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Published:Friday | May 11, 2018 | 12:00 AMMarc Stamp/Gleaner Writer

Jamaica's Reggae Girls secured a second victory in the CONCACAF Caribbean Women's World Cup Qualifiers, when they eased past Martinique 3-0 at the Stade Sylvio Cator in Port-au-Prince, Haiti yesterday.The win pushed Jamaica onto six points in Zone B...

Published:Thursday | May 10, 2018 | 12:00 AMMarc Stamp/Gleaner Writer

Jamaica, big 13-0 winners in their opening match, will hunt a second win in the CONCACAF Caribbean Women's Qualifiers (CCWQ) Group B when they face Martinique today at the Stade Sylvio Cator in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Kick off time is 4 p.m.In the...

Published:Thursday | May 10, 2018 | 12:00 AMMarc Stamp/Gleaner Writer

Top local clubs Portmore United and Arnett Gardens will oppose regional competition in the FLOW CONCACAF Caribbean Club Championship semi-finals today at the Anthony Spaulding Sports Complex.Reigning Red Stripe Premier League (RSPL) champions...

Published:Monday | May 7, 2018 | 12:00 AMMarc Stamp/Gleaner Writer

Peter Gould, owner of Mount Pleasant Football Academy in St Ann, is investing in youngsters in order to properly develop talent and expose them to the next level.Despite winning the Magnum Eastern Confederation final against Albion Mountain of St...

Published:Thursday | May 3, 2018 | 12:00 AMMarc Stamp/Gleaner Writer

Arnett Gardens senior team head coach, Jerome Waite, says that his team will have to step up the pace in the FLOW CONCACAF Caribbean Club Championship semi-final clash against Central FC of Trinidad and Tobago on May 11 at the Anthony Spaulding...

Published:Tuesday | May 1, 2018 | 12:00 AMMarc Stamp/Gleaner Writer

National senior men's football team interim head coach Jerome Waite praised his group of young local-based players for their performances in their friendly international wins again St Kitts and Nevis and Antigua and Barbuda over the last week....

Published:Monday | April 30, 2018 | 12:00 AMMarc Stamp/Gleaner Writer

Referee Keeble Williams - a close friend of former FIFA referee Dwight Royal, who was paralysed from the neck down in a motor vehicle accident last November - is urging persons to contribute to a GoFundMe page on the Internet."After the accident...

Published:Tuesday | April 24, 2018 | 12:00 AMMarc Stamp/Gleaner Writer

Shavar Thomas, head coach of freshly minted Red Stripe Premier League champions Portmore United could hardly contain his pride, after leading his team to their sixth national league title on Monday night at the National Stadium. Thomas, a former...

Published:Monday | April 23, 2018 | 12:00 AMMarc Stamp/Gleaner Writer

Jamaica senior team interim head coach, Jerome 'Jerry' Waite, is highly confident that his local - based team will win their two upcoming friendly international games against St Kitts and Nevis and Antigua and Barbuda.The Jamaicans will first tackle...

Published:Sunday | April 22, 2018 | 12:00 AMMarc Stamp/Gleaner Writer

Newly elected chairman of Arnett Gardens Football Club Mark Golding said that he stepped into the role with the purpose of giving the club what he described as a more sustainable business model.Following a well-documented issue of players not...

Published:Friday | April 20, 2018 | 12:00 AMMarc Stamp/Gleaner Writer

Senior women's team assistant coach, Andrew Price, was a disappointed man yesterday after Jamaica were only able to score a narrow 3-2 victory over regional minnows Barbados in the Caribbean Football Union Challenger Series at the UWI/JFF/Captain...

Published:Thursday | April 19, 2018 | 12:00 AMMarc Stamp/Gleaner Writer

Coach of Portmore United Football Club, Shavar Thomas, says he is under no pressure to deliver the Red Stripe Premier League (RSPL) title in only his first season at the club.After Portmore were defeated in the two previous finals, to Montego Bay...

Published:Thursday | April 19, 2018 | 12:00 AMMarc Stamp/Gleaner Writer

National women's senior team assistant coach, Andrew Price, says his local-based squad will not be taking Barbados lightly when both countries clash in the Caribbean Football Union's (CFU) inaugural Women's Challenge series, today at the UWI/JFF/...

Published:Tuesday | April 17, 2018 | 12:00 AMMarc Stamp/Gleaner Writer

Barbados and Cuba will kick off the inaugural Caribbean Football Union (CFU) Challenge Series Group B action today at the UWI/JFF/Captain Horace Burrell Centre of Excellence, starting at 3:30 p.m.The visitors will play alongside hosts Jamaica in a...

Published:Monday | April 16, 2018 | 12:00 AMMarc Stamp/Gleaner Writer

Jamaica's senior women's team assistant coach, Andrew Price, said that the upcoming Caribbean Football Union (CFU) Challenge Series serves as a test for the local-based players in preparation for the FIFA World Cup qualifiers next month.The...

Published:Sunday | April 15, 2018 | 12:00 AMMarc Stamp/Gleaner Writer

Portmore United's top striker, Jovan East, fired home a brace as he led the team to an easy 3-0 victory against Cavalier in the second-leg Red Stripe Premier League (RSPL) semi-final at the Spanish Town Prison Oval yesterday.They were 3-0 aggregate...

Published:Thursday | April 12, 2018 | 12:00 AMMarc Stamp/Gleaner Writer

Arnett Gardens central defender and leader O'Neil 'Bigga' Thompson admits that the team is finding it difficult to get back to the level they reached in the first two preliminary rounds in the Red Stripe Premier League (RSPL) after their much-...

Published:Tuesday | April 10, 2018 | 12:00 AMMarc Stamp/Gleaner Writer

Deon Hemmings-McCatty, the 1996 Olympic 400 metres hurdles champion, yesterday hailed the late former Jamaica Football Federation and Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association president Pat Anderson as a kind hearted person who touched the lives...

Published:Thursday | April 5, 2018 | 12:00 AMMarc Stamp/Gleaner Writer

Head coach for Jamaica's Carifta Games team, Machell Woolery says Corporate Jamaica needs to step up its assistance for young athletes in order for them to make a better transition onto the global stage.Jamaica continued their dominance of the FLOW...

Published:Sunday | April 1, 2018 | 12:00 AMMarc Stamp/Gleaner Writer

Cavalier failed to beat Tivoli Gardens for the fourth time in the Red Stripe Premier League (RSPL) this season, as the teams battled to a 0-0 draw in the quarter-final first leg yesterday at the Anthony Spaulding Sports Complex in Trench Town....

Published:Friday | March 30, 2018 | 12:00 AMMarc Stamp/Gleaner Writer

Coach of Tivoli Gardens, Omar 'Tiger' Edwards, said that his team will have to be disciplined in their approach against the youthful Cavalier outfit in their Red Stripe Premier League (RSPL) first leg quarter-final tomorrow at the Anthony Spaulding...

Published:Tuesday | March 27, 2018 | 12:00 AMMarc Stamp/Gleaner Writer

Chief executive officer of Team Jamaica Bickle (TJB), Irwine Clare Sr, says that after 24 years, his organisation remains committed to Jamaican high-school student athletes who attend the Penn Relays each year and has urged others to give their...

Published:Sunday | March 25, 2018 | 12:00 AMMarc Stamp/Gleaner Writer

National senior men's football team coach Theodore Whitmore was disappointed with the 1-1 draw with Antigua and Barbuda in a friendly international at Sabina Park yesterday.Jamaica went ahead when Antigua and Barbuda central defender Akeem Thomas...

Published:Sunday | March 25, 2018 | 12:00 AMMarc Stamp/Gleaner Writer

After competing at the ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls' Athletics Championships for seven years, Hydel High School track and field captain, Shiann Salmon, says that it was bittersweet knowing that this is her final year.The 18-year-old sixth-form...

Published:Thursday | March 22, 2018 | 12:00 AMMarc Stamp/Gleaner Writer

A meeting that was set to take place yesterday between the Jamaica Football Federation (JFF) and Sports Minister Olivia 'Babsy' Grange has been postponed.Ricketts had noted that he would use the meeting to seek assistance in funding a new...

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