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Golden Jaguars getting in shape ahead of WCQ

Aug 30, 2012 Sports

Guyana’s senior national football team ‘Golden Jaguars’ are currently in preparation mode for their crucial away and home fixture against El Salvador in the FIFA 2014 World Cup Qualifying competition on September 7th and 11th respectively.
This pair of matches will define their destiny and potential progress from Group B. With Head Coach Jamaal Shabazz currently absent due to engagements with his Trinidad & Tobago Pro League team (TTPL), Caledonia AIA in the ongoing CONCACAF Champions League. The team is under guidance of Assistant Coach Wayne Dover, for the camp which commenced on Sunday.
A 16-member local based squad, strikers  Anthony “Awo” Abrams and Vurlon Mills, veteran mid-fielder Kayode McKinnon, Konata Manning, wingers Dwain Jacobs and Dwight Peters are amongst some of the more established players presently encamped.
The locals have been keenly focused on fitness work in the morning’s at the Body Max Gym under the supervision of Brazilian Trainer Americo Falopa, who the players have enjoyed working with, while the tactical work in the afternoons are conducted at the Police Sports Club Ground led by Dover.
Dover highlighted that some of local based players in the camp who have been involved in the National Under-17 and 20 squads are getting a great opportunity to get au fait with the senior national coaching staff at this stage, so as the get better appreciation of what is required at this level, should they one day make the step up given that the Caribbean Cup is just a few weeks away.
The Golden Jaguars will continue their gym and tactical sessions until Saturday. United States based midfielder Nick Millington and Swedish based Canadian defender Jamaal Smith, who made their first appearance for the national team during the August 15th friendly against Bolivia, are also expected to join the squad this week.
Before heading off to El Salvador, the official final 20-man squad will be named and they will go into camp at a location that is yet to be decided.
Guyana squad in camp: Richard Reynolds, Richie Richards, Kayode McKinnon, Dwain Jacobs, Kester Jacobs, Dwight Peters, Philbert Moffat, Vurlon Mills, Konata Manning, Clive Andries, Anthony Benfield, Anthony Abrams, Andrew Murray, Pernell Schultz, Daniel Wilson, Dellon Young.
Coach Wayne Dover, Trainer: Americo Falopa, General Manager: Rawle Adams, Assistant Manager: Mark Xavier, Equipment Manager: Trevor Burnett, Physio: Debita Harripersaud, Goal-keeping coach: Andrew Hazel.

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