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Romario Harewood netted a hat-trick as Weymouth Wales thrashed basement boys Silver Sands 6-2 to maintain their perfect record in the BFA Premier League and register a ninth consecutive victory on Thursday night at the Wildey Turf.Harewood, a former Barbados senior national midfielder, scored from the penalty spot with three minutes on the clock, before striking again in the 12th and 40th minutes to complete a first-half hat-trick.Wales’ head coach Carlos Jackman made three noticeable changes to the line-up as he opted to rest center-half pair of Mario Williams and Akeem Hill along with striker Shaquille Stewart.Nevertheless, Wales were leading 4-1 at the half-time break as the young exciting Nadre Butcher came to the party with a trademark goal when the ball was played over to the left flank and he evaded his marker, cut into the box and finished supremely in the bottom right corner past Silver Sands’ goalkeeper Aquile Barrow.
Weymouth Wales are proving to be unstoppable.The green machine from Carrington Village moved six points clear at the top of the 2023 Barbados Football Association (BFA) Premier League with a 3-0 victory over arch-rivals Brittons Hill on Sunday night at the Wildey Turf.In the highly anticipated top-of-the-table clash, first half strikes from Barbados senior men’s national players Nadre Butcher and Ackeel Applewhaite along with a sublime free kick compliments Rashad Smith, gifted Wales a sixth consecutive win and maintained their perfect record so far this season.Applewhaite played an integral role as Wales broke the deadlock in the 22nd minute, evading two defenders before drilling a cross-field diagonal ball to Butcher. The teenage sensation then took the perfectly-timed pass in stride before slotting past Brittons Hill’s custodian Shaquille Frank.It was the first time for the season that the previously unbeaten Brittons Hill found themselves trailing and it went from bad to worse
Barbados Tridents’ head coach Orlando Da Costa has not closed the door on the possibility of other players being included in the squad for the upcoming crucial Concacaf Nation’s League matches.Following the conclusion of the team’s one-week tour of Grenada where they drew all three international friendlies, Da Costa said he hoped the national side would be given an opportunity to play at least one international friendly at the Wildey Astro Turf where they will take on Cuba on March 23 before traveling to Antigua on March 26.Barbados currently sits in fourth position in Group A of League B.And even though Da Costa said he was impressed with the team’s performance in Grenada, he made it clear that other players will be given additional opportunities to make the squad.They were several surprising omissions from the 23-man squad which traveled to Grenada, including current Premier League top scorer Corey Hoyte, and former national players Hayden Holligan and Kishmar Primus.
The best of the best.That’s how new head coach of the senior men’s national football team Orlando Da Costa has described the 23-man squad selected to play three international friendlies against Grenada, the first of which kicks off on Wednesday.Following the squad’s announcement last Friday, there was some criticism that in-form Brittons Hill United striker Corey Hoyte, the top goal scorer in the Premier League with seven goals from four matches had not been included in the squad, which features seven newcomers.Additionally, the omission of former captain Hayden Holligan, custodian Kishmar Primus, along with defenders Akeem Hill and Ricardio Morris, also raised some eyebrows.But speaking before the team departed this morning for the Spice Isle, Da Costa, who took over as head coach last November following Russell Latapy’s resignation, said he believed he had chosen the best available players.