WHILE NEW Reggae Boyz head coach Steve McClaren is willing to give Leon Bailey a clean slate, the Jamaica Football Federation (JFF) has maintained its bottom line when it comes to the Aston Villa winger. Bailey is still required to write a letter...
Senior women’s national football team head coach Hubert Busby Jr says the large pool of overseas-based professional players currently in the Reggae Girlz squad makes it difficult for local players to get into the senior team. Over the past two...
The underwhelming performance of the Jamaica under-15 Reggae Girlz at the Concacaf Under-15 League A tournament, which concluded in Costa Rica yesterday, has put the spotlight on the development of local female footballers. The young Reggae Girlz...
MUCH HAS been said about the recent Phoenix-Vere partnership, after founder of the academy, Craig Butler, signed a deal to take charge of operations of the Clarendon club for the next 10 years. Lothian Cousins, the president of Vere, revealed that...
FOLLOWING STELLAR displays in the under-19 and under-12 silver categories, at the recent Target USA Cup in the United States, Charlton’s Academy of Portmore is looking forward to making the most of invitations they received from a couple of...
National forward Kaheim Dixon is set to undergo a medical today at English League One club Charlton Charlton Athletic, who have already started the process for his work permit. Arnett Gardens General Manager Peter Thelwell does not foresee any...
Local coaches Donovan Duckie and Calvert Fitzgerald believe that the appointment of Steve McClaren as the new Reggae Boyz coach will have a positive impact on the team’s World Cup qualification campaign, but former Arnett Gardens assistant coach...
JAMAICA FOOTBALL Federation (JFF) technical committee chairman, Rudolph Speid, says the main objective for new Reggae Boyz coach Stephen McClaren is to get the team to the 2026 FIFA World Cup. After a month without a head coach following the...
The Jamaica Football Federation (JFF) has announced a partnership with C11 Marketing, a United States-based company that will focus on reaping the benefits of the local brand internationally. JFF general secretary Dennis Chung told an online press...
Vere United president Lothan Cousins says the proposal Phoenix Academy boss Craig Butler made for the merging of the two organisations was a “no-brainer”. Butler has been granted full control of the Jamaica Premier League’s (JPL) club’s operations...
Any hopes Jamaica’s under-20 Reggae Boyz had of making the Youth World Cup in Chile next year went up in smoke in Mexico yesterday. They crashed out of the Concacaf Under 20 Championship without a win, a point or a goal, after losing their final...
JAMAICA FOOTBALL Federation (JFF) technical committee chairman Rudolph Speid said it is very unlikely that any of the two former Manchester United stars, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer or Dwight Yorke, will be the new Reggae Boyz head coach. According to...
AFTER WITNESSING what he thought was a below-par display from the Reggae Boyz at the just-concluded Copa América in the United States, Montego Bay United’s new Argentine coach, Rodolfo Zapata, believes Jamaica senior national football programme...
JAMAICA’S UNDER-20 Reggae Boyz suffered their second defeat in as many games at the Concacaf Under-20 Championship in Mexico, yesterday, going down 3-0 to Costa Rica at the Estadio Miguel Alemán. Claudio Montero opened the scoring with a 51st-...
WHILE THERE have been differing views on Yohan Blake’s claim that he gets no respect in his own country, former coach of the second-fastest man in history, Glen Mills, is reserving his comments. Blake made the explosive claim on YouTube track and...
JAMAICA’s UNDER-20 Reggae Boyz will look to rebound from their humiliating 9-0 defeat to the United States in their opening Concacaf Under-20 Championship encounter when they take on Costa Rica in their second match in Group A at the Estadio Miguel...
JAMAICA FOOTBALL Federation (JFF) president Michael Ricketts says the organisation intends to continue working with John Wall, assistant coach to former Reggae Boyz coach Heimir Hallgrimsson, who stayed behind after the Icelandic coach resigned and...
GENERAL SECRETARY of the Jamaica Football Federation (JFF) Dennis Chung says the process of selecting the new Reggae Boyz coach will enter the interview stage and is expected to be completed by next week. However, Chung refused to disclose the...
WHEN LUDLOW Bernard announced he would step away as head coach of 2021-22 Jamaica Premier League (JPL) champions Harbour View at the end of last season, his assistant of five seasons, Sean Fraser, had high hopes of stepping into the role. In a...
CHAIRMAN OF the Jamaica Football Federation’s (JFF) technical committee, Rudolph Speid, says his body will reduce the more than 40 candidates being reviewed for the vacant Reggae Boyz head coach post to a shortlist of five by today. Speid has also...
WITH THE nation’s two World Cup qualifying games out of the way, the Reggae Boyz will now turn their attention to the CONMBEBOL Copa America tournament, to be held in the United States from June 20-July 16. Assistant coach John Wall noted that the...
AFTER ENDURING a tumultuous period upon leaving the Birmingham Legion in the USL for French Ligue 2 club Toulouse in 2022, Jamaican forward Junior Flemmings has found his feet again in the Serbian Super Liga for Vozdovac. The 28-year-old, who was...
REGGAE BOYZ assistant coach Jon Wall said the team’s 3-2 result over minnows Dominica in their second round Concacaf Group E World Cup qualifier in Dominica yesterday covered up a less-than-ideal performance. The Jamaicans, with a brace from Shamar...
NO MATTER what the make-up of the Reggae Boyz starting team looks like today in their opening Concacaf Group E World Cup qualifiers, the type of performance they put in, or the time the game gets under way, head coach Heimir Hallgrimsson said most...
JAMAICA FOOTBALL Federation (JFF) general secretary Dennis Chung says no effort was spared to try get lights at the National Stadium up to Concacaf standards for Jamaica’s World Cup qualifier against the Dominican Republic this afternoon at 3:30 p....
