Last week in Antigua Guatemala, Foreign Ministers from throughout the America's converged for the OAS General Assembly. Today, that same ancient city saw two regional football powers meet for a friendly match when Belize's National Selection played its Guatemalan counterparts. The match started at 3:00 pm at the Pensativo Stadium. For the first half, with Woodrow West in Goal both sides had multiple opportunities on goal, but neither could convert.
In the second half, the Belize side brought in Shane Orio as goalkeeper and though a difficult half – where Guatemala had the majority of possessions, he managed to get the national team to a nil-nil draw. It's a respectable score and speaking to us minutes ago, Orio told us that it was a good challenge:
Voice of Shane Orio - Goalkeeper, Belize National Team
"The team played well in the second half and not only in the second half but in the first half also. I think as a group collectively we played a good game. There are things that we need to improve on and we know what we are and again 29 days before the big game against America to work on the details. Guatemala was at home and we knew that they were going to pressure us from the first half but we were able to play defensively, that was the number point/strength and when we had the ball we did numerous build up and we had two or three score opportunities and it didn't come through for us. As well Guatemala played a fair game, I would say they had the same amount of opportunities - they had the ball a little bit more than us."
The Belize Jaguars return to Belize to play against the Cayo Football Selection at the FFB Stadium in Belmopan on Friday at 7:30p.m. Entrance is free.
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