We have been following their journey to the Special Olympics since they left Belize in mid-June for Athens, Greece. Today they’re back in Belize boasting bronze medals after playing teams from Chile, Singapore and Indonesia. The boys who are intellectually impaired have been training for over a year with the hopes of bringing home a […]
The National Sports Council met on Saturday and unanimously voted not to register the Football Federation of Belize. Notwithstanding, the second leg of competition between Belize and Montserrat in a World Cup 2014 pre-qualifying series is set for Sunday in San Pedro Sula, Honduras. The NSC decertified the Football Federation of Belize, but FIFA has […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. Week six of the Belize Bank Super League playoffs brought with it a bang that would be heard all over the country. In fact, the peninsula of Placencia was the place where the defending champion R.G. City Boys made its final bid for a return […]
The Football Federation of Belize’s national selection is preparing to head to San Pedro Sula, Honduras for the return game against Montserrat but before it leaves, the National Sports Council will determine the status of the F.F.B. On Thursday, the F.F.B. got the news from FIFA headquarters in Switzerland that the body temporarily lifted a […]
Team Belize will be playing a return match against Montserrat. That’s the word that came out earlier today from FIFA. The team will be heading to San Pedro Sula in Honduras early next week for practice before the July seventeenth game, the second in a series of World Cup 2014 pre-qualifiers. Belize was given the […]
The Pan American Games is a multi-sport event held every four years with athletes from all nations in the Americas. The sixteenth staging of the games will be held in Guadalajara, Mexico from the fourteenth to the thirtieth of October and Belizean athletes will be competing. With violence from drug cartels at an all time, […]
A team of karatecas from the House of Shotokan has returned to Belize with an impressive number of medals. The athletes squared off against seven hundred others at the Copa del Caribe Taekwondo Competition held in Cancun over the past weekend. Most of the medals were won in first place; it’s a feat that the […]
While the karatekans brought home the medals, the Football Federation of Belize is still in limbo over the return match with Montserrat. The F.F.B. was suspended by FIFA when the government decertified it and wrote to FIFA to say it would not provide security for the games. The F.F.B., it is reported, is now considering […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley, welcome to this portion of Sports Monday. Week five of the Belize Bank’s Super League playoffs brought a further tightening of the screws inside the competition as all four teams remain with a shot at the finals going in. we caught up with the critical match up yesterday at the […]
On Monday the Football Federation of Belize was ordered by Supreme Court Justice Minnet Hafiz to withdraw a claim made against the National Sports Council following the issuance of a letter by Minister John Saldivar to FIFA informing them that government would not be providing security for game two a World Cup pre-qualifier against Montserrat. […]
A group of taekwondo students are heading to Mexico City for the Copa Del Mundo de Taekwondo this weekend. The group is a mix of children, from as young as five years old to over twenty. They’ve practiced their skills and expectations are high as they take on their counterparts from Mexico. News Five’s Jose […]
The Belizean athletes, who are competing in the Special Olympics Summer Games in Athens, started out strong, winning their first two games against Indonesia and Chile. But on Wednesday the team left the football field disappointed, after losing to Singapore with a three to two final score. But the team will still bring home medals […]
You’ve probably heard of the riots in Greece, but there’s also good news from that country, where the Special Olympics Summers Games are taking place. Team Belize defeated Indonesia two to one on Tuesday and took the lead in its group. Today the athletes were confident on the football field and played hard against the […]
A delegation of eight Special Olympics athletes are in Greece, making their debut in the Summer Football Games, which started on Saturday. Team Belize played its first game today against Indonesia and claimed its first victory. According to the head coach, Andy Aspinall, nerves got the best of the athletes early in the game and […]
Last week, Belize joined countries such as Iraq and Ethiopia to be banned by FIFA. And that is where the Football Federation of Belize led by its president Dr. Bertie Chimilio remains tonight after it filed for an injunction in the Supreme Court against the Government of Belize. The move came after a letter was […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. Week four of the Belize Bank super League playoffs brought a shocker that only could have come out of left field. So we take you to Sugar City where Orange Walk United hosted the defending champion, R.G. City Boys inside the People’s Stadium yesterday. Folks, […]
As we reported in Friday’s newscast, the Football Federation of Belize is currently suspended from participating in all regional or international football activities organized by FIFA and its affiliates. The notice sent shockwaves across the nation in the midst of a protracted standoff between the Government of Belize and the F.F.B. The FIFA decision came […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. Week three of the Belize Bank Super League proved to be pivotal for all four teams under the double elimination format as they all come in with three points each and identical records of one win, one loss apiece. Here in Belize City the defending […]
There are two stories tonight that have huge implications for the jewel; government it appears will be moving to take control of B.E.L. We’ll have more on that later but the other story is about international football. The standoff between the Football Federation of Belize President, Bertie Chimilio and the government’s point man, Minister of […]
As soon as the team landed, they were whisked off to a press conference at the Belize Biltmore Plaza. The players were probably expecting congratulations, but instead they found out the bad news of the suspension and that there will not be a Sunday game for local fans in the capital. Bernaldino Pech broke the […]
After the press conference, F.F.B. President Bertie Chimilio headed to Supreme Court with attorney Elson Kaseke to file an injunction, seeking to have the game proceed on Sunday. The case came up at two in the afternoon in the courtroom of Justice Minnet Hafiz. Chimilio sat ready to take the witness stand to enter into […]
On Thursday night we showed you the contingent that was heading to Athens Greece for the Special Olympics Summer Games. Well, that delegation left today but their intended destination has been brewing with riots over the past couple days. The City of Athens is under heavy police presence to contain a strike against a second […]
There is some sporting news that can’t wait until James Adderley’s Sports Monday. Belize’s Under Sixteen basketball team is in Mexico City playing in preliminary rounds against other Central American countries. Unfortunately, the local boys lost eighty to one hundred and eight against a formidable team from Puerto Rico, which had already put a trashing […]
Eight young athletes are heading to Greece with the hopes of bringing back gold. They have been training and preparing for the games in which they will compete for the first time. Unlike the regular football, the boys will be testing their mettle in the five a-side football fielding five players, rather than the usual […]
We begin tonight’s newscast with positive news. That’s because Belize is celebrating a pair of victories in the international sporting arena both in football and basketball. In Trinidad, game one of a home and away series played between Belize’s National ‘A’ Team Selection and Montserrat for a shot at qualifying for World Cup 2014, concluded […]
