When Bob Marley died in 1981, it's said he was buried with five precious items - his guitar, a bible, a bud of marijuana, a ring gifted to him by the Prince Asfa Wossen of Ethiopia, and a football.
It's been medically disproven, but urban legend still holds that the malignant melanoma under his toenail which eventually killed him at the tragically young age of 36 was caused by a football injury.Bob's love of the game was passed down to his kids. If it wasn't, it's fair to say Australia's next opponents at the Women's World Cup simply wouldn't be there.
"I said, 'Jamaica don't have no girls team playing football!' - I never knew this," Cedella said. She dug deeper, calling up the head of the national federation to find out exactly what was going on, and why the women's team had been shuttered in the first place, yet the men's program was left untouched."It wasn't because they couldn't find raw talent in Jamaica - it was a money thing," she said.
Late last year, Jamaica beat Panama on penalties at the CONCACAF women's championship to qualify for France and seal the first ever Women's World Cup appearance by a Caribbean nation. They're the lowest-ranked team in the tournament and the Matildas are expected to account for them handily, but it's a miracle they are even there at all.