The 2023 Girls’s International Cup is definitely underway and whilst many other folks will probably be cheering for the U.S. Girls’s Nationwide Workforce, there’s a contingent of Jamaican lovers in West Hartford. They’ll be cheering for the Swaby sisters, Chantelle and Allyson, who’re from West Hartford.
“I am getting a large number of calls asking, ‘Are the ones your daughters?’ It is an honor,” their dad, Lennox Swaby, mentioned. “It is a large praise.”
His two daughters, Allyson, 26 and Chantelle, 24, are representing his house nation for a second-consecutive International Cup.
They grew up enjoying adolescence football in West Hartford earlier than taking on commute groups, however the proud oldsters mentioned they at all times loved video games at the Corridor Top Faculty turf.
“We put a pair hundred thousand miles on our vehicles and most probably about part 1,000,000 at the frame, flying from right here to everywhere the rustic,” mentioned mother, Dianne Swaby.
Now, Chantelle and Allyson are in Australia, beginning side-by-side on protection for Jamaica.
The “Reggae Girlz” made historical past already, incomes the rustic’s first Girls’s International Cup level via enjoying to a scoreless draw in opposition to France.
“It is simply been an incredible adventure,” Lennox mentioned. “Simply gazing them move from competing at other ranges and now they are within the International Cup, phrases simply cannot provide an explanation for.”
However movements can and their paintings ethic and determination say it completely.
“They simply sought after to play the sport,” mentioned Lennox. “They at all times sought after to play the sport, which made it such a lot more straightforward for us. You did not have to push them. They had been just about pushing us always. ‘Come on, Dad. It is OK to be early.’”
Jamaica performs Panama at 8:30 a.m. on Saturday.
