J/ca hunts foreign based talent to bolster World Cup hopes

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC-A three man Jamaica football delegation is to visit the United Kingdom next week on a hunt for players to beef-up this country’s chances of qualifying for the 2014 world cup finals in Brazil.

Led by the president of the Jamaica Football Federation (JFF) captain Horace Burrell, the team also includes head coach Theodore Whitmore and his assistant Alfredo Montesso.

The decision to recruit fresh foreign based players follow public criticism of the coaching staff after the reggae boyz struggled through their CONCACAF round to qualify for the final six-nation play-off next year.