Burrell’s endless passion
“WHAT WE dreamed, he dared,” was how communications specialist and a man who played an important role on Jamaica’s historic journey to the 1998 World Cup, Curtis Myrie described the former Jamaica Football Federation (JFF) president, Captain Horace Burrell.
“This was a guy whose passion increased increasingly, if you could ever say such a thing. It had a multiplying effect,” Myrie continued in his description of the former JFF president, who died earlier this month.
Burrell’s boundless energy, Myrie said allowed him to do what ordinary men could not even think of.
FINDING THE ENERGY
“Burrell was prepared to get up and go at a time when most men would get tired and would wait on another day to continue. If it meant not sleeping then he would do it, if it meant that it took just pressing on with what he believed then he would do it. He would find the extra energy,” said Myrie, who charted the social marketing course for the Federation and the 1998 World Cup campaign since 1995.
Myrie also likened Captain Burrell to a bull.
“One could use the analogy, which he would not like, of a brazen bull, who would just keep charging. That is Burrell. Burrell’s passions, I believe, was piped from a source of unending will. It was very difficult to tell him to try another route, try another way. Once his heart and mind were set on another way, you would not be able to stop him.”