 On to football on the Sportsmax zone now the Conquer Cavalations League kicked off on Thursday with action from all the three leagues Leagues A, B and C. Let's see a round on of the results now Turn it out at the Vega 1 nil over Curaçao Panamá 3-0 over Martinique Guatemala 2-0 over El Salvador. Those are the League A fixtures St. Kits and Nevis coming off their gold cup campaign beaten 2-1 by Guadalupe St. Lucia 5-1 over St. Martin in League C We had Anguilla beaten 6-0 by French St. Martin and the US Virgin Islands in a 2-2 draw with the Cayman Islands Big result for the Soca Warriors who started life after the sudden retirement of Captain Kevin Molino with a 1-0 win over Curaçao who were the last champions of the Caribbean Cup and Nathaniel Mark James Gould in the 87th minute sealing the victory for the Trin Begonians. So we have Ligé Williams to discuss the matches with us here. TNT getting a good result as we just mentioned there Clearly Anguilla based on the stories we ran earlier on this week under some pressure But would have gotten some satisfaction with that result over Curaçao Yeah, I think winning always cures bad feelings when it comes on to these things So it's not to say that maybe he has won back over the dressing room If he even did lose it to be said, but I think a good win, a 1-0 win You mentioned Curaçao was the last Caribbean Cup winner So they aren't a weak team by any stretch of the imagination So I think TNT had to be looking to build upon this and then try and push forward Yeah, St. Kits and Nevis having campaigned in the gold cup this summer would have been disappointed with their loss as well Yeah, I don't think that was an ideal start for them But St. Kits are a team they're riding high. I think that they have quality in their squad as well They are a very defiant team in terms of how they're digging to get results So I think that they'll bounce back and eventually try and see if they can push through and get more positive results in nations Yeah, and we did have a chat with the president of the St. Kits and Nevis Football Association, Atiba Harris During or a little just after their gold cup campaign and he does have big plans for the team I think one of the youngest football association presidents in world football at the moment We say good afternoon to Atiba Harris and all the best with your Campaign as boss of St. Kits and Nevis football now the reggae boys will be looking to Start their campaign with a win against Honduras at the National Stadium in Kingston a team Which they are unbeaten against since 2013 a record of four wins and a draw and Lige we had some negative Prematch narratives coming out of this picture or ahead of this picture because apparently the national stadium field is not in the best of Conditions and head coach Hamer Halgrimson doesn't appear to be very happy. Yeah, I was at the press conference And that's a bit of their training yesterday the field isn't in a good place One might say that's not something Unfortunate that's particularly new to us. We have seen national stadiums National stadium in the past being in not the best condition going into games But I think this is up there in terms of the maybe the quality of the field Halgrimson even said in the press conference that he doesn't feel the national stadium Gives us any type of advantage in terms of the football that he wants to play So he's clearly not happy with it But you know the show must go on he has two very important games to play Honduras a team that I think can get a lot of confidence against because we have been doing well against them He did mention that all of that is out of the window now It is a fresh game against a fresh team But I think that we should have a lot of confidence coming out of the gold cup and against his Honduras team I think that we can do a lot a lot against them I think that we can maybe try and see if we can push on get some more confidence like and to play against a Haiti team Why I thought did really well in the go cup They surprised me a lot in terms of the football that they were playing they got a positive result in their game That's going on or probably recently finished. So that's going to be a tough game I think we need to really get out there and make a statement win tonight. Yeah Ricardo, I'm not sure if you have a thought on this because the Chris Brown concert was held just less than two weeks ago at the national stadium and there is the general feeling that the Tens of thousands, I'm not sure how many people are there. I know Mariah Ramarack was there I'm not sure if you were there Ricardo Yeah, but it was a huge crowd. Yes, and I don't think the condition of the field Benefited from the trampoline. Yeah, by the way, that's Haiti Cuba game ended nilol a short while ago but I wanted To get from the JF he had gleaned from The JFF or from the head coach whether they considered moving the game from the national stadium Well, Sabina Park has has become a good alternative for football in recent times and remember on the weekend of the Chris Brown concert the National under 17 girls team Played their qualifying tournament and that match took place at Sabina Park. Yeah So I am surprised if they didn't that they wouldn't have considered Yes, so I'm not sure as an option if it is that the stadium field is as bad as Maybe how grooms of fields it is because the point that it was making just now is that what he is saying is that all of the Players that he will have in his starting roster tomorrow and on his bench are accustomed to playing on a far superior field Than they will get this evening. So they have no home advantage. They they are not enough the Honduras players Will enter this game based on the conditions in exactly the same position as the Jamaicans because the Jamaicans are not accustomed to playing They are all overseas based pretty much playing on a field that is in the condition that the national stadium is at the moment And the truth is we've known from the get-go that coach Hal Grimson is big on quality surfaces as he should be because to play quality football You need quality surfaces to do so and we've lamented the lack of quality surfaces across Jamaica Having having said that lads you are very much right Where is the advantage going to be for this reggae boys side? There is absolutely none coming into the game tonight. If the surface isn't great remember when Hal Grimson First took over this team one of the things he said the fields in Jamaica were so poor That if Leonel Messi came here to play he would look ordinary And I've not forgotten that statement because I think it's telling is is the training that we just looked at the training footage Is that the state of east feet? Is it that the field was in such dodgy condition that they didn't want to further compromise its condition? Yeah, because I heard the coach complaining the day before the train and the national state of the day before the day before So I think they didn't want to further damage it because from what I'm seeing as I mentioned in the past We've seen where the stadium field has been uneven and sometimes I remember a couple years ago a journalist went there and even there was a Whole big enough for him to sit down in a couple days before a game So I don't think that was the issue in terms of the field now. I think it's more so the dryness of it That's what I'll give so is referring to because he wants to play quick football the ball to be moving around and for that You need more slicker surfaces. Yes, so I think that's merely the issue and That's something that can't be fixed overnight So maybe they just wanted to make a little extra prep But as to both of your points it doesn't give us an advantage and I think that's something that Not only the JFF, but maybe the government needs to look out for in terms of going forward Yes, the national stadium is our biggest arena. That's what we're going to use for major events such as the concert But once I have to think about what we're doing for a sports because end of the day It is a sporting arena and we always want to put on the best possible show and have the best give our teams The best possible chance to succeed and it's not going to be like that tonight Yeah, I also want to make the point that it's not just that the reggae boys will not have an advantage tonight I put it to both of you that the reggae boys will be at a disadvantage tonight If the surface is not up to par if it is as bad as coach Hal Grimson has suggested Why disadvantage disadvantage because as he pointed out The players in his setup are not accustomed They might be more accustomed to That's where you're going. Yeah, but what about the Jamaican roster though? Do you like it and and based on the quality of the players? Can we look beyond the surface now and talk about what the Jamaicans are likely to do and if in fact there are favorites to win this Match, I mean I think we are favorites judging off as I mentioned the the confidence that we should have coming out of the gold cup Yes, how good we have been against Honduras recently as well and the quality of the squad is really good I'm only a couple changes in terms of the gold cup squad to this one Hal Grimson has coach Hal Grimson has mentioned that he wanted a level of consistency in the squads because even in the press conference he mentioned that yes people may think that he's still playing a Reserve type of football But he's just saying that the defense is the easiest thing to fix anytime a quality coach goes into a setup any setup across the world You try and fix the defense first because they attack There's a certain synergy that you need in between attacking players for the attack to start blossoming And that's going to take some time and in a national setup where you're only together for a couple weeks at a time It's going to take some time. So he's more been relying on the individual quality of the Jamaican players And we do have a lot of individual quality won't be won't be with Antonia won't have Antonia for this Go around but I think we have a lot of quality across the squad. He's brought in quality players to replace what would wouldn't have See fastest back in the squad. I'm excited to see him. So I think generally We should be favorites. We are favorites and I'd actually be really surprised if we don't win this game comfortably Yeah, and I'm how excited are you about see first because we spoke briefly about him last week when the squad was named We know of his extreme pace He doesn't have a lot of international experience, but he has played in Europe now, North Macedonia and now Turkey So over the past season and a half. He's gotten the feel of Fearly high quality football in Europe. What are what are you expecting from and how much playing time? Do you think he may get I think he should come off of the bench in this game He's a quality player and I think what he always brought is excitement and goals because he's blisteringly fast But I think he has a calmness in front of goal And that's the calmness that led him to score so many goals in Macedonia and then go on and earn that move to Turkey. So I think he's a really exciting player I think that he can bring a lot to the setup in terms of what we need especially on the flanks who have a lot of good wing players, but There's always going to be room for more and I think that See first alongside the other good young players that will have in those areas can bring a lot of bright sparks to our attack And maybe see if we can score more goals. Yeah, Demarra. I agree He came in a few days early to work one-on-one with the coaching staff of you But able to pick up how that period has gone For him. Well, I can only go off of what I saw in the training session He looks sharp. Actually, all of our hackers look sharp Leon Bailey looked really good as well. Dujan Richards. He looked really good I'm scored a couple really good goals in the training session as well What I saw that they were going through so it gave me a lot of encouragement in terms of what we're going to see on an Attacking front going forward in this team. So yeah, I think gray Bailey Bobby Reed So many players there to excite and I think the Jamaicans will have a really good time tonight Okay, we have three matches on the on a channel tonight on sports max there I will give you just a couple of results so far today as Ricardo mentioned Haiti and Cuba nilol sent Vincent of the Grenadines defeated Belize to one that's in league B And there was a nilol draw between Bermuda and French Guiana coming up on sports max this evening Barbados against Montserrat 7 o'clock Eastern Caribbean time on sports max to make a versus Honduras also on sports max 910 Eastern Caribbean time 810 local time and Grenada taking on Suriname that much will be live on sports max 2 at 7 o'clock Eastern Caribbean time 6 o'clock in Jamaica we go to break back with more on the sportsmax zone after this