HEAD coach of the Men’s National Team (Golden Jaguars), Jamaal Shabazz, has named a 19-man squad to face off Curacao and the United States Virgin Islands (USVI) in the second leg of the Caribbean Football Union’s Caribbean Men’s Cup scheduled for June 1 and 4, 2016 respectively in the above-named countries.The team includes nine over-seas-based players – Sheldon Holder and Pernel Schultz (Trinidad and Tobago); Samuel Cox, Jake Newton and Ricky Shakes (England), Walter Moore (Finland); Brandon Beresford and Emery Welshman (USA) and Christopher Nurse (Puerto Rico).
The Golden Jaguars departed Guyana yesterday for Curacao and will engage Curacao at the Ergilio Hato Stadium at 20:00hrs. Guyana’s second game will be played against USVI at the Adelita Cancryn Playing Field, St Thomas, USVI beginning at 16:15hrs.
Guyana have been placed in Group Three of the five-group Second Round phase of the tournament. Round 3 of the Championship will be October 3-11; Fifth Place Playoff November 7-15; with the final scheduled for May 2017.
The full squad reads Alex Andrew Murray, Jake Newton, Solomon Austin, Colin Nelson, Kester Jacobs, Eon Alleyne, Ricky Shakes, Emery Welshman, Devon Millington, Daniel Wilson, Dwight Peters, Quincy Adams, Brandon Beresford, Pernel Schultz, Sheldon Holder, Walter Moore, Samuel Cox, Christopher Nurse and Trayon Bobb.