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Men’s hockey team looking to make big impact in CAC games
Men’s Coach Robert Fernandes gives instructions to Midfielder Kareem Mackenzie during CAC qualifiers in Jamaica.
Yesterday afternoon, the National Men’s hockey team departed Guyana for the 23rd Central American and Caribbean (CAC) games which will be held in Barranquilla, Colombia and Coach of the unit; Robert Fernandes, is optimistic of his team’s chances of winning a medal.
According to Fernandes, this is Guyana’s men first appearance in the tournament for about two decades, while the women participated in 2014, and he believes that the readiness of the team is currently at the best that it can be.
Guyana men will be in Pool A where there will battle Dominican Republic, Guatemala and Mexico in round robin action for a chance to advance to the knockouts.
Last month, as preparation heightened for the tournament, Guyana played in a friendly series away to Trinidad and Tobago; who are also competing in the CAC games being the top seed, pitted in group B alongside Cuba, Jamaica and Barbados.
In the three-game friendly series against the Twin-island republic, Coach Fernandes was able to identify some weaknesses of his team during real-time and video analysis: “We corrected a few flaws on that tour including defensive structure which needed a new shape especially when we apply the press. In addition, the video analysis showed that our key playmakers weren’t getting the ball as much as we would want them to have it and so we have put measures in place to correct that.”
Fernandes explained that although they lost the series, “It was a good indication of where we were.”
Among the key players for Guyana will be forwards Aroydy Branford and Jamarj Assanah along with midfielders Marvin Dannett from England and T&T based Jerazeno Bell.
“The boys are well prepared and I think we just need to get through our first match because although we have done our homework, we have no footage showing game play for the Dominican Republic who we will open our tournament against,” Fernandes posited.
Cuba won gold in the 2014 CAC games and they are pitted in Group B along with T&T that finished with the silver four years ago.
The full team reads: Robert Fernandes (Coach), Jamarj Assanah, Aroydy Branford, Rayon Branford, Jerazeno Bell, Hilton Chester, Marvin Dannett, Jason DeSantos, Robert France, Randy Hope, Kareem McKenzie, Mark Sargeant, Meshach Sargeant, Medroy Scotland, Andrew Stewart, Steven Xavier and Dwayne Scott.
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