Football fantasy for Rice-An-Su

By Stacey N. Russell 

If you think the real 2022 World Cup football was gruelling for players and managers in Qatar, ask local fantasy league bravado Shawn Jones about his tested prowess in the Caribbean Broadcasting Corporation’s (CBC) FIFA World Cup Fantasy League.

Fifty per cent luck, 50 per cent strategy! 

That did it for football ‘crazy’ Mr. Jones, who pulled away in the early rounds of the virtual World Cup playoffs.

Known in the fantasy league as ‘Rice-An-Su’, he gives England’s Decland Rice and Spain’s Ansu Fati the nod for his word-play on mouth-watering rice and stew. 

And when he tapped Ghana’s Mohammed Kudus for his team in the second round fantasy league game, that proved to be a phenomenal draft. 

“From the second round I was leading the whole island because I had a pick, which no one else in the island had. Kudus scored two goals in that game and I was just leading the island from then,” he said on Friday after collecting his prizes at CBC in The Pine, St. Michael. 

Since the 1994 World Cup in the United States when Mr. Jones was seven-years-old and Brazil won, he has remained passionate about football and a staunch Brazil fan. He does not miss kick-by-kick play of a World Cup tourney.

Now 35-years-old, living in Martin’s Bay, St. John he was disappointed with Brazil limping out at the quarter-final stage in Qatar, but he is ecstatic with his first major fantasy league title, like his own unbeatable, back-of-the-net goal.

His modest prizes include a full case of Banks beer, which is he planning to share with friends as they re-create happy 2022 World Cup memories of watching the real football on television.

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