The Board of Directors of the Jamaica Football Federation (JFF) at its Quarterly Board meeting held on Tuesday approved a recommendation from the Technical and Development Committee (T&DC) that current National Senior Men’s Team Assistant Coach Jerome Waite be replaced as assistant coach to the Reggae Boyz.
It was further recommended that he is re-assigned to another national team and it was noted that Waite had previously served at the National Under-20 and Under-23 levels and a final decision on the re-assignment is to be recommended by the Committee.
The Board of Directors also approved a recommendation from the T&D Committee that Merron Gordon, past assistant coach at the National Under-23 level and former Head Coach for the Senior women’s team be appointed as a National assistant coach to the Senior Men’s team.
He will join recently appointed Assistant Coach Paul Hall in this position. Both assistant coaches will join Head Coach Theodore Whitmore at the upcoming Concacaf Gold Cup.
The JFF, in a widely circulated media release yesterday, made it clear that Whitmore had not influenced the removal of Waite.
“The JFF wishes to use this forum to categorically state that the decision regarding coach Waite’s re-assignment was a decision of the Board of Directors, the only legitimate body that can take that decision, and that Head Coach Whitmore was not involved in the decision,” the release stated.
Jamaica will contest Group C at the Gold Cup, kick-starting their campaign against Suriname at Exploria Stadium in Orlando, Florida on July 12.
The Boyz also have in the group Costa Rica, and a team yet to be promoted from the Gold Cup preliminary round playoffs set to get underway on July 2.
