Jamaica Observer reporter/photographer Paul Reid has been on the ball in covering the ISSA/Flow daCosta Cup competition in western and north-western Jamaica, providing our readers with incisive and informed reporting, plus capturing the action on and off the field with dramatic images. Here is a slice of his visual take on rural Jamaica’s top schoolboy football tournament.

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Flow executives are busy on their cellphones during the opening games of the ISSA football season at the Montego Bay Sports Complex recently.

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Cornwall College’s Leonardo Murray (kneeling) pays homage to his teammate Jourdaine Fletcher after the latter completed a hat-trick in their opening ISSA/Flow daCosta Cup Zone A game against Irwin High at the Montego Bay Sports Complex. Cornwall won the game 8-0.

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Ava-Gaye Holmes, PE Teacher at Irwin High, was present as her school opened their ISSA/Flow daCosta Cup Zone A schedule against Cornwall College last month.

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A big crowd tries to get into the venue at Green Island High for the ISSA/Flow daCosta Cup Zone B game against Rusea’s High.

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A man clutching a young boy is among the many who sought to get a good vantage point for the ISSA/Flow daCosta Cup Zone B game between Green Island High and Rusea’s High at Green Island.

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This vendor came prepared to sell a lot of horns at a recent daCosta Cup game at the Montego Bay Sports Complex.

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Two ball boys look on during a recent daCosta Cup game at the Montego Bay Sports Complex and maybe wondering how soon would they be part of the competition.

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Oscar Irving, head coach of the Irwin High daCosta Cup team, uses a break in the game against Green Pond High to get in additional instructions to players.

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It took two persons to tend to a finger injury sustained by Cornwall College’s Alrick Ottey in a ISSA/Flow daCosta Cup Zone A game against Green Pond recently.

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Herbert Morrison Technical’s Tajeja Reynolds (centre) dribbles through two Spot Valley High players in an ISSA/Flow daCosta Cup Zone C game in Montego Bay last weekend. The game ended in a 1-1 draw.

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Mark ‘Dockie’ Harrison pulls up his wheelchair for a better view of the action during an ISSA/Flow daCosta Cup Zone A game between Cornwall College and St James High at Jarrett Park on Saturday.

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Head coach of St James High Theodore Whitmore (left) and members of his staff look on during Saturday’s Zone A game against Cornwall College at Jarrett Park.

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Allan ‘Creature’ Aarons, a member of the Cornwall College coaching staff, claims an interesting vantage point to view the ISSA/Flow daCosta Cup Zone A game against St James High on Jarrett Park on Saturday.