Peace and Light Foundation, with support from the Belize Bank and other partners, is hosting a basketball tournament at the Bird’s Isle Basketball Court. Eight teams in two categories are playing to win medals and trophies at the finals on Sunday. News Five stopped in at today’s event to get the highlights of the games […]
The Belize Jaguars will be taking on the Canucks in Toronto on September fourth, as both teams advance to the third round of competition in the 2018 World Cup qualifiers. The much anticipated ticket follows a draw over the weekend where Canada was chosen as the next challenger on the road to Russia. That selection […]
The Jaguars, according to Kuylen, have been training intensely, participating in exercises on the beachfront, as well as mountainous terrain in preparation for the match. Financially, however, there is still a quota to be met in order for the Jaguars to compete in Toronto. Of that sum, the Government of Belize has granted the Football […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. The 2015 Belize District Female Softball Championship continues to grab center stage inside the Roger’s Stadium. Every game has been hotly contested and game 3 was a pivotal ballgame in the 5-game series as both Belize Telemedia and Belize Bank Bulldogs went in with […]
A team of young students won big at a basketball tournament in Cancun, Mexico. Between the fifteenth and the twentieth, the team played and won all six games in the Copa Cancun Tournament. In the final match, Team Belize held of Mexico’s National U-19 Champions, Veracruz Marlins, to walk away with the championship. The Hoop […]
Sailing, it is not a sport that would normally make it in our weekly Sports Monday report, but the sport is readily becoming an attraction. A delegation consisting of four young sailors recently returned to Belize after representing the Jewel at an international meet in Antigua. Between the ages of seven and fifteen, they participated […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. The weekend brought out the National Male Football Selection as it continues preparation for its 3rd round appearance in the qualifier round of World Cup 2018 in Russia. Also making an appearance over the weekend was national champions Verdes FC who will face Gallos […]
The chronically cash strapped F.F.B. has received a much needed infusion of cash and, you guessed it…it’s a gift from Mister Petrocaribe. The symbolic check was handed over this afternoon at F.F.B. headquarters in Belmopan, where national team players have assembled to prepare for the third round of qualifiers set for September. John Saldivar, […]
A quarter million dollars sounds like a lot of money – and it is…but set against the backdrop of a national team in training, and against the costs associated with the individual rounds of competition – it’s not going to be enough. Still, it’s a significant amount of breathing room for the FFB, which can […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. We head immediately to Big Bird’s Isle where Friday night, Atlantic Bank faced Generals in firms division basketball as the action heats up. In the opening quarter, it’s all Generals. This press looks like a practice 3-man weave as Tyrone Palmerston finds Wilfred […]
In the next few weeks Belize, FIFA will determine which country national team will play in round three of the World Cup qualifying games having badly beaten the Dominican Republic and winning the Cayman Islands. But even before that is known, today the Jaguars got a huge boost. FIFA has moved up the national team […]
The Football Federation of Belize has since spent over four hundred thousand dollars on the last two qualifying rounds of the World Cup Games. But the upcoming match will need an estimated budget of three hundred thousand dollars – monies which the F.F.B. does not have. Secretary General Michael Blease says that they will need […]
Move over, Deon McCaulay! There is a group of boys getting ready to take over that striker position with the Jaguars. Well, not just yet, but they are well on their way there. Today News Five joined a bunch of eager and skilled children at the MCC for their football camp which comes to a […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. The Smart 13 and Under Football Tournament presented the semi-final round Saturday at the MCC Grounds. In a closely contested matchup between Collet Strikers and Young Warriors, the decision had to go to penalty kicks after they rallied to a scoreless stalemate. It was […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. PLB 2015 Champion, Verdes FC headed north to Louisiana Field to face an Orange Walk selection in preparation for its opening match in CONCACAF’s Champions Tournament against the Mexican professional team, QuereHero sometime in August. It starts off with a bang people…five minutes in, […]
Woodrow West is minutes away from touching down tonight in Honduras where he will join the Club Deportivo Honduras de El Progreso, the Honduras Progresso Football Club. The star goalkeeper signed a three-year contract just last week with the team to play professionally in the National Football League of Honduras. Following a call on Tuesday […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. The Interoffice Basketball League continues to roll inside Bird’s Isle here in Belize City and Friday night saw the long-awaited matchup between the highly touted Heritage Bank and Central Health as the mad dash to the playoffs remains in full effect. Heritage Bank opens […]
Within days of the big win against the national football team of the Dominican Republic, the goalkeeper who pulled off amazing saves for Belize is moving on from the Jaguars. The sensational goalie, Woodrow West, has signed on a three-year contract to play with a Honduran team. He was scouted immediately following the game on […]
The football pitch at F.F.B. headquarters in Belmopan has been an unending source of frustration for national team players and executive members. But not anymore. If you watched the home game between Belize and the Dominican Republic you must have noticed the condition of the field. After months of disappointments and many thousands of dollars, […]
For the first time in Belize’s storied football past, three players are under investigation by CONCACAF and UNCAF for match-fixing. The incredible allegation comes in the wake of a playoff match between B.D.F. and Verdes on April twenty-ninth, in which Verdes was victorious by a score of six to nil. Even more incredible is the […]
Even as that match-fixing investigation looms, the F.F.B. is coasting on an amazing victory over the Dominican Republic, and history being made as the Jaguars qualify for the Third Round of World Cup Qualifiers. The elation of the Federation is tempered by the realization that it has no money to finance preparations for or participation […]
Vicente insists that the almost five hundred thousand dollars used between the First and Second Rounds was finances solely by the F.F.B., with no assistance from the public or from the Government of Belize. The truth is that what lies ahead where public assistance is concerned hinges largely on the clarification of a dark cloud […]
Across the regional football community much has been said about the illustrious careers of star striker Deon McCauley and goalkeeper Woodrow West. McCauley presently holds a record, along with six others, for the most goals scored at this stage of the 2018 World Cup Qualifiers. West’s achievements on the pitch have also not gone unnoticed. […]
What’s next for the Belize Jaguars as they head into the third round of the 2018 World Cup qualifiers? Well, that’s what we asked F.F.B. senior executive Marlon Kuylen today. While much has been said about the momentous victory over the Dominican Republic, very little has been said openly about the road ahead. The Jaguars […]
In mid-April, the Football Federation of Belize took a hard line position not to sponsor Deon McCauley’s return to the Jaguars, but an ad-hoc team of supporters banded together to raise funds to defray the striker’s expenses while at home. Those incidentals included a weekly stipend to keep Deon afloat financially while committing himself to […]
