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Whitmore Calls Up Local-Based Squad For Friendly Against Antigua

Four Reggae Boyz swarm an Argentine player in the 2015 Copa America tournament

The Jamaica Football Federation (JFF) has revealed that a training camp to be comprised of locally based players will be formed ahead of an upcoming friendly against Antigua and Barbuda.

A release by the JFF reads:

National Senior Team Head Coach Theodore ‘Tappa’ Whitmore has called a training camp for locally based players in preparation for the upcoming crucial international friendly against Antigua and Barbuda to be played Sunday, March 25th beginning 5:00pm.

The call up comes just ahead of the Official Draw for the CONCACAF Nations League which will allow for a minimum of four international games between September 2018 to March 2019.

  

The training camp will be Tuesday, March 13 to Thursday, March 15 and will include twenty-one locally based players.

Invited overseas based Reggae Boyz are expected in the island on Monday, March 19th and a second camp with invited players will resume on March 20th.

Jamaica takes on Antigua at Sabina Park on Sunday, March 25th.

Tickets can be purchased at caribtix.com/jff

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