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Football / Re: 2015 CFU Club Championship

« on: May 25, 2015, 12:43:10 PM »

Congrats Connection although the team looked a little lethargic in performance with lots of unforced errors.
Was fitness a problem? as Mobay was twice as fast to the ball. When last did Connection play a seriously competitive game?
Jamaica team was playing a typical Neanderthal cyah-shoot-straight brand of ball.
Two T&T teams in the Concacaf series. Daiz what we wanted. Good news for a change. Good for the Proleague.
Haiti should take the 3rd spot.

Jamaica teams are traditionally week in the area of shooting and by extension goal scoring. Poor fields and lack of proper coaching at a young age I believe are  contributing factors.  This appears to be a problem for all the teams based on what've saw.

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Football / Re: 2015 CFU Club Championship

« on: May 24, 2015, 07:48:33 PM »

just watched the jamaican team qualify 1-0. somehow i like this team to go far, they are tenacious and seem to have a plan unlike the other teams. would be interesting to see how they match up with the bigger teams in concacaf.

in case you guys were wondering how i saw the game, i used the same feed from friday.

top two teams qualify for CCL, no?

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Football / Re: Jamaica Football Thread.

« on: May 18, 2015, 04:15:13 AM »

Excuse my ignorance, never heard of Romai sportswear before. But just checked the internet. From UAE. The brigadier is courting the Arab money. Nothing wrong with that. The end justifies the means.

Behind our design Romai Sports is a UAE based sports brand that designs and manufactures sports clothing and accessories. Our group has over 20 years of experience in the regional sportswear industry, as well as having supported and been part of the growth of various international sportswear brands such as Hummel, Le Coq Sportif and Erima amongst others. Romai Sports is the only Emirati sportswear company, that develops and manufactures its own range of sport products. Behind our design philosophy is the belief that speed and agility are the cornerstones of athletic performance. At Romai Sports, we see our products as empowerers of athletes. Our creations are meticulously designed to offer the best in mobility and comfort. We achieve all this as we strive to build an efficient and highly-adaptive business infrastructure, so that our partners get what they want and when they want it, in the most uncompromising highest quality possible.

Romai is new to the scene, Jamaica would be their flagship national team, hence the custom kits. I believe they also outfit the Bahrain national team.  This sponsorship is worth close to $us 5m per year.

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Football / Re: Jamaica Football Thread.

« on: May 17, 2015, 06:11:18 PM »

Now, as with anything else, I am sure the new reggae-boyz kits will generate some discussions amongst the fans (and the rivals too ha). Looks OK to me...nothing to write home about...I believe most will either absolutely hate it (I suspect most posters in this forum will be hating on it) or absolutely love it with very few sitting on the fence.

I'm one of the few sitting on the fence.

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Football / Re: International Friendlies: 2015

« on: March 28, 2015, 03:40:29 AM »

Jamaica 2 - 1 Venezuela

1 - 0 Venezuela goal juan arrango :https://youtu.be/wdtEDLep2zY?t=438

1 - 1 Jamaica Giles Barnes on debut https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdtEDLep2zY&feature=youtu.be&t=537

2 -1 Jamaica Mattox https://youtu.be/wdtEDLep2zY?t=3596

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Football / Re: 2015 CONCACAF GOLD CUP THREAD

« on: March 12, 2015, 09:20:31 AM »

In #GOLDCUP2015 Group B will be #CRC #SLV #JAM #CAN | @FEDEFUTBOL_CR @fesfut_sv @ItsTheJFF @CanadaSoccerEN
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CONCACAF @CONCACAF  ·  9m 9 minutes ago

#GOLDCUP2015 Group A will include #USA #PAN #HAI & #HON or #GUF | @USMNT @fepafut @fhfhaiti @FenafuthOrg #FrenchGuiana

Group A - USA, PAN, HON, Haiti - Tough Group AKA Group Of Death. I dont see French Guiana beating Honduras over two legs...if they do, group will still be a dog-fight between USA, PAN, HAITI . I see USA and PAN taking top two. Honduras is normally good at home and not soo good when playing on foreign soil.

Group C - should be Mexico, and toss-up between T&T and Guatemala for the top two spots. If the Molinos and Jones etc turn up for T&T, then i see mexico and T&T as the top 2.

Group B - I'd say CRC to finish top, second place can be any of JAM/CAN/EL SAL. This appears a tough group as well on paper. Jamaica will be involved in Copa America around the same time, so may need to choose from a wide pool of players for both tourneys.

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Football / Re: 2015 CONCACAF Men's Under-17 Championship Thread.

« on: March 12, 2015, 12:38:13 AM »

Wi, Lose or Draw, Jamaica must get their props.

after defeating the USA, the Jamaicans were on the edge of their seats as they backed Guatemala to either defeat or tie with hosts Honduras, which would have secured direct passage to the world cup for the young Jamaicans.  As it were, Honduras edged Guatemala 2-1 which means Jamaica must now qualify with a victory in its next game.  In hindsight, failing to beat Cuba (2-2) could end up being very costly for they Jamaicans.

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Football / Re: 2015 CONCACAF Men's Under-17 Championship Thread.

« on: March 11, 2015, 04:22:41 AM »

3 of the jamaica goals were very lucky. The first one, and the third and fourth.  2-1 would have still been a loss though.
Some bad defending from T&T.

You make your own luck in football. I am sure you saw that goal Kaka scored for Orlando bs NY city.... pure luck, but would not have happened without Kaka's taking a shot in the first place.  You get what I'm saying

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Football / Re: T&T let it slip, host Jamaica escape with last ditch equalizer.

« on: January 11, 2015, 02:19:44 PM »

This is a very weak Jamaica team, judging from the results obtained in the warm up series they played in Venezuela a couple weeks go where they lost all three games. Also, in two games last week, this Jamaica team failed to dominate a very weak looking Cuba team, drawing one game and winning the other by the narrowest of margins...Fast forward to Today...Mexico 9 - 1 Cuba.  That puts the 2-2 tie between Jamaica and T&T into perspective.

...

Poor analysis.

eloberate

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Football / Re: T&T let it slip, host Jamaica escape with last ditch equalizer.

« on: January 10, 2015, 06:36:28 PM »

This is a very weak Jamaica team, judging from the results obtained in the warm up series they played in Venezuela a couple weeks go where they lost all three games. Also, in two games last week, this Jamaica team failed to dominate a very weak looking Cuba team, drawing one game and winning the other by the narrowest of margins...Fast forward to Today...Mexico 9 - 1 Cuba.  That puts the 2-2 tie between Jamaica and T&T into perspective. I don't see Jamaica winning a single game in this tournament...period (everyone will beat aruba....its a given...i think)

The problem with Jamaica's football at the youth level is that these players are school-boys, they are stars in the school leagues, but fail to lift their game when they run into the hardened professionals playing for the Mexicos and USAs of CONCACAF. 

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Football / Re: T&T set to benefit from top quality Training Centre.

« on: December 10, 2014, 03:31:01 PM »

And what is the budget for this facility? If its the $500K grant that FIFA has been giving to each of its mebers for some time now...i'm afraid some serious private sector (or in your case money from the T&T Government) will be needed to supplement the US$500K  fifa normally gives for these Goal Projects.

I doubt US$500K can build anything even close to your existing Center Of Excellence?

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Football / Re: Molino embraces the Number 10.

« on: December 08, 2014, 04:58:17 AM »

It should be a tie!

Only problem is that it appears they had only on trophy to hand out at the presentation ceremony!

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Football / Re: Molino embraces the Number 10.

« on: December 07, 2014, 11:19:20 AM »

At times,  the selection can be arbitrary. Other factors may be involved. Take the case of Leroy Deleon who  won  the   1969  Concacaf  nation cup  MVP . TT came in 2nd to last. Costa Rica won it on home soil. He did not score the most goals either. Where is the logic in that. And the Concacaf tournament in TT in 1971 was the same thing. Mexico won it, but Phillip Vorbe from Haiti won the MVP. 1973 Everald Cummings was the MVP, but Steve David was the top scorer. Haiti won it. In football many times emotion trumps logic and rational.

You are confusing MVP with golden boot winner, I think.  Golden boot is awarded to the highest goal scorer... two different awards although not mutually exclusive.

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Football / Re: Molino embraces the Number 10.

« on: December 07, 2014, 05:30:34 AM »

So what's your perspective regarding, say ... the WC? Because the winner of the award doesn't always come from the winning team.

I'd imagine if Naymar scored six goals to lead Brazil to a world cup triumph on home soil, and he is tied on goals with Clint Dempsey of the USA, who got knocked out in the earlier rounds...I would expect that Neymar and not Dempsey would be awarded the golden boot. Seems logical, no?

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Football / Re: Molino embraces the Number 10.

« on: December 06, 2014, 05:05:00 PM »

It should be Molino's though because he played in less matches than the other

Hard to imagine that the competition rules doesn't cover situations where players are tied on goal in terms of how the final winner should be selected. In my very biased assessment (I'm Jamaican), I believe it should go to the player on the winning team. If T&T had won the tournament, I believe it would have been fair for Molino to be awarded the trophy. Jamaica won, so Mattocks should get it. The Haitian guy who also finished on same number of goals as Mattocks and Molino..no one talking about him...rightfully so since his team didn't make he final. by that logic....you know what I mean.

EDIT:
It's Molin"o" not Molina. 
The process needs to be clearly defined in the competition rules.

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Football / Good Luck!

« on: December 01, 2014, 08:21:10 PM »

Moderators, feel free to move this to the appropriate thread, but I will be watching tomorrow when your women National team go for glory vs Ecuador. There is really nothing to lose in this game, but all to gain.

Good luck.

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Football / Re: 2015 Copa America Thread

« on: November 25, 2014, 07:38:35 PM »

Predictions:
Arg vs JA : 10 - 0
Urg vs JA : 5 - 0
JA vs Par : 0 - 4

Any questions feel free to send me a pm

I think

Go man! Make the Caribbean proud, wish JA all the best.

Edit: I think JA can possibly get some key draws here, all these games are in USA so there is a very good chance the support for the reggae boyz will be strong..

I think you are mixing up Copa America Centenario (2016) with Copa America 2015. This is for the 2015 Copa in Chile next summer. The groups / qualifiers for Centenario hasnt been determined yet.

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Football / Re: 2015 Copa America Thread

« on: November 25, 2014, 04:54:49 PM »

Predictions:
Arg vs JA : 10 - 0
Urg vs JA : 5 - 0
JA vs Par : 0 - 4

Any questions feel free to send me a pm

Hehheh. I hope you are wrong. But I recall Jamaica betaing the likes of Uruguay and Paraguay with ease up to ten years ago. And even Argentina we have had some good results against (save for that 5-0 mauling Batistuta and Ortega put on us in France'98

Argentina
Jamaica vs Argentina last game two years ago in Mar Del Plata took an injury time winner from Martin Palermo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycpszd4_egM

Paraguay
I was at the office for this game in 1999, I was around 24/25 at the time
31/03/1999, Kingston (Jamaica), 25,000
JAMAICA  3-0 PARAGUAY Marcus GAYLE       5', Theodore WHITMORE 37', David JOHNSON     47'
 
and also this one in 2003
JAMAICA  2-0 PARAGUAY [HT 2-0] Darren BYFIELD  13', Richard LANGLEY 30'

Uruguay
FRIENDLY INTERNATIONAL
18/02/2004, Kingston (Jamaica), 27,000
JAMAICA 2-0 URUGUAY [HT 1-0] Onandi LOWE 10', Jermaine JOHNSON 82'

Jamaica used to be a decent team back in the day...we have fallen off badly since France'98
http://www.rsssf.com/tablesj/jam-intres-det2.html

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Football / Copa America 2015

« on: November 25, 2014, 02:15:17 PM »

Jamaica gets a tough group... Mexico too.

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2278996-copa-america-draw-2015-groups-fixtures-and-dates-released-for-chile-tournament

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Football / Re: Prize Money.

« on: November 24, 2014, 10:33:06 AM »

Do the players share of a percentage of the money,if so how much,i assume the JFA will also share from that nice lump sum.

I remember the players having a well publicized pay dispute with the JFF at the Caribbean cup tournament a couple years ago in Martinique, (similar to what just happened with the TT team and the TTFF) where they demanded higher per-diems (at the time was US$300 per player per day when on national duty). I believe the JFF ended up paying senior players US$1,200 per day per player (less for players with low# of caps) and a 80% share of the $120,000 they took home for winning the tournament that year.

Not sure if those figures still hold true today.

I'd imagine the TT womens team will pick up something close to US$1M if when they qualify for the womens world cup.

http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20101208/sports/sports2.html

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Football / Re: Prize Money.

« on: November 24, 2014, 04:01:09 AM »

Anyone know if teams entitled to prize money for winning and runners-up for the Caribbean Cup and also for qualifying for the Gold Cup?

Also, does the women team get prize money "IF" they qualify for the WWC?

If yes, anyone know the amount?

Just curious to see how FIFA/CONACAF threats teams in our region.

 

Copa America Centanario 2016 - US$1,000,000
CFU Cup Winners - US$120,000
CFU Cup Runners up US$75,000

Gold Cup - ??
Womens World Cup - ??

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Football / Re: Runners up for a second straight time as T&T lose to Reggae Boyz.

« on: November 21, 2014, 11:23:09 AM »

Deeks but JA use to playing on that pitch the way it is and had time to utilize it for their own benefit.

Considering how physical the game was and the way the referee allowed play to flow, it was very dangerous for us as well as JA. I am not making excuses, we lost but not without having a fair share of odds stacked against us.

Jamaica used to playing on that pitch ? How so? You realize that the games weren't played at the national stadium in Kingston? Its not that the pitch is bad in itself... its that the organizers saw it necessary to schedule 12 games on the pitch in the space of seven days... two games everyday... not many pitches in the Caribbean could stand up to that sort of rigorous schedule.

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Football / Re: Runners up for a second straight time as T&T lose to Reggae Boyz.

« on: November 21, 2014, 11:16:20 AM »

You mean  the Copa!!

under their own conditions via the pitch

Both teams played on the same pitch. There are bad pitches in TT you know. If it bad for TT, It bad for JA as well. but you are correct they had a very off game.

Anyone thinking the condition of the pitch benefited Jamaica in any way was absolutely wrong. These are professional players who play week in week out on manicured surfaces throughout Europe and north America... so the quality of the surface obviously would have impacted both teams, as opposed to just one. Just saying. 

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Football / Re: Thread for the T&T vs Jamaica Game (18-Nov-2014)

« on: November 19, 2014, 06:12:35 PM »

I'll trade you our two upcoming Copa America Appearances for a chance at the Women's World Cup. Any takers?

Fun and jokes aside, I can't say I am surprised at the result in the game last night.  The Jamaicans were superior in the fitness department... even given that the core of the T&T team was heavily rotated throughout the tournament.  I believe also that facing Curacao and to a lesser extend French Guiana in the early rounds somewhat didn't provide a stiff challenge to your guys... in the same way facing Martinique and Haiti did for Jamaica... both Martinique and Haiti I believe are better than Cuba who , prior to Jamaica, was your stiffest opponent all tournament.

Nothing to brag about re Jamaica performance... the squad is weak in many areas, and has potential in others, but lots of football to be played in the coming two years and overall much room for improvement.

Same goes for T&T.

Cuba, Haiti, T&T, Jamaica ... traditionally the better teams in the region came to the fore in the tournament and will represent the region at the Gold cup.

you mean the same french guiana and cuba who whiped and kicked you out of the last gold cup in antigua? oh i see easily we forget.

Fast forward to 2014 please sir

in that case french guina was a batter team than last year only because they had 9 french internationals in their ranks as opposed to 4 last time around so it's even more relevant. by the way you're carrying on anyone would swear that jamaica drobbed us well and proper. please..... you guys played with four defenders glued to the 18 yard box and on your own home field, and if we had a proper referee you would have been down to 9 players come full time that's because you fouled the dickens out of hector molino and jones combined while mattocks and mc annuf had loads of room on the ball yet you couldn't get it done from open play. man stop your noise you were just as crappy as us, but there will be other times like the gold cup. lets see what you've got outside of your home field advantage.

by the way what was that mess of a cow pasture that you call a stadium? i saw a ball ran away from jones in thee middle of the field on the edge of that huge ring worm mark, what the hell was that? it was the worst field i've ever seen and believe me i've seen some horrible pitches but this one takes the cake. maybe you could take that 100,000 and fix that disaster of a field.

I don't believe anyone will disagree with you on the state of the field...  considering that over a dozen games were played on the same surface in the past week... its hardly a surprise.

don't come with that, the field was in that condition from game one especially with the ring worm mark in the meddle of the pitch and it was an appalling distraction which the players avoided. excuses excuses.

alright boss, I agree, surface was horrible.  We on the same page.

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Football / Re: Thread for the T&T vs Jamaica Game (18-Nov-2014)

« on: November 19, 2014, 05:44:46 PM »

I'll trade you our two upcoming Copa America Appearances for a chance at the Women's World Cup. Any takers?

Fun and jokes aside, I can't say I am surprised at the result in the game last night.  The Jamaicans were superior in the fitness department... even given that the core of the T&T team was heavily rotated throughout the tournament.  I believe also that facing Curacao and to a lesser extend French Guiana in the early rounds somewhat didn't provide a stiff challenge to your guys... in the same way facing Martinique and Haiti did for Jamaica... both Martinique and Haiti I believe are better than Cuba who , prior to Jamaica, was your stiffest opponent all tournament.

Nothing to brag about re Jamaica performance... the squad is weak in many areas, and has potential in others, but lots of football to be played in the coming two years and overall much room for improvement.

Same goes for T&T.

Cuba, Haiti, T&T, Jamaica ... traditionally the better teams in the region came to the fore in the tournament and will represent the region at the Gold cup.

you mean the same french guiana and cuba who whiped and kicked you out of the last gold cup in antigua? oh i see easily we forget.

Fast forward to 2014 please sir

in that case french guina was a batter team than last year only because they had 9 french internationals in their ranks as opposed to 4 last time around so it's even more relevant. by the way you're carrying on anyone would swear that jamaica drobbed us well and proper. please..... you guys played with four defenders glued to the 18 yard box and on your own home field, and if we had a proper referee you would have been down to 9 players come full time that's because you fouled the dickens out of hector molino and jones combined while mattocks and mc annuf had loads of room on the ball yet you couldn't get it done from open play. man stop your noise you were just as crappy as us, but there will be other times like the gold cup. lets see what you've got outside of your home field advantage.

by the way what was that mess of a cow pasture that you call a stadium? i saw a ball ran away from jones in thee middle of the field on the edge of that huge ring worm mark, what the hell was that? it was the worst field i've ever seen and believe me i've seen some horrible pitches but this one takes the cake. maybe you could take that 100,000 and fix that disaster of a field.

I don't believe anyone will disagree with you on the state of the field...  considering that over a dozen games were played on the same surface in the past week... its hardly a surprise, I am sure you will agree.  Unfortunately Jamaica doesn't have the volume of government run facilities like you have in t&t...in much the same way our players are not paid by the central government like yours.  Nothing comes easy for us as a people, we have to fight for what is ours, and despite the obstacles, we manage to rise above and achieve well beyond our means.  Consider yourself fortunate, and save a prayer for the less fortunate Jamaicans, Haitians and Cubans with limited resources.

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Football / Re: Thread for the T&T vs Jamaica Game (18-Nov-2014)

« on: November 19, 2014, 03:58:45 PM »

I'll trade you our two upcoming Copa America Appearances for a chance at the Women's World Cup. Any takers?

Fun and jokes aside, I can't say I am surprised at the result in the game last night.  The Jamaicans were superior in the fitness department... even given that the core of the T&T team was heavily rotated throughout the tournament.  I believe also that facing Curacao and to a lesser extend French Guiana in the early rounds somewhat didn't provide a stiff challenge to your guys... in the same way facing Martinique and Haiti did for Jamaica... both Martinique and Haiti I believe are better than Cuba who , prior to Jamaica, was your stiffest opponent all tournament.

Nothing to brag about re Jamaica performance... the squad is weak in many areas, and has potential in others, but lots of football to be played in the coming two years and overall much room for improvement.

Same goes for T&T.

Cuba, Haiti, T&T, Jamaica ... traditionally the better teams in the region came to the fore in the tournament and will represent the region at the Gold cup.

you mean the same french guiana and cuba who whiped and kicked you out of the last gold cup in antigua? oh i see easily we forget.

Fast forward to 2014 please sir

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Football / Re: Thread for the T&T vs Jamaica Game (18-Nov-2014)

« on: November 19, 2014, 10:11:21 AM »

I'll trade you our two upcoming Copa America Appearances for a chance at the Women's World Cup. Any takers?

Fun and jokes aside, I can't say I am surprised at the result in the game last night.  The Jamaicans were superior in the fitness department... even given that the core of the T&T team was heavily rotated throughout the tournament.  I believe also that facing Curacao and to a lesser extend French Guiana in the early rounds somewhat didn't provide a stiff challenge to your guys... in the same way facing Martinique and Haiti did for Jamaica... both Martinique and Haiti I believe are better than Cuba who , prior to Jamaica, was your stiffest opponent all tournament.

Nothing to brag about re Jamaica performance... the squad is weak in many areas, and has potential in others, but lots of football to be played in the coming two years and overall much room for improvement.

Same goes for T&T.

Cuba, Haiti, T&T, Jamaica ... traditionally the better teams in the region came to the fore in the tournament and will represent the region at the Gold cup.

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Football / Re: Thread for the T&T vs Jamaica Game (18-Nov-2014)

« on: November 17, 2014, 03:50:46 PM »

went on the TRB site and saw that they have no respect for us....... as usual.  hope we poison them for their over confidence.  our central defenders have me a bit uneasy and i hope they come with their A game manana.

Do you think Brazilian fans show love to Argentinians when they face off in a football final?  This is the Caribbean's version of the Super Classico.

Its not in our nature to show fear of the opponents. Sports or otherwise.

I would expect T&T fans to be equally as confident as the Jamaicans.

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Football / Re: 2014 Caribbean Cup Thread

« on: November 16, 2014, 09:12:46 PM »

Jamaica looked good in this match, but then again they had no choice but to play attacking football from the first whistle, as it was a game they had to win (all Haiti needed was a draw to make the finals against T&T).  Haiti played the first 30 minutes like they came into the game with the mentality of playing it safe to secure a draw, and make it to the finals...but that strategy obviously backfired on them.

In addition, since this was a game that JA had to win (not lose or even draw), they were forced to field their best team today.  T&T on the other hand rested key players on Saturday, and played a 'strolling' type of football...nothing too intensive.  T&T also has a full 24 hours of rest over Jamaica who just played tonight.  Though not a guarantee of securing a victory, this bodes well for T&T two days from now on Tuesday.

Not to sound biased, I'm predicting a Soca Warrior victory on Tuesday. Nuff' said. 

Should be a good game of football. Not wanting to make any sort of prediction, but I believe Jamaica playing at home and seemingly getting better with each game means that T&T will have to bring its "A" game if it is to win the tournament.

Game will likely be won / lost in the defensive third of the field.




 

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Football / Re: 2014 International Friendlies

« on: June 04, 2014, 08:19:12 PM »

great goal by Joel Grant as JA lead Egypt 2-1 after 38 mtns.

were down 1-0 and scored two goals in around 10 mnts.

goals here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjSiwxl3POM