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An unpaid coach and Bob Marley’s daughter sparked Jamaica’s incredible World Cup run

OVIEDO, Fla. — One afternoon 4½ years ago, Rob Kammel was inside the one-story bungalow he rents for his graphic design firm when Hue Menzies — a former soccer player, financial analyst and math teacher — led him to the tree-canopied gravel lot out back.

“I heard this noise and I see this Jamaican food truck roll onto the property,” he recalled. “I thought I was going to hyperventilate. Oh my God, what is this thing?”

That thing, decorated with sketches of Usain Bolt and other island track stars, carried jerk chicken, rice and peas and plantains for 20-some girls and women.