Premier League juggernauts Weymouth Wales and Paradise will clash in the first-round of the 2023 Barbados Football Association (BFA) Champions Cup knockout competition after being drawn against each other this morning at the Wildey Turf. It’s a highly anticipated fixture, featuring two of the island’s top clubs and will set the scene for what promises to be a mouth-watering tournament. It means that midfielder Ackeel Applewhaite on a season-long loan …
Thierry Gale is back.Barbados’ biggest football sensation, along with several other overseas-based players, have returned to the senior men’s national squad ahead of Thursday’s highly anticipated clash against Cuba in the Concacaf Nations League at the Wildey Turf.Gale, a 20-year-old forward was named in head coach Orlando da Costa’s 23-member team yesterday to face the Cubans in what will be the first international football match played on the island since the COVID-19 pandemic struck in 2019.The last time Gale, who plies his trade for FC Dila Gori in Georgia’s first division, made an appearance for Barbados was in a 1-1 draw versus the Dominican Republic at the Felix Sanchez Olympic Stadium in the 2022 FIFA World Cup qualifying campaign.He will be joined by the likes of fellow overseas-based professionals Ryan Trotman, Curtis Jemmett-Hutson and Zachary Ellis-Hayden. Both Jemmett-Hutson and Ellis-Hayden have been called to the senior team before but are yet to make their int
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
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Corey Hoyte continued his sensational form by producing a beaver trick as Brittons Hill United maintained a perfect start to their BFA Premier League campaign with a 4-2 victory over Notre Dame on Sunday at the Wildey Turf.The 21 year-old Hoyte, who is the league’s top scorer with seven goals from four matches, put on a remarkable show for the fans who braved the 4 p.m. sun and propelled Brittons Hill to yet another astonishing win.The result meant that Brittons Hill remain unbeaten and are joint leaders of the Premier League with Weymouth Wales who defeated Paradise 3-1 in the nightcap encounter.Former Barbados national striker Zeco Edmee gave Notre Dame an early lead in the third minute before Hoyte equalized eight minutes later before producing the go-ahead goal from the penalty spot in the 26th minute.On the stroke of halftime, Hoyte netted his most memorable goal to date with a 25-yard free kick which left Dames’ custodian Shakib Kellman hapless.Hoyte then capped off a brillia