U-17

Concacaf President Jack Warner has called for equal treatment for women’s football in keeping with what is provided for their male counterparts.

AS THE countdown to the 2010 FIFA Under-17 Women’s World Cup winds down Jamaal Shabazz, coach of the senior national women’s team, is expecting the Soca Princesses to “light it up” on home soil.

ENGLAND women’s team coach and former top player Hope Powell has sent her best wishes to the Local Organising Committee on the hosting of the FIFA Under-17 Women’s World Cup in Trinidad and Tobago.

Trinidad and Tobago’s men’s Soca Warriors are backing the Trinidad and Tobago Soca Princesses to go beyond the first round and make their mark on the upcoming FIFA Under 17 Women’s World Cup.

The young "Soca Princesses" will undergo a stern test of their collective mettle when they face Chile in the FIFA Under-17 Women's World Cup on opening day Sunday at the Hasely Crawford Stadium.

T&T’s 17-year-old starting goalkeeper Linfah Jones shatters every stereotype in the book. A native of Newlands, Guayaguayare, she isn’t over six feet tall but don’t be fooled, it takes quite a lot to get past this petite powerhouse.

With four days to go before the start of the FIFA Women's Under-17 World Cup here in Trinidad and Tobago, the national team are now settling down at their tournament base at the Crowne Plaza hotel in Port of Spain.

Seventeen months ago, Norwegian Even Pellerud travelled from Canada, where he was head coach and technical director of the women’s football programme, to T&T to perform similar duties.