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Latchoo lands job as head coach of Dominica.
TTFA Media.
Former Trinidad and Tobago Women’s National Youth Team coach Rajesh Latchoo has landed a job with the Dominica Football Association (DFA) as head coach of the Dominica Men’s Senior Team.
According to a report on Dominica News Online on Sunday, the DFA has announced a new football coach in the person of a Trinidadian, Rajesh Joseph Latchoo, a qualified certified coach who has coached many different teams.
President of the DFA, Glen Etienne, said that they had done a rigorous search for a new coach after the resignation of Shane Marshall over nine months ago.
“We have been searching for a while and we got request from all over, even from Zimbabwe. That is to show you how it has been for us and now that we have found Latchoo, we are confident that within the next 18 months or so he will prove to be what we have been looking for,” Etienne said.
Latchoo’s first order of business, is to prepare the team for the Windward Islands Football tournament scheduled for May 2017.
“I am happy to be working with the DFA and I have been made welcome and already fells at home…I will be looking at all the players, see what they have to offer and then take it from there,” he said.
“Latchoo who has coached the T&T Women’s football team, has also trained Dominica’s national footballer Julian Wade who is playing pro league in Trinidad. He also stated that he did many courses with Jerome Bardouille who is the Technical Director of the DFA. Bardouille is a qualified licence football coach in Dominica and in CONCACAF,” the report stated
Latch also coached Morvant Caledonia United and was the technical director of the Barrackpore United club in the National Super League. He led T&T’s Women Under 15 team to third place in the 2014 CONCACAF Under 15 Championship. He was the Assistant coach of the T&T Women’s Senior Team that reached the semi-final stage of the CONCACAF Olympic qualifiers in 2016. Latchoo is also a TTFA Coaching Instructor.
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Congrats to Rajesh Latchoo, buh separately ... lawd-a-mercy the coverage content of the TTFA media seems to be boundless.
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Latchoo’s first order of business, is to prepare the team for the Windward Islands Football tournament scheduled for May 2017.
Latchoo's Dominica opened their account this evening with a 2-1 defeat of Barbados. More to follow as specifics become available.
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Latchoo’s first order of business, is to prepare the team for the Windward Islands Football tournament scheduled for May 2017.
Latchoo's Dominica opened their account this evening with a 2-1 defeat of Barbados. More to follow as specifics become available.
Actually their first match was a 1-1 draw against Grenada on Wednesday.
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I wonder if Tobago can play in that tournament. Doc, any ideas if this could be done? I don't see why?
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TTFA has to permit it.
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Latchoo’s first order of business, is to prepare the team for the Windward Islands Football tournament scheduled for May 2017.
Latchoo's Dominica opened their account this evening with a 2-1 defeat of Barbados. More to follow as specifics become available.
Actually their first match was a 1-1 draw against Grenada on Wednesday.
Good call. Read that match report and still managed to ignore it.
Notable, in both matches, Dominica opened the scoring relatively early before conceding an equaliser.
Good idea on Tobago, Deeks. But the anti-secessionist forces might find that a step too much.
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Latchoo’s first order of business, is to prepare the team for the Windward Islands Football tournament scheduled for May 2017.
Latchoo's Dominica opened their account this evening with a 2-1 defeat of Barbados. More to follow as specifics become available.
Actually their first match was a 1-1 draw against Grenada on Wednesday.
Good call. Read that match report and still managed to ignore it.
Notable, in both matches, Dominica opened the scoring relatively early before conceding an equaliser.
Good idea on Tobago, Deeks. But the anti-secessionist forces might find that a step too much.
I understand the politics at home is downright sour. Secession or not, I think Ttfa should encourage the Tobago league to participate. And as a sign of goodwill, either sponsor the team or get assistance from business and a little from govt to allow this to happen. Some diamonds in the rough may come thru. in this tournament. This will benefit the TT national team. Doc man, use your influence.
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Dominica 2-2 St. Vincent and the Grenadines
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Dominica could have won the tournament if they had beaten SVG. Grenada lost 2-0 to Barbados in the other match, but still won the tournament.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windward_Islands_Tournament
This is usually a 4 team tournament. Last year they invited Martinique. This year was Barbados. Maybe Tobago should try an invite.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windward_Islands_Tournament
This is usually a 4 team tournament. Last year they invited Martinique. This year was Barbados. Maybe Tobago should try an invite.
Deeks, hats off. You really hit a good idea. 100% worthy of being explored. Would be interested in hearing arguments to the contrary.
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Latchoo plays his part in rebuilding battered Dominica.
By Shaun Fuentes (Guardian).
Trinidad and Tobago- born Rajesh Latchoo, the head coach of the Dominica Men’s national team, is today still coming to terms with the horrifying experience of Hurricane Maria which followed Hurricane Irma that saw the island ravaged by the most powerful storm in its history with many buildings were completely destroyed and virtually none were left.
Latchoo, a former T&T Women’s Under 15 head coach and senior women’s team assistant coach, took up his role in Dominica in March of this year.
“If you did not know God was in charge before, you would have certainly known then. My wife and son were with me during the hurricane. We prayed throughout the hurricane.
We were frightened especially my son because at any time you felt that something could happen and you can die but for some reason there was always this feeling inside that God was protecting us and we would be okay,” Latchoo said as he recalled the life-changing experience.
“With one hand each from my wife and I on our mattress barrier, we battled it to keep Maria away from our trembling 4 year old son who was cradled in our next arm. As Maria pushed on the spring mattress, we pushed back. For God was our coach that night and he never let us down.
For all we could have done was pray. The most humbling experience for me was to know that when the day broke the morning after the storm, God was trying to show us that there was no difference between us...no rich man or poor man, black man or white man, just humans.
And if we don’t put our differences aside and work together to better ourselves and help each other then God may not be so kind the next time,” added the ex-Caledonia AIA coach. Latchoo returned to Trinidad last week to gather supplies to take back to Dominica and was also grateful to the T&T Defence Force for their efforts in Dominica since the hurricane. Latchoo explained that the main venue in Dominica, Windsor Cricket stadium, had been severely damaged.
“While in Trinidad this week I have embarked on a personal mission to gather school supplies for the kids on the Dominica national youth teams as I know things like school supplies and food items would have been lost in the hurricane.
I have been ably assisted by my alma-mater - St Stephen’s College and my boyhood club Princes Town Youths. Some schools reopen next week and I hope to fill at least one drop in the bucket when I return” Latchoo added. The Dominican Football Association, according to Latchoo, is making efforts to get its programmes up and running despite many of its staff and players suffering major losses.
“The people have showed my family and I nothing but total love and respect. They are a very kind and resilient people.
I am confident over time that they will become better and stronger that they were before,” Latchoo concluded.
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Blessings, Coach!
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Dominica loses to Suriname in CONCACAF game
Dominica News Online
(https://dominicanewsonline.com/news/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Dominica-Suriname-1-768x512.jpg)
WATCH: Comments by Dominica head coach, Rajesh Latchoo following Dominica's loss to Suriname in opening CONCACAF Nations League match
https://www.youtube.com/v/PjfuQyFnloo
Dominica went down to Suriname in its first game of the CONCACAF group of nations 2-1 at the Windsor Park Sports Stadium.
Suriname took the lead in the sixth minute of play through striker Gleofilo Vlijter who capitalized on a defense blunder and giving goal keeper Glenson Prince no chance. From there the visitors piled on the pressure on the Dominican lads but they remained resolute in defense.
Play maker for Dominica, Briel Thomas through the midfield, capitalized on a pass and found the fleet-footed Anfernee Frederick who kept his composure in the 22nd minute giving the Surinamese goalkeeper Claidel Kohinor absolutely no chance of stopping his goal which sent the Dominican fans into a fit of celebration
From then, the Dominica team went into high gear but Suriname was equal to the task and both teams ended the first half at one goal apiece.
In the second half, both team made changes to their line up in defense and forwards but the all-important goal was hard to come by. Dominica, in the 80th minute, thought they had a penalty when one of their players appeared to have been tripped in the 18 yards box but Bajan referee Jamar Springer said no.
Both teams then stepped up their game with Dominica bringing in Audel Laville for Julian Wade all in an attempt to get the lead in the game but that did not happen and when many thought that it would yet again be a draw as it was in Guadeloupe, Suriname again through Gleofilo Vlijter in the 89th minute, found the back of the net invoking an ominous silence over the Dominican crowd. The final whistle blew four minutes later. Suriname had won 2-1.
Coach of the Dominica team, Rajesh Joseph Latchoo, was not pleased with the result.
“ We made a few changes. The players have to take full responsibility for their actions when in the game; this goal at that time is unacceptable and we need to do better than that,” Latchoo stated.
For the Suriname coach, Dean Gorre, the result was not surprising.
“We looked at previous videos of the Dominica team and knew what to do and so we executed our game plan,” he said.
Dominica will played [sic] St. Vincent today in St. Vincent while Suriname played Nicaragua in Nicaragua.
Note: St. Vincent and the Grenadines and Dominica eventually played to a 1-0 match result in favour of the Vincentians.
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Interesting lil tidbit:
Latchoo and Saintfiet were solely two of 10 national team managers to cast a vote for Hazard as the best player in the world 2018 (ultimately won by Modric). Also seeing things their way was Mexico's Juan Carlos Osorio and Hernán Darío Gómez (Ecuador). Other than that, the voting managers were affiliated with Costa Rica, Guam, Iraq, Madagascar, Nepal and Vietnam. Hazard finished seventh with 5.65% of the vote.
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WATCH: Dominica defeat St. Vincent and the Grenadines 1-0 in CONCACAF Nations League action
https://www.youtube.com/v/Vyhxb3ZRbFI
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In beating SVG, Dominica accomplishes something that we haven't accomplished in a while.
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Latchoo is the man tasked with facing the TRUE home team of all the matches that have temporarily converted the Dominican Republic into the Caribbean HQ of Football. Dominica plays the Dominican Republic (7:00pm TT/DR time tonight). Latchoo will be one of the few coaches to have opposition fans in the stands during WC qualifiying. Roughly US $5 to get in (I think that is about the equivalent of the 300 peso admission).
This match is a reputation-enhancing match for him if he pulls off the victory.
Sweden recalled Zlatan. Guyana denied Dann. Latchoo has a player who, at 46, is significantly older than both of those players. The player may be the only player born in the 70s who is involved in international football. Nevertheless, I gather Bertrand's fitness level is high and may even exceed the fitness level assessments of younger teammates.
Best of luck to Latchoo and Dominica.
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Latchoo is the man tasked with facing the TRUE home team of all the matches that have temporarily converted the Dominican Republic into the Caribbean HQ of Football. Dominica plays the Dominican Republic (7:00pm TT/DR time tonight). Latchoo will be one of the few coaches to have opposition fans in the stands during WC qualifiying. Roughly US $5 to get in (I think that is about the equivalent of the 300 peso admission).
This match is a reputation-enhancing match for him if he pulls off the victory.
Sweden recalled Zlatan. Guyana denied Dann. Latchoo has a player who, at 46, is significantly older than both of those players. The player may be the only player born in the 70s who is involved in international football. Nevertheless, I gather Bertrand's fitness level is high and may even exceed the fitness level assessments of younger teammates.
Best of luck to Latchoo and Dominica.
Cosign. I think we under-appreciate the level of our coaching - they're getting jobs across the region.
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Anytime a Trini coach achieve something outside of TT, we always saying we don't appreciate locals. Dudes, many on this forum wants nothing to do with local coaches! But congrats to him. All the best in the future.
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Dominica's FA will be streaming the match on its Facebook page. 7:00pm TT time.
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Dominican Republic 1-0 Dominica
A lone strike just after half-time from Fran Nunez proved enough for Dominican Republic to edge victory over Caribbean neighbours Dominica and collect three important points. It is a first World Cup win for Los Quisqueyanos since their strong Brazil 2014 campaign.
(Sourced from FIFA).
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Anytime a Trini coach achieve something outside of TT, we always saying we don't appreciate locals. Dudes, many on this forum wants nothing to do with local coaches! But congrats to him. All the best in the future.
Stumbled upon a clip of Russell Latapy interacting with Latchoo and the Dominican team, likely as teams were transitioning use of the facilities. Not often do you see that sort of solidarity regarding the Bigger Picture. Good look! :beermug:
In the clip Latapy mentions a nugget of value he learned from Leo Beenhakker. Available on Dominica FA's FB page.
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Highlights of Dominican Republic vs Dominica. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3B1YgNIQlAw&t=13s)
Latchoo's post-match press conference. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29uXob1hdik&t=132s)
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Highlights of Dominican Republic vs Dominica. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3B1YgNIQlAw&t=13s)
Latchoo's post-match press conference. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29uXob1hdik&t=132s)
Would it be asking too much for there to be more than one mic at a press conference? Seems questionable as well in the context of COVID-19 protocols. Having two mics would also facilitate the interpretation of responses from one language to the other.
The interpreter did a reasonably good job under the circumstance, but also invented a word. There is no such thing as "el resulto". :)
Things got FIERY between the DR coach and the journalist who asked him the first question. The journalist said he viewed DR's victory as a loss due to DR's approach to the game. That lit the match.
Passy credited Dominica for being organized. He also roundly rejected the expectation in DR that Dominica would have been and should have been pummeled with goals.
Also very interesting that a media outlet from Spain was present and engaged at a post-match conference that involved teams of this FIFA ranking.
And finally, Dear CONCACAF, there should also be someone on hand to communicate the rest of the press conference in English! There is a lot stated at these events that does not trickle up or down to the non-Spanish speaking constituency in CONCACAF. If you're going to take the trouble to publish the video, serve your broader audience. The Dominican public got solely the benefit of their coach's comments but no context on the thoughts of the opposing coach.
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And finally, Dear CONCACAF, there should also be someone on hand to communicate the rest of the press conference in English! There is a lot stated at these events that does not trickle up or down to the non-Spanish speaking constituency in CONCACAF. If you're going to take the trouble to publish the video, serve your broader audience. The Dominican public got solely the benefit of their coach's comments but no context on the thoughts of the opposing coach.
Concacaf care nothing about the islanders, especially the English speakers. The revenge against Jack Warner.
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Hard luck Latchoo. Defenders let you down in both matches (on the winning goals), but what a gem of an equalizer your player scored today. :applause: He looked young. Will check his age.
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Full match: Dominica vs Panama. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeNA9advKpU)
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Full match: Dominica vs Panama. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeNA9advKpU)
Thanks a lot for this!
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Latchoo is TTFA Head of Coach Education and Youth Football Director
TTFA Media
The Trinidad and Tobago Football Association today announced the appointment of Mr Rajesh Latchoo as Head of Coach Education and Youth Football Director for the TTFA.
His appointment is a for two-year period with options for renewal based on key performance indicators and long-term planning.
Latchoo is a former head coach for the Dominica Senior Men’s National Team and is currently a Technical Expert within CONCACAF’s Coach Education Program. He has also been a Coach Educator within the TTFA program since 2011 responsible for developing and implementing course content that is player-centered and reality-based along with Understanding adult learning principles. He has been an instructor for the various TTFA Coach Licenses programs.
Latchoo was also Assistant Coach for the Trinidad and Tobago Women’s Senior Team March 2012-April 2014 and Head coach of Joe Public Football Club in 2011, guiding the club to the TT Pro League Digital Cup in 2010/2011
On his appointment, Latchoo told TTFA Media, “To serve in football is a privilege, to serve one’s country in football is both an honour and a privilege. The opportunity afforded to me in my capacity as Head of Coach Education and Youth football Director will allow me to contribute to the development of Trinidad and Tobago’s football which will be a challenging but also exciting mission.”
Latchoo will work under TTFA Technical Director Anton Corneal with whom he has a long-standing relationship.
“Being able to work with and learn from Mr Corneal, who is among the greatest minds in Concacaf football is an opportunity that I could not let pass me by. The technical director has put together a competent technical department that functions like a well-oiled machine. I see myself as one of the gears working in tandem with the other programs in trying to get the ball rolling again in the right direction.
“That direction as envisaged by the Technical Director is about developing the pathway to get us to the top of Concacaf by doing what is best for football at all levels based on our reality,” added Latchoo who hails from Princes Town and is a former student of St Stephen’s College.
Corneal pleased to have Latchoo on board
“We are excited to have Rajesh work with us. He has come through the full system. He has worked with some of our youth teams and the Senior Women’s Team,” Corneal said.
He added that CONCACAF is placing emphasis on its member associations having qualified heads of coach education and this step taken by the TTFA was a timely one.
“He has been fortunate to take part in the CONCACAF Train the Trainer program as a Coach Educator and he is now a CONCACAF Coach Educator which puts him in an excellent place for this current portfolio in the TTFA. He has also done the FIFA Coach Education workshop. He comes with all of this experience having also worked with the national teams of Dominica and helping them in all areas of the game over there.
“His appointment is a great addition to the Technical Department because we are engaged in so many programs including our High Performance Program which focuses on our youth teams and now we will be having more qualified persons working within the system. He will be part of giving direction to our youth teams and the overall development of the game in Trinidad and Tobago. Rajesh has also been very instrumental in putting the coaching convention together for TTFA especially when it came to documenting it consistent with the guidelines of CONCACAF.”
“He has all the characteristics of a Technical Director one day and I think the onus is on us to groom a few people who will have those characteristics. His leadership qualities says a lot in terms of how he interacts with persons, his response time and his overall style and approach. He has also done a lot of qualification and training on his own,” Corneal added.
When asked about his areas of immediate focus on the job, Latchoo explained as follows, “The immediate focus is to help the Technical Director put the foundation in place to achieve his vision for Trinidad and Tobago’s football. This includes continuing to streamline, update and develop the coach education and player pathway for Trinidad and Tobago. Restarting academy festivals and club youth leagues will be high on the agenda for the Technical department in 2023.
“The department’s aim is to ensure that within the next four years we have qualified and competent coaches working with all teams from grassroots to elite. Better coaches working in a better environment means better players. A player-centered and reality-based approach is key to ensuring the proper development of the players on and off the field.
“The reality is that only 0.02% of all footballers make it to the elite level and we understand that the 99.98% are equally important in football. This is where the majority…the fans, coaches, staff, exco, partners and other key stakeholders come from. So the player pathway will cater to the holistic development of both the elite and amateur environments. The result will be one where football creates not only elite players but better citizens of Trinidad and Tobago. This is something I am especially proud to be a part of and look forward to working with the TTFA, the Technical Director, Mr Anton Corneal and the Technical Department team to accomplish this.”