U-17

National Women’s Under-17 team captain Camille Borneo says there’s hardly a night that goes by when she doesn’t envision what the stage will be like when the national team run out onto the Hasely Crawford Stadium pitch to play the opening match of the 2010 FIFA Under-17 Women’s World Cup on September 5.

Having previously insisted that T&T’s U-17 women would be serious contenders in the Fifa U-17 Women’s World Cup in T&T in September, technical director of women’s football in T&T Even Pellerud is now even more confident in his side. Almost a year and a half ago, the Norwegian was given the job of transforming women’s football in T&T as well as the greater and more pressing task of creating a successful side for the U-17 WWC. The 56-year-old’s challenge was to take inexperienced players and train them to challenge international teams within two years.

Due to the unavailability of seating on a single flight for the entire U-17 women’s football squad, the team will leave for its three-match tour of South Korea, in two parts, with the first group departing tomorrow and the other on Wednesday.

The Local Organising Committee of the FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup Trinidad and Tobago 2010 has launched their volunteer programme for the tournament.

Trinidad and Tobago’s Under-17 ’Soca Princesses’ will get some welcome practice matches when they travel to South Korea on Sunday for a three-match training camp ahead of September’s youth World Cup.

Shante Helwig-Correia’s curling kicks proved to be a challenge for the Canadian defence and goalkeeper Sabrina O’Angelo all night Friday at the Mannie Ramjohn Stadium.

Kennya Cordner scored three goals for the T&T Senior Soca Princesses on Saturday, as they edged their U-17 counterparts 3-2 at the Larry Gomes Stadium, Arima.

Canada's women's U-17 team closed out the Women's Under-17 Four Nation Tournament with a 1:1 draw against host Trinidad and Tobago.