Im listening on the radio WRHB 1020am "The Carnival" here in Miami. Its wild constant screaming. Im going to head down to the Orange Bowl for the second half 1070am Miami is the Jamacian announcers. I'll post links to audio if I can find them
Re: goal Scotty How are you following it? The second I posted that I was listening to the Jamaican feed it went static. Its back now
If Haiti advances here, the U.S. can finally realize the dream of playing an actual road game in its own country.
~79th minute This looks like its headed for a draw (watch the Reggae Boys score now) Damani Ralph has been subbed into the game Fifa has a different goal scorer for the Haiti PK so who knows there. I hope Haiti advances because they got a little too full of themselves during the US-Haiti friendly at the OB and payback would be sweet
I hope St. Lucia knocks out Panama so I can take a vacation there with my wife and watch the US roll 5-0.
Maybe that was the aim of the American ref why he called those ridiculous penalties for Haiti. That Peguero must be preparing for the platform diving competition in the Olympics he dived in that game so much.
Im surprised by some of these scores today. I mean Surinam and Haiti are relative minnows compared to guatemala and certainly Jamaica. Cuba really surprised me also, but i doubt they come out and score enough to beat CR in San Jose....
40,000? Nice payday for US Soccer. They'll get an even bigger one on the 19th when Dominica "hosts" Mexico in San Antonio, Texas, USA.
Ralph and Williams are shredding MLS defenses, yet they can't get on the pitch for Jamaica? What's up with that?
I was in Miami for the game and most of the Reggae Boyz fans are just as perplexed as you are about Damani and especially Andy not playing a bigger part in that game. For some strange reason, our coach Carl Brown, decided to leave out our 3 creative midfielders and start with 5 defenders and 3 defensive midfielders, a major change from the Unity Cup preparation just last week. Strangely, that was the worst I've seen us defend in years. He made a lot of other obvious blunders but top of the list was the one where he took out the goal scorer, Marlon King who looked like he was still very hungry to score, to the surprise of everyone (including the rest of his coaching staff I am assuming). The bad thing about this was that he should have put in Ralph for Ricardo Fuller who just returned from knee surgery and was limping around. Instead, Ralph came in for Marlon King way too late in the game. He looked the most dangerous player on the field all day and the best I've seen him for Jamaica. It was very frustrating. The other blunder was to put in Theodore Whitmore early in the second half to take control of the midfield. The problem here was not that he put him in the game, but the fact that he only touched the ball once in about 40 minutes, and that was after being in the game for 14 mins. One would think that a coach would tell his players to pass the ball to his creative midfielder as soon as he was injected into the game. It was a miracle that we came through that game with a draw. That game was the highest my heartrate has been in a long time.
I was at that game too, listening to these posts, you would think Haiti played no part in disrupting the jamaican game. The Haitian passing game was superior than the jamaican's. I predict Haiti will continue to win the midfield battle, they will move on to the next round to the dismay of some of you who thinks they know about football.
If I could bet on the next match I would bet that Haiti gets the 0-0 tie to advance. I have seen them play and Haiti is a solid team I would rank them somewhere around 5-6th in CONCACAF
If the game ends in a 0-0 tie, Jamaica would advance to the next round, not Haiti. They have to score to keep any hope of moving on alive.
Question for those of you at the game... What was the atmosphere like in the stadium? How much support for Jamaica in contrast to Haiti?