HEIMIR HALLGRIMSON was officially unveiled as head coach of Jamaica on a four-year deal, with...
Iceland coach Heimir Hallgrimsson arrives on four-year deal and kicks off with World Cup ambitions
The relative unknown, who worked as a dentist, played at Íþróttabandalag Vestmannaeyja before going into coaching. Jamaica have been in the doldrums for years. They only had interim head coaches since stalwart Theodore Whitmore was unceremoniously given the boot by the JFF last December. England-based Paul Hall stepped up from assistant coach, but failed to improve performances in Jamaica’s remaining six CONCACAF World Cup qualifiers.
JFF president Michael Ricketts said during a press event at the Jamaica Pegasus hotel in Kingston: “Welcome to what I am going to call a game-changing event. This is an important part of the new start that has begun at the Jamaican Football Federation.“I want to use this opportunity to call on Jamaica [fans and businesses] for more commitment, more loyalty, more optimism as we try to change the football direction.
“We have a year until we start the play-offs or the group stage for the World Cup, so we have to start quickly to try to find and stabilise the Jamaican national team. He brilliantly led Iceland to the 2016 UEFA European Championships quarter-finals. He then qualified for 2018 Russia, but Hallgrimsson resigned after Iceland failed to navigate their way out of the group stages at the last World Cup finals.
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