ROSE HALL, St James — President of the Jamaica Football Federation, Captain Horace Burrell has called on government to increase the number of seats at the Montego Bay Sports Complex at Catherine Hall so the facility can host international football games.

"The seating at the Catherine Hall facility should be increased to 15-20,000 and flood lights put in so we can host international friendlies there," Burrell said at the JFF Congress held at the Iberostar resort on Sunday.

The Montego Bay Sports Complex will host the CONCACAF Under -17 finals set for February 2011 where 12 teams will vie for four places to the FIFA Under 17 World Championships.

Burrell said the improvement of the recently opened Catherine Hall facility was just one way in which the Sports Development Foundation (SDF) and the government can "step up" and improve facilities around the island.

The former army man did not mince words in criticising the way the SDF was going about building sporting facilities and said they should take a page out of the book of the Trinidad and Tobago government who have built several mini stadia in strategic areas of the country.

"The SDF needs to change course and look at the bigger picture," Burrell said and suggested that instead of constructing facilities in remote areas, consideration should be made to build multi-purpose facilities in areas such as Portland in eastern Jamaica, Drax Hall in St Ann, May Pen in central Jamaica and Frome in Westmoreland.

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