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Head coach of Curacao Dick Advocaat.
December 9, 2025 by Gregory Bryce

Curacao head coach leaves camp before Reggae Boyz clash

When Curacao meets Jamaica on Tuesday at the National Stadium, they are likely to do so without the guidance of head coach Dick Advocaat, who has left the team’s camp due to ‘private circumstances’.…
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Linval Dixon
December 9, 2025 by Robert Bailey

‘We must be patient’

FORMER NATIONAL defenders Linval Dixon and Shavar Thomas are urging the Reggae Boyz to stay hungry, patient and fully locked in ahead of Tuesday’s must-win Concacaf FIFA World Cup final-round Group B…
Reggae Boy Shamar Nicholson (second from right) in action against Bermuda’s Dante Leverock (left) during the Jamaica versus Bermuda World Cup Qualifier at the National Stadium  on Tuesday, October 14.
December 9, 2025 by Robert Bailey

UNDAUNTED

JAMAICA FOOTBALL Federation (JFF) President Michael Ricketts says the Reggae Boyz are fully prepared to knock off Curaçao tomorrow night and deliver the country’s long-awaited return to the FIFA World…
St Elizabeth Technical’s Deandre Barnett (right)
December 9, 2025 by Gregory Bryce

STETHS daCosta Cup programme goes into recovery overdrive

ST ELIZABETH Technical High School’s (STETHS’) daCosta Cup programme is picking up the pieces left in the aftermath of Hurricane Melissa marked by the 4-0 thrashing of St George’s College (STGC) in a…
Butler
December 9, 2025

‘This is what football is about’

WITH THE schoolboy football competitions and the Jamaica Premier League (JPL) seasons set to return in the coming weeks, Craig Butler has called on the spirit of community to help teams who have been…
Reggae Boyz fans celebrate after Jamaica scored a goal against Bermuda at the National Stadium on October 14.
December 9, 2025

‘Moments like these do not come often’

With two days to go before Jamaica’s decisive World Cup Qualifier against Curaçao at the National Stadium, the Jamaica Football Federation (JFF) is reporting a major surge in national support as…
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Trinidad & Tobago’s  head coach Dwight Yorke.
December 9, 2025

‘It felt like a defeat’

PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC): TRINIDAD AND Tobago (T&T) head coach, Dwight Yorke, said he is disappointed after failing in his quest to qualify for the 2026 World Cup. T&T needed a win in…
West Indies batting coach Floyd Reifer.
December 9, 2025

Reifer: We’ve improved leaps and bounds in our ODI batting

CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand (CMC): WEST INDIES batting coach Floyd Reifer is expecting his batters to come to the fore when the regional side takes on New Zealand in a three-match One-Day International…
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Sharic Bowen (centre) goes through his paces.
December 9, 2025 by Ainsley Walters

Senior fighters hail late-bloomer Bowen

BASKING IN the joy of his first international gold medal, won in Brisbane, Australia at last month’s International Sports Kickboxing Association’s Amateur Members Association (ISKA AMA) World…