{"id":514920,"date":"2026-03-10T11:39:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T11:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/514920\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T11:39:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T11:39:08","slug":"visa-woes-leave-jamaican-side-down-10-players-against-galaxy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/514920\/","title":{"rendered":"Visa woes leave Jamaican side down 10 players against Galaxy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CARSON, Calif. &#8212; Mount Pleasant, a team from the Jamaican Premier League, is bracing to be without as many as 10 players on Wednesday when it takes on the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"eacb28a8-817f-2672-b231-e287f1248f0f\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/team?id=187\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">LA Galaxy<\/a> of <a data-league-guid=\"d9d3698e-67b3-3ca5-9eb4-f23b8e19a464\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/league\/_\/name\/USA.1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MLS<\/a> in a Concacaf Champions Cup matchup.<\/p>\n<p>The reason: Those players, including six from Haiti, were unable to get visas to enter the U.S. for the match, Jamaican officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Editor&#8217;s Picks<a name=\"&amp;lpos=story:editorspicks:inline:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/story\/_\/id\/48155514\/mls-bans-jones-yeboah-life-betting-own-games\" class=\"img-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/r1625849_683x683_1-1.jpg&#038;w=130&#038;h=130&#038;scale=crop&#038;location=center.jpeg\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/a><a name=\"&amp;lpos=story:editorspicks:inline:2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/report\/_\/gameId\/761482\" class=\"img-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/adcdf288-d84b-4aa3-9245-bbf8372cc2ea.jpg&#038;w=130&#038;h=130&#038;scale=crop&#038;location=center.jpeg\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>1 Related<\/p>\n<p>Officials said Monday the match is still set to be played as scheduled, even while the Jamaican club &#8212; which plans to add younger players from the academy level if necessary &#8212; and Concacaf seek a solution.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. has travel restrictions on citizens from some nations, including Haiti, though there are mechanisms that can assist athletes in some cases.<\/p>\n<p>The Jamaican club has been dealing with the issue since at least last week, apparently to no avail.<\/p>\n<p>The match is the first of a two-leg round of 16 matchup in the tournament, with the second leg set to be played in Kingston, <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"852d7575-6653-80e5-627f-83735542a41c\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/team?id=1038\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jamaica<\/a> on March 19.<\/p>\n<p>Last year&#8217;s champion Cruz Azul beat the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"95b0008a-d65e-d613-49ca-9c7e91e0afe8\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/team?id=9727\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Vancouver Whitecaps<\/a> 5-0 in the final.<\/p>\n<p>Information from The Associated Press was used in this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CARSON, Calif. &#8212; Mount Pleasant, a team from the Jamaican Premier League, is bracing to be without as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":514921,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-514920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=514920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514920\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/514921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}