BFA names senior men’s national squad for CONCACAF league

The Barbados Football Association (BFA) is pleased to announce the senior men’s national squad for the Concacaf Nations League matches against Montserrat and Nicaragua on September 8 and September 11.

Head coach Orlando Da Costa has named a 23-man squad and seven officials for the two opening fixtures of our Nations League campaign.

Barbados is drawn in Group B of League B and will take on Montserrat at the BFA Wildey Turf on Friday, September 8, and Nicaragua away on Monday, September 11, at the Nicaragua National Football Stadium in Managua.

The Barbados squad is made up of 15 home-based players and eight foreign-based players including SK Rapid Wien’s new signing Thierry Gale, Hallam Hope , Curtis Jemmett-Hutson and Zachary Ellis-Hayden.

Da Costa said: “Our philosophy is that we are all one, everyone in the group is important, the star is the team and the team’s objectives are above individual objectives. Our winning mindset is to always be prepared. One for all and all for one. We won’t always win, but we will always fight to win, wherever and against whoever.

“We have a great opportunity to write our history in this 2023 Nations League but the first step is to believe, the second is to make it happen and third is to conquer. We chose these 23 players because we believe that these are the ones that best fit our game model and that they have the human profile to represent our country”

Match Schedules

• Barbados vs Nicaragua – September 8 – BFA Wildey Turf – 7 pm.
• Nicaragua vs Barbados  – September 11 – National Football Stadium – 7 pm.

FULL SQUAD

Goal keepers: Liam Brathwaite, Jerome Blackman, Raheem Agard.

Defenders: Akeem Chandler, Ramon Griffith, Shane Codrington, Terrence Smith, Krystian Pearce , Andre Applewhaite , Zachary Ellis-Hayden.

Midfielders: Jomo Harris, Renaldo Trim, Nadre Butcher, Shaquan Collymore, Abdullah Javaid, Elijah Downey, Shaquan Clarke, Curtis Jemmett-Hutson.

Forwards: Kyle Forde-Blades, Zeco Edmee, Thierry Gale, Niall Reid-Stephen, Hallam Hope.

Management: Team manager: Ortis Williams, Head Coach: Orlando Da Costa , Assistant Coach: Ricardo Fernandes, Goalkeeping Coach: Benard Howell, Physiotherapist: Dr Nicola Yard, Equipment manager : Orlando P. Mapp, Media Manager : Anmar Goodridge-Boyce.

(PR)