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FOOTBALL Jonte’s journey And Smith Must Score Photo by James Boyes <strong>Lewes</strong>’ Bermudan international striker Jonte Smith’s parents came up with a novel way to incentivise his studying at school. “When I was a kid in Bermuda all the football we watched was Premier League, and I desperately wanted to play football in England,” he tells me, in the club bar after <strong>Lewes</strong>’ 2-1 November victory over Harlow. “My parents finally said that we would move there… but only if I got ‘C’ or more in at least seven of my GCSEs.” It worked… and it worked. Jonte got good grades, the family moved to Croydon, and he got a place in the Crawley U18 side. He’s 24 now, and the journey he’s taken to get to <strong>Lewes</strong> FC makes quite a story. After a couple of years at Crawley, following loan periods to no fewer than five different clubs – from Eastbourne Borough to the Metropolitan Police – he felt like moving on again, and he got a contract in Finland, with PS Kemi. “It was a multinational side managed by the old West Ham defender Tommy Taylor,” he says. “It was quite a culture shock. It was -25 degrees one match. Was I wearing gloves? Of course I was… I was wearing whatever they’d let me wear! We were a good side: we won promotion and I scored a lot of goals.” Another spell in Norway, with Fleckerøy, wasn’t as successful – he found it hard to adjust to playing on an artificial pitch. He moved back to England, and played for a spell with Gloucester City, in the Conference North. “But I wanted to play a lot more locally,” he says, “and I was tied into a contract on a flat in Crawley. A friend was playing for <strong>Lewes</strong> at the time, and he told me how well the club was run behind the scenes. How good the training facilities were, and how good a manager Darren [Freeman] was.” He secured a January 2016 move to the Rooks, and scored two goals on his debut, against Canvey Island. End of story? Not quite. Despite ten goals from Smith, <strong>Lewes</strong> were relegated, and he was headhunted by Welling, in the National League. “I hardly got a look in there,” he says. “I don’t see it as a bad experience, because there’s no point in regretting any experience you’ve learnt from, but I was happy to come back to <strong>Lewes</strong>.” He loves it here, and is a big fan of the ‘Equality FC’ initiative. He’s so committed to the cause, he tells me, that in November he turned down the chance of winning his tenth cap for his international side, to concentrate on the Rooks’ promotion campaign. He took up ‘international duty’ in September, though, scoring Bermuda’s only goal in a 3-1 CONCACAF Nations Cup defeat to Aruba. How would <strong>Lewes</strong> fare, I wonder, against his homecountry team? “Any Darren Freeman side will be difficult to break down, but Bermuda would win,” he says. “3-2, Smith hat-trick?”, I venture. Alex Leith 113
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