By the time the National Teams of Spain, Canada, Mexico and Republic of Ireland and Ghana touch down at the Piarco International Airport on 10:35 pm on Thursday, the full slate of countries appearing at the 2010 FIFA Under 17 Women’s World Cup would have been on local soil to head into their final bit of preparations ahead of their opening matches.
The Soca Princesses looked in fighting form on Thursday during a training session just three days prior to making history on home soil as the first National Under 17 Women’s team to compete in a major FIFA World Cup event.
The training session was held on the grounds of the University of Trinidad and Tobago, O’meara Campus, Arima and following a full two hours of rigorous drills and exercises, Coach Even Pellerud surmised that:“It was an acceptable level of performance”.
Trinidad and Tobago’s men’s Soca Warriors are backing the Trinidad and Tobago Soca Princesses to go beyond the first round and make their mark on the upcoming FIFA Under 17 Women’s World Cup.
Trinidad and Tobago’s Under 17 women footballers are seemingly peaking just in time for the start of the FIFA Under 17 Women’s World Cup as they produced a scintillating performance in their final warm-up international to whip European second placed team Republic of Ireland 3-0 at the Pine Island Soccer Complex in Fort Lauderdale on Saturday evening.
The week leading up to November 19,1989 - At a special Inter-Faith Service in Port of Spain Cathedral, at which
Hindu , Muslim and Christian prayers were heard, the Archbishop said of
a visit to the team: 'When I prayed with the Strike Squad in their
dressing-room, I felt I was praying for the nation.' Go here to read the full UK Observer story
"It's the start of another journey. We tried last year to reach the World Cup finals but just didn't do it.We know our capabilities and have very good players capable of
fitting into the national team. Our aim (Sunday night) was to beat
Grenada by four goals and we had that score at half-time which allowed
our coach (Vidale) to use his two other strikers who need as much
practice as they could get." - T&T Captain Clayton Morris following T&T's 5-0 win over Grenada in the opener of the 990 Shell Caribbean Cup July 23,1990
Blast from the Past
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Trinidad and Tobago Men's Senior Team went down 1-0 to Morocco in a friendly international in Casablanca in a build up game to the 2000 Concacaf Gold Cup. All it took was a 34th minute item by Coventry City striker Moustafa Hadji to give the hosts the win. T&T were far from push overs and proved to be tricky opponents for the African team. Hadjia, a member of Morocco's World Cup team and 1999 African "Player of the Year" got the winner with a free kick past goalkeeper Clayton Ince.T&T Line up Clayton Ince, Ian Cox, Anthony Rougier, Shurland David, Ansil
Elcock, Ronnie Maugé (Brent Rahim), Angus Eve, Russell Latapy (Arnold
Dwarika), David Nakhid (Derek King), Mickey Trotman (Hector Sam), Jerren
Nixon (Nigel Pierre) - Jan 18,2000
Upcoming Matches - T&T Men's U-17s vs Cuba, CFU Qualifier, Marvin Lee Stadium, 5pm, 20/8/10, T&T Men's Senior vs Panama, Panama City, 7/9/10; T&T Men's Senior vs Belize, Belize, 10/9/10; Kingston;T&T U17 Women vs Chile, Sept 5,2010, Hasely Crawford Stadium, FIFA U17 World Cup.
Latest Results - T&T
U-17 Women 1 vs Venezuela 0, 18/8/10; T&T Women U-17 2 vs Venezuela 1, 16/8/10; T&T Men's U-17s 8 vs St Kitts/Nevis 0, CFU Qualifier, 18/8/10; T&T Men's Senior 1 vs Jamaica 3, Friendly International, 11/8/10;T&T Men's Senior Team 4 vs Antigua/Barbuda 1, 21/7/10; T&T Women's Senior 3 vs Guyana 0,14/5/10;T&T Women Senior 5 vs Barbados 0, 12/5/10; T&T Women's Senior 6 vs St Lucia 1,10/5/10;T&T Men's Senior 0 vs Chile Men's Senior 2, Iquique, 05/05/10;T&T Women U17s 0 vs Korea Republic U17s 6, Paju, 10/4/10; T&T Women's U17s 1 vs Korea Republic U17s 4, Paju, 7/4/10; T&T Women's U17s 3 vs Korea Republic U17s 1, Paju, 5/4/10;T&T Men's U23 1 vs Grenada Senior Team 1, 26/3/10;T&T Women U17s 1 vs Canada U17s 1, March 5,2010, Manny Ramjohn Stadium More
