One other JFF bungling leaves 14 Younger Reggae Boyz stranded
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One other JFF bungling leaves 14 Younger Reggae Boyz stranded

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Jamaica’s Nationwide Beneath-17 Reggae Boyz are the most recent to endure from the Jamaica Soccer Federation’s (JFF) continued bungling which denied 14 members of the squad boarding their flight out of the Sangster Worldwide Airport in Montego Bay on Thursday.

In keeping with new JFF Normal Secretary Dennis Chung, the affected gamers had been denied boarding the aircraft due to the absence of journey exemption letters from the host nation Guatemala.

The footballers are scheduled to vie for certainly one of 4 locations on the CONCACAF Beneath-17 Championship for the FIFA Beneath-17 World Cup later this yr in Peru.

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Jamaica are drawn in a gaggle with Cuba, whom they open in opposition to on Sunday,

“Fourteen of them didn’t make the flight immediately (Thursday) as a result of, though that they had acquired the exemption to journey, the exemption letter got here in late, so they didn’t get to make it on the flight,” defined Chung.

Six members of the workforce with journey paperwork to enter the USA of America, made the flight to Panama forward of their connection to Guatemala.

The Jamaicans are drawn on Group C alongside Cuba, Costa Rica, and Guadeloupe. They open in opposition to Cuba on Sunday.

The JFF basic secretary had acknowledged that the JFF was working to make sure that the remaining 14 gamers are positioned on a aircraft to Guatemala on Friday.

Nevertheless, later Thursday night, the JFF appeared extra assertive in disclosing that it had labored via all the problems which led to the 14 gamers lacking the flight.

It mentioned the gamers are scheduled to depart the island at 3:00 p.m. Friday and are anticipated to reach in Guatemala by 10:00 p.m.

The JFF’s current historical past referring to workforce journey leaves quite a bit to be desired.

Final yr the Nationwide Senior Ladies’s workforce was stranded in Houston, Texas, on their approach dwelling from a World Cup Qualifier in Monterrey, Mexico.

And shortly earlier than that episode with the women, the Senior Reggae Boyz had been stranded in Suriname after a Nations League sport, forcing a non-public citizen to make use of his bank card to get the gamers dwelling.