Daily News | Jamaica’s magical women’s World Cup run ends with optimism and the world’s respect
"I think that we defied the odds together,” veteran forward Cheyna Matthews said after the nation's first run to a World Cup knockout round. Now can the Reggae Girlz build on it?
Elsewhere on this big planet, kindred spirits made the same effort: in Philadelphia, in London, and anywhere else the Jamaican diaspora has put down roots over the years.. There have been battles to make the World Cup, battles to get on pro club teams, and battles for recognition — and proper funding — in their own country.
It did so with a defense so tenacious and snarling that it achieved a feat matched by only two of the 32 teams at this World Cup : not conceding a single goal in the group stage. And Jamaica did so with genuine joy.“We didn’t have any doubt in our minds what we were capable of, and I think the belief that we have in each other showed this tournament — I think that we defied the odds together,” said forward Cheyna Matthews, a veteran of the United States’ NWSL.
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