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New hairstyle, new chapter for Mount Pleasant’s Bailey
December 11, 2024
There are two things distinctly different and noticeable about Mount Pleasant Academy winger Kimoni Bailey, this season.
First, the player is no longer sporting dreadlocks and the 25 year-old is scoring at a rapid rate. He is now the joint joint top scorer in the Jamaica Premier League with Arnett Gardens' Warner Brown. Both have eight goals.
Bailey's goal scoring form has come as a surprise to many who rated the player highly for his energy and work rate.
However, unlike many top players who have gone to the St Ann-based club and struggled to show their best form, Bailey has steadily improved in his three seasons with the club.
He scored more than five goals (seven) in a season for first time during the last campaign and slammed in his eighth of the 2024-25 competition when his club whipped Humble Lion 4-1 on Monday night.
Bailey said he is now more focused and working harder as he is eyeing the golden boot this season.
"It's a good feeling to know that I am on the top (of goal scoring chart) right now. But I am still hungry for more. I want more and I am going for more," he said.
"My form is good. I have to just keep working hard. I can't get complacent or comfortable. I have a number (goals he wants to score). I am not going to give that number but not reaching that number will be like a failure," he said.
Bailey pointed out that he has started this season in much the same fashion as last season, but injury curtailed his momentum last term.
He promised that as long as he stays fully fit the goals will keep coming.
"It (form) is a 100 per cent per cent better this time around. I just want to stay injury free and keep working hard. It's just the work we are putting in on the training field. Once I remain injury free I will keep it up," he said.
The player said cutting his locks was the signal for a new chapter in his life.
"It's basically a new chapter. One of my best moments in football came when my hair was low. Most people know me with the locks but I have been growing my hair for a very long time and I just felt I needed a change," he said.
