Soccer World Cup 2019 / Jamaica

Football Women's World Cup 2019 : Jamaica
Trainer	Hue Menzies
captain	Konya Plummer
Qualified as	Third in the CONCACAF Women's Gold Cup 2018
Tournament result	Preliminary round
Games won	0
Games tie	0
Games lost	3
Gates	1:12

This article covers the Jamaican women's national soccer team at the 2019 women's soccer world cup in France . Jamaica entered the finals for the first time. Jamaica qualified by winning the penalty shoot-out in the game for 3rd place in the 2018 CONCACAF Women's Gold Cup and are the first Caribbean team to compete in the Women's World Cup. They were able to qualify 20 years after the men who first took part in the 1998 World Cup in France. Jamaica and European champions Netherlands needed the most games (12) to qualify.

qualification

The CONCACAF Women's Gold Cup 2018 served as a qualification for the CONCACAF teams , in which the two finalists and the third placed could qualify directly for the World Cup and the fourth placed could reach the Pan-American playoffs against the third of the South American Women's Football Championship 2018 . Jamaica had to qualify for it in two rounds. First, the team met the host, Guadeloupe and Martinique at a tournament in Haiti in May 2018 . After a 13: 0 against Guadeloupe and a 3: 0 against Martinique, a 2: 2 against the hosts was enough to reach the second round due to three more goals scored. In this, Jamaica reached home at the end of August / beginning of September 2018 and opponents were the teams from Antigua and Barbuda, Bermuda, Cuba and Trinidad and Tobago. It was enough to get one of the three first places to take part in the Gold Cup. Jamaica was able to use the home advantage and won all four games. As the winner of the Caribbean zone, the team traveled to the USA for the tournament . Here the team met Costa Rica, Canada and Cuba. The first game was against Canada with 0-2 lost. Then a 1-0 win against Costa Rica, participants of the last World Cup, succeeded. The second place in the group was occupied by the subsequent 9: 0 against Cuba. This was the second time Jamaica was in the semi-finals after 2006, but lost 6-0 to hosts USA. In the game for third place, the Jamaicans faced Panama, which had secured second place in their group with a 2-0 win against former World Cup participants Mexico, but went down 7-0 in the semifinals against Canada. After 90 minutes it was 1: 1, so it came to extra time. In this, both teams scored a goal, which meant that the decision had to be made on penalties . Here two players from Panama missed, whereas there was no miss on the Jamaican side and Jamaica won the penalty shoot-out 4-2. Jamaica was able to qualify for the first time and as the first Caribbean team ever for the World Cup finals.

The best goalscorer was Khadija Shaw with 19 goals, 16 of them in qualifying for the Gold Cup, who was also the best goalscorer of all teams that wanted to take part in the World Cup. Jody Brown scored a total of six goals, but with four goals she was the best Jamaican goalscorer at the Gold Cup. A total of 14 players contributed at least one goal to a total of 53 goals.

First qualifying round

Pl.	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Jamaica	3	2	1	0	018: 200	+16	07th
2.	Haiti	3	2	1	0	015: 200	+13	07th
3.	Martinique	3	1	0	2	003: 500	−2	03
4th	Guadeloupe	3	0	0	3	000:270	−27	00

date		Result		Goal scorers
05/09/2018	Jamaica	13: 0 (7: 0)	Guadeloupe	Shaw (6), Bond-Flasza (2), Washington (2), Blackwood , Plummer , Reid
05/11/2018	Martinique	0: 3 (0: 0)	Jamaica	Asher , Carter , Shaw
05/13/2018	Jamaica	2: 2 (1: 2)	Haiti	Carter, Shaw - Dumornay , Jeudy

All games in Port-au-Prince (Haiti)

Second qualifying round

Pl.	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Jamaica	4th	4th	0	0	023: 200	+21	12
2.	Trinidad and Tobago	4th	3	0	1	012: 600	+6	09
3.	Cuba	4th	2	0	2	012: 900	+3	06th
4th	Bermuda	4th	1	0	3	005: 900	−4	03
5.	Antigua and Barbuda	4th	0	0	4th	000:260	−26	00

date		Result		Goal scorers
08/25/2018	Jamaica	9: 0 (4: 0)	Antigua and Barbuda	Shaw (3), Sweatman (2), Blackwood, Carter, Chang (Elfm.), Shim
08/27/2018	Bermuda	0: 4 (0: 2)	Jamaica	Carter, Plummer, Shaw, Washington
08/31/2018	Trinidad and Tobago	1: 4 (1: 0)	Jamaica	Shaw (2), Brown , Washington - Taylor
02.09.2018	Jamaica	6: 1 (5: 0)	Cuba	Asher (2), Shaw (2), Brown (Elfm.), Silver - Pérez

All games in Kingston (Jamaica)

Women's Gold Cup

Preliminary round

Pl.	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Canada	3	3	0	0	017: 100	+16	09
2.	Jamaica	3	2	0	1	010: 200	+8	06th
3.	Costa Rica	3	1	0	2	009: 400	+5	03
4th	Cuba	3	0	0	3	000:290	−29	00

date		Result		Goal scorers
05.10.2018	Canada	2: 0 (1: 0)	Jamaica	Prince (2)
08/10/2018	Jamaica	1: 0 (1: 0)	Costa Rica	Shaw
10/11/2018	Cuba	0: 9 (0: 4)	Jamaica	Brown (3), Campbell (2), Blackwood, Chang, Shaw, Sweatman

All games at HEB Park in Edinburgh (United States)

Semifinals

October 14, 2018 in Frisco , Toyota Stadium
United States	-	Jamaica	6: 0 (5: 0)	Heath (2), Morgan (2), Ertz , Rapinoe

3rd place match

October 17, 2018 in Frisco , Toyota Stadium
Jamaica	-	Panama	2: 2 n.V. (1: 1, 1: 0), 4: 2 i. E.	Brown, Shaw; Cedeño , Mills

preparation

On March 1 and 4, 2019, the Jamaicans played in Kingston and Montego Bay against Chile, which also qualified for the World Cup finals for the first time. The first game was won 1-0, the second 3-2. On April 7th the Reggae Girlz played 1-1 in Durban against the South Africans , who also qualified for the World Cup for the first time. On May 19th the Reggae Girlz won 3-1 against Panama . Even Scotland , against which the Jamaikanerinnen on May 28 in Glasgow with 2: 3, failed to qualify for the World Cup for the first time.

Squad

On May 22nd, the first 22 players for the first Jamaican women's World Cup squad were introduced. Former US U23 player Havana Solaun was nominated as the 23rd player after approval by FIFA on May 23rd. Jamaica is the only team with a squad without a player who plays in a domestic league. On June 6, Kayla McCoy , who injured her knee in the game against Scotland, was replaced by Mireya Gray .

No.	photo	Player	birth date	Nat.	debut	society	Country games	Country goals	Last use	World Cup 2019
										Sp.
goal
01		Sydney Tailor	08/31/1999		2018	UNC Wilmington Seahawks	10	00	05/28/2019	2		1
13		Nicole McClure	11/16/1989		2009	Sion Swifts LFC	15th	00	05/28/2019	1
23		Yazmeen Jamieson	03/17/1998		2018	Papakura City FC	03	00	07/26/2018
Defense
03		Chanel Hudson-Marks	09/14/1997		2019	Memphis Tigers	04th	00	04.03.2019
05		Konya Plummer	08/02/1997		2018	UCF Knights	17th	01	05/28/2019	3		2
09		Marlo Sweatman	December 01, 1994		2018	Szent Mihály SE	13	03	05/28/2019	2
14th		Deneisha Blackwood	03/07/1997		2018	West Florida Argonauts	14th	02	05/28/2019	3
16		Dominique Bond-Flasza	09/11/1996		2018	PSV Eindhoven	16	02	05/28/2019	1
17th		Allyson Swaby	10/03/1996		2018	AS Roma	13	00	05/28/2019	3
19th		Toriana Patterson	02/02/1994		2018	ASD Pink Sport Time	10	00	October 17, 2018	1
midfield
02		Lauren Silver	03/22/1993		2014	Trondheims-Ørn SK	17th	01	October 17, 2018	1
04th		Chantelle Swaby	08/06/1998		2018	Rutgers Scarlet Knights	10	00	05/28/2019	3
06th		Havana Solaun	02/23/1993		2019	Klepp IL	02	00	05/28/2019	3	1
07th		Chinyelu Asher	05/20/1993		2015	Stabæk FK	21st	03	05/28/2019	2
08th		Ashleigh Shim	11/11/1993		2015	without a club	14th	01	October 17, 2018
12		Sashana Campbell	03/02/1991		2014	Maccabi Kishronot Hadera FC	24	02	05/28/2019	2
attack
10		Jody Brown	04/16/2002		2018	Montverde Academy Eagles	13	08th	05/28/2019	3
11		Khadija Shaw	01/31/1997		2015	Tennessee Volunteers	23	31	05/28/2019	3		1
15th		Tiffany Cameron	10/16/1991		2019	Stabæk FK	03	00	05/28/2019	2
18th		Trudi Carter	11/18/1994		2018	AS Roma	11	04th	05/28/2019	2
20th		Cheyna Matthews	11/10/1993		2019	Washington Spirit	03	00	05/28/2019	2
21st		Olufolaade Adamolekun	02/21/2001		2019	United Soccer Alliance	03	00	04.03.2019	1
22nd		Mireya Gray	09/07/1998		2019	Washington Huskies	01	00	May 19, 2019	2
Coaching staff
Head coach		Hue Menzies	03/10/1964		2015	JFF
Remarks: ↑ Numbers according to the FIFA squad list ↑ As of May 2019 ↑ a b Status: May 28, 2019

draw

Grenoble Reims

Venues for the Jamaican team

For the draw of the World Cup groups on December 8, 2018, Jamaica was allocated to Pot 4 based on its placement in the FIFA world rankings of December 7, 2018. The team could meet Germany or host France. Due to the mode, however, she could not meet world champions USA or Canada. Jamaica was drawn into Group C with Australia, Brazil and Italy.

So far there has been one game against Brazil that was lost 5-0 at the 2007 Pan American Games. Jamaica has not played against Australia and Italy any more than it has played against other AFC and UEFA teams.

Pl.	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Italy	3	2	0	1	007: 200	+5	06th
2.	Australia	3	2	0	1	008: 500	+3	06th
3.	Brazil	3	2	0	1	006: 300	+3	06th
4th	Jamaica	3	0	0	3	001:120	−11	00

Sun., June 9, 2019 in Grenoble
Brazil	-	Jamaica	3: 0 (1: 0)
Fri., June 14, 2019 in Reims
Jamaica	-	Italy	0: 5 (0: 2)
Tuesday, June 18, 2019 in Grenoble
Jamaica	-	Australia	1: 4 (0: 2)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ loopjamaica.com: 22 members of Reggae Girlz squad announced for Women's World Cup
2. ↑ loopjamaica.com: Havana Solaun completes Reggae Girlz squad for Women's World Cup
3. ↑ Houston Dash forward Kayla McCoy to miss 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup due to knee injury
4. ↑ fifa.com: Pot allocation for World Cup draw according to the latest world rankings