Legendary footballer Richard Davy to be honored at True Blue Weekend 2023 with particular Jamaica Faculty vs. Wolmer’s Sport


Former Jamaican soccer participant and soccer legend Richard Davy shall be honored on the True Blue Weekend hosted by the Jamaica Faculty Previous Boys Affiliation of Florida (JCOBAFL) in Sundown Lakes, Miramar, Florida, on March twenty fourth and twenty fifth, 2023.

 Davy was born in Jamaica in 1953 and attended each Wolmer’s Excessive College and Jamaica Faculty (JC), and was a member of the Wolmer’s group that received the 1971 Manning Cup. 

He shall be in attendance at a particular invitational match between Jamaica Faculty and Wolmer’s Excessive College to be performed in his honor in the course of the weekend’s SoccerFest. 

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In 1967, Richard led the Jamaica Faculty Colts Below-14 group to the Company Space championship sport and received a Manning Cup Championship at Jamaica Faculty in 1968 earlier than transferring to Wolmer’s Boys Excessive College. 

In 1970, he broke the Jamaican highschool file for objectives scored in a single season together with his 23-goal whole, a file that remained for 27 years. Whereas nonetheless in highschool, he was referred to as as much as Jamaica’s nationwide soccer group, scoring in his debut look in a match in opposition to Haiti that ended the three-year interval by which the group had not scored any objectives. 

Additionally in 1971, he led the Wolmer’s group to win the Manning Cup, Walker Cup, and Olivier Protect, making the varsity solely the second in historical past to perform this feat. By the top of his highschool soccer profession, Davy set the single-game file of six objectives, the single-season file of 23 objectives, and the profession file of 48 objectives. He left highschool having received the highschool championships at two completely different faculties simply 4 seasons aside. 

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Richard Davy was awarded a scholarship to Howard College the place he led his group in assists and was the second-best scorer between 1972 and 1975. Throughout his time at Howard, the college group performed within the Nationwide Semi-Finals 3 times, performed a Championship sport twice and successful in 1974, and received fourth place in 1975. He was named to the All-American All-South first group in 1975.

Davy was drafted by the Connecticut Yankees of the American Soccer League (ASL) after leaving Howard College and performed in numerous skilled and semi-professional leagues, together with the Jamaica “Nats” based mostly in Washington DC, by way of the season of 1987 when he retired. Throughout this era, lots of Davy’s groups had been undefeated, and he was the lead scorer within the league for a lot of the years.

Richard Davy was inducted into the Howard College Corridor Of Fame in 2014. 

The 2023 True Blue Weekend would be the first held for the reason that COVID-19 pandemic. Will probably be the sixteenth annual True Blue Weekend, an occasion that credit its longevity to the robust help of the group.

The True Blue weekend is an growth of the annual Ziadie Cup soccer match between The St. George’s Faculty Previous Boys Affiliation of Florida, Inc. and The Jamaica Faculty Previous Boys Affiliation of Florida, Inc. The annual match is in reminiscence of Dennis Ziadie, who coached each faculties to Manning Cup victories. The True Blue Weekend is predicted to attract over 1000 spectators and supporters. The True Blue 2023 weekend dates, occasions & areas are as follows:

The Jamaica Faculty Previous Boys Affiliation of Florida was established in 2004. It’s dedicated to upholding the traditions of excellence of Jamaica Faculty as one of many foremost instructional establishments within the nation of Jamaica whereas supporting the varsity within the growth of its college students.

 



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