Sunday to Sunday running gives Chapelton glimmer of hope

INTENSE TRAINING, relentless resolve.

Those were the ingredients, according to Chapelton Maroons Rohane Brown, that have seen the rise of this proud new club.

Brown’s 20th-minute strike was enough to help Chapelton edge Waterhouse 1-0 in their Jamaica Premier League (JPL) game on Monday, getting their first points of the season after a difficult start to life in top-flight football.

Before Monday they had three straight defeats without a goal as their squad continued to operate with a thin bench awaiting their schoolboy football reinforcements. The difficult patches the club endured tested their fortitude, according to Brown, something that he and the team were determined to put right.

PRESSURED

“It was frustrating because coach (Lenworth Hyde) pressured us a lot in training,” Brown said.

The unexpected break caused by the Reggae Girlz international friendly resulted in a rare opportunity for intense training for the game, and Brown said that the team was committed to ensuring that they repaid the trust that Hyde has placed in them.

“It was very hard. We had to wake up at 7 every morning to train. We did a lot of running in the hills. We trained very hard Sunday to Sunday every day. So we had to get three points to make our coach feel welcome in the league,” Brown said. With Hyde’s reputation both at the schoolboy and top-flight level, Brown hopes that producing the biggest result of their season to date will help boost their confidence for the difficult challenges that still lie ahead.

“It will build our confidence so that when we play bigger teams like Waterhouse, we have more confidence to come and get points,” Brown said.