Bubbly Boyz depart – Under-20s confident of doing well in Guyana

Oct 05, 2010 Sports

Jamaica’s Under-20 footballers left the island yesterday for Guyana for the second phase of Caribbean Football Union (CFU) qualifiers.
Following the team’s final training session before departing at Collie Smith Drive, team manager Roy Simpson was confident the Boyz would top the CFU qualifying group even as the prevailing bad weather severely disrupted their final training camp over the past week.
Nickoy Christian confidently juggles the ball while sitting on a water cooler during a training session of Jamaica’s Under-20 football team at Collie Smith Drive yesterday. (Photo: Marlon Reid)
“I would expect nothing less than us winning the group and qualifying for the CONCACAF tournament. We’ve had five camps since mid-August and the weather only affected the last part of our preparation and that part was to bring in the final 18 and putting on the finishing touches,” he said.
Head coach, Wendell Downswell, said last week that the team had “a realistic chance” of advancing from this stage of the eliminations. “If we get beyond the CFU (Caribbean Football Union) stage I think we have a realistic chance, especially with the fact that it’s four teams going forward (to the World Cup)… we have good, raw talent and we have put in a (good) structure,” he said.
The Young Reggae Boyz will play their first match on Wednesday against Grenada, before tackling the US Virgin Islands two days later. Their final fixture will be against the hosts Guyana on Sunday before they return home the following day.
The winner of that group will automatically qualify for the CONCACAF Championship in Guatemala next April. The four top teams from that tournament will represent the region in the 2011 FIFA Under-20 World Cup in Colombia.
The country’s lone appearance at the Under-20 World Cup was nine years ago in Argentina.
The contingent of team officials is completed by assistant coach Andrew Edwards, team doctor Martin Garwood, equipment manager Dwayne Blake and head of delegation Michael Ricketts.
Squad — Neco Brett (Excelsior), Sergio Campbell (Clarendon College), Kevon Farquharson (St Elizabeth Technical), Gregory McKogg (St Elizabeth Technical), Ricardo Morris (St James), Allan Ottey (St James), Rohan Roye (St George’s College), Carl Reid (St George’s College), Kemar Lawrence (Donald Quarrie), Oniel Fisher (St George’s College), Devon Williams (St George’s College), Jhamie Hyde (Kingston College), Ackeemo Palmer (St Elizabeth Technical), Nickoy Christian (Portmore United), Kemar Foster (Innswood High), Paul Wilson (Glenmuir), Craig Foster (Reno FC), Ewan Grandison (Lennon High).

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