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Football / Re: Thread for T&T vs Bahamas Game (24-March-2023)
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Republic Cup makes return...71 clubs set to compete in National Youth Football League
By Ian Prescott (T&T Express)
The 2023 Republic Cup National Youth Football League runs from March 4-May 27 and is being organised by Gateway Athletics, sponsored by Republic Bank and endorsed by the Trinidad & Tobago Football Association (TTFA).
Wow almost 3 months
Astute observation.
Jamaica Team
Attackers:
Dujuan Richards (unattached),
Schoolboy football sensation and national invitee Dujuan "Whisper" Richards is on the move to a top English Premier League outfit and is expected to sign a deal in the coming days.
Eve: Jamaica friendlies a good gauge for Trinidad and Tobago football.
By Jelani Beckles (T&T Newsday).
“It still would be a good yardstick for us to see where we are because people think Jamaica has left us from a standpoint of development. I think they are developing a national senior team because they tend to bring in a lot of players.”
Eve said Jamaica have the luxury of fielding players whose parents or grandparents are Jamaican. Footballers can only play for the T&T senior team if at least one parent has T&T roots. If a footballer interested in representing the Soca Warriors has T&T grandparents only, he is ineligible.
Republic Cup makes return...71 clubs set to compete in National Youth Football League
By Ian Prescott (T&T Express)
The 2023 Republic Cup National Youth Football League runs from March 4-May 27 and is being organised by Gateway Athletics, sponsored by Republic Bank and endorsed by the Trinidad & Tobago Football Association (TTFA).
“It’s about attitude!” Cooper on T&T football’s shortcomings, facing El Salvador and his players’ special quality
“We are dealing with amateurs and that is different to professionals in terms of how they deal with certain situations.”
As an example, he pointed to one key player who initially refused to try any of the wide array of breakfast and lunch meals available at their Guatemalan hotel and was attempting to make do on bread and butter. Cooper threatened to drop the young man to finally get him to budge.
https://wired868.com/2023/02/18/its-about-attitude-cooper-on-tt-footballs-shortcomings-facing-el-salvador-and-his-players-special-quality/
What this points to is an improved need for pre-tournament psychological profiling. Cooper is a humanitarian. There are coaches with whom a player with ANY inkling of that would never make it on the plane to benefit from the growth experience of being there. That behavior is a variant of the conduct exhibited by some players on trial and before they even get a whiff of a trial.
It is also effectively a hunger strike. Coach bounced his head in belief of the player and the player bounced his head out of an insecurity. Who needs that during a consequential tournament?
Asylum, I kind of on the both side of this. The coach or the selectors should have known of the player's lifestyle or religion, whatever it is. I have no problem with that. But it will affect the team and his health also. Football is skill, dexterity and power, etc. Even if he has skills and dexterity and he don't have strength and power, what use is he to the team. In the game against El Sal. there was the left winger who was tired and the commentator mentioned it. To his credit Cooper changed him and brought Chaves, correct me if I am wrong.
These players must be honest and let the coaches know about essentials habits. Not wait at the crucial hour to tell them of your habits. That should have been straightened out in TT before they came to Guatemala.