Jamaica’s coach Lorne Donaldson offers directions to Jamaica’s defender #19 Tiernny Wiltshire (L) through the Australia and New Zealand 2023 Girls’s World Cup spherical of 16 soccer match between Jamaica and Colombia at Melbourne Rectangular Stadium, also called AAMI Park, in Melbourne on August 8, 2023. (Picture by WILLIAM WEST / AFP)
Jamaica coach Lorne Donaldson appealed for the entire nation to get behind ladies’s soccer in order that the staff’s World Cup run, which ended on Tuesday within the final 16, doesn’t go to waste.
The Reggae Girlz misplaced 1-0 to Colombia in Melbourne however depart with their heads held excessive after profitable a World Cup recreation for the primary time ever through the match and drawing with Brazil and France.
It was an surprising run for a aspect that arrived in Australia annoyed over a scarcity of pleasant video games within the build-up and locked in a row with their federation over pay and situations.
“Clearly we want some assist from primarily the federal government,” Donaldson stated.
“Hopefully now we will all come collectively and try to determine one thing out so we don’t do issues hodgepodge on a regular basis,” he added.
“We’ve some first rate younger gamers so we have to have some transition and begin making ready for the long run.”
A supporter of Jamaica is seen through the Australia and New Zealand 2023 Girls’s World Cup spherical of 16 soccer match between Jamaica and Colombia at Melbourne Rectangular Stadium, also called AAMI Park, in Melbourne on August 8, 2023. (Picture by WILLIAM WEST / AFP)
It has been an extended battle for the Jamaican ladies to get the sources they should compete and for a few years the staff has been helped financially by the efforts of Bob Marley’s daughter Cedella.
Hopes that reaching back-to-back World Cups would carry a brand new period had been in useless and their build-up was removed from clean.
The annoyed gamers, who had been additionally upset at late cost of match charges, launched an announcement forward of the match urging a change in strategy from their federation.
Donaldson stated it was disappointing to be out of the World Cup however added: “The solar goes to return up tomorrow, so need to be able to go.
“We did a powerful job, nobody anticipated it, so let’s construct on what we began and see what occurs within the subsequent match.
“I feel the ladies watching at house, win or lose, I feel they acquired one thing out of this.
“What I’m saying is I hope everybody now in Jamaica can embrace ladies’s soccer and simply be certain from the first college all the best way up, they are saying ‘okay, we need to do that.’”
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