Brazilian Rene Simoes was sacked as coach of Jamaica one day after Jamaica's second straight defeat in 2010 World Cup qualifying tournament on Thursday.

"The Jamaica Football Federation would like to formally announce that it has severed ties with Technical Director of the country's football programme, Professor Rene Simoes, and his Brazilian staff with immediate effect," the Jamaica football federation said in a statement.

The federation is already looking for someone to take the job, with three matches remaining in the semifinal phase of qualifying in the North and Central America and Caribbean region.

"Having established clear objectives at the start of the World Cup qualifying campaign and evaluated the results thus far, it became clear to us as a body that our objectives were not being met," the JFF statement said. "Based on that, a decision was taken to part company with professor Simoes and his staff at this time."

Jamaica were beaten 2-0 by Honduras in San Pedro Sula on Wednesday night, four days after being beaten 3-0 by Mexico at the Azteca.

(Xinhua News Agency September 12, 2008)