{"id":2484,"date":"2019-07-01T21:12:36","date_gmt":"2019-07-01T21:12:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/westernmirror.com\/?p=2484"},"modified":"2019-07-01T21:12:39","modified_gmt":"2019-07-01T21:12:39","slug":"bg-off-to-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/?p=2484","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;BG&#8217; off to China"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><i>Noelita Lawrence-Ricketts <\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>This summer will be a very different one for several young and aspiring national female footballers, who will be thousands of miles away from home.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Britney Gregory out of Felicity Road in Glendevon, St.\nJames, will be among the more than dozen Under-14 ladies, getting off to the\nAsian country, China, where they will spend two months participating in a\ndevelopment camp under the watchful eyes of key instructors from that country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The soft-spoken twelve year-old Gregory, who has an eye for\nthe sport, said she is \u201cdelighted with the opportunity\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI\u2019m looking forward to it. I hope it is all I envisioned\nand at the end of the day, I will come back a much better player, rounded\u2026 I\nlook forward to the training and learning lots of new things,\u201d she told the\nWestern Mirror.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A versatile player who heads the ball powerfully, Gregory\nalso possesses the capability of scoring goals, and has been representing her\nschool for more than three years in the VMBS Under-13, captaining them in the\nlast two.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>BIGGEST FAN<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She was one of eight (8) girls to have participated in the\nrecently held competition, and she credits her grandmother as her rock and main\nsupporter. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI don\u2019t know where I would be without her, she is my\nstrength. She attends all my games and encourages me even when I\u2019m not having a\ngood game. Two months away from her will be a long time, but she is happy for\nme and wants me to go there and do my best so, I\u2019m looking forward to it,\u201d\nGregory said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gregory, who will be attending the famed Montego Bay High\nSchool this September, is a fast learner and a talented all-round athlete who\nalso represented her primary school in Basketball, Netball and Track and Field.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She began her journey on Saturday night, June 29, departing\nthe Sangster\u2019s International Airport.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The initiave is an arrangement between the Governments of\nChina and Jamaica for the continued development of young players.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Britney Gregory out of Felicity Road in Glendevon, St. James, will be among the more than dozen Under-14 ladies, getting off to the Asian country, China, where they will spend two months participating in a development camp under the watchful eyes of key instructors from that country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2485,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1349,1350,1299,1351,1352],"class_list":["post-2484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-bg","tag-britney-gregory","tag-china","tag-corinaldi-avenue-primary","tag-montego-bay-boys-and-girls-club"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2484"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2486,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2484\/revisions\/2486"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}