FORMER St George’s Sports Club’s captain and star player Damion Harwood is among four new signees unveiled by Harbour View Football Club yesterday as part of the club’s roster for this season’s National Premier League.
The 27-year-old Harwood is joined by former St George’s teammate Dainian Reid, as well as Rondell Morris and former National Under-20 player Charles Senior.
Club chairman Carvel Stewart also presented Jackie Cowan as the team’s manager, along with Wesley Parchment as equipment manager. The club explained that there could be more signings by now and the end of the transfer window.
The 2011-2012 Premier League is still without a title sponsor, but Stewart, who is also deputy chairman of the Premier League Clubs’ Association, said the league will kick off on Sunday, August 28, and the public will get “good news of the Premier League shortly”.
Harwood, a striker, scored seven goals last year for the Portland-based club he has been playing for since his Titchfield High days.
Reid, 28, also hails from Portland where he attended Port Antonio Primary and High Schools. He represented St George’s from 2006, and joins Harbour View as a midfielder.
Morris comes from Reno where he played from 2008 through last season. He is from Westmoreland and attended Petersfield High, while Senior, 23, a graduate of St George’s College, is a midfielder, having completed his studies at James Madison University in Virginia, USA. He also played football for Real Maryland FC in the United Soccer League. Joel also captained the Reggae Boyz Under 20 Team for the deceased Coach, David “Wagga” Hunt.
Cowan has worked in the banking sector for 27 years, with her last position being an assistant general manager at RBTT Bank Jamaica.
Since 2008, she had held the position of second vice-president of KSAFA, the highest post held by a female. She is the chairperson of KSAFA’s Women’s Football Committee, whose mandate was to start a women’s competition in KSAFA, which she did in May 2009.
She is also a member of the Women’s Committee of the JFF, where she also serves as a member of the board of directors.
Parchment, also an umpire, has been a member of the Harbour View FC since 2005, assisting in various capacities.
Meanwhile, head coach Donovan Hayles is confident his charges can reclaim the title this season, especially with the addition of the above-mentioned players.
“I don’t shop out of want, I shop because of needs,” he told the Observer shortly after the presentation at the club facility yesterday.
“If you go for players because of want you will end up with a lot of players who you don’t really need,” he explained. “After analysing my team at the end of last year I knew I needed more quality in certain areas and that is what I have gone for — strikers, to beef up my midfield and also in the defensive area.”