Italian head coach Francesco Rocca says his team will not underestimate Trinidad and Tobago when both teams meet tomorrow (Monday) in their second Group A encounter at the Cairo International Stadium from 6:45pm (12:45pm T&T time)

The Italians have already attained a point with their 0-0 draw with Paraguay on Friday and Rocca said he was happy with his team’s start.

 Trinidad and Tobago’s National Under 20 footballers came face to face with their Italian counterparts upon arrival at the Fairmont Hotel in Cairo on Friday afternoon as both teams settled in for their live-in camp for the remaining two games in Group A of the FIFA Under 20 World Championship.

T&T arrived at the hotel which is described as being built around a stunning landscaped atrium, offering guests to Cairo the ultimate in luxury and service, located five minutes away from Cairo International Airport.

 A picture, they say tells a thousand words. But in football a scoreline doesn’t always tell the proper picture.

That was how skipper Leston Paul and his teammates would have been feeling at the end of the opening match of the 2009 FIFA Under 20 World Championship played before a partisan home crowd of 74,000 at the Egyptian Army Stadium, Alexandria on Thursday night.

TTFF Special Adviser  Jack Warner on Wednesday night presented English-born footballer Jake Thomson with his Trinidad and Tobago passport which makes him eligible to play for the country in Thursday’s opening match of the FIFA Under 20 World Championship against Egypt.

Warner explained that it turned out to be a close call regarding  Thomson getting his  passport in time to play on Thursday.