About an hour before the start of the news, the Belize National Football Team, THE JAGUARS, defeated Guatemala's Heredia Jaguares de Peten, the current second place holder in that country's Professional League.
The match was played in Melchor Del Menchos and it started at 3 p.m. This provided the new head coach, American Ian Mork, an opportunity to field the team he intends to play in at Gold Cup in the US.
A more cohesive Belizean Team squared off against the Guatemalan Professional team and managed to score two goals against them.
The first goal came from defensive middle Trevor "Burger" Lennon in the first half.
That strong showing allowed Mork to field an almost entirely different set of 11 for the second half. The Belize team controlled the majority of the possessions which led to the second gold to be scored by forward David Trapp.
Mork told 7News after the game that he was pleased with the team's performance, which showed that they are finally finding depth in terms of options whenever they are in possession of the ball.
Our news team is still on their way back from Melchor, and we'll have more from Mork as he speaks about the team's preparedness and his intended long term stay in Belize as Head Coach.
That's coming up later on in the newscast.
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