Jhamal Tucker

With summer’s Gold Cup now in the past, and the region’s World Cup Qualifying into its final round, there’s been a lot of focus on the collective strength of Central, North America, and Caribbean nations. Since the start of 2021 we’ve also seen some impressive individual performers from the region. Drawing from players who’ve lit …

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Andre Blake – 7 Did most things well, fielded largely easy shots and came up with important saves. Wasn’t the most difficult night for Jamaica’s captain but he was made to work to secure only his second clean sheet of this campaign. His best moment of the game came against Alberth Ellis when he gathered …

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Recently manager of the Jamaica Men’s National Football Team, Theodore ‘Tappa’ Whitmore, gave some insight on the inner workings of the camp in the aftermath of a poor start to Jamaica’s World Cup qualifiers. There were few hot takes including mentioning that the players are all committed and that he’s secure in his job, but …

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Football is one of if not the oldest sport in the world. The antecedent forms of the game has been around since 300 BC at it’s latest, but even the modern game as we know it has been in existence since near the very beginning of the 18th century. In that time the game remained …

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For many, the Champions League is parallel to the FIFA World Cup as the Holy Grail for professional football players, and in fact some cite it as an even more necessary title to claim. Whereas there are hindrances and limitations to one’s chances of winning the latter the UEFA Champions League is played every season. …

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Jamaica came into the last of three qualifiers over the international break needing to gain at least one point to spare their blushes from what would have been a shambolic start on their Road to Qatar. Following on from two defeats out of two, when Johnny Martin stooped in to open the scoring in the …

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The year was 1998; blocky monitors showing rolling green pastures with the new Windows 98 operating system adorning the most advanced corporate offices. A plucky pair of PhD’s launched a tech company in Menlo Park, California – they called it “Google”. And while the melodies of Tanto Metro and Devonte wafted through the airwaves in …

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Panama travelled to Kingston as the away team but looked much more confident on the ball than the home team, safe to say these Jamaican players were all largely in unfamiliar territory. With 14 minutes on the clock, an unsettled Jamaica became rattled when Andres Andrade struck from distance. At the time neither team had …

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The Reggae Boyz have come a far way from the first players who crawled out of the canefields and backyards to strap on football boots to play Jamaica’s first official match against the Haitians in 1925. These days, modern day players have evolved far from the heavy-set lead-footed slabs of meat and are now fit, …

Football: Reggae Boyz Missing Link? Read More »

They say The Great Wall of China is so grand that it can be seen from outer space. The Berlin Wall was, and famously when that fell in 1989 it marked the metaphoric end of the Cold War. History lesson aside, I’ve most recently discovered another wall that is less notable despite seeming even more …

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