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Keeping The Team Focused For Game 2 Against DR
posted (June 11, 2015)
Super striker Deon McAuley scored two goals - and we must now wait for the return match on Sunday at the FFB Stadium to see if Belize can make history by advancing to the third round of group play.

But, a lot can go wrong between then and now when the team returns home to ecstatic fans. This evening in Santo Domingo Jules Vasquez asked the head of delegation, FFB Vice President Marlon Kuylen what they will do to make sure the team doesn't celebrate before Sunday's victory is secure:

Jules Vasquez
"You all are going back to Belize now. How do you feel about managing the team, because when you get home there will be elation and you can easily fall into that and '[boy] let us party'. How do you contain these guys and keep them focus for the real game that comes this Sunday."

Marlon Kuylen - FFB VICE PRESIDENT
"We don't even have to wait until we're home Jules. These guys want to celebrate now as it is. We are the Dominican Republic, but we are all focused. They know that the job isn't done. Yes, this is a huge victory but we have to go out there Sunday and at least draw or preferably win again. So when we get back home to Belize, in fact we're staying here at the hotel tonight. Nobody's going out tonight. When we get back to Belize, we'll book them into a hotel and we'll have them there until Sunday. After we play the match then we can celebrate but in the meantime everybody's focus on the job at hand."

Jules Vasquez
"Ok, now we are near the 3rd round. Entering 3rd round we are hold up. How do you and federation feel about this being at this spot? Where we haven't reach there yet, but just being here?"

Marlon Kuylen - FFB VICE PRESIDENT
"Well, we're very happy and there's a lot of negative vibes going on with Deon case and now he's back and he has scored 2 goals today -- but you know what? That's all in the past. The federation stuck to their principles. The group brought in Deon. We're here now. We're about to go to the 3rd round and that's what's very important. Now, the Dominican Republic has about 6 international players. The guy that scored today plays for Parma in Italy. They started their local players today and then they started bringing in their international players. i can bet that on Sunday in Belize, they will be starting all their international players. So it's not over yet. We're half way there but it's not over yet. So we need the fans to come out. Our players need to know that the country is behind them and they need the cheering and the drums and everything that goes into this because it won't be an easy task for sure."

Sunday's game will be aired live on Channel 7 starting at 4:00 pm.





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