Williams, left, and Jognson
Paul A. Reid, Staff Reporter
WESTERN BUREAU:
THE NATIONAL senior football team will wind up its week-long training camp in Montego Bay this evening with a game against a local all-star team at Jarrett Park at 6:00.
A strong national team that is preparing for two friendly internationals and the Gold Cup tournament next month wrapped up the camp with several sessions at the yet unfinished Catherine Hall Mini Stadium which coach Peter Cargill described as a "very nice field but a bit tough".
Cargill said the game would be used as a training session after a week of hard physical work.
"We have not changed our programme by coming to Montego Bay," he said. "The players have been going through a lot of hard physical work and the trainer has had them all week and the training has been tough."
Cargill said the team only did some ball work Thursday when it moved its training sessions to the Catherine Hall complex.
He added that the week long stay in Montego Bay was to help the coaching staff make a "judgment on the physical conditions" of the players as they got ready for two friendly internationals against Cuba and Paraguay in preparation for the Gold Cup tournament to be staged in the United States next month.
While the game will be used as an extension of training, Cargill said "every place is still up for grabs and the players know this he said".
Meanwhile, midfielder Jamie Lawrence of English Division One outfit Walsall is a likely non-starter as Cargill reported that they were planning on holding the midfielder out of the team as he was not 100 per cent fit and was suffering "some tightness".
With the exception of Lawrence, Cargill reported that the rest of the team was fit and ready to go.
Lawrence is one of several overseas-based players named in the squad that has been in Montego Bay since Monday. Among the others are newcomer Darren Byfield, Tyrone Marshall, Ricardo Gardner, Kevin Lisbie, Micah Hyde, Andy Williams and Michael Johnson.
Claude Davis, Donovan Ricketts and Cornel Chin-Sue headline the list of local layers along with Fabian Taylor, Robert Scarlett, Gerald Neil, Aaron Lawrence, Marco McDonald and Omar Daley.
They will take on a team that will include Shane Crawford, Thomas Grant, Kirk Hendricks, Lacon Brissett, Teafore Bennett, Milton Griffiths, Walter Boyd, Denton Vidal and Mark Williams.
