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Published:Monday | October 29, 2018 | 12:00 AMLivingston Scott/Gleaner Writer

The semi-final places in this season's ISSA/Digicel Manning Cup will be decided with the final round of quarter-final matches, which begins at 3 p.m.In today's game, Kingston College go up against Camperdown at the Spanish Town Prison Oval and St...

Published:Sunday | October 28, 2018 | 12:00 AMLivingston Scott/Gleaner Writer

Mount Pleasant coach Donovan Duckie could find no answer as his team went down to their second successive home defeat in the Red Stripe Premier League (RSPL) losing 1-0 to bottom-of-the-table, Humble Lion at Drax Hall yesterday. Glendon 'Admiral'...

Published:Friday | October 26, 2018 | 12:00 AMLivingston Scott/Gleaner Writer

With Kingston College principal Dave Myrie taking issue with his team having to play their ISSA/Digicel Manning Cup quarter-finals match against Charlie Smith at the home of sporting rivals Calabar, one ISSA official, who requested anonymity, stated...

Published:Friday | October 26, 2018 | 12:00 AMLivingston Scott/Gleaner Writer

Principal of Vere Technical High Antoinette Banton Ellis says that former headmaster Ben Francis, who passed away on Friday, October 19, should be remembered as the "foundation of Vere". Banton Ellis also said that the Ben Francis Cup football...

Published:Monday | October 22, 2018 | 12:00 AMLivingston Scott/Gleaner Writer

Dunbeholden's team manager, Paul Christie, said the club is aiming to get their own home ground up to Red Stripe Premier League (RSPL) standards, this after it was announced that the team will play their next home match at the Royal Lakes Complex....

Published:Tuesday | October 23, 2018 | 12:00 AMLivingston Scott/Gleaner Writer

Kingston College's (KC) head coach Ludlow Bernard, and St George's College's assistant coach Marcel Gayle, are both predicting a very competitive match when the Corporate Area neighbours meet in the latest renewal of the famed North Street football...

Published:Sunday | October 21, 2018 | 12:00 AMLivingston Scott/Gleaner Writer

Nutrition company Qualcare has stood by their word to extend their partnership with Kingston College's (KC) senior team into the schoolboy football season with their shake drink, Intrust.The initial sponsorship of the team started last summer during...

Published:Friday | October 19, 2018 | 12:00 AMLivingston Scott/Gleaner Writer

Shane Richards, coach of Jamaica's Special Olympics football team, said that he is confident that the team can win the football event at the World Games in Abu Dhabi next year.The team finished second at the recent Special Olympics Unified Football...

Published:Tuesday | October 16, 2018 | 12:00 AMLivingston Scott/Gleaner Writer

After watching teammate Shaquille Bradford miss a first half penalty, Camperdown High's match winner, Basil Trevelen, kept his cool and netted from the spot in the 86th minute to hand his school a 1-0 win over Excelsior in their second round Digicel...

Published:Tuesday | October 16, 2018 | 12:00 AMLivingston Scott/Gleaner Writer

Approximately 6 o'clock this evening Jamaica's Reggae Girlz, and an entire nation, could be celebrating a historic qualification for the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup in France.Jamaica female footballers, FIFA's 64th ranked team, have been knocking...

Published:Tuesday | October 16, 2018 | 12:00 AMLivingston Scott/Gleaner Writer

National women's youth team and Excelsior High coach, Xavier Gilbert and former national women's Christopher Bender are confident Jamaica's Reggae Girlz can beat Panama and book tickets to France 2019.However, both coaches are wary of Panama."I...

Published:Monday | October 15, 2018 | 12:00 AMLivingston Scott/Gleaner Writer

Camperdown High coach Christopher Bender, said his team is looking not to concede when they face Excelsior in a tough ISSA/Digicel second round first-leg game at Stadium East this afternoon, in the second game of a double-header, at 3:00 p.m....

Published:Sunday | October 14, 2018 | 12:00 AMLivingston Scott/Gleaner Writer

Mount Pleasant goal scorer Cardel Benbow said that the team continues to improve and that the chemistry among the players gets better each game after his team's 1-0 win away to former league leaders, Tivoli Gardens, who lost their second successive...

Published:Friday | October 12, 2018 | 12:00 AMLivingston Scott/Gleaner Writer

Rising football star, Jamaica's Leon Bailey, says that he's ready to represent the Reggae Boyz.However, Bailey, in an exclusive interview with The Gleaner, remains adamant that certain conditions must be met by the Jamaica Football Federation (JFF...

Published:Wednesday | October 10, 2018 | 12:00 AMLivingston Scott/Gleaner Writer

National senior team head coach Theodore 'Tappa' Whitmore said that although the team has been ravaged by injuries to a number of senior players, his objective is to go to Bonaire, score lots of goals, keep a clean sheet, and come home with the...

Published:Tuesday | October 9, 2018 | 12:00 AMLivingston Scott/Gleaner Writer

Andrew Price, assistant coach of Jamaica's Reggae Girlz, is imploring the team to make the most of their opportunity to qualify for the Women's World Cup, having played themselves in a position to do so at the ongoing Concacaf qualifiers in the US....

Published:Tuesday | October 9, 2018 | 12:00 AMLivingston Scott/Gleaner Writer

Coach of Arnett Gardens FC, Jerome Waite, has heaped praise on goalkeeper Mikhail Harrison and captain Marvin Morgan, following his team's 1-0 win over archrivals Tivoli Gardens in the Red Stripe Premier League at the Anthony Spaulding Sports...

Published:Tuesday | October 9, 2018 | 12:00 AMLivingston Scott/Gleaner Writer

Charlie Smith High's coach Jerome Waite praised his reserve players yesterday after they showed 'character' to earn a 2-2 draw against hosts Norman Manley High in an ISSA/Digicel Manning Cup Group C match.Waite rested a number of injured starters...

Published:Sunday | October 7, 2018 | 12:00 AMLivingston Scott/Gleaner Writer

Haile Selassie High School go into their Group E ISSA/Digicel Manning Cup match this afternoon at home against second-placed Excelsior High, just two points off the pace.Since the start of the season,St Catherine High and Excelsior, both on 18...

Published:Sunday | October 7, 2018 | 12:00 AMLivingston Scott/Gleaner Writer

After going down 2-0 to Portmore United for their second successive defeat in the Red Stripe Premier League (RSPL), Cavalier coach, Rudolph Speid says they will be keeping faith with the youngsters.Last-season semi-finalists Cavalier defeated Reno...

Published:Friday | October 5, 2018 | 12:00 AMLivingston Scott/Gleaner Writer

Donovan Wilson, the agent of outstanding Jamaican jockey, Omar Walker, said the six-time champion jockey, who become only the seventh jockey to ride a 1000 winners at Caymanas Park on Saturday, is certainly one of the best riders of all time to have...

Published:Wednesday | October 3, 2018 | 12:00 AMLivingston Scott/Gleaner Writer

Holy Trinity High School coach Devon Anderson said that their 2-1 defeat to Wolmer's last Friday was so devastating that they had still not got over it when they faced Pembroke Hall in their Group G ISSA/Digicel Manning Cup match on Monday. Holy...

Published:Wednesday | October 3, 2018 | 12:00 AMLivingston Scott/Gleaner Writer

Kellie Magnus, Country Lead for the Jamaican arm of the Fight for Peace organisation, (a violence prevention entity), says without sports, they would not have been able to get through to many of the young people they are trying to mentor and assist...

Published:Tuesday | October 2, 2018 | 12:00 AMLivingston Scott/Gleaner Writer

President of the Jamaica Boxing Board (JBB), Stephen Jones, says that the (JBB)/Fight For Peace inaugural 'Gloves over Guns' boxing card, which takes place on Saturday at the Denham Town Community Centre, is just the start of a broader initiative....

Published:Monday | October 1, 2018 | 12:00 AMLivingston Scott/Gleaner Writer

"I made a diving decision to train in Edinburgh for the remainder of the Olympic cycle. This is because of the growing programme up here and the quality of the head coach. I made the decision after the suggestion from my old (Leeds) coach Edwin...

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