Jamaica Open World Cup campaign with win over Guatemala at The Office

Jamaica's Reggae Boys last night kick-start the 2014 Road to Rio campaign with a solid 2-1 triumph over Guatemala in front of a good crowd at the National Stadium.

This in their opening match in the CONCACAF semi-final round of the World Cup qualifying competition

The  victory  pushes  Jamaica  to  joint  top  of  the  Group  A  table  with  the  United States who ran out 3-1 winners over Antigua and Barbuda.

Demar Phillips in the 41^st and Ryan Johnson in 46^th were on target for Jamaica, while Dwight Pezzarosi got a late consolation goal for Guatemala in stoppage time.

In  other  CONCACAF  qualifiers, Panama  turned  back  Honduras  2-0, Mexico   beat  Guyana  3-1, Costa  Rica  and  El  Salvador  played  to  a  2-2  draw  and   Canada  clipped  Cuba  1-0.

The Jamaican team meanwhile is scheduled to leave the island on Saturday for Antigua where they will face the home team at the Sir Vivian Richards Stadium on Tuesday.