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After several coaching changes, Lorne Donaldson was named head coach in 2022. [18] In July 2022, Jamaica qualified for their 2nd World Cup, which is a historic feat, considering its men's counterparts have been unable to do the same. [19] On 29 July 2023, Jamaica had its first Women's World Cup win, which was against Panama. [20]
In 2013, Busby signed on as Head Coach and general manager for the Seattle Sounders Women. [6] In 2019, Busby served as an assistant coach with the Jamaica women's national team during qualification and for the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup in France. In 2020, he was named Head Coach for the Jamaica Women's national team for Olympic qualifying. [7]
Hue Alphanso Menzies (born 10 March 1964) is a football manager and former player. Menzies is most well known for leading the Jamaica women's national team to the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup as its head coach and technical director, which was the first time a Caribbean nation had qualified for the FIFA Women's World Cup.
He was the 1996 American Professional Soccer League Coach of the Year. [4] In 1997, he became a coach with the Douglas County Soccer Association. The Douglas County Soccer Association runs the Real Colorado Foxes, a team Donaldson coaches. On 29 January 2001, Donaldson became an assistant coach with the Colorado Rapids of Major League Soccer. [5]
The national team qualified for 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup, its first such qualification and the first for any Caribbean nation, by defeating Panama in a third-place playoff. [ 9 ] [ 12 ] [ 4 ] [ 13 ] While Jamaica did not win a match at the tournament, Havana Solaun scored the nation's first goal at a Women's World Cup against Australia . [ 14 ]
Havana Solaun, a midfielder for Jamaica, starred at both the University of Florida and Buchholz High School. Gainesville soccer mom's GoFundMe helps Jamaica during unprecedented World Cup run Skip ...
Jul. 23—Navarro's Deneisha Blackwood was the FIFA Player of the Match for Jamaica's Women's World Cup team, which shocked sports fans in and out of the soccer world with a 0-0 draw against ...
On 9 December 2021, Theodore Whitmore was dismissed as senior national team head coach. [80] In September 2022, Icelander Heimir Hallgrímsson was hired as Jamaica's new coach. [81] On 21 November 2023, Jamaica qualified for the 2024 Copa América by reaching the 2023–24 CONCACAF Nations League A semifinals on a 3–2 comeback against Canada.