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T&T lose out to Mexicans in Futsal opener.

24-Jul-2004 - Mexico and the host Costa Rica opened the 2004 CONCACAF Futsal Championship with victories against Trinidad & Tobago and Surinam, respectively at the Palacio de los Deportes in Heredia, Costa Rica on Friday evening.
Midfielder Jesus Contreras scored twice, while defenders Victor Huerta, Arturo Lopez, midfielders Alberto Montiel and Miguel Ángel Olvera each added a goal for Mexico (1-0-0, 3 Points) in the 6:4 Group A victory over Trinidad & Tobago (0-1-0, 0 Points). The soca warriors offence was led by forward Jerwyn Balthazar with two goals, while defender Anthony Small and midfielder Ako James each had a tally in the loss.

Mexico – Trinidad & Tobago 6:4 (2:2).

TT-Scorers: Jerwyn BALTHAZAR 6’, 40’; Anthony SMALL 16’; Ako JAMES 21’
TRI: 1-Kevin Graham-C – 6-Ako James, 7-Jerwyn Balthazar, 10-Colin Joseph, 14-Cordell Greenidge.
Subs: 2-Anthony Small, 5-Franklyn Ollivierra, 8-Sterling O’Brien, 9-Kevin Peters, 11-Marvin Lee.
TD: Clayton MORRIS

MEX-Scorers: Jesus CONTRERAS 12’, 24’; Alberto MONTIEL 14’; Miguel Ángel OLVERA 22’; Arturo LOPEZ 29’; Victor HUERTA 39’
MEX: 1-Abel Trepmann – 3-Jesus Contreras, 5-Mario Alberto Vertti, 7-Victor Huerta-C, 8-Arturo Lopez.
Subs: 2-Guillermo Castañeda, 4-Carlos Ramirez, 6-Alberto Montiel, 9-Hector Guzman, 11-Miguel Ángel Olvera. 
TD: Josúe RODRIGUEZ

Costa Rica – Trinidad & Tobago 6:1 (1:0).

TT–Scorer: Marvin LEE 38’
TRI: 1-Kevin Graham-C – 6-Ako James, 8-Sterling O’Brian, 9-Kevin Peters, 14-Cordell Greenidge.
Subs: 2-Anthony Small, 5-Franklyn Ollivierra, 7-Jerwyn Balthazar, 10-Colin Joseph, 11-Marvin Lee, 15-Wendell Douglas.
TD: Clayton MORRIS.

CRC-Scorers: Yanan MONTOYA 3’; Adonai VINDAS 30’; Carlos CHAVES 34’; Johnny RODRIGUEZ 35’; Jefrid RUIZ 36’; Jason ARCE 38’
CRC: 12-Justin Wallace – 5-Henry Valverde, 9-Mauricio Carvajal, 10-Yanan Montoya, 11-Michael Barrantes.
Subs: 2-Jason Arce, 3-Adonai Vindas, 4-Carlos Chaves, 6-Johnny Rodriguez, 7-Jefrid Ruiz, 8-Junior Rodriguez-C.
TD: Carlos QUIROS.

T&T, Cuba draw Futsal series 1-1.

By Nigel Simon.
22-May-2004 - T&T’s men’s Futsal football team returned home Thursday night after drawing a three-match series with Cuba. Each team won once and the other match was drawn.
In the tour opener, the team — captained by Kevin Graham — pipped Cuba, the region’s top side, 2-1 with a goal each from Jerwyn Balthazar and Kevin Peters — the latter having been voted the “Most Valuable Player” in the Caribbean Football Union’s Futsal Championships which T&T won, beating Guyana 5-0 in the final.
The touring players then played to a 1-1 deadlock against the host team, with Cordelle Greenidge getting the T&T goal, while they went under 1-2 in the final match, also against Cuba.
In the third and final tour match, Balthazar scored again for T&T, who conceded the winning goal during the last two minutes, with only four players on the field after acting captain Sterling O’Brien was shown the red card.
The Cubans were coming off a 2-2 draw with Mexico and a 4-2 triumph before the goodwill series against the “Calypso Boys.”
The T&T players, who hold the CFU championship, are preparing for the final round of the CONCACAF tournament, to be staged in Costa Rica from July 23 to 31.
Joining T&T in the eight-team tournament awill be the USA, Cuba, Guyana, Suriname and Costa Rica while the other two berths will be determined on conclusion of the North/Central Zone Series 1 (Canada vs Panama) and Series 2 (Mexico vs El Salvador) preliminaries this weekend.
In the 2000 CONCACAF tournament, winning team Costa Rica and Cuba qualified for the FIFA Futsal World Championships, held in Guatemala.
National coach Clayton Morris said: “After we defeated Cuba in the opening match, they wanted to get a rematch, so instead of playing two club teams in the other matches, we played a three-match series with the Cubans.”
Looking ahead to the CONCACAF tournament, Morris said: “We will be looking to have another couple of international matches against some Central American countries.
Two teams from CONCACAF will qualify for the grand 2004 FIFA Futsal World Championships in Chinese Taipei from November 21 to December 5.
Tomorrow, the T&T Futsal squad will resume training at the University of the West Indies Sports and Physical Educational Centre in St Augustine, from 9 am.

T&T beat Guyana in CFU Futsal final.

25-Apr-2004 - Kevin Peters - CMC - pumped in two goals and fired hosts Trinidad and Tobago to a 5-0 win over Guyana in the final of the first-ever Caribbean Football Union (CFU) Hindu Credit Union-sponsored Futsal tournament on Friday night.
More than 1,300 spectators watched Trinidad and Tobago easily topple the Guyanese in the final held at the University of the West Indies Sports Complex in St Augustine.
Ako James, Colin Joseph and Marvin Lee added to the goals by Peters, for the Soca Warriors to collect another jewel in their impressive list of Caribbean honours.
Peters, who was outsanding throughout the week-long tournament was adjudged “Most Valuable Player” before a packed and appreciative audience. T&T are the most successful team in Caribbean Cup football, winning eight of the 11 tournaments played.
In the Futsal third-place match, Suriname claimed the final CFU spot to the CONCACAF finals when they ran past Netherlands Antilles 9-4. Three goals by Winston Feller and two each from C. Sama-an and Roberto Zebeda propelled Suriname's effort.
Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana and Suriname will join three qualifiers from the North/Central Preliminary Series, along with Cuba and hosts Costa Rica, in the eight-team CONCACAF Final Round.
The CONCACAF event will qualify two nations from the confederation to the 2004 FIFA Futsal World Championship in Chinese Taipei from November 22 to December 12. Futsal is a sport that is a derivative of football and played with five-man teams on a basketball-style court, with no walls and a low bouncing ball.

TRI: Kevin Graham – Jason Valley, Ako James, Anthony Small, Cordell Greenidge.
Subs: Kevin Peters, Colin Joseph, Sterling O’Brien, Jerwyn Balthazar, Marvin Lee, Nkosi Gabriel, Perry Martin. 

TRI Booked: Gabriel 38th.

GUY: Orin Parris – Eron Hayde, Lester Peters, Norman Nassey, Norris Carter.
Subs: Konata Manning, Delon Joseph, Zevon Atkinson, Dwayne Douglas, Travis Grant, Shem Porter, Alton Fraser. 

GUY Booked: Hayde 38th.

T&T and Guyana book final spots in CFU Futsal qualifiers.

By: Shaun Fuentes.
22-Apr-2004 - Host country Trinidad and Tobago and Guyana booked their places in Friday's final of the Caribbean Football Union Futsal qualifiers with respective victories over Netherlands Antilles and Suriname at the University of the West Indies, St Augustine on Wednesday night.
T&T easily got past Grenada 9-2 while Guyana hard to work hard to earn a 7-5 win over Suriname, edging out the latter on goal difference.
T&T coach Clayton Morris was obviously pleased with the team's success so far, saying that the main objective now was to win the tournament.
"I think things have gone just as planned so far. From day one e told the players that they can go as far as they wanted to in this version of the game once they set their minds to the task. This is their game and we are happy that the authorities saw it fit to expose them. Reaching the finals in Costa Rica is a big achievement for them," Morris told TTFF Media.
Going into the final against Guyana from 8pm at UWI, Morris added "They (Guyana) will be on a high because they are undefeated but they will also be cautious against our guys because I think we have the more skilful players in this tournament."
In the feature match of the evening, Grenada were hoping to cause an upset against hosts T&T but soon found the going tough against a team that had improved with each match.
Three minutes past before Anthony Small put T&T ahead from a left side cross by Ako James.
Two minutes later, things got better for the home team as James got into a one on one with goalkeeper Roosevelt Romain and calmly slotted home for a 2-0 lead.
Grenada hit back though in the same 5th minute when Brian Stanisclaus found the target to make it 2-1.
Jerwyn Balthazar wasted no time in regaining T&T's two-goal advantage when he netted in the 9th minute leaving Grenada to wait a further nine minutes before Akenson Neckles made it 3-2, T&T went 4-2 ahead in the 27th minute through Balthazar who struck with a bullet past Romain.
The lead was extended when Balthazar got his third goal in the 31st minute. Kevin Peters shot between the keeper's legs to make it 6-2 in the 33rd. Marvin Lee pushed T&T ahead 7-1 in the 34th minute and by then it was all T&T. They got further goals from Lee in the 35th and Peters in the 39th minute. T&T substitute goalkeeper Perry Martin saved a penalty by Neckles in the final minute.
In the earlier match, the Netherlands went ahead in the 4th minute through Clifford Pauletta and proceeded to get further goals from Curly Poppen (6th, 10th and 35th ), Claymore Dewindt (29th) and Riangelo Rodriguez in the 37th minute. The Puerto Ricans, far from a bad playing side, got their goals from Chago Snatiago (31st), Manuel Freije (38th) and Javier Ortiz in the penultimate minute.
Guyana, in their match against Suriname, had to wait until the 9th minute before taking the lead through Alton Fraser before Eron Hayde doubled their advantage four minutes later following a tightly contested opening few minutes.
Suriname pulled a goal back through C.Sama-an in the 23rd minute but were soon trailing by two goals again when Fraser notched his second item in the 25th minute. Things got worse for Suriname when S. Berenstein put the ball into his own net a minute later to leave Guyana ahead 4-1. Further goals by Travis Grant in the 28th minute, Fraser in the 32nd and Norman Nassey four minutes from the end completed the win for Guyana and in the process send them into Friday's final.
A. Doesburg (30th, 37th) G Brandon (31st) and Sama-an (40th) were the other scorers for Puerto Rico.
The other match on the day saw the hammering team of the competition, Turks and Caicos giving a much improved performance in their closing match against St Vincent and the Grenadines. Though losing again, 2-0 this time, the Turks were able to hold a 0-0 scoreline at half time, the first scoreless half for the series. Narel George scored in the 25th minute and Chester Morgan got St Vincent's second item a minute from the end.
The three Caribbean representatives will join three qualifiers from the North/Central Preliminary Series, along with Cuba and the host Costa Rica, in the eight-team CONCACAF Final Round. This event will qualify two CONCACAF nations to the 2004 FIFA Futsal World Championship to be held in Chinese Taipei from 21 November - 5 December.

TRI: Kevin Graham – Jason Valley, Ako James, Anthony Small, Wendell Douglas.
Subs – Cordell Greenidge, Kevin Peters, Colin Joseph, Sterling O’Brien, Jerwyn Balthazar, Marvin Lee, Perry Martin.

TRI Booked: none.

GRN: R. Romain – Ricky Morris, K. Wilson, Brian Stanticlaus, Franklyn Baptiste.
Subs – Atkinson Neckles, Dwayne Jerome, A. Charles, Desmond Noel, D. Hood. 

GRN Booked: Hood 30’, Jerome 31’

23.04.2004:

Third-Place: Suriname – Netherlands Antilles (20:00).
Final: Trinidad & Tobago – Guyana (21:00).

James nets double for Soca Warriors.

By Nigel Simon.
21-Apr-2004 - Ako James scored a goal on either side of the half as host T&T opened its Hindu Credit Union Caribbean Football Union Futsal qualifying tournament with a 4-2 win over Puerto Rico on Monday night.
Before a vociferous crowd that braved the rainy weather at the University of the West Indies, Sports and Physical Educational Centre, St Augustine, local players Jerwyn Balthazar and Kevin Peters had early shots on goal for T&T. But it was James who brought the fans alive at the fully air-conditioned facility when he put the ball into the net to put T&T 1-0 ahead in the ninth minute.
Two minutes later Kevin Peters got goal number two, with a bullet of a right footed shot.
Marvin Lee extended the lead to 3-0 two minutes before the end of the 20-minute first half, as he turned in a right sided by James.
Sterling O’Brien twice had a chance to add to his team’s score from the penalty spot but on each occasion he dragged his shots right of the post. The spot kicks were awarded for fouls on the local players after the Puerto Rican had reached the allotted number of fouls per half, six.
Within four minutes of the restart James got is second item in the 24th minute to guarantee the host a comfortable 4-0 lead for T&T. However, Puerto Rican pulled two goals back through Hector Calderon from the penalty spot in the 29th minute and Jose Garcia in the final minute.

Six get Futsal recall.

By Nigel Simon.
13-Apr-2004 - Six players who were left out of a 12-member national Futsal team for a cancelled trip to Cuba have been recalled to the training squad for the inaugural Hindu Credit Union Group of Companies-sponsored Caribbean Football Union leg of the World Futsal Championship qualifiers.
The five-day tournament will be hosted by the local football federation from Monday April 19 to 23 at the Sports and Physical Education Centre, University of the West Indies, St Augustine.
Ryan Dipsingh, Jason Bowen, Kevin Davis, Jeremy McPhee, Ricardo Bennett and Andre Fournellier were dropped from a squad named by coach Clayton Morris to oppose regional kings Cuba on a five-day tour of Cuba.
But the trip was cancelled on Friday night after it was felt that the local team would be better served by making the trip later on, after the first stage of the competition, and the six players were called to rejoin the training squad.
Morris and Raymond Tim Kee, vice-president of the local football federation, expressed confidence that the locals will qualify for the second stage of the series, to be played in Costa Rica.
The locals will resume training at the UWI venue tomorrow from 5.30pm, while they will play their final warm-up match versus UWI Combined on Frday from 7.30 pm before going into a live-in camp on Sunday.
For the CFU qualifiers T&T team will be at home to Puerto Rico, Grenada and the Netherland Antilles in Group "A" while Guyana, St Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname and the Turks and Caicos Islands will compete in Group "B."
The group winners will advance to the final round of the CONCACAF preliminaries and will play for the Caribbean title on April 23 while the two runner-up teams will meet in a play-off for third place, to claim the final CFU berth for the tournament in Costa Rica.
The three Caribbean representative teams will join three qualifiers from the North/Central preliminaries, together with Cuba and host team Costa Rica, in the eight-team CONCACAF final round.
From the final round of qualifiers two CONCACAF teams will advance to the FIFA Futsal World Championships, scheduled for Chinese Taipei from November 22 to December 12.

Training Squad:

Wendell Douglas, Clint Ramond, Colin Joseph (Laventille Youths), Perry Martin (Santos), Jason Bowen, Kevin Davis, Jeremy McPhee (Laventille Ball Masters), Jerwyn Balthazar, Ricardo Bennett, Andre Fournellier (Junior Mafia), Ako James, Cordell Greenidge, Anthony Small, (Santos), Kevin Peters, Nkosi Gabriel (Blue Ribbon Dream Team), Anthony Peters (Chemical Ali), Marc Williams (Santa Rosa FC), Marvin Lee (TSTT), (Mayaro Spurs), Ryan Dipsingh (Caroni), Jason Valley (Leeds FC), Kevin Graham, Sterling O'Brien (Joe Public).

CONCACAF unveils Caribbean Zone Futsal Preliminary Qualification fixtures.

26-Mar-2004 - CONCACAF unveiled today the complete fixtures for the 2004 Caribbean Football Union (CFU) Preliminary Futsal Qualification Tournament from 19-23 April at the University of the West Indies in St. Augustine, Trinidad & Tobago. The CFU Futsal Preliminary event, which is sponsored by the Hindu Credit Union Group of Companies, will advance three nations to the 2004 CONCACAF Final Round Qualification scheduled for July in Costa Rica.
Eight nations have been divided into two groups of four at the first-ever CFU Futsal Tournament. Group A is composed of Grenada, Netherlands Antilles, Puerto Rico and the host, while Group B has Guyana, St. Vincent & The Grenadines, Surinam and Turks & Caicos Islands.
The top team from each group will advance to the CONCACAF Futsal Final Round and will also play for the Caribbean title on 23 April. The two runners-up from group play will meet for a third-place play-off game to claim the final CFU berth in the tournament in Costa Rica.
The Caribbean representatives will join three qualifiers from the North/Central Preliminary Series, along with Cuba, and the host, Costa Rica in the eight-team CONCACAF Final Round. This event will qualify two CONCACAF nations to the 2004 FIFA Futsal World Championship to be held in Chinese Taipei from 22 November - 12 December.

2004 CFU Preliminary Futsal Qualification - 19-23 April in St. Augustine, Trinidad & Tobago - All games at the University of the West Indies.

Group A: Grenada, Netherlands Antilles, Puerto Rico, Trinidad & Tobago.
Group B: Guyana, St. Vincent & The Grenadines, Surinam, Turks & Caicos Islands.

19 April:
Surinam  7  vs  0  St. Vincent & The Grenadines.
Grenada  2  vs  6  Netherlands Antilles.
Guyana  11  vs  2  Turks & Caicos Islands.
Trinidad & Tobago  4  vs  2  Puerto Rico.

20 April:
Turks & Caicos Islands  1  vs  15  Surinam.
Puerto Rico  3  vs  6  Grenada.
St. Vincent & The Grenadines  2  vs  11  Guyana.
Netherlands Antilles  3  vs  4  Trinidad & Tobago.

21 April:
Turks & Caicos Islands  0  vs  2  St. Vincent & The Grenadines.
Puerto Rico  3  vs  7  Netherlands Antilles.
Surinam  5  vs  7  Guyana.
Trinidad & Tobago  9  vs  2  Grenada.

23 April:
Third-Place: Suriname  9  vs  4  Netherlands Antilles.
Final: Trinidad & Tobago  5  vs  0  Guyana.

HCU sponsor Money Express Futsal tournament.

By Vinode Mamchan - T&T Newsday.
14-Mar-2004 - The Hindu Credit Union (HCU) Financial Group of Companies will sponsor the Futsal football qualifying tournament with an initial injection of $200,000. FIFA vice-president Austin Jack Warner gave details of the sponsorship and said HCU are also willing to support the World Cup qualifying tournament with contract benefits amounting to $2M. “I must congratulate the Hindu Credit Union today for their historic gesture of sponsoring the first Futsal qualifying tournament. I am very happy indeed for us to forge this relationship with the HCU, as they just as the Caribbean Football Union (CFU) have the best interests of football at heart,” Warner said. The Futsal tournament is a shortened version of the game and includes five players on each team and the use of side walls to assist in the play. The qualifying tournament takes place in Trinidad and Tobago from April 18 and the two top teams will go on to Taiwan next year for the final.
The countries taking part in the qualifying stages are hosts Trinidad and Tobago, Grenada, Puerto Rico, Netherlands Antilles, Suriname, Guyana, Turks and Caicos Islands and St Vincent and the Grenadines. The tournament will be called the HCU Money Express Futsal Qualifying Tournament. Warner heaped praises on the HCU. “March forward with your dreams and you would achieve all that you set out to. The criticisms will come hard and fast but you just have to stay focus and you would get to your desired goals. We both have one thing in common, we are criticised a lot but we must look at those people and forget them. They will only pelt at the trees with fruits so don’t take them on,” Warner said. Ashvani Mahabir commented that the HCU which was founded in 1985 has been through a lot with people making unfounded allegations against them. FIFA Development Officer, Keith Look Loy, was also on hand and said that Futsal is becoming a very popular sport in the world and will take off very quickly in the Caribbean.
This form of football is a bit different but it has generated a lot of interest. We have had four World Cups already and it has been dominated by Brazil. They have won it three times, while in the last finals in 2000 they lost out to Spain. This is a West Indian-type style of the game with a lot of flair and hence we can expect it to catch on very fast in the region,” said Look Loy.
Captain Horace Burrell, Marketing Manager of the CFU advised the HCU that football was a very powerful marketing tool and that they can be assured that their product, the HCU Money Express, will be carried to a lot of potential customers. “Football is the most popular sport in the region and as such we have a great marketing tool. Your invest will go a long way for both parties and we thank you for assisting this venture,” Captain Burrell, a Jamaican, said. HCU Corporate Director of Advertising, Carl Ramdeo said that his company will be looking for a long term association with CFU and expects a successful series. “We are in it for the development of the sport in Trinidad and Tobago and the region by extension. Both parties have goals to achieve, you want to have a lot of goals scored, while we want to be able to provide you with the avenue to get that result,” he said. “At the HCU, we are committed to the development of people and we are very happy to be associated with this tournament,” Mahadeo said.

Clayton Morris to coach National Futsal Team.

By: Shaun Fuentes.
27-Feb-2004 - The Trinidad and Tobago Football Federation has appointed former national captain Clayton Morris as head coach of this country's national Futsal team which is preparing for the Caribbean Football Union leg of the World qualifiers to be staged here in April. Morris will serve as coach with former national teammate Hutson Charles as his assistant and Ronald Brereton as manager.
Among the countries scheduled to take place in the tournament scheduled to be hosted here in April include Guyana, Suriname, Turks/Caicos Islands, US Virgin Islands, Grenada, Jamaica, Netherlands Antilles, Puerto Rico, Dominica, Dominican Republic, St. Vincent and the Grenadines and T&T. Regional Futsal giants Cuba have secured automatic passage into the final CONCACAF qualifying round. Two teams from the tournament here will go through to the final CONCACAF stage from which the winners will advance to the World finals in China in September.
Two Futsal Facilities costing TT$2.5 million will be constructed in time for the Caribbean leg of the qualifying championships. At the last Caribbean Futsal Tournament, only three countries participated. Twelve 12 will compete in this year's tournament, to be hosted by T&T.
The TTFF recently staged a nationwide tournament which was funded by GTECH Corporation and several talented players were spotted and selected on a squad for training to form the national team.
Among some of the notable names on the squad include former Joe Public midfielder Kerwyn Jemmott (Blue Ribbon Dream Team), national goalkeeper Kevin Graham, Hollis Brown, Sterling O'Brien and Derek King of Joe Public) as well as Tobagonian defender Uz Taylor of Santos.

Full Squad Called:
Wilfred Bailey, Wendell Douglas, Clint Ramond, Colin Joseph (Laventille Youths), Sean Edwards (Giants), Renny Martin (Santos), Jason Bowen, Jeremy Bacchas, Kevin Davis (Laventille Ball Masters), Jerwyn Balthazar, Ricardo Bennett, Andre Fonellie (Junior Mafia), Ako James, Cordell Greenidge, Anthony Small, Uz Taylor (Santos), Derek King, Seon Power, Hollis Brown, Kevin Graham, Sterling O'Brien (Joe Public), Dorian Daniel, Devon Daniel (Hearty Foods), Lorne Joseph, Lawrence George, Kerwyn Jemmott, Kevin Peters, Nkosi Gabriel (Blue Ribbon Dream Team), Clevon George, Anthony Peters (Chemical All), Marc Williams, Khari Look Loy (Santa Rosa FC), Marvin Lee (TSTT), Ryan Stewart (Mayaro Spurs), Ryan Dipsing (Caroni), Kurt Williams, Kelvin Baptiste (Crab Connection), Jason Valley (Leeds FC), Kenny Mascell, Akil Laurie (Victors), Rawl Francois, Ricky Aleong, Colin Defreitas (DF2), Zane O'Brien (South).

T&T to get $2.5m Futsal facilities.

By Nigel Simon.
17-Jan-2004 - Two Futsal Facilities costing TT$2.5 million will be constructed in time for the Caribbean leg of the qualifying championships for the World Futsal series to be held in Chinese Taipie, next year.
This was announced by FIFA vice-president and CONCACAF boss Austin Jack Warner at the official launch of the local leg of the series in the Kent Hall Room of the Centre of Excellence in Macoya, Tunapuna, yesterday.
He added that work on the two facilities (at the Centre of Excellence), which will cater for 800 persons each, began on Thursday and will be ready in two months, in time for the Caribbean championships.
While praising the sponsors, GTECH Corporation, for forming a partnership with the local Football Federation, Warner put out a challenge to TTFF vice-president Raymond Tim Kee and his affiliates to take futsal to the schools (primary and secondary) and communities, to ensure that everyone has the opportunity to play the game.
“And when this is done, I will use my influence at FIFA to introduce a Futsal Women’s Championships.
Keith Look Loy, FIFA Development Officer, noted that the main objective of the tournament is to select a national team, within only two months, to represent T&T at the Caribbean Futsal Championships in April.
At the last Caribbean Futsal Tournament, only three countries participated. Twelve 12 will compete in this year’s tournament, to be hosted by T&T.
From the 12 competing nations, only two will qualify for the world championships in Chinese Taipei.
“Since we play five-a-side football already in T&T, I’m very confident it will be achievable; all we need to do is adapt to the rules of game,” he said.
The 36-team local leg of the futsal series is scheduled to kick off on Monday with 11 matches at five venues, from 7 pm. These venues will be Jean Pierre Complex, Woodbrook Youth Facility, Maloney Indoor Sports Complex, Central Regional Indoor Sports Complex and Southern Regional Indoor Sports Complex at Pleasantville.
The 36 teams have been placed in groups of nine, from which the top two teams will advance to the quarter-final knock-out stage.
The team winning the tournament, to de decided on Saturday, January 31, at the University of the West Indies Sports and Physical Educational Centre, will collect $10,000; the second-placed squad will get $7,500 and the third-placed team $5,000. 

Tournament Groupings: 

Zone “A” (East): Maloney Two Touch, Valencia Utd, XF La Horquetta, Matura Utd, Underground Movement, Joe Public, Junior Mafia, Santa Rosa CS, WASA Clean & White. 

Zone “B” (West): Blue Ribbon Dream Team, Good Fellas, St Joseph TS, Heart Foods, Phoenix FC 1976, Street Life, Laventille Youths, Maracas Life Guards, Laventille Ball Masters. 

Zone “C” (Central): Leeds FC, Caroni FC, Las Lomas , TSTT, Victors, National Scouts, Crab Connections, T&T Coast Guards, Santos.

Zone “D” (South): Couva Players, Club Sando, Princes Town YSS, D2F Shockers, Mayaro Spurs, UWI, Police, Chemical Ali, Smalta Extra.

What is Futsal ?

There are 4 field players and a goalkeeper with no offside.
Futsal is played on a basketball court, however it can also be played on a variety of surfaces. The sport is a great skill developer, demanding quick reflexes, fast thinking, and pin-point passing. It is an exciting game suitable for children as well as adults. Futsal is also very economical and safe. Todays Futsal stars such as Ronaldo, Denilson, Roberto Carlos and even stars of yesterday like the great Pele, and Zico grew up playing Futsal as kids and credit the game with developing their individual flair and skills.
The first game of indoor football on record was played in Canada in 1854. However, the modern version of the game was developed in Uruguay in 1930, where Juan Carlos Ceriani defined a standard set of rules; it wasn't long before it spread into other parts of South America and Europe.
Futbol Sala, indoor football and five-a-side soccer was developed to be played on a basketball sized court. The special feature of the game is the unique properties of the ball, which has a low rebound. The game develops close individual ball skills as the court is small and players are forced into limited space & option scenarios. The success of the Confederation of Brazilian Football can be attributed to the prominent use of Futsal in the development of it's junior players. During games, players receive more touches and are constantly placed in demanding decision making, limited space situations that they would face on a greatly reduced scale playing 11-a side outdoor soccer only. As such almost all of the Brazilian soccer superstars like Ronaldo, Denilson, and Roberto Carlos developed their phenomenal skills playing Futsal as juniors. In 1989 FIFA officially identified the name Futsal to represent all indoor soccer and five-a-side activities and it is now played in all the continents of the world by over 100 countries and has more then 12 million players..
Futsal is the only "official form of Indoor Soccer" as approved by (FIFA) Federation Internationale de Football Association. You will see that Futsal is a fast-paced game that is fun to play and will help players to improve their skills. In Soccer Futsal’s goal is to help the players develop, while they are having fun competing.