Vere United president Lothan Cousins says the proposal Phoenix Academy boss Craig Butler made for the merging of the two organisations was a “no-brainer”. Butler has been granted full control of the Jamaica Premier League’s (JPL) club’s operations...
Any hopes Jamaica’s under-20 Reggae Boyz had of making the Youth World Cup in Chile next year went up in smoke in Mexico yesterday. They crashed out of the Concacaf Under 20 Championship without a win, a point or a goal, after losing their final...
JAMAICA FOOTBALL Federation (JFF) technical committee chairman Rudolph Speid said it is very unlikely that any of the two former Manchester United stars, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer or Dwight Yorke, will be the new Reggae Boyz head coach. According to...
AFTER WITNESSING what he thought was a below-par display from the Reggae Boyz at the just-concluded Copa América in the United States, Montego Bay United’s new Argentine coach, Rodolfo Zapata, believes Jamaica senior national football programme...
JAMAICA’S UNDER-20 Reggae Boyz suffered their second defeat in as many games at the Concacaf Under-20 Championship in Mexico, yesterday, going down 3-0 to Costa Rica at the Estadio Miguel Alemán. Claudio Montero opened the scoring with a 51st-...
WHILE THERE have been differing views on Yohan Blake’s claim that he gets no respect in his own country, former coach of the second-fastest man in history, Glen Mills, is reserving his comments. Blake made the explosive claim on YouTube track and...
JAMAICA’s UNDER-20 Reggae Boyz will look to rebound from their humiliating 9-0 defeat to the United States in their opening Concacaf Under-20 Championship encounter when they take on Costa Rica in their second match in Group A at the Estadio Miguel...
JAMAICA FOOTBALL Federation (JFF) president Michael Ricketts says the organisation intends to continue working with John Wall, assistant coach to former Reggae Boyz coach Heimir Hallgrimsson, who stayed behind after the Icelandic coach resigned and...
GENERAL SECRETARY of the Jamaica Football Federation (JFF) Dennis Chung says the process of selecting the new Reggae Boyz coach will enter the interview stage and is expected to be completed by next week. However, Chung refused to disclose the...
WHEN LUDLOW Bernard announced he would step away as head coach of 2021-22 Jamaica Premier League (JPL) champions Harbour View at the end of last season, his assistant of five seasons, Sean Fraser, had high hopes of stepping into the role. In a...
CHAIRMAN OF the Jamaica Football Federation’s (JFF) technical committee, Rudolph Speid, says his body will reduce the more than 40 candidates being reviewed for the vacant Reggae Boyz head coach post to a shortlist of five by today. Speid has also...
WITH THE nation’s two World Cup qualifying games out of the way, the Reggae Boyz will now turn their attention to the CONMBEBOL Copa America tournament, to be held in the United States from June 20-July 16. Assistant coach John Wall noted that the...
AFTER ENDURING a tumultuous period upon leaving the Birmingham Legion in the USL for French Ligue 2 club Toulouse in 2022, Jamaican forward Junior Flemmings has found his feet again in the Serbian Super Liga for Vozdovac. The 28-year-old, who was...
REGGAE BOYZ assistant coach Jon Wall said the team’s 3-2 result over minnows Dominica in their second round Concacaf Group E World Cup qualifier in Dominica yesterday covered up a less-than-ideal performance. The Jamaicans, with a brace from Shamar...
NO MATTER what the make-up of the Reggae Boyz starting team looks like today in their opening Concacaf Group E World Cup qualifiers, the type of performance they put in, or the time the game gets under way, head coach Heimir Hallgrimsson said most...
JAMAICA FOOTBALL Federation (JFF) general secretary Dennis Chung says no effort was spared to try get lights at the National Stadium up to Concacaf standards for Jamaica’s World Cup qualifier against the Dominican Republic this afternoon at 3:30 p....
THE REGGAE Girlz suffered a second successive 4-0 defeat to South American giants Brazil in their international friendly at Fonte Nova Arena in Salvador, Brazil, yesterday. Two goals from Jhennifer and one each from Debinha and Marta saw the...
THOUGH REGGAE Boyz number-one goalkeeper Andre Blake is out for the next month and a half with injury, coach Heimir Hallgrimsson is confident the team is in safe hands with any of the four goalkeepers they have selected for their two upcoming...
REGGAE BOYZ coach Heimir Hallgrimsson continues to bat for better fields and facilities for his charges, especially given the number of overseas-based players in the squad. According to Hallgrimsson, lower quality of playing surfaces and facilities...
PAUL CHRISTIE, Mount Pleasant Football Academy sporting director, said the decision not to renew the tenure of Theodore ‘Tappa’ Whitmore as head coach of the club had long been decided, and insists their Jamaica Premier League (JPL) final defeat to...
JAMAICA FUTSAL and Scrimmage Association (JFSA) became the newest member of the Jamaica Football Federation (JFF) following an Extraordinary Congress at the JFF office on Saturday. However, the novel organisation will remain a non-voting affiliate...
REGGAE BOYZ coach Heimir Hallgrimsson says there is danger in thinking that their opening Concacaf World Cup qualifier against the Dominican Republic on Thursday at the National Stadium is a foregone conclusion. The Reggae Boyz have been placed in...
A number of injured high-profile players will be missing from the Reggae Boyz squad for their opening 2026 Concacaf World Cup qualifying match against the Dominican Republic next Thursday at the National Stadium. The injury list includes goalkeeper...
JAMAICA FOOTBALL Federation (JFF) general secretary Dennis Chung said he expects the nation’s opening 2026 Concacaf World Cup qualifier against the Dominican Republic on Thursday, June 6, at the National Stadium at 6:30 p.m. to go ahead as...
IN AN effort to give youngsters at the basic school level an early introduction into organised football, David Laylor and his Next Generation Football Foundation will be putting on a one-day competition in collaboration with the University of the...
