JAMAICA'S Reggae Boyz are due to tackle South Africa in a hurriedly organised friendly international in Frankfurt, Germany, on Wednesday.

So tight is the schedule that Theodore Whitmore's players may have to play the game the very day they arrive in Europe as they are down to depart Jamaica Tuesday morning via Miami before landing a day later.

President of the Jamaica Football Federation, Captain Horace Burrell said the South Africans made the SOS call on Jamaica for the game as following the last-minute pull out of China."We are very happy to help out our South African brothers in this situation, we know it's a huge challenge in terms of the time we have to pull it all together, but coach Whitmore agreed that it would be a great opportunity to have this game and we just went for it," Burrell said yesterday.

The players, said Burrell, are due to visit the German Embassy this morning at 7:00 for a specially arranged session to process their Shengen visas which will allow them to land in the European country.

"We are very grateful to the German Embassy officials who have gone out of their way to facilitate us on such short notice. I would also like to thank the South African Embassy here, the minister of sport, the foreign affairs ministry and the South African Football Association in coming together to set things in motion," said the CONCACAF Executive Committee member yesterday.

Though no team has yet been made public, the squad is expected to be made up of mostly local-based players, though efforts were underway last night to get the release of Jamaica's Scandinavia-based players.

Jamaica, ranked 78th by FIFA and 88th-rated South Africa, have played each three times prior, with their last meeting being in November last year in Bloemfontein. That game, like all the other match-ups, ended in a draw.

Following that game on the soil of the World Cup hosts, the 'Bafana Bafana' coach Brazilian Carlos Alberto Parriera had criticised Jamaica's approach to the game, lambasting the visitors for their ultra-defensive style which resulted in a goalless draw.