It was a close victory of 1-0 for Jamaica against Costa Rica in the friendly international Sunday night at the National Stadium.
Bradley Stewart, assistant coach of Jamaica, beleives that the squad has taken a key step, ahead of FIFA World Cup qualification series, towards getting things in place.
The only goal was scored by Ryan Johnson, the San Jose Earthquake striker, in the 65th minute. It was the fourth win of the Jamaicans over the Central Americans in twenty games.
Stewart was happy with the performance of the team and is more concerned about the continued preparation for the 2014 FIFA World cup qualification campaign.
He said, “This was a game that both teams needed to have played. I think the Costa Ricans, like us, are in a preparation phase and we accepted the opportunity that the Captain (Horace Burrell) had organised with open arms, knowing it was going to be a tough game. There was not a moment in the game when either team was able to relax.”
In the first pre-season match between Villareal and Tottenham Hotspur, a hat-trick was seen from Giuseppe Rossi. A hat-trick of his took Villarreal to a win of the summer in front of healthy crowd at White Hart Lane.
Rossi scored two goals in the first half and the one goal from Tottenham was also scored in the first half by Giovani Dos Santos.
Match Details
Date/Time: Jul 29, 2010, 3:00pm
Competition: Club Friendly
Mexico recovered with this big win. Earlier they had lost to England by 3-0. This win of Mexico is like a warm up for the World Cup.
On June 11 Mexico will play against the host in South Africa. It will be the first day of the World Cup.
Javier Aguirre, the coach of Mexico, said that he wanted to test the squad in all the conditions possible before the World Cup that is being opened by them next week in South Africa.
The Club Friendly competition between Portugal and Netherlands finished on the win of Portugal 3-1, May 18.
Portugal’s Orlando Sa hit a goal at the 3 minute of the game. Orlando kicked his second goal at the 7 minute. The first half favours the Portugal very well as Candeias scored one more goal for Portugal at the 36 minute. It was at the 56 minute the idle play of Netherlands could score. Siem De Jong could kick Netherland’s only one score of the game in the second half.
After two-month of suspension Diego Maradona returned to coach Argentina and to have a 3-2 win over the Costa Rica on Tuesday night in an exhibition match.
Maradona earned himself the ban for a foul-mouthed tirade at reporters. FIFA banned him for 2 months.
Argentina won by 2-0 over Ghana on 30th September friendly game at the Olimpico de Cordoba stadium. Martin Palermo scored twice for this confidence-boosting win.
Argentina completely dominated Ghana in this match with some incisive attacking football that was seen. On the other hand Ghana was without their regular first-team members.
Los Albicelestes was able to create several goal-scoring opportunities but failed to finish it off.
There were much pressure on Argentina and in the 28th minute Fabian Monzon fed Boca Juniors team-mate Martin Palermo with a precise cross, and he made no mistake then with a clinical finish.
In the 39th minute again Palermo connected to a precise Federico Insua cross with an unreachable header.
With this the Diego Maradona’s side claimed a comfortable victory and this is enough to motivate them ahead of their final two World Cup qualifiers.
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