PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Hundreds of Haitians marched through the streets of the capital to protest the ouster of the Caribbean country’s youth football squad from a tournament in Jamaica for health reasons.

The team’s athletes were given blood tests when they arrived in Jamaica earlier this week to compete in the tournament, which will determine the four teams from North America, Central America and the Caribbean to advance to the 2011 FIFA under-17 World Cup in Mexico.

Several Haitian players were quarantined after at least two of them tested positive for malaria and others showed early symptoms including fever and headaches.