REVEALED: How Jamaica’s ‘Reggae Girlz’ crowdfunded their method to the Ladies’s World Cup – forward of sealing historic tie in opposition to fifth-ranked France
REVEALED: How Jamaica’s ‘Reggae Girlz’ crowdfunded their method to the Ladies’s World Cup – forward of sealing historic tie in opposition to fifth-ranked France
- Jamaica gamers claimed that they haven’t acquired fee from federation
- One of many participant’s moms arrange a GoFundMe web page to lift cash for squad
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The Jamaica ‘Reggae Girlz,’ a workforce ranked 38 spots decrease than No. 5 France, held Les Bleues to a scoreless draw Sunday to attain their first-ever Women’s World Cup level.
Afterward, whereas the French gamers appeared gloomy, the Jamaica gamers embraced one another on the Sydney Soccer Stadium area and cheered.
To get right here, they relied on household, buddies and followers to cowl a few of their bills.
‘The previous few years, to be trustworthy, it´s been robust,’ goalkeeper Rebecca Spencer mentioned. ‘We all the time have help from exterior of the federation that we want. With out them, we in all probability wouldn´t be right here.’
Within the months main as much as the workforce’s departure to Australia, Jamaica midfielder Havana Solaun’s mom, Sandra Phillips-Brower, launched a GoFundMe, named Reggae Girlz Rise Up, for the workforce.
Paige Bailey-Gayle, Deneisha Blackwood and Jody Brown of Jamaica rejoice their 0-0 draw
The gamers regarded overjoyed on the sector after sealing a impossible tie in opposition to France
Most had written the Reggae Girlz off, however they have been a match for fifth-ranked workforce in Sydney
The GoFundMe raised round $50,000. A separate fundraiser totaled greater than $45,000.
‘My mother may be very a lot so a go-getter,’ Solaun mentioned after Sunday´s 0-0 draw. ‘She´s clearly a giant fan and she or he was identical to, `I wish to assist in no matter approach I can.´’
Final month, the Reggae Girlz launched an announcement on social media expressing their ‘utmost disappointment with the Jamaica Soccer Federation.’ Jamaica is amongst a number of Ladies´s World Cup groups which have expressed frustration over pay points and national-team finances cuts.
Jamaica’s gamers claimed that they haven’t acquired fee that’s assured of their contracts. Because of finances constraints, Jamaica has needed to miss invaluable observe time, together with a number of pleasant matches main as much as this yr´s match.
One Jamaica fan exhibits off her unbelievable face-paint whereas watching the sport on the stadium
It was a hard-fought contest and Jamaica finally managed to come back out with a goalless tie
Throughout a pre-match information convention, Jamaica ahead Atlanta Primus mentioned the Reggae Girlz won’t talk about the cash points in the course of the match.
‘We´re very a lot right here to play and that´s our main focus,’ she mentioned.
They confirmed that focus in holding a French workforce that has completed as excessive as fourth within the Ladies´s World Cup, reaching the semifinals in 2011. The Reggae Girlz have certified as soon as earlier than, in 2019, once they went scoreless all through their group-stage matches.
Their subsequent probability to play comes in opposition to Panama on July 29. The one factor dampening the thrill for the match is the truth that the Reggae Girlz will probably be with out workforce captain Khadija ‘Bunny’ Shaw, on account of a purple card she acquired in stoppage time within the match Sunday.
