Winston Anglin was a Jamaica

Jamaica

Jamaica is an island nation of the Greater Antilles, in length, up to in width and 10,990 square kilometres in area. It is situated in the Caribbean Sea, about south of Cuba, and west of Hispaniola, the island harbouring the nation-states Haiti and the Dominican Republic...

n international football

Football (soccer)

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...

 player.

Club career

Nicknamed Twinny Bug he played for local sides Wadadah F.C.

Wadadah F.C.

Wadadah F.C. is a Jamaican football team playing at the second level, the Western Confederation Super League.-History:The club began in 1983 when it entered the St. James Division in Division II...

, Waterhouse F.C.

Waterhouse F.C.

The Waterhouse Football Club is a football team based in Kingston, that competes in the Jamaican National Premier League. Their home stadium is Waterhouse Stadium.-History:The club was founded in 1968 and started with their home ground at Emmett Park...

 and Village United F.C.

Village United F.C.

Village United F.C. is a Jamaican football team playing at the top level, the Jamaican National Premier League. It is based in Falmouth.Their current home stadium is the Trelawny Multi-Purpose Stadium, which can hold a capacity of up to 25,000...

. He was one of the island's most consistent, but sharp-tempered midfielders of the 1980's.

International career

He also played 83 times for the Reggae Boyz

Jamaica national football team

The Jamaica national football team is the national team of Jamaica and is controlled by the Jamaica Football Federation. After decades in CONCACAF obscurity, they gained many fans throughout the world after they qualified for the 1998 FIFA World Cup...

 and scored one goal in Jamaica's 2-1 victory over Trinidad and Tobago

Trinidad and Tobago national football team

The Trinidad and Tobago national football team, nicknamed The Soca Warriors, is the national team of Trinidad and Tobago and is run by the Trinidad and Tobago Football Federation. It reached the first round of the 2006 FIFA World Cup Finals...

 in the final of the Shell Caribbean Cup in 1991. Also, he scored twice in a World Cup qualifier against Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico national football team

The Puerto Rico national football team is the national team of Puerto Rico and is controlled by Federación Puertorriqueña de Fútbol. Puerto Rico's national football team is a member of the Caribbean Football Union, part of the CONCACAF....

 in 1988.

Drugs offence

However, his career as a national team player ended in 1995 after he was given an 18-month sentence in the USA for cocaine

Cocaine

Cocaine is a crystalline tropane alkaloid that is obtained from the leaves of the coca plant. The name comes from "coca" in addition to the alkaloid suffix -ine, forming cocaine. It is a stimulant of the central nervous system, an appetite suppressant, and a topical anesthetic...

 trafficking. Anglin was held at New York

New York

New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...

's JFK International Airport with 103 ballons of the drug in his stomach. He returned to Jamaica shortly after being released on parole and continued to play club football, doing so well that his supporters waged numerous calls for his return to the national team. But his drug conviction and several battles with match officials forced national coaches to ignore his claims for a recall.

Death

Like other former Reggae Boyz' stars Stephen Malcolm

Stephen Malcolm

Stephen Malcolm was a Jamaican international football player. His position was defensive midfielder or defender.During his club career he played for Seba United....

 and Peter Cargill

Peter Cargill

Peter Cargill was a Jamaican international football player. His position was midfielder or defender.Nicknamed "Jair", he played for local sides Swallowfield FC, CC Lions, Port Morant United and Harbour View F.C. and also spent 8 years in Israel with Maccabi Netanya and Hapoel Petah Tikva...

, Anglin was killed in a road accident near Discovery Bay

Discovery Bay, Jamaica

Discovery Bay is a town in Saint Ann Parish on the northern coast of Jamaica. The city is also known locally as Dry Harbour Bay, because it sits in the shadow of the Dry Harbour Mountains in St. Ann. There is a dispute as to whether Christopher Columbus first landed in Discovery Bay or Sevilla la...

. He died in St Ann's Bay hospital after the car he was traveling in overturned on a rural and unlit highway on Jamaica's north coast, hit a rock and landed upside down. He was returning home after watching Jamaica's World Cup qualifier against Panama

Panama national football team

The Panama national football team is the national team of Panama and is controlled by the Panamanian Football Federation. Panama reached the 2006 World Cup CONCACAF Final Round in the qualifiers and finished as runners-up at the final game of the 2005 Gold Cup...

 at the National Stadium in Kingston

Kingston, Jamaica

Kingston is the capital and largest city of Jamaica, located on the southeastern coast of the island. It faces a natural harbour protected by the Palisadoes, a long sand spit which connects the town of Port Royal and the Norman Manley International Airport to the rest of the island...

. According to police reports, he died from severe trauma to the head and body.

External links

• News leaves Anglin's mother in disbelief - Jamaica Gleaner
• Record at FIFA Tournaments - FIFA