Youth footballers push to impress national coaches

Some 80 players coming out of the Flow Youth League and the Republic Bank Youth League have been selected by TT FA scouts for the initial start of the programme which saw the layers split into three groups for sessions at the Ato Boldon Stadium, overseen by Elite Youth Development head coach Stuart Charles Fevrier and assistant coaches Leonson Lewis and Clyde Leon.

TT FA Technical Director Muhammad Isa explained that players will work with the TT FA elite coached prior to an Under 13 Zonal Youth tournament which begins on September 4 and runs until November. There will also be an Under 14 girls tournament beginning on September 6.

“The TT FA has now commenced the elite youth development programme whereby we had scouts looking at the Flow Youth Pro League and the Republic Bank Youth League and we have selected almost 80 players from those two groups to begin training,” Isa told TT FA Media on Monday at the session in which senior team head coach Dennis Lawrence and goalkeeper coach Ross Russell were also present to observe proceedings.

Lawrence initially held talks with a cadre of TT FA coaches from the respective zones prior to the session.

The Girls Under 14 programme has also commenced and is being spearheaded by Elite Development head coach Marlon Charles with Ahkeela Mollon and Jerry Moe serving as assistant coaches.

There have been screening sessions in Point Fortin and the Eddie Hart Grounds in Tacarigua.

Sessions will also take place in Tobago.