Jaguars ready to pounce on unsuspecting preys

Sep 24, 2010 Sports

-Coaching Staff much more comfortable

By Edison Jefford
The Golden Jaguars are prepared to pounce on their unsuspecting preys with the Coaching Staff exhuming confidence that the national senior male football outfit will maul Trinidad and Tobago in their first international game since August this year.
Trinidad and Tobago’s Soca Warriors, though ranked higher than Guyana’s Golden Jaguars, will be up against a dangerous group of players that Head Coach, Wayne ‘Wiggy’ Dover believes has begun to show the kind of maturity that can help them win.
“I am relieved and relaxed after our last two sessions because there have been this positives vibes in our camp over the last two days. We are trying to guard against low confidence,” Dover stated at the ‘Jaguars’ practice session at the National Stadium yesterday.
Guyana’s senior male football team has not played international football since their 1-1 tie with Elgland Club Cray Wanderers. The Golden Jaguars last October made history when they won their first overseas tournament, the Independence Cup, defeating hosts Suriname, Netherlands Antilles and the French Guiana team.
The national team then was made up of Guyana based players.
However, for the Soca Warriors battle, the ‘Jaguars’ will be at full-strength with the players who are based overseas in Trinidad, the United States of America and the United Kingdom joining the locally-based players in an effort to produce the right balance.
Asked how he believes the ‘Jaguars’ will perform against the Soca Warriors that made the World Cup Final in 2006, Dover was quick to point out that that was among the reasons for the addition of the overseas-based players, who are well exposed to the game.
“We have guys that have played at the highest level too. We’ve got J.P Rodrigues, Fabian Brown and Jason Lloyd among others in our side. They want this more than anything and with that kind of attitude I think these guys will make Guyana proud,” Dover said.
The Head Coach indicated that Rodrigues and Walter Moore are reinforcements for the team’s defence. He expressed some concern over his forwards since in his analysis, Guyana’s win in its last few international games last year were all 1-0 margins.
“We have not been scoring many goals recently and that is a concern. (Anthony ‘Awo’) Abrams has not been in the kind of form we know him to be in and (Devon) Millington has not played at the highest level in a while, but we are working with them,” he noted.
Dover informed that the inclusion on UK-based forward, Brown, will help boost the confidence of his charges up front. He said that they worked on a lot of finishing drills to help get Millington and Abrams back to that lethal and clinical level of fitness.
“We are trying to build from a firm foundation heading into the Digicel Caribbean Cup in October. The aim on Sunday will be to come away with a big performance. We have the cohesion and the talent to do that so we just have to put it together on the day,” the coach said.

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