National Olympic team coach Zoran Vranes will hold just a few more sessions before heading off to Bermuda with a National Under 23 squad for three friendly matches in Bermuda later this month.
The local team, comprising mostly Under 20 players will depart for Bermuda on December 26 and will face the Bermuda Under 23 team in two matches on December 28 and January 1 and club side Devonshire Cougars on December 30 before returning on January 2.
The Trinidad and Tobago Football Federation will be conducting screening sessions to select the Girls U-15 team on the 15th and 17th December 2009 at the Marvin Lee Stadium.
The sessions will be conducted under the watchful eyes of Jamaal Shabazz, Assistant Technical Director of Women’s Football and the Women’s U-20 team coach, Marlon Charles.
Screening takes place between the hours of 9:00am and 5:00pm each day.
This process brings to fruition the scouting for the Girls U-15 team which has been taking place at the zonal levels; coaches were assigned to identify and train the girls in the communities with a view to vie for national selection.
The screening session allows the national coaches to look at the U-15 girls in competition as it seeks to cream off the top thirty players for further development and training as we prepare for the Youth Olympics in Singapore in July 2010.
From these thirty players, the national team will be eventually selected.
Members of the media who wish to attend these sessions can contact Hema Ramkissoon at 489-7010 or Jinelle James at 743-1857 for further information. (Dec 13,2009)
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