It is a disappointing end after so much promise going into the tournament. And after the crushing defeat, Belize head coach Coach Ian Mork was defensive in the press conference – mostly about the changes in the lineup, where he introduced three un-tested players which caused breakdowns in the middle of the field. Here's what he had to say in the post game press conference 50 minutes ago – we have this courtesy KREM Radio and LOVE FM.
Voice of Ian Mork- Head Coach, Belize Team
"I'm really disappointed that but I need to explain, it caught up with us a little bit."
Reporter
"You had changes just like the second game, the changes you made today, were they to give the other guys a break, what happened with the guys like Lennon and 'Cafu' that did not start?"
Voice of Ian Mork
"We had some changes because the way they were playing was against a lot of those players outside and so we needed to bring in some fresh legs, this is a new experience for some of them, it will make them stronger in the future so we are trying to change the game. I think there were moments that we could have scored some opportunities at a different game but that's football. As a group I feel that this game could have been either way. It wasn't that we played bad throughout the entire match, we had moments when we could have scored goals that changes the entire match but at the end of the game it's obviously changed things and we couldn't get ourselves back in the game. So there's different styles of playing and I feel in Belize they've been really stuck in one way of playing the game and it's more than playing defense, it's also attacking principles that everyone needs to start to learn about in Belize and that's what I'm going to try to get across. I can say that we started to possess the ball better, we created few more chances and to move forward really we are going to start to score goals. There are too many things - I'm not sure in the people back in Belize realize that you know where you're out playing and you go to a hotel and you have all these things going on and you go to another airplane and another hotel - there's a lot going on with these kids.
After the game, some of the players also spoke disparagingly about the changes in the line-up after the Costa Rica game. And we'll have those comments a little later on in the news.
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