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Saturday, February 27, 2010
THE Reggae Boyz will not have a friendly international for the next FIFA calendar date of Wednesday, March 3.
But president of the Jamaica Football Federation (JFF) Captain Horace Burrell has vowed to deliver a match before the month ends in keeping with a plan to give the Boyz "at least one game per month".
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"Unfortunately we will not have a game for the FIFA date of March 3, but we are working vigorously to tie up one towards the end of the month," Captain Burrell said from Port of Spain, Trinidad yesterday where he's attending the Caribbean Football Union (CFU) congress.
Captain Burrell claims that he and his team are facing an uphill task securing games for Jamaica's senior footballers, made worse by the team's less than desirable FIFA ranking of 78th and the fact that it's a World Cup year.
"We have made efforts to get a game for the FIFA date, but those teams World Cup-bound are seeking at this time only to play teams that are also going to South Africa... and those teams not going down there want to take on teams much better ranked than we are, so it is difficult from a negotiating standpoint," said Captain Burrell.
But even in the adverse football market from a Jamaican point of view, the JFF was successful in securing two matches so far this year outside of the official FIFA calendar.
On January 31, the Boyz kick-started the game-a-month campaign with a match against 57th-ranked Canada at the National Stadium, which they won 1-0. They then followed that up on February 10 with a massive match-up against eighth-rated Argentina in Mar del Plata, but went down 1-2 in a gutsy show.
It was hoped that the team's performance against the mighty Argentines would have put them in a better marketing position in the efforts to secure games, but that is yet to reap any immediate rewards.
Apart from next week's date, only two official FIFA dates for friendly fixtures remain for 2010 -- August 11 and November 17 -- but nations can arrange games around them.
Meanwhile, the CFU Congress got underway yesterday with a meeting of the executive where the Caribbean Club Championship, the Digicel Caribbean Cup and the situation in Haiti and its impact on the football infrastructure were high on the agenda.
Jamaica are being represented by Captain Burrell and JFF general secretary Horace Reid.
-- Sean Williams
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put me on your buddy list I will be more than happy to do the same .
How could Burrell fail to have a game on an official FIFA date and mek those excuses?
Unnu preparation for 2014 is already behind schedule. For a small team like Jamaica, with a majority of the core players either playing or living abroad, official FIFA dates are very important and should be taken advantage of to get the players playing with each other. Everyone is well aware that teams are increasingly balking about releasing players even on official FIFA dates. Which other date are you going to be able to assemble all the players together? So you play a game on a non-official FIFA date. But are you going to get the teams to release the players?
Your CONCACAF competition have games scheduled on the official FIFA date.
The bad thing is that this is the closest you going get to see the program developing like it is suppose to. Everyone is trying to live up to promises made right now to make up for the failed WC campaign and to win re-election, so if thing are falling apart already, imagine what going to happen later when money run shorter and everyone is comfortably reelected. I guess we will wait til later and mek the same complaints when later reach.
I am not surprised since the under 17 girls team is on tour. There is a cost to everything and you need a favorable deal for everyone for games to go ahead. We make it seems like teams are sitting by the phone waiting for Jamaica to call and we are not calling them. JA fans if it is not a big name they are not showing up at the stadium so that kind of dictate things.
I hope a game can be attained at the end of the month though.
Carter, everyone knows that if I had my way the under 17 girls team wouldn't be the reason why 'Boyz are not playing on March 3rd, because the under 17 girl team wouldn't be on tour.
As you said,..."there are cost to everything and we need a favorable deal for everyone for games to go ahead...". That is the very reason I called for scaling back investment in the under age teams.
The solution is not: I understand why we are not prepared. The solution is: Our financial constraint is such that it is going to be very difficult for us to get prepared so we better come up with some creative ideas to get it done.
The JFF already cut the under age and female budgets to the bone making it a miracle for them to prepare sufficiently to advance in tournaments anyway. So why waste money just before tournaments pretending that you are trying to make them prepare to advance? Just send them out there and continue relying on miracles.
JFF is just trying to spread the little resources around and there is no end in sight for this approach regardless of who is the headmaster. We are way behind in generating revenue from youth develop/professional evvironment for our players/preparation for tournaments/sponsorship etc.
How could Burrell fail to have a game on an official FIFA date and mek those excuses?
Unnu preparation for 2014 is already behind schedule. For a small team like Jamaica, with a majority of the core players either playing or living abroad, official FIFA dates are very important and should be taken advantage of to get the players playing with each other. Everyone is well aware that teams are increasingly balking about releasing players even on official FIFA dates. Which other date are you going to be able to assemble all the players together? So you play a game on a non-official FIFA date. But are you going to get the teams to release the players?
Your CONCACAF competition have games scheduled on the official FIFA date.
The bad thing is that this is the closest you going get to see the program developing like it is suppose to. Everyone is trying to live up to promises made right now to make up for the failed WC campaign and to win re-election, so if thing are falling apart already, imagine what going to happen later when money run shorter and everyone is comfortably reelected. I guess we will wait til later and mek the same complaints when later reach.
Pelepapa, why the man a sweat the JFF program so hard? gi the man dem likkle air make dem breeze off iya. wha happen nutten nah gwaan wid Honduras and Costa Rica?
How could Burrell fail to have a game on an official FIFA date and mek those excuses?
Unnu preparation for 2014 is already behind schedule. For a small team like Jamaica, with a majority of the core players either playing or living abroad, official FIFA dates are very important and should be taken advantage of to get the players playing with each other. Everyone is well aware that teams are increasingly balking about releasing players even on official FIFA dates. Which other date are you going to be able to assemble all the players together? So you play a game on a non-official FIFA date. But are you going to get the teams to release the players?
Your CONCACAF competition have games scheduled on the official FIFA date.
The bad thing is that this is the closest you going get to see the program developing like it is suppose to. Everyone is trying to live up to promises made right now to make up for the failed WC campaign and to win re-election, so if thing are falling apart already, imagine what going to happen later when money run shorter and everyone is comfortably reelected. I guess we will wait til later and mek the same complaints when later reach.
Pelepapa, why the man a sweat the JFF program so hard? gi the man dem likkle air make dem breeze off iya. wha happen nutten nah gwaan wid Honduras and Costa Rica?
Morefire1,
Little air is what they have been getting and going nowhere. Go into the JFF website and read some of the articles posted there and si if ah no di same rubbish dem talk every 4 years. Almost verbatim.
Mi can gi yu many reasons for what yu call me sweating the program, such as:
1- We were brought up with Jamaican customs, so that interest will always be there.
2- Mi hate fi si a man with vast potential a waste his talents due to poor decisions. I would rather if the man don't explore his talent than waste it due to continued poor decisions.
3- Jamaica football is the only thing that causes me to disappoint my wife. Mi always a tell bout how talented the team is and then affi turn roun and tell her seh unnu no mek it again.
But most importantly. The wife love her Jamaica and she already informed me that any child we have will be using their talent to represent Jamaica. As a loving husband all mi can say is "yes dear, anything yu seh". As a good father, since my choice is already made for me, I have to be concern with the stability of the environment a child of mine will be walking into. Yu si, yu affi forgive mi but it is out of my hands.
Morefire1, yu might no like it but yu a go si mi face fi a while.
Here is a good chance for the RBZ to get a decent opponent - the CRC vs. Chile match is off. So lets head to San Jose and play CRC!
I don't think CRica is looking to play any non-WC bound team til after the WC. Wi have bout 4 other games lined up. Money out deh fi mek and a dat wi a hunt. Wi no have no objective fi play games til after WC.
Chile wanted to just call off di game but wi informed dem seh dem affi find another date fi mek it up or wi might tek legal action against dem for breach of contract.
I am not surprised since the under 17 girls team is on tour. There is a cost to everything and you need a favorable deal for everyone for games to go ahead.
The coach stated that the team has only been in practice for a week, yet them gone pon tour. Does that mek any sense? What exactly is going to be garnered from this tour except to waste money? Even if the young ladies pull off a miracle and qualify in CRica I hope no one points to this tour as the reason. They probably would've been better off staying in JA and conducting a more concentrated and intense training.
Chile wanted to just call off di game but wi informed dem seh dem affi find another date fi mek it up or wi might tek legal action against dem for breach of contract.
Ah just business, nothing personal.
Isnt that kinda insensitive, given the situation in Chile.
Chile wanted to just call off di game but wi informed dem seh dem affi find another date fi mek it up or wi might tek legal action against dem for breach of contract.
Ah just business, nothing personal.
Isnt that kinda insensitive, given the situation in Chile.
I am surprise myself that CRica is taking this stand, unless there is more to it than that. I know CRica love to run to courts for every slight, but in this case I thought they should just let it be. I don't think CRica can win, and even if they do win in court they stand to lose a lot more IMO.
wha happen nutten nah gwaan wid Honduras and Costa Rica?
