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By Neto Baptiste
Head coach of the Antigua and Barbuda Benna Boys, Jacques Passy, is hoping to jumpstart preparations for the senior team’s next assignment as early as possible.
The Mexican national, during an interview with Observer media following their 2-0 loss to Honduras in FIFA World Cup Qualifiers on Tuesday, said he will be presenting a plan detailing the way forward to the local FA.
“I am going to present a plan to the FA, a very ambitious plan; one that will include friendly matches, one that will include my vision of how we should move forward from here. We have theoretically, and I say theoretically because Concacaf has not confirmed this, but we have theoretically. League of Nations qualifiers in November and March but we cannot wait until November,” he said.
Passy who has opted for a much younger crop of players since taking the reigns of the team, said that constantly exposing players to good opposition will aid in their growth.
“We need to have a plan that continues to have these young players plus other international young players that I might start bringing, to grow and to have games like yesterday [Tuesday] in which we were exposed to very good players. At the end of the day, yes we lost both games but I think that we improved dramatically and I was very happy to see the young players that play locally, go out there without any fear, any conflicts and fight the game according to the game,” the coach said.
The squad was due to return to Antigua on Wednesday night. Antigua and Barbuda finished at the bottom of Group A with just one point.
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