Weekend sports with James Adderley
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and here’s a fresh serving of Sports Monday. If you’ve been waiting for your dose of professional football play then yesterday was payday as the B.F.L. opened its 1998 knockout football competition with five ball games nationwide.
We caught up with the action at M.C.C. Grounds and the Acros team here is not the Acros that finished second in the national competition. Of course the same can be said for the Yabra Sporting Club which obviously is a brand new ball club at this stage. In the early moments it’s Acros pressing the attack on the attempted heads an A for effort but a zero for contact. At the other end the Yabra team attacks off the left side but the left foot leaves a lot to be desired. Meanwhile this pot kick gives Yabra its best aerial offense of first half but again the header sails high. It’s Yabra with the momentum but nevertheless, but Chetumal must convert these opportunities to keep his team rolling. Still maybe one miss cue deserves another because downfield the Acros team falls to mash an open goal. The Acros team shows a good set play on this particular dangerous pot kick but the scoreboard refuses to budge. So at the half it’s is a scoreless ball game.
In second half it’s only four minutes deep when this corner kick rebounds and Acros goes up one zip off this very soft goaler. Gilbert Brown, just off the bench, ties the ball game at one a piece for Yabra. Some twelve minutes later Yabra goes up two one. In the closing moments this center from Martin Nolberto gets intercepted by the Acros defense but guess what he come up with another goal to forge a 2-2 final score: yes Yabra 2, Acros 2.
In other football scores from the B.F.L. schedule, Juventus of Orange Walk hurts Southern United 3-1, San Pedro Dolphins swamp past Dangriga Jaguars 4-1, Real Verdes knocked off Mango Creek 4-2 and at capital city Belmopan, Belmopan Bandits settles for a 1-1 tie with Jube.
Meanwhile folks National Sports Director Ricardo Carballo introduces us this morning to a group from Japan interested in discovering one Belizean talent to train for the 2000 Olympics at Japan, whose specialty will be marathon running.
Ricardo Carballo, National Sports Director
“We have here Mr. Zugimora a representative from NTV in Japan, who is visiting Belize and they are in search of a marathon runner for the 2000 Olympics.”
David Urbina
“The idea was born out of the fact that there has been previously Olympic caliber athletes from Belize back in Soul Olympics – boxing, bicyclist, and I think it was track and field. What I would like to see is somebody to compete in the 2000 Olympics in Sydney, Australia. They really think that the potential is here. They think that the people here could be just as athletic to compete with any of those top, world-class athletes, just that they haven’t been introduced or they just don’t have the proper support to make their dream come true. And what we’d like to do is we’re looking for someone.”
Q: “Two things, how will that search be conducted and then will they be Belizean, will they be representing Belize in the 2000?”
David Urbina
“Yes, we’re looking for somebody Belizean who will represent Belize. And how will we do it? What we’re hoping to do… well they don’t have to be a marathon runner, they could be a bicyclist, they could be a self motivated athlete who has the capacity or ability of becoming one.”
Well of course we wanted to throw in Aubery Solomon, then we thought about Joseph Carbo. Yes, anybody who’s interested can make that move at the National Sports Council.
Hey folks that’s our show for today we invite you back same time same place for another edition of Sports Monday.
Jah over all, I’m James Adderley.
