Training camp for Under-21s

THE Trinidad and Tobago Football Federation will stage stage a training camp at the Dr Joao Havelange Centre of Excellence for overseas and home-based Under-21 players. The camp is from December 28 to 30  and has been finalised by the Technical Department of the TTFF under Technical Director Lincoln Phillips. Some 20 players based in TT will join up with others from the United States and England for the three-day camp which will involve sessions at the Marvin Lee Stadium, Macoya and the Ato Boldon Stadium in Couva. The Under-21 training camp is part of the GOAL 2014 Project, an initiative from Phillips with an  aim to have national football teams qualify for every FIFA tournament by the year 2014. Phillips also stated the important role of establishing a worldwide network that can assist the TTFF in identifying youth and senior players.

Credit was given to the www.socawarriors.net website which assisted in providing a list of players based in the USA, eligible of playing for TT, as well as other resources in the United Kingdom. “It’s excellent that we can have other people assisting us because at the end of the day we all want what is best for football in Trinidad and Tobago. We have the raw material and it’s now up to us to turn it into something that we can proudly display also bringing us rewards at the end of the day,” Phillips said yesterday. “We have a number of good players attending colleges in the US who return home for the holiday break. Their return presents a wonderful opportunity to identify, evaluate, and track the progress of players based in TT and abroad who can represent Trinidad and Tobago in the qualifying phases of the 2008 Summer Olympic Games and eventually the Olympics themselves,” Phillips added. Phillips can be contacted at telephone number 789-9366 by other interested players.

Event: Combine for Under-21 players
Date: December 28-30
Locations: A. Joao Havelange Centre of Excellence (December 28); B. Ato Boldon Stadium (December 29 and 30)
Participants:  US-based college players and local-based players born after January 1, 1985. Purpose of Event: Identification, evaluation, and tracking of players for the purpose of supplementing and preparing U-23 National team for the 2006 CAC games, 2007 Pan American Games, and 2008 Summer Olympic Games.
Overseas-based players for Camp
1 F Sandy, Abiola— St Anthony’s College Bowling Green State University
2 F Aberdeen, Simba— Queen’s Royal College Canisius College
3 F Crooks, Kevin— Signal Hill Senior Comprehensive Clayton College & State University
4 F Phillip, Keon— Woodbrook Government Secondary Lafayette College
5 D Mills, Kegan— Missouri Baptist University
6 M Weedon, Jack— St Mary’s College North Carolina State University
7 F Crosby, Kedan— Fatima College Unive! rsity of Rhode Island
8 D Benjamin, Wacey—  St Benedict’s College University of South Carolina Aiken
9 M Johnson, Durell— St Benedict’s College University of South Carolina Aiken
10 D Hislop, Makan— Signal Hill Senior Comprehensive University of South Carolina
11 D Marshall, Yohance— St Anthony’s College University of South Florida
12 M Neaves, Kevon— St. Anthony’s College University of South Florida
13 M Cabral, Christian— St Anthony’s College University of West Florida
14 M Hay, Justin— University of Toronto
15 Hall, Kyle— University of Ontario
16 M Gardiner, Kern Fatima— College University of Richmond
17 M Pierre, Delano— Queen’s Royal College University of Richmond
18 M Dolly, Nikhil— University of Bridgeport
19 M De Las, Stephen— Birmingham Football Academy