playing as a forward, Jason Marcano bagged a hat-trick. The midfield combination of Sean De Silva, Mitchell and Leston Paul looked very fluid in the attacking third and could have scored a few more.
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Central FC defender Jamal Jack signs with Salvadoran Primera División club, C.D. Dragón.
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Jamal Jack's risk rewards Switchbacks
By Vinny Benedetto (gazette.com)
Jamal Jack had a typical 20-something decision to make: chase a dream and its uncertainty or settle with security.
Jack picked risk and committed to his passion - soccer - a choice that has benefited the Colorado Springs Switchbacks some eight years and more than 3,000 miles later.
“No disrespect to the other centerbacks we’ve had throughout these first three years, but for me, he’s the best one,” Switchbacks coach Steve Trittschuh said Thursday.
Jack’s decision was made in his native Tobago, a small Caribbean island northeast of its more populated partner, Trinidad, which is just off the coast of Venezuela.
He balanced a construction job through an uncle with his preferred craft when time permitted in his hometown of Charlottesville, a picturesque fishing village of roughly 2,000 people.
“It has a lot of togetherness,” Jack said. “Once you come to the village, it’s love right away. People open the door for you. It’s like that.”
While comfortable at home, he found he could only get so far with one foot in both fields.
“I told him I want to do what I love best, which is soccer,” Jack said.
With the help of a local coach who took a liking to his strong and aggressive play, the 6-foot-3 Jack moved to Trinidad for numerous stints in the TT Pro League, Trinidad and Tobago’s top league, before stops in Guyana and El Salvador.
Last year, Jack made his first official move stateside, starting 28 matches for Pittsburgh Riverhounds SC. With the Switchbacks focused on building an improved back four in the offseason, he became a priority.
“Watching him last year in Pittsburgh, I thought ‘He’s someone that I really want,’” Trittschuh said. “When his name came around, I jumped on him.”
Jack has delivered, starting the first eight matches at center back and playing all 720 minutes. He leads the team in clearances (40), blocks (7) and tackles (17) while marking opponent’s best aerial threat on set pieces. He also scored his first goal with the club in a 4-0 win at Reno when he headed in a Josh Suggs' corner.
The team has allowed six goals, none off set pieces or restarts, including three clean sheets split between two goalkeepers.
“Hopefully we can keep that defense nice and sound back there because he’s a big part of it I think,” Trittschuh said.
Jack has two appearances for the Trinidad and Tobago national team, most recently in 2015, but was in Pittsburgh when the Soca Warriors helped eliminate the United States from World Cup qualification with a 2-1 win in October. While Trittschuh mentioned a hope that the sturdy defender could return to international play, that’s not Jack’s focus.
“If I get called, I will represent my country, but my goal is to just keep going forward, keep building,” the 30-year-old said. “Every day keeping getting better, you never know who is there looking.”
While he can’t take too many risks in his current gig on the last line of defense, it wasn’t new to Jack. As a kid, he would tell his mom he was headed to his grandmother’s or the library when he happened to end up at the local playing grounds.
“The soccer field is kinda far from where I was living. So my grandmother, she’s living just exactly by the soccer field,” Jack said.
“I kept doing it over and over, and I turned out to be a soccer player for 10 years.”
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T&T's Jack signs with Switchbacks.
By Ron Chenoy.
COLORADO SPRINGS, United States – T&T defender Jamal Jack together with Jamaican midfielders Shane Malcolm and Saeed Robinson, have been re-signed by Colorado Springs Switchbacks FC for the upcoming 2019 United Soccer League season.
The club said the trio were important to the side and had kept hold of the them to ensure stability, especially with several other changes expected to be made.
“With as much turnover we will have on the team, it’s important to have players familiar with the club,” said Switchbacks head coach Steve Trittschuh.
“These three contributed a lot last season and I expect them to perform even better in 2019.”
Malcolm, 27, was born in Jamaica but represents Guam in the western Pacific, through his paternal grandmother.
Over the past two seasons, he has made 61 appearances for the Switchbacks, and also scored six goals and notched five assists last season.
Jack played a pivotal role in the Switchbacks defence last season, to be among the USL’s leading defenders with 191 clearances and 28 blocks.
The 30-year-old, who has played twice for T&T Soca Warriors senior team, started each of the club’s 34 regular-season games during the last campaign.
Robinson, meanwhile, has already played three seasons for the western United States outfit, having spent two seasons there between 2015-16, and then returning to the club last season following a one-year stint at North Carolina FC.
The 28-year-old subsequently netted five times in 33 appearances, producing a strong showing in the latter half of the season.
Like Malcolm, he has never played for the Reggae Boyz. - (CMC)
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WATCH: Jamal Jack - 2019 Highlights
https://www.youtube.com/v/oIfFDpfAfkY
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Glad Jamal Jack is getting an opportunity to ply his trade - I think he's been slightly under-rated in his career.
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From the higglights, besides defending quite well, looks like he could long ball good. Even if he not English.. :D
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He looks good but that might only be window dressing. the big question should be, are these just rare moments or is he consistently performing with this level of intensity?
I could only hope that it’s the later because god knows that we need two good center halfs and cyrus and bateau’s age is showing to the point where they are making loads of silly text book mistakes and not performing to expectation for this level, in other words they have been costing us too many games. we desperately need a better back line and two good central defenders would be a terrific starting point.
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Forgiveness will probably be the first move, so past transgressions might be given a clean slate ... although we have only a handful of matches to assure qualification ( the preparation games + the playoff). Whether the route of forgiveness or injection of new blood, Jack eh no spring chicken ... so you might end up cussing either age or inexperience. :devil:
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From the higglights, besides defending quite well, looks like he could long ball good. Even if he not English.. :D
:)
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For what will be his second stint in El Salvador, defender Jamal Jack joins Primera División club, Jocoro FC.
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WATCH: Highlights of Jocoro FC'S Jamal Jack
https://www.youtube.com/v/YQ9aaC2TE-M
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Defender Jamal Jack has signed with CSD Sacachispas who were recently promoted to the Liga Nacional de Fútbol de Guatemala. Jamal last played with Jocoro FC in El Salvador.
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ef33aujWAAEKbrp?format=jpg&name=medium)
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WATCH: Defender Jamal Jack scores his first goal in two and a half years to help CSyD Sacachispas claim a 2-1 come-from-behind victory over Club Xelajú MC
https://www.youtube.com/v/_H4yCgpcKYE?start=276