Football: Bermuda Team Traveling To Curacao
The Bermuda U20 World Cup team will depart the island tomorrow [Oct 19] in order to travel to Curacao. Bermuda qualified for the CFU Final round by being the 2nd Best runner up in the 1st round.
The team includes several players who are based overseas in colleges in the United States and academies in the United Kingdom, with the Bermuda Football Association announcing the full U20 Gombey Warriors roster.
The players include:
- Jaquill Hill
- Zenawi Bowen
- Rai Sampson
- Amar Lewis
- David Jones
- Tehvan Tyrell
- Kacey Butterfield
- Osagi Bascome
- Ajai Daniels
- Knory Scott
- Paul Douglas
- Mikiel Thomas
- Jahtino Richardson-Martin
- Jaz Ratteray-Smith
- Diondre Dowling
- Vance Wall-Brown
- Mazhye Burchall
The staff include:
- Kyle Lightbourne – Head Coach
- Maurice Lowe – Technical Development Director
- Dashun Cooper – Goalkeeper Coach
- Amori Venter – Physio [Performance Rehab]
- Charyse Bean – Head of Delegation
Bermuda have been placed in Group A and open the group against St. Kitts and Nevis on October 21 at 6.00pm local time. They will then face CFU finals hosts Curacao at 7.30pm on October 23 and close out the group stage on October 25 against Antigua & Barbuda.
All matches will be played at the Stadion Ergilio Hato in Brievengat, Willemstad.
The group winners and runners up will remain in Curacao to play in Caribbean Football Union U20 semi-finals and final. Five teams from the Caribbean will advance to the CONCACAF U20 Championships in Costa Rica in March 2017.
Good luck lads!