Preview: Caribbean Cup 2014 – Final

The 2014 Caribbean Cup Final will be played tonight at Montego Bay between Jamaica, the host, and Trinidad and Tobago.
The match should be very balanced, between two of the most traditional and successful teams in Caribbean football: it’s true that Jamaica should be helped by the fact of playing at home, but Trinidad and Tobago had one rest day more than the Reggae Boyz (2 for the Soca Warriors, just 1 for Jamaica).
Both teams have already qualified for 2015 CONCACAF Gold Cup, but just the winner will directly access to Copa América Centenario, that will be played in USA in 2016 and will include teams from both CONCACAF and CONMEBOL.
Jamaica won Group B with 7 points, drawing with Martinica (1-1) and winning with Antigua and Barbuda (3-0) and Haiti (2-0), while Trinidad and Tobago topped Group A with the same amount of points, defeating Curacao (2-3) and Guyana Francese (4-2) and drawing with Cuba (0-0).

FINAL

JAMAICA – TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO
Wednesday 19th of November 2014 h. 02.00 (CET) - Tuesday 18th of November 2014 h. 20.00 (local time).
Montego Bay Sports Complex, Montego Bay.
Official live streaming: http://cfufootball.org/index.php/caribbean-cup/9574-cfu-men-s-caribbean-cup-3rd-place-final-match-streaming

JAMAICA

This is a quite competitive team, with no big stars, but without big weaknesses, because, like Trinidad and Tobago, all the players are more or less on the same level, that could be compared to the one of the English Championship: all the Jamaicans play in four Countries: Jamaica, USA (and Canada), England and Norway.
Duwayne Kerr (Sarpsborg 08, Norway) or Andre Blake (Philadelphia Union) should be the starter GK, while in the defence we can find Alvas Powell (Portland Timbers, MLS), Jermaine Taylor (Houston Dynamo, MLS), Demar Phillips (left back of Aalesund FK, Norwegian first tier) and probably the two most experienced players of the team, Nyron Nosworthy (unattached, former Sunderland and Watford centre back) and Wes Morgan (Leicester City, but he also spent ten years at Nottingham Forest).
The main midfielders are Rodolph Austin (Leeds United), Simon Dawkins (Derby County), Jobi McAnuff (Leyton Orient), Je-Vaughn Watson (FC Dallas), while on the front we can find Dane Richards (Bodø/Glimt, Norwegian first tier), Darren Mattocks (Vancouver Whitecaps, MLS), Deshorn Brown (Colorado Rapids, MLS) and Jamar Loza (Norwich City, but he’s usually loaned to teams playing in lower divisions).

TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO

This team is one of the main contenders for the final victory: there are no very big stars in this squad, anyway the general level of this team is more than decent, more or less the one of the English second tier, because several footballers play in the Championship or in the top tier of average European Leagues. The best players should be Justin Hoyte (FC Milwall, a former Arsenal, Middlesbrough and Sunderland defender), Khaleem Hyland (KRC Genk midfielder) and, the most famous one, Kenwyne Jones (Cardiff City), a striker who has scored several goals in Championship and Premier League for Southampton, Sunderland and Stoke City. The other oner are spread all over the world: all the three GKs play in Trinidad & Tobago, Joevin Jones (HJK, full-back), Aubrey David (FF Jaro, defender), Jamal Gay (RoPS, midfielder) and Shahdon Winchester (FF Jaro, striker) play in Finland, Radanfah Abu Bakr (FK Kruoja Pakruojis, defender) in Lithuania, Daneil Cyrus (Hà Nội T&T, defender) and Hughtun Hector (Hà Nội T&T, midfielder) in Vietnam, Carlyle Mitchell (Vancouver Whitecaps FC, defender) in Canada, Kevan George (Columbus Crew, midfielder), Kevan Molino (Orlando City, forward, he is in a very good form) and Cordell Cato (San Jose Earthquakes, forward) in USA, Jonathan Glenn (IBV, striker) in Iceland and Lester Petier (Slovan Bratislava, forward) in Slovakia.