Trinidad and Tobago Football Federation - TTFF

Trinidad and Tobago’s Men’s National Under 20 team will depart for a training camp in Miami on January 1st for the final leg of preparations ahead of the CONCACAF Final Round of World Cup Qualification in Jamaica.

The 20-man squad will be based at the Shula’s Hotel and Resort in Miami Lakes and will train at the St Thomas University for the camp which includes two training matches before departing for Kingston on January 7th.

TTFA’S National Team’s Operations Manager William Wallace confirmed on Christmas Eve that the Ministry of Sport and the Sport Company of Trinidad and Tobago will fund the team’s campaign for the final round of qualification in Jamaica while a contribution from Telecommunications Services of Trinidad and Tobago (TSTT) will cover the expenses for the training camp in Miami.

Wallace continued discussions with the involved parties and received confirmation of their commitment to the team on Wednesday.  All flight arrangements as well as hotel and training site bookings have also been finalized.

The TTFA wishes to thank the Ministry of Sport, SPORTT and TSTT for their generous contribution towards the National Under 20 Men’s Team in its quest to qualify for the 2015 FIFA Under 20 Men’s World Cup in New Zealand.

Team head coach Derek King, who led T&T to the Caribbean Under 20 title earlier this  year with a convincing 3-0 win over Haiti in the final, said he was looking forward to the commencement of the much needed training camp for the junior “Soca Warriors”.

“This camp is a much welcomed one for the team. It’s an excellent opportunity for us to be together as a team in a camp environment before our first match in the tournament,” King told TTFA Media today.

“We really appreciate the effort of the Association and also very important for us,  the contributions of the Ministry of Sport the Sportt Company and TSTT to ensure we could get the training camp arranged and the team can go into the competition without the off the field headaches,” King added.

Joining the squad with be Duane Muckette, the University of South Florida midfielder as well as Brendon Creed, the captain of the previous Under 17 National team while forward Ricardo John of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and US College-based defender Leland Archer  are also coming in.

“These player such as Muckette, Creed and John will definitely add some quality to what we already have with the likes of Corbin, Levi Garcia and the other boys who did exceptionally well for us in the Caribbean Championship. The sessions this week were of a good quality with a lot of intensity and it’s a good sign of us. We intend to carry this straight into the Miami camp and the tournament in Jamaica,” King said.

T&T will play two training  games against local teams on January 3 and 5 and King is also hopeful that his team will get the opportunity to play against international opposition that will be in Miami during the same period. That particular match is yet to be finalized.


The T&T Under 20 team has  been in training for the past few weeks and there was a two-day break before sessions resume on  Saturday prior to the team’s departure on Thursday.

T&T will open the CONCACAF Final Round of Qualification against hosts Jamaica in Kingston on January 9th.

The Junior “Soca Warriors”  are in Group A along with  Jamaica, Aruba, Panama, the United States and Guatemala.  Group B includes Haiti, Canada, Mexico, Cuba, Honduras and El Salvador, in order of position drawn. 

The tournament will crown the Confederation champion at this age level, and qualify four teams to the FIFA Under-20 World Cup New Zealand 2015.  The top team from each group after round-robin play advances to the World Cup, and the second and third place nations from each group advance to the final day knockout phase, with the chance to dispute one of a pair of play-in matches which will determine CONCACAF's other two World Cup spots, as stated by CONCACAF.

PROVISIONAL NATIONAL UNDER 20 SQUAD

Number	First Name	Surname	Date of Birth
1	Johan Jullian	Welch	04-Jan-97
2	Jovan Jerrod	Sample	13-Apr-95
3	Martieon Clyde	Watson	13-Oct-96
4	Brandon Nicholas	Creed	10-Dec-96
5	Jesus Angelo	Perez	11-Sep-95
6	Shannon Jurmark	Gomez	05-Oct-96
7	Maurice Phillip	Ford	06-Sep-96
8	Leland Douglas	Archer	08-Jan-96
9	Aikim Rodney	Andrews	20-Jun-96
10	Akeem Ancil	Garcia	11-Sep-96
11	Levi Ancil	Garcia	20-Nov-97
12	Jabari Anthony	Mitchell	01-May-97
13	Kevon	Goddard	20-Jan-96
14	Kishun Kirt	Seecharan	06-Jun-96
15	Neveal Irwin	Hackshaw	21-Sep-95
16	Karl Duane	Muckette	01-Jul-95
17	Akeem Brenton	Humphrey	25-Nov-95
18	Matthew Charles	Woo Ling	15-Sep-96
19	Ricardo Enrique	John	10-Apr-95
20	Kadeem Shaquille	Corbin	04-Mar-96
21	Rashad	Hyacinth
22	Nicholas	Dillon
23	Justin Christopher Aaron	Garcia Bigette Enill

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

NATIONAL UNDER 20 TEAM – STAFF

 

DEREK KING HEAD COACH

HUTSON CHARLES ASSISTANT COACH

MICHAEL MAURICE G/K COACH

STEPHEN HART SENIOR TEAM’S COACH

MICHAEL TAYLOR PHYSIO

MICHAEL WILLIAMS EQUIPMENT MANAGER

DOUGLAS ARCHER MANAGER

SARON JOSEPH TRAINER

TERRENCE BABWAH DOCTOR

SHAUN FUENTES MEDIA Officer/TECHNICAL VIDEO

WAYNE CUNNINGHAM ASSSISTANT MANAGER