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Portmore United

Full name	Portmore United Football Club
Ground	Ferdi Neita Sports Complex Portmore, Jamaica (Capacity: 2,000)
Chairman	Wayne Sinclair
Manager	Linval Dixon
League	Digicel Premier League
2008-2009	2nd
Home colours Away colours

Portmore United Football Club is a Jamaican football team who currently play in the Digicel Premier League. They play at the Ferdi Neita Sports Complex.

Contents 1 History 2 Achievements 3 Notable former players 4 Current squad 5 External links 6 References

[edit] History

Portmore United, originally Hazard United, has been around for more than 20 years. The club started out in the Clarendon League in Division 2, then played 2 years in Division 1 when they qualified for Craven A Premier League. They have been in Premier League ever since.

In 2003 the name was changed primarily for financial reasons. JFF now stipulates that each club must have stands that can seat at least 1,500 persons. Clarendon does not have one. So to facilitate this requirement, the team moved to St. Catherine and now uses the Ferdi Neita Sports Complex. Both Clarendon and St. Catherine Football association agreed to the sharing of the complex initially. In 2002, the St. Catherine association suggested Hazard change their affiliation and become a St. Catherine team. In St. Catherine however the home crowd has not grown, because the team name was still associated with Clarendon… so to get a parish identity they have changed their name to Portmore United.

The club also has an Under 21 team, some of whom have represented the country

In October 2008, Portmore were stunned as technical director Donovan Duckie quit the club because of personal reasons. Duckie had only just succeeded Horace Reid in August 2008 after Portmore won the league title.^[1]

[edit] Achievements

• CFU Club Championship: 1

2005

• Jamaican National Premier League: 4

1993, 2003, 2005, 2008

• JFF Champions Cup: 4

2000, 2003, 2005, 2007

[edit] Notable former players

• Russell Latapy
• Paul Young
• Anthony Corbett
• Linval Dixon
• Claude Davis
• Shavar Thomas
• Teafore Bennett
• Omar Daley
• Rudolph Austin
• Rafe Wolfe
• Jason Morrison
• Demar Stewart

[edit] Current squad

As of November 16, 2008

Nationality given from place of birth

No. Position Player GK Dwayne Kerr GK Shawn Sawyers MF Bryan Bayliss MF Anthony Bennett Kamar Bennett MF Micheal Binns FW Andre Campbell MF Omar Campbell MF Ricardo Cousins DF Andre Darby FW Kevin Deerr Cornelius Henry DF Nathan Koo-Boothe A Lindsay DF Adrian Mitchell MF Wolry Wolfe

No. Position Player DF Anthony Modeste (captain) FW Steven Morrissey MF Christopher Nicholas DF Ryan Powell DF Adrian Reid DF Tyrone Sawyers FW Carlington Smith DF Ricardo Smith MF Tremaine Stewart MF Mario Swaby James Thomas MF Loxley Thomas DF Eric Vernan MF Damion Williams MF Michael Cliff MF Kemeel Wolfe

[edit] External links

• Team profile at Golocaljamaica

[edit] References

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