Gold Cup thrashing tough says Brown

MEXICO CITY: Jamaica’s coach Carl Brown has described his team’s CONCACAF Gold Cup football experience as tough, following their crushing exit in a huge loss to Mexico on Sunday. In difficult high altitude conditions at the Azteca Stadium, the Jamaicans failed to trouble hosts Mexico and suffered a heavy 5-0 loss in their quarter-final match Sunday afternoon. “I knew it was going to be tough, it was a great experience for most of the players who were participating in a match in Mexico for the very first time,” Brown said. Forward Omar Bravo put the Mexicans ahead in the 38th minute and midfielder Rafael Garcia increased the home team’s advantage three minutes before half time with a splendid left-footed free-kick.

“The team did (initially) what we wanted to, at least keep the Mexicans at bay for the first 25 to 30 minutes but we weren’t putting passes together. “We were constantly losing the ball throughout the entire match and that didn’t make it any easier,” Brown said. After forward Daniel Osorno made it 3-0 10 minutes into the second half, forward Jared Borgetti added to the scoring in the 61st minute, and midfielder Juan Pablo Rodriguez closed out the scoring in the 83rd minute for the 5-0 final. This was the largest margin of victory for Mexico in a Gold Cup match since a 5-0 win over St  Vincent and the Grenadines in January 1996 in San Diego, California, USA.