EXCELSIOR HIGH school kick-start their ISSA Tip Friendly Society School Girls Football title defence against Bridgeport this afternoon at 4:00 at the Stadium East Sports Complex and coach Xavier Gilbert is expecting a good start from his girls. The...
National team physical trainer Jason ‘Buju’ Henry has been fired from his post by the Jamaica Football Federation (JFF). Reliable sources told The Gleaner that Henry has been dismissed for his role in the bust up between members of Harbour View FC...
Organiser of the annual ‘One Love’ football matches, Clive ‘Busy’ Campbell, said there could be a special guest player from Brazil on show at this year’s renewal, scheduled to be played at the Anthony Spaulding Sports Complex on Wednesday, February...
PHOENIX ACADEMY boss Craig Butler said playing against top European clubs gives his players a greater chance to impress than if they went on individual trials. Phoenix is currently in Spain on a two-week tour, where they will play against youth...
JAMAICAN TENNIS star Rowland ‘Randy’ Phillips said home crowd advantage really made a difference in Jamaica’s 3-2 win over Estonia in their Davis Cup Group II play-offs at the Eric Bell National Tennis Centre on Sunday. Phillips dismissed Kristjan...
Former St George’s College ace Emelio Rousseau netted a fantastic second-half equaliser to earn Portmore a 1-1 draw with Molynes United in their Jamaica Premier League (JPL) game at the Ashenheim Stadium last night. The 23-year-old, who was scoring...
PROFESSIONAL FOOTBALL Jamaica Limited (PFJL) CEO, Owen Hill, says he is awaiting a report into an incident at a Jamaica Premier League game between Harbour View and Vere United at the Wembley Centre of Excellence on Sunday where a Gleaner reporter...
JAMAICA SECURED their place in Group II of the Davis Cup with a 3-2 win over Estonia at the Eric Bell National Tennis Centre yesterday. Jamaica’s number one seed, Blaise Bicknell, consolidated Jamaica’s place in Group II for the first time in 25...
Rowland ‘Randy’ Phillips will open Jamaica’s Davis Cup tie against Estonia’s Kristjan Tamm today at the Eric Bell Tennis Centre starting at 3 p.m. and the 29-year-old is looking to set the tone for the rest of the weekend with a win. Phillips, the...
KINGSTON AND St Andrew Football Association (KSAFA) Super League winners Real Mona will not be accepting their invitation to participate in the National Tier II Competition, confirmed club president Peter Moses. Yesterday was the deadline for clubs...
NATIONAL UNDER-17 football coach Merron Gordon is confident the 20 players selected to make the trip to Guatemala for the Concacaf Under-17 Championships can take Jamaica to the Under-17 World Cup for the third time in the country’s history. Gordon...
After a month in camp, the coaching staff of Jamaica’s under-17 national football team named a 20-man squad at a press conference this morning. The squad is set to depart the island shortly for the Concacaf U-17 Championships in Gautemala...
YOUNG DANIEL Azar goes into this weekend’s Davis Cup Tennis Group II playoff tie against Estonia as the youngest member of Jamaica’s five-man team. The 17-year-old, who has been one of the top performers at the prestigious Saddlebrook Tennis...
JAMAICA WILL host their first Davis Cup tennis tie in more than a decade this weekend and Tennis Jamaica president John Azar believes it is only fitting to have newly laid surfaces for the four courts at the Tennis Jamaica Centre for the February 4...
Brazilian coach Clovis de Oliveira arrived in the island yesterday to begin his stint with Jamaica Premier League (JPL) club Chapelton Maroons and the former Reggae Boyz coach insisted he will not be affected by the internal turmoil that plunged...
Meadforest Football Club president Daglalish Henry says his club will be taking up the Jamaica Football Federation’s (JFF) offer to participate in the National Tier II playoffs despite possible repercussions from the Kingston and St Andrew Football...
Shaqueil Bradford saved Waterhouse from making a losing return to the Waterhouse mini-stadium scoring a late equaliser against Portmore to earn a 1-1 draw in the Jamaica Premier League (JPL) yesterday. Waterhouse coach Marcel Gayle praised his...
Several top schoolboy footballers will converge on the Bell/Chung complex today to showcase their skills in the presence of South Carolina coach Tony Allan, in an effort to secure a football scholarship to the United States-based institution....
ACCORDING TO one highly placed Jamaica Football Federation (JFF) source, the federation has written to the Kingston and St Andrew Football Association (KSAFA), stating that their refusal to participate in the National Tier II competition is...
National football coach Heimir Hallgrimsson who said he would not have selected the now World Cup champions Argentina as opponents to start his tenure with the Reggae Boyz is now changing his tune. Although the game was scheduled before the...
Cavalier coach Everdean Scarlett will have a tough assignment when the Zone B leaders take on Olympic Gardens, the second-place team in Zone A, in the feature Jamaica Women’s Premier League (JWPL) game today at the UWI-JFF Captain Horace Burrell...
The Kingston and St Andrew Football Association’s (KSAFA) Super and Major leagues will not go ahead at the end of the month as was originally announced. According to KSAFA president Mark Bennett these competitions will now begin next month. Bennett...
REGGAE BOYZ coach Heimir Hallgrimsson believes he knows what it takes to get good results for developing football countries like Jamaica and that the teams will be ready for his first competitive assignment, a Nation League game against regional...
PROFESSIONAL FOOTBALL Jamaica Limited (PFJL) CEO Owen Hill believes that the Ashenheim Stadium, located on the grounds of Jamaica College (JC), has the making of a prime centralised Jamaica Premier League (JPL) venue, following the first game of...
KINGSTON COLLEGE forward Dujuan ‘Whisper’ Richards has expressed surprise and delight at his first-ever senior Reggae Boyz call-up, and has promised to make his supporters proud. “It is a great feeling to be in a senior national team training,”...
