Background
The son of a tobacco grower in Clarendon Parish, he later became a Captain with the Jamaica Defence Force.
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The son of a tobacco grower in Clarendon Parish, he later became a Captain with the Jamaica Defence Force.
Clarendon College.
He undertook basic officer training with the Canadian Armed Forces at Chilliwack, British Columbia and later New Brunswick. He would later be supervised by Colonel Ken Barnes, the father of English international football player John Barnes. Burrell described Barnes as "a great military leader".
lieutenant was Barnes who charged Burrell with looking after the JDF football team after Burrell shown Barnes a local newspaper headline "Boy"s Town drill soldiers".
Burrell took the JDF team to Trinidad where he first met Jack Warner, who was impressed with Burrell and kept in touch, offering him an executive position at the Caribbean Football Union. Following a spell at the Kingston and Street Andrew Football Association (KSAFA), he put forward his name to become President of the Jamaica Football Federation in 1994.