Jamaica’s

Reggae Girlz will start the CONCACAF stage of the 2020 women’s Olympic Games

qualifiers on Wednesday at 8:00 pm (Jamaica time), when they tackle Mexico at

HEB Park in Edinburgh, Texas.

The

task is a difficult one for the Girlz, as only two teams will advance to the

quadrennial tournament, from eight remaining at this stage of the CONCACAF

qualifiers.

They

will have to first finish in the top two of Group B, which also involves Canada

and Saint Kitts and Nevis, with both going against each other in the day’s

opener at 5:30 pm.

After

finishing first or second in the group, for the Reggae Girlz to advance, they

will then have to conquer an opponent from Group A, which has Costa Rica, the

United States of America, Haiti and Panama.

The

Reggae Girlz will be confident they can make history again, after their

first-ever qualification to the FIFA Women’s World Cup in France in the summer

of last year. They had to get by these same teams to qualify for the World Cup.

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Since then, however,

they have had a myriad of issues with the players protesting not being paid and

the resignations of head coach Hue Menzies and assistant Lorne Donaldson.

They will be going

into their first battle since the departure of the coaches, with another

assistant Hubert Busby taking up the mantle as head coach.

Donaldson, with

Menzies and the Jamaica Football Federation (JFF) locked in a payment dispute,

had guided Jamaica past Caribbean opponents Barbados, St Lucia, Cuba and the US

Virgin Islands last year in the first phase of the Olympic Games qualifiers.