{"id":32682,"date":"2013-03-08T08:33:25","date_gmt":"2013-03-08T13:33:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=32682"},"modified":"2013-03-08T09:16:24","modified_gmt":"2013-03-08T14:16:24","slug":"jamaica-tottenham-ready-for-football-in-bahamas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2013\/03\/jamaica-tottenham-ready-for-football-in-bahamas","title":{"rendered":"Jamaica, Tottenham Ready For Football In Bahamas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2013\/03\/jamaica-tottenham-ready-for-football-in-bahamas-32682.html\/football\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-32683\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-32683\" title=\"football\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/football.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/football.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/football-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>While a match in Nassau featuring Jamaica\u2019s national football squad and England\u2019s Tottenham Hotspur will be carried out as a part of The Bahamas\u2019 Independence celebrations, it will also be in celebration of the creation of the Caribbean Community (Caricom), Minister of Tourism Obie Wilchcombe said.<\/p>\n<p>Minister Wilchcombe pointed out that 2013 marks both the 40th anniversary of Bahamian Independence and the 40th anniversary of the signing of the treaty of Chaguaramas, which created Caricom.\u00a0 The match will take place May 23 at the Thomas A. Robinson National Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, both Jamaica\u2019s and Tottenham\u2019s team representatives were looking forward to what they believed would be a sold-out match.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s going to be a humdinger,\u201d said Horace Burrell, president of the Jamaica Football Federation.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Burrell said his organisation has received a flurry of inquiries about the match since it was announced. Calls have come from North America and the Caribbean. Due to the interest express in the match, he advised fans to purchase their tickets right away.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNormally, we are a last minute people in the Caribbean, but I would certainly like to take this opportunity to respectfully suggest that the local fans purchase their tickets pretty early because it is really going to be a sold out crowd,\u201d Mr. Burrell said.<\/p>\n<p>Darren Eales, director of football administration for the Premier League\u2019s Tottenham Hotspur, pointed out that his club is experiencing great success in the United Kingdom and are looking forward to a strong finish in the Premier League.\u00a0 The team presently holds the third place spot in the league.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are also looking forward to working with The Bahamas Ministry of Tourism to help promote the country as a major hub for Sports Tourism,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Eales said the sporting facilities in The Bahamas make it an ideal destination for clubs and national associations.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #888888;\">By Bahamas Information Services<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A match in Nassau featuring Jamaica\u2019s national football squad and England\u2019s Tottenham Hotspur will celebrate The Bahamas\u2019 Independence as well as the creation of CARICOM. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[610,1325,58,1326,1327],"class_list":["post-32682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","tag-caricom","tag-football","tag-jamaica","tag-soccer","tag-tottenham-hotspur"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32682\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}