MIDFIELDER TYREEK Magee has received his first international call-up in more than a year after he was named to the Reggae Boyz squad to face Guatemala in a friendly on Saturday at the Red Bull Arena in New Jersey. The 24-year-old, who currently...
DEFENDING MANNING Cup champions Jamaica College kept their hopes for a semifinal spot alive after a closely fought 2-1 win over 10-man Tivoli Gardens High School at the Stadium East field on Tuesday. Jayd Johnson handed the Old Hope Road school the...
JAMAICA’S SECOND-STRING Reggae Girlz put in a brave performance despite going down 2-1 to hosts Panama in their Concacaf Gold Cup qualifiers at the Estadio Universitario FC in Panama yesterday. Ricshaya Walker gave the girls a ray of hope after 22...
THE FIRST leg of the ISSA/Digicel Manning Cup round of 16 matches takes centre stage this afternoon with a full slate of games. In a doubleheader at St Catherine High School, the home team entertain high-flying Wolmer’s Boys’ School in the feature...
REGGAE GIRLZ interim head coach Xavier Gilbert is calling on his young players to make the most of this rare senior team opportunity, when they take on Panama in the Concacaf Women’s Gold Cup qualifiers in Panama today at 6 p.m. The Reggae Girlz...
Local female coaches Charles Edwards and Kadeesh Fishley believe it will take a supreme effort for the Reggae Girlz to come away with a positive result when they play hosts Panama in their Concacaf Women’s Gold Cup first leg qualifier tomorrow. The...
Tivoli Gardens kicked off their 2023-24 Wray and Nephew Jamaica Premier League (JPL) season in emphatic style at the National Stadium yesterday with a 3-0 victory over Waterhouse. The west Kingston-based Tivoli took the lead in the 30th minute...
Reggae Boyz head coach Heimir Hallgrimsson said beating Canada and qualifying for next year’s Copa America and Nations League semi-finals will be critical to their continued development as a team and to their chances of qualifying for a second FIFA...
Interim Reggae Girlz head coach Xavier Gilbert expects an uphill task when they face Panama away and Guatemala at home in the opening matches of the Women’s Gold Cup qualifiers, after a majority of the squad that took Jamaica to the FIFA Women’s...
Former two-time Canadian boxing champion Donovan ‘Razor’ Ruddock is elated at the opportunity to fight in his home country, Jamaica, for the first time. Ruddock, who had a heavyweight career which spanned some 20 years, has never fought in the land...
Arnett Gardens retained the Boom El Clasico trophy on Wednesday with a 2-0 victory over Waterhouse at the Drewsland mini-stadium. Shai Smith and Rushike Kelson both scored from the penalty spot to secure the $500,000 cash prize for the winners, and...
REGGAE BOYZ assistant coach, Merron Gordon, says Jamaica are undaunted by the prospect of having to get by number-44 ranked Canada when the teams meet in the quarterfinals of the Concacaf Nations League A in November. “We knew we would play them (...
AFTER MORE than two weeks without a coach, and with less than a week to go before Jamaica’s Reggae Girlz play Panama in the first leg of their women’s Gold Cup qualification playoff tie, the Jamaica Football Federation (JFF) is expected to announce...
EXCELSIOR HIGH School consolidated their place in the second round of the ISSA/Digicel Manning Cup with the 6-0 thrashing of Clan Carthy in Group D at Excelsior High School yesterday. A brace from Orane Strawn and one each from Torrence Williams,...
JAMAICA FOOTBALL Federation (JFF) presidential candidate Raymond Anderson said if elected to office, he will ensure that players and those who have contributed to the development of the sport locally receive the recognition and honour they deserve...
FORMER REGGAE Girlz coach Lorne Donaldson has denied allegations that he is supporting Raymond Anderson’s candidacy for the Jamaica Football Federation (JFF) presidency. Donaldson, who was seen with the JFF vice president at the Bell/Ziadie...
Former Reggae Girlz coach Lorne Donaldson, one of the four honourees at today’s 38th renewal of the annual Bell/Zaidie Memorial football match at St George’s College, is expected to be at the venue to collect his award. Kick-off time is 2 p.m....
In his quest to wrestle the Jamaica Football Federation (JFF) presidency from incumbent Michael Ricketts, challenger Raymond Anderson has recruited a high-powered team of sports administrators. Among the big wigs the JFF vice-president has...
The Boom El Clasico preseason matchup between long-time rivals Arnett Gardens and Waterhouse takes place today at the Anthony Spaulding Sports Complex at 6 p.m. Both clubs are expected to have new-look teams on show after both lost a number of key...
Jamaica Football Federation (JFF) president Michael Ricketts said he is disappointed that long-time friend and JFF board member, Raymond Anderson, has chosen to challenge him for the presidency at this time. Ricketts declared he has no issue with...
FOR THE next three seasons, Jamaica’s top-flight football league will be called the Wray and Nephew Jamaica Premier League (JPL). Wray and Nephew’s title sponsorship, announced at the company’s New Kingston office on Tuesday, is valued at $60...
REGGAE BOYZ coach Heimir Hallgrimsson said it will be a difficult task breaking down Grenada’s well-organised defence when the teams meet in their Concacaf Nations League Group B game at the Kirani James Stadium in Grenada at 6 p.m. today....
ST GEORGE’S College (STGC) are all but through to the next stage of the ISSA/Digicel Manning Cup after a 7-2 drubbing of José Martí in Group F at Winchester Park yesterday. Four goals from Brian Burkett, who took his tally for the season to 16, led...
HYDEL MANNING Cup coach, Devon Anderson, said the Inter-Secondary Schools Sports Association (ISSA) is largely to blame for the school exceeding the number of transferred players they registered and used in the competition. Based on ISSA...
THE TRUTH being stranger than fiction was perhaps never so apt as the thought that Jamaica’s Reggae Boyz, playing in the Concacaf Nations League in Grenada, could be affected by a war between Israel and Palestine. But that is the reality that faced...
