Jorel Bellafonte (born 2 March 1995) is a
Caymanian former track athlete, and current
footballer
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who plays as a
forward
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* Forward (surname)
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* Forward (association football)
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for Academy SC and the
Cayman Islands national team.
Athletic career
Belafonte was a formerly a 800m and 1500m athlete, while at high school in Jamaica. He attended
Calabar High School
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, where he won individual medals at the
Inter-Secondary Schools Boys and Girls Championships in Jamaica, as well as team medals with his high school at the
Penn Relays, winning the relay in 2014. He then went on to become a
Clemson Tiger at university, moving down to the 400mH. On the international stage, he represented the Cayman Islands at the
CARIFTA Games on several occasions. He holds the national Caymanian indoor 800m record, with a time of 1:52.21 on a regular indoor track, and 1:51.82 on and oversized track (OT).
International football career
On 5 September 2019, Bellafonte made his debut against the
US Virgin Islands in a 0–2 victory in the
CONCACAF Nations League. On 8 September 2019, he scored his first goal for Cayman Islands against
Barbados
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in a 3–2 victory.
Career statistics
International goals
:''Scores and results list the Cayman Islands' goal tally first.''
References
1995 births
Living people
Men's association football forwards
Caymanian men's footballers
Roma United SC players
Cayman Islands Premier League players
Cayman Islands men's international footballers
People educated at Calabar High School
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