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Belize Faces Tough Competition In UNCAF Under-16
posted (November 20, 2013)

In a few minutes, the Belize U-16 National Team, also known as the Junior Jaguars, will play their third game in the 2013 UNCAF Championship, being hosted by the Football Federation of Belize. If you've been tuning into Channel 7 for the past two days, you'll know that they won their first game against Nicaragua on Monday, 2 to 1. But, they lost yesterday against El Salvador, which defeated the Jaguars, 2-nil.

Today, we spoke with members of the FFB executive, who gave a brief synopsis of both games, and also explaining how the team needs to perform in order stay close to the favorites for the final round. Here's what they told us:

Marlon Kuylen - Executive Member, FFB (Via Phone)
"The first night, we won 2-1 against Nicaragua, and that gave our players a boost going into the game last night against El Salvador. However, a very early goal caught young jaguars. They seemed nervous, and they were hasty in their passing and decision making, and we ended up losing 2-nil last night. But, I spoke to the coach a while ago, and he is saying that today, the players are very motivated going against Guatemala because you know, every time we play Guatemala, we want to beat them. If we lose to everyone else, want to beat Guatemala."

Ruperto Vicente - President, FFB (Via phone)
"In the first game, the team was well energized, and they were talking about getting to field and playing the game, certainly to do well against the opponents. But, in the second game there were some defensive errors, and we did not function well in the midfield as well. So, that created new problems for us. Certainly, we are not the only team that is losing. Other countries have lost as well, and certainly, we didn't do our best. So, we'll have to win the rest of other games. There are going to be tough to win those games. I know that the coaches have been talking about making adjustments, and so when those adjustments are being made, we should fare well in tonight's game against Guatemala."

Belize against Guatemala has just started, and Channel 7 will air the game live RIGHT after the news.

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