Members of the triumphant Frazsiers Whip workforce have a good time after receiving the JWPL Cup title from Jamaica Soccer Federation’s Technical Director Wendell Downswell following a 2-1 win over Cavalier on the UWI-JFF Captain Horace Burrell Centre of Excellence on Saturday, Could 13, 2023. (Pictures: Naphtali Junior)
Extremely fancied Frazsiers Whip FC will kick-start their defence of the Jamaica Girls’s Premier League (JWPL) title after they sort out UWI Girls’s FC within the curtain-raiser of a double-header at 3:30 pm on the Anthony Spaulding Sports activities Advanced on Saturday. Within the second recreation at 5:30, Arnett Gardens FC face Cavalier SC.
There will probably be three different video games as Actual MoBay FC host Mile Gully FC at Jarrett Park beginning at 3:30pm; Wi-Fi United tackle Confirmed Ladies FC at Carder Park at 1:30 pm, and Federal United FC sort out Los Perfectos FC at 3:30 pm on the Spanish City Jail Oval.
The rebranded league underneath the tutelage of the Skilled Girls’s Soccer Jamaica Restricted will see 11 groups contesting the competitors up from seven final yr.
These are Arnett Gardens FC, Cavalier SC, and UWI Girls’s FC, representing Kingston and St Andrew; Wi-Fi United FC from Portland, Confirmed Ladies FC from St Thomas, Mile Gully FC and Los Perfectos FC from Manchester, Frazsiers Whip FC and Federal United FC from St Catherine, whereas representing St James are Springers United FC and Actual MoBay FC.
With the absence of former champion Barbican FC, Frazsiers Whip have turn out to be the dominant drive in girls’s membership soccer and they’re anticipated to retain their title.
They had been nevertheless uncovered in the course of the Concacaf Membership Championship, shedding closely and conceding 30 targets from 4 video games whereas scoring solely as soon as. However now, again amongst their friends, they’re anticipated to show too scorching to deal with.
Future Powell and Davia Richards, who had been lately referred to as as much as the senior Reggae Girlz workforce, will lead from in entrance and will show a handful for UWI.
The Arnett Gardens-Cavalier recreation needs to be an attention-grabbing one and followers unable to attend in individual can watch the double-header dwell on YouTube at Jamaica Girls’s Premier League by way of SORA Media, the league’s official streaming accomplice for the season.
The JWPL has secured elevated sponsorship because it continues to strengthen the league’s basis.
Form Hearts Basis has pledged an extra $3 million, rising its complete contribution to $5 million, whereas KFC has boosted its dedication by $1.5 million, bringing its complete sponsorship to $4 million.
In a brand new initiative, Hummel will launch an official JWPL on-line retailer subsequent week, the place 25 per cent of all gross sales will go straight again into the league, permitting followers to help their favorite groups whereas contributing to the expansion of ladies’s soccer in Jamaica.
— Howard Walker
