And in our last bit about the national football selection tonight – we note that there is some genuine bitterness within the team's ranks – which, to some extent is inevitable after any crushing defeat, much less three in a row on the biggest stage Belize football has ever been on.
Travis "Burger" Lennan, a perennial starter who was benched until late in the second half of the last two games told KREM and LOVE fm when he was leaving the stadium that he's not happy with the changes.
Trevor Lennon
"I think I should have played from earlier, I was sitting down for too long."
Reporter
"why was that?"
Trevor Lennon
"I don't know why he didn't call me."
Reporter
"You were physically ready?"
Trevor Lennon
I am ready long time, I don't like to missing these games, we didn't play on the bench. He didn't use me he put me in until late when the pressure was over with my team. Yes because it's hard to do something if you wait until five minutes to go in, that is no time to play football, we trained hard to come here to play full 90 and now we are playing ten, fifteen minutes."
Of course, all this discontent now goes into the stew of visions and revisions that will have to be made when the team returns and Belize re-launches its football hopes…
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