The former nationals brought to Pumas Morelos Sean Fraser, one of the two Jamaican footballers who have played in Mexico. Tonight the Caribbean team and El Tri open their participation in the World Cup qualifier
Sean Fraser It was the first reinforcement that the Jorge Campos and Claudio Suárez duo brought to Pumas Morelos, to try to save the then Liga de Ascenso franchise from releasing to the Second Division. The then 28-year-old striker arrived as a scorer for the Alianza de El Salvador, was selected as a youth team and accumulated eight games with the senior team of Jamaica.
In the history of mexican soccer There is only a record of three players from Jamaica who were part of a professional club staff. Onandi Lowe was on probation with Tecos in 1996, but never played; Giles Barnes was part of the Lion in the 2018 Clausura and added three games, without annotations; and finally Sean Fraser, forward who was a tournament in the Liga de Ascenso with the subsidiary of the Pumas.
David Patiño and Ramón Villa Zeballos, technician and assistant in Pumas Morelos, they remember him for his physical ability, his talent for scoring goals and a cheerful personality that made him fit into the squad in a short time.
“He came with a very good background. He spoke Spanish, he was a very happy guy, good at dancing and very joking. Fraser he lined up and trained quite well, a pity that his step was very short in the team, because if he had had more time, he would have done much better things, “says Ramón Villa Zeballos.
Sean Peter Roy Fraser He was part of the generation of footballers from Jamaica who left the island to seek professionalization, according to David Patiño recalls. The forward played his last game with the Caribbean team in November 2012, a couple of months before arriving as a reinforcement to Pumas Morelos.
But by then Jamaica It was not the team that will start the World Cup tie against Mexico: a team reinforced by players who were born, mainly in England, but whose Caribbean ancestry makes them eligible to represent their team in the Concacaf Octagonal Final.
From the convocation of Theodore Whitmore, 13 of the 34 elements summoned for the start of the World Cup qualifier They play in England, some are references in their teams, such as Leon Bailey at Aston Villa and Michail Antonio at West Ham. Although he will not be able to count on all his ambassadors, most of them now play in leagues in England, Belgium, Scotland, Sweden and Serbia.
But nine years ago when Sean Fraser He was a national team, there were only seven players in England, on teams like Reading, Nottingham Forest and most of them played in the United States, but not only on MLS teams.
“He once told me that here in Mexico we had everything. At that time we trained in Cantera, he was fascinated with the facilities, because that infrastructure in Jamaica they didn’t. The treatment of the club and the food, professionalism is what was lacking a lot there. He was doing much better financially playing in Mexico that in his country, he did comment on that, that here was paradise, he was surprised, “recalls Ramón Villa Zeballos, David Patiño’s technical assistant in Pumas Morelos.
Fraser played 12 games in Pumas Morelos and scored four goals. Villa Zeballos indicates that if he had had more time, the potential of Sean it could have led him to spend several years in Mexican soccer. Because of his style of play, he reminded him of “Mario de Souza Mota ‘Bahia’, skinny, skilled, quick, handsome, daring, with that profile and keeping the proportions, because his time in Mexico was very little.”
“I had his contact, in fact I tried to contact him to invite him to a team if it seemed like a good option, but I could not locate him, I lost the link with his agent, I do not know where he has gone and I could not take the team that wanted to take him. I didn’t know what happened to him, I was curious and looked for him, but I couldn’t find him, “acknowledges David Patiño, now Herediano’s coach in Costa Rica.
The passage of Sean Fraser in Mexico ended the relegation of Pumas Morelos to Second Division. The franchise had been sold six months earlier to AMRH International Soccer, owned by Amado Yáñez and where Jorge Campos and Claudio Suárez they acted as advisers to the businessman.
The pair of managers who discovered Orbelín Pineda, who helped to form the squad of the best sporting period in Querétato, also brought the first soccer player from Jamaica a Mexico.
“He was looking at Pumas Morelos make themselves known, many come like this and jump to the First Division. The idea of Fraser It is like that of many foreigners who come to the lower divisions with the mentality of staying and moving up, but the time he was there was very little, he had a very good tournament for what he was here, “says Ramón Villa Zeballos.
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