SVGSPN Presents--My Soccer Life with Oronde Ash

SVGSPN, S2E1-- 2020-21 Pre-Season Top 5, Transfer News, Players to Watch, Support SVG Grassroots Football  

VIDEO available SVGSPN Youtube page.  

PRE-SEASON PREVIEW. Who Will Win The 2020-21 Premier League, Top 5 Teams,  Relegation Candidates, Players Making Impacts, **Support Grassroots Soccer.   I look at the roster of numerous SVGPL teams and see players from Barrouallie who were taught the fundamentals of the game every Saturday morning on Keartons Field, thanks to Jason Frederick, Damien John, Alban Bulze, Kelroy Adams, Kelroy Waqar, Demol James, Craig Kirby and others. It's no accident those young players then are among the best in the nation now. SUPPORT SVG GRASSROOTS football. Our footballing future is already here.

As a nation that qualified for the Gold Cup 25 years ago, making FIFA history in the process, if I'm judging the teams in the Premier League, SVG football has to get better. Coach Debson Cruickshank and I offer observations, analysis, critiques of the main game each round and advice on how we can improve.

SVGSPN, S1E5 Round 22--Sion Hill FC v SV United, Awesome FC v Chelsea

The last round of the 2019-20 season saw SV United in a must win tussle. Win or get relegated. Awesome FC was in a similar relegation battle needing a point and an SV loss to stay in the premiership.  

As a nation that qualified for the Gold Cup 25 years ago, making FIFA history in the process, if I'm judging the teams in the Premier League, SVG football has to get better. Coach Debson Cruickshank and I offer observations, analysis, critiques of the main game each round and advice on how we can improve.

SVGSPN, S1E4, Round 21--System3 v Jebelle, Sion Hill v Hope

Hope Int'l has won the SVGPL. CONGRATULATIONS! Jebelle and System 3 are fighting for 2nd place. Sion Hill, Avenues, Awesome FC and Besco Pastures are playing to stay in the top division.   

As a nation that qualified for the Gold Cup 25 years ago, making FIFA history in the process, if I'm judging the teams in the Premier League, SVG football has to get better. Coach Debson Cruickshank and I offer observations, analysis, critiques of the main game each round and advice on how we can improve.

SVGSPN, S1E3 (Analyzing SVG Football)--Round 20, Jebelle v Hope, System3 v Avenues--The Battle for 1st Place

Hope is still leading the Premier League. Jebelle is in 2nd, place, 4 pts behind. A win gets them ever closer to the league title. System3 is 5 pts behind Hope still in striking distance.  As a nation that qualified for the Gold Cup 25 years ago, making FIFA history in the process, if I'm judging the teams in the Premier League, SVG football has to get better. Coach Debson Cruickshank and I offer observations, analysis, critiques of the main game each round and advice on how we can improve.  

SUGGESTED VIEWING  

1. 60 Team Passing Drills https://youtu.be/zw9W4m-lYx8  

2. Building Outta The Back https://youtu.be/Qry7igTicL0

SVGSPN S1E2, Round 19--Hope v Predators, System3 v Sion Hill 

Hope is leading the Premier League. Predators are in 4th place coming off a 4-5 loss to System3 where the were leading 4-0 at the half. Sion Hill is playing with only 10 men... No More Long Balls Plz. After watching my first SVG Premier League games, the individual talent on the field, the level and organization of play, overall understanding of broader football concepts and players applying them to their specific teams appear nonexistent. As a nation that qualified for the Gold Cup 25 years ago, making FIFA history in the process, if I'm judging the teams in the Premier League, SVG football has to get better. Coach Debson Cruickshank and I offer observations, analysis, critiques of the 2 games in Round 19 and advice on how we can improve.  

SUGGESTED VIEWING 

How Pep Guadiola See Football Differently https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVE3Sqatdlg 

What is Zone 14? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EFtACGzD7E 

Pep Tactical Breakdown https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-mFN37cS-I 

Andrea Pirlo v Sergio Busquets: The Deep Lying Midfielder https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mCUYQQH2dQ

SVGSPN (Analyzing SVG Football) Round 18, Premier League, System3 v North Leeward, 08.17.20 

Host Oronde Ash, Coach Joel Bristol and Coach Debson Cruickshank the match of the day from the SVG Premier League. System3 v North Leeward Predators -- Score 4-5 

Man of the Match: System3 CMD Jerron Dopwell

TAYLOR MADE (Part 5 of 5): The 1995 St. Vincent & the Grenadines Mens Nat'l Team's Improbable... The Gold Cup  & All That Glitters

01:00.....Marlon's first time in the US, Logistical nightmares, Prepping for MEX in a public park, Jack being Jack

06:55....If Ian Sardine could do it over again, Small fish in a big pond, No training facility, The bright lights

11:34......15,000 Mexicans screaming, Starting #10, World class passing, Fitz hated Trinidad, Making History

22:00...Coach Lenny is drained, The lessons he took from SVG to St. Kitts, The Best SVG Team Ever

28:00...Players still doing the work today, Professional careers, Lasting legacies from '95, ADARE360, Fitz the politician

34:55...Why we haven't gotten back to the Gold Cup and what it will take to do so  (Players' perspectives)

37:25....The football federation structure needs changing, The state of SVG football now

40:50...No mo' excuses, What I've seen in 10 yrs going home, The colonial soccer mind

46:20...Coach Lenny's Plan for Improving the Development of SVG and Caribbean Football, Focus on youth & coaching educ, 

51:00...The psychology of an SVG player, Black Consciousness Matters

55:10... The Outer Man vs The Inside Man, Using the game to change lives

1. SVG vs MEX 1996 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKnvSbSm7Hs&t=73s

2. All Goals from 1996 Gold Cup https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebp388fygfw

3. ADARE360 Richmond Trip https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNqMBc3uTQo&list=PLKHNaVpxLBMgPUMAmrR0_u43vMRzlm64_ 

TAYLOR MADE (Part 4 of 5): The 1995 St. Vincent & the Grenadines Mens Nat'l Team's... Ep #4--Richmond

December 16, 1995, 8pm, I land in St. Vincent and get driven directly to team camp in Richmond. 12 hrs in transit, 10 yrs away from home and I can't see  the country in the dark. 25 days until we play Mexico in San Diego, CA, everyone hungry to prove they belong on the Gold Cup roster, especially against a foreigner like me. The federation had no money to plan with, there was little food to eat but still 3 training sessions each day. We were alone in a far corner of the island, no choice but to rely on one another.  And then we were accused of drug dealing and more.

TOPICS

01:00.....My first days back home with the national team; Hungry, outta shape; No money, nothing at all

05:50...Begging for food; Dalrymple killed a cow; Logistics/Driving to Richmond

11:00.....Work vs football imbalance; Isolation at Richmond

16:25....Coach Lenny accused of drug dealing; Secret police raided team van looking for drugs; Why was I selected?

24:00..No quitting; Gotta prepare for Mexico; Natural beauty and neglect; Cutthroat competition, shit-talking, fights

29:00.."Schoolboy" Marlon James running; Fitz vs The General; The Foreign Based; First Impression; Team politics

36:05..The secret value of dreadlocks; What I added to the team; Trainer Gideon Labban

41:00...Fitz pushed for his GK spot; Marlon and Maz-I

47:00..When Nothing matters; California dreaming; 

RICHMOND

1.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3mIyTaEhu8 The Richmond Vale Academy

2. Me trying to recreate the 1995 Richmond vibe with youth players from my hometown in SVG as part of my ADARE360 soccer nonprofit

2015 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNqMBc3uTQo&t=2s

2018 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ko5NHA1X6s0&t=11s

2018 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzRXgI1xhPY&t=92s The Volcano

TAYLOR MADE (Part 3 of 5): The 1995 St. Vincent & the Grenadines Mens Nat'l Team's Improbable Run to the 1996 Gold Cup (And Why It Hasn't Been Done Since)--No Weapons Formed... Coach Lenny Taylor returns to St. Vincent after making history with his young team. But instead of praise there's more pressure, more rumors and accusations laid against him and a grab for power from forces within the football federation. On top of that, one of the best players on the team has been hand picked by El Rei, Pele himself, to go to Brazilian club Santos. This is the culmination of the dream Lenny came to St. Vincent with in 1992. Develop players who can showcase themselves on a bigger stage, bringing ore eyes to SVG, more and more development. But some don't see it that way and make other plans, destroying possibility and promise. Lenny begins to last out, to defend himself in the media only to field more vitriol his way. And the team still has to get ready for the Windward Island Championships and the Gold Cup, while incorporating a new player no one knows about.