October 23 – Jamaica’s girls’s nationwide workforce stated they’re withdrawing from two upcoming W Gold Cup qualifiers due to “fixed mistreatment” by their federation and incomplete cost of World Cup bonuses.
The Reggae Girlz had been one the standout groups of the latest Ladies’s World Cup, reaching the knock-out rounds, however in a press release on Saturday workforce members stated they’ve nonetheless not acquired “full and proper” cost for his or her World Cup efficiency or bonuses for qualifying for that event.
“Whereas this has been one of many hardest choices we now have needed to make, we really feel it’s essential to take such a drastic stance to place an finish to the fixed mistreatment we obtain from the Jamaica Soccer Federation,” learn the assertion.
Jamaica are scheduled to face Panama and Guatemala within the final week of October of their opening group qualifiers. Panama and Guatemala performed one another twice in September, sharing the factors.
Assuming the Jamaicans’ solely sanctions are factors primarily based, they might nonetheless qualify for the W Gold Cp to be performed in February/March 2024 in the event that they win their two remaining matches. That additionally assumes they comply with play.
However the Reggae Girlz dispute isn’t just about cash. The gamers accuse their federation of poor communication, complaining they’d solely discovered the identification of their new coach three days earlier than they had been because of report back to camp, after which solely through social media.
“We have now handled this lack of communication, poor group, poor administration and delayed funds from the JFF time and time once more. For these causes, we take our stance in solidarity with hope to finish this cycle of mistreatment.”
After the World Cup elimination in opposition to Colombia within the spherical of 16, the primary time the Reggae Girlz had reached the knockout stage, then Jamaica coach Lorne Donaldson warned that his workforce’s achievements had been more likely to change little for the ladies’s workforce.
“In 2019, nothing occurred,” stated Donaldson at a information convention in Melbourne. “Perhaps with some assist from the federal government, though FIFA and the federal government don’t actually combine, we will all come collectively and attempt to determine one thing out, so we don’t do one thing hodgy-podgy on a regular basis. The solar goes to come back up tomorrow, so we now have to be able to go and simply get on with our lives.
On the eve of the World Cup, FIFA president Gianni Infantino, who tends to assert that the ‘new FIFA’ know the place their cash finally ends up, implied that the worldwide governing physique couldn’t assure gamers within the Ladies’s World Cup would get to see their prize cash. FIFA had beforehand acquired reward for elevating the event’s prize cash.
Jamaica are scheduled to face Panama and Guatemala within the final week of October of their opening group qualifiers. Panama and Guatemala performed one another twice in September, sharing the factors.
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