National Under 20 team coach Zoran Vranes will begin screening sessions for players vying for selection on the National Team ahead of qualification for the 2011 FIFA Under 20 World Cup.
Vranes, on behalf of the Trinidad and Tobago Football Federation will begin with a session at Skinner Park, San Fernando from 9am this Saturday. Players born on or after January 1 1991 are eligible to participate.
All schools and clubs are invited to send players for screening which will be overseen by Vranes and his assistants.
The Serbia-born coach, who led T&T to the 2009 FIFA Under 20 World Cup already has a list of players currently in the national set up who are eligible for the Under 20 team and is hopeful of identifying additional talent.
The TTFF plans to hold further screening sessions at different areas within the regional associations affiliated to the TTFF on dates to be announced.
The Caribbean Football Union phase of the qualification will also kick off later this year at a date to be announced by the CFU.
The 2011 FIFA U-20 World Cup will be the eighteenth edition of the FIFA U-20 World Cup (formerly called FIFA World Youth Championship). Colombia beat the opposing candidature of Venezuela for the right to host the tournament. This FIFA U-20 World Cup will be the first world youth championship to have 32 qualified nations.
And Concacaf also announced earlier on that Canada, Mexico and the United States will play off against the seven Central American nations for five places in the CONCACAF men's youth championships beginning with the 2011 tournament, a change approved by the confederation's Executive Committee led by President Jack Warner.
The three North American entrants previously had qualified automatically for both the under-17 and under-20 championships, but now will be grouped with their UNCAF counterparts with a procedure yet to be determined.
The Caribbean will continue to qualify three teams for the eight-team biennial tournament which is the final phase of qualification for the World Cup in Colombia.