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Jamaica’s Gold Cup run partially due to youth movement

Over a year ago I wrote an article that predicted the end of Jamaica being a CONCACAF power due to the aging out of some of the team’s regular players.

I’m happy to report that rumors of Jamaica’s death have been greatly exaggerated. Sunday night’s thrilling victory over Mexico proves that Jamaica is still a force to be reckoned with in CONCACAF.

Critics will argue that Mexico played a B team against Jamaica - and that’s a valid argument to an extent. A lot of the Mexican “Europeos” were missing - Javier “Chicharito” Hernandez was signing with West Ham United, Hirving “Chucky” Lozano is getting acclimated to life with PSV, and Miguel Layun, Hector Herrera, Diego Reyes, and Jesus “Tecatito” Corona are all getting in shape with Porto (referred to as PorTri by Mexican soccer aficionados).