Club, League and National Team by Julian Wade

By Felipe Souza

Since always, for Caribbean players the best way to dream to play out caribbean is to reach a league with more investment. The football leagues with most investiments in caribbean are TT PRO League, that give much opportunites to players from St. Lucia, Dominica, Jamaica and St. Kitts and Nevis and ABFA Premier League is a league with less investment that Trinidad but is very important to caribbean supporting players from St. Vincent. St. Lucia, Dominica, Jamaica, Cuba and Barbados. Jamaicans teams aren't able to support foreign players.

Last year, Guyana get back a National League. The Stag Beer Elite League was created to support local players thinking in the National Team. One of the clubs with more investment, Slingerz FC, was able to bring to improve the roster 4 caribbeans. St. Vincentians Winslow McDowall, Keith Williams and Jolanshoy McDowall and Dominican striker Julian Wade. Alpha United, Guyana giant, had the jamaican Wayne Ellis and Grenadian Keithson Bain.

St. Lucia's football from its son David Henry

St. Lucia is a country that use to be well represented in caribbean leagues mainly in Trinidadian TT PRO League. Zaine Pierre played for W Connection and then was signed by Italian side Genoa and after joined a Serie D's side and other former players shined in Trinidad and Tobago. At the moment, Kurt Frederick and Shirvone St. Prix at Directv W Connection and Antonio Joseph, Ote'v Lawrence and Gregson President at Morvant Caledonia United. However, was from St. Lucian's field that came from maybe the mainly transfer of a St. Lucian last year.

St. Lucia's logo

Inside Martinica's football

Martinica National Team have showed good performerces in recent years. In the last two Caribbean Cups they reached the 4th place in Antigua and the 6th place in Jamaica and they reached also the Gold Cup. Les Matinos are not a FIFA's affiliate so they cannot play the Qualifiers to World Cups Senior nor Youth and they aren't allowed to play the Olympic Games Qualifiers as well.

Inside BVI's football by a Grenadian

The football in British Virgin Islands isn't much popular. In 2010, the population in the country was 20. 054 and this low number interfere in football as well. The There's only a few of footballers in British Virgin Islands so there is a lot of caribbean from Haiti, Grenada, St. Vincent and Grenadines, St. Lucia, Dominica, Guyana and Jamaica in the local teams that play the National League and some cups. On the National Team there are many foreigners from England and United States of America and sometimes any local player is named to represent the country.

In Caribbean Cup Qualifiers British Virgin Islands remeet Dominica in an official competition
after the two games in World Cup Qualifiers and Martinica. Domica won 7-0 and Martinica 3-0.

Luís Lorenzo talks about PRSL and football in PR

Almost all Caribbean Football Associations have a National League in the country. In Puerto Rico, the high level is the Puerto Rico Soccer League(PRSL). With 10 teams, the PRSL have the goal to keep the players able to grow up and that the talents be exposed aiming good players for Puerto Rico National Team.

Club Atlético Fajardo, Fénix FC, Bayamón FC B, Caguas Sporting FC, Isabela FC, SPDP Spartans, Mayaguez FC, Don Bosco FC, Yabuco FC, Leal Arecibo FC, Metropolitan FA, Ballista FC, Academia Quintana FC, CD Barbosa and Huracan Manati are the 10 teams on the league. At the moment the top team on the league is Metropolitan FA. Puerto Rico national goalkeeper, Christopher Echevarría and the young Karlos