UANA Water Polo Cup launched

The male national teams of Canada, Brazil, Argentina and Trinidad and Tobago began five days of competition last evening in an attempt to qualify for the World Aquatic Championships in Budapest, Hungary in July.

Smith wished the teams well and spoke of the Ministry’s thrust in making sport tourism a viable industry in this country. He remarked that his Ministry was a part of the TT MA’s Trade and Industry Convention last year and said this indicated a step in the right direction in the monetizing of sport.

“Our thinking with the Sport Company as it relates to the new facilities is that we are now open for business of producing world class athletes in these factories, and with the current economic climate as it relates to oil and gas the timing for having these facilities opened was fantastic to assist with the diversification of the economy,” he said.

Also addressing the audience were Felix Calderon, president of CCCAN and Dale Neuberger, vice president of FINA and president UANA.

Calderon inspected the facilities for hosting CCCAN and was in Tobago gauging the possibility of an open water competition there. He was extremely pleased with the competition venues and was “at a lost of words” when he viewed the magnitude of the facility.

Neuberger described the facility as the “most beautiful in the Americas” and commended the leadership in aquatics on the good work in the sport.