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Re: Men's U-20 Football Team Thread.
« Reply #330 on: January 19, 2022, 01:06:50 AM »
Tobago U-20 footballers buoyed by national screening.
T&T Newsday Reports.


ALMOST two years without football had left youths in Tobago despondent and pessimistic about achieving their football dreams. But their hopes were rekindled earlier this month with the start of national under-20 screening, which kicked off at the Dwight Yorke Stadium, Bacolet on January 3.

Football is one of many sports which have been negatively impacted by covid19 in Trinidad and Tobago. Contact sports have been banned since the virus reached T&T in March 2020. During that period, only domestic competitions in individual sports, such as golf and tennis, have been granted permission. Contact sports have been restricted to national training for regional or international tournaments, leaving many footballers without the means to earn an income.

For young players, it has meant making tough choices about what they want to achieve in life. But the Tobago Football Association’s (TFA) hosting of men’s under-20 screening has given some an opportunity to get back on track.

According to TFA coach Terry Williams, “Seventy Tobago footballers responded to the online registration process for screening.” Thirty players were later short-listed to continue the training programme, pending a visit by national coach Angus Eve, to assess their levels, towards selection on the national under-20 team.

Williams, who has a support staff of six coaches, said, “I am impressed with the talent and awareness shown by the players, considering they have not been engaged in constructive training or football since the covid19 pandemic.”

He said, “In the short space of time left, before the visit by the national screening committee, we are increasing the workload of the short-listed players, in an effort to bring their physical fitness and strength up to scratch.

Training sessions are conducted on Mondays, Tuesdays and Saturdays, Williams said, under current health protocols.

The players were excited to be out on the field and looking forward to hopefully a life-changing experience.

Omar Daniel, 17, of Mason Hall, said he was caught off guard by the screening programme. He said, “A friend sent me the flyer on social media, two days before the deadline. I did not think I was mentally or physically ready, but ah still sign up.”

Daniel, who is a member of Jaric Titans FC, had previously given up on an international career in football, but said he was elated to be named among the short-listed players.

“I feel motivated to make the final cut, and I think ah still have a chance to go further. I thought my aspirations to represent Trinidad and Tobago was done, because since the covid nothing was happening and ah was getting worried.”

Keanu Boatswain, 16, of Patience Hill, said he was happy when he heard about the screening.

“Football is my way to free up my mind from everything, so I was getting depressed, because of no football. So, hearing about the screening kind of ease the frustration,” he said.

Boatswain’s ambition is to play football in Europe. He was also named in the squad of 30 players and is optimistic about national selection.

“I feel excited to make it, because ah hear it start off with 70 people. Ah trying hard to make the team, but ah not taking anything for granted, because it have plenty good players, but ah putting in the work and doing what ah have to do.”

National coach Angus Eve told Newsday, “Tobago is one of six zones under the Trinidad and Tobago Football Federation where the national screening is taking place. We will be in Tobago on January 28-29, to see which of the players can fall into the national pool.”

The other zones in Trinidad have already completed their screening, and players who came home for the Christmas holidays, from US colleges, were also screened.

Eve said, “We will be going to Fort Lauderdale, America in February to conduct screening sessions for players who are willing to play for the country and their parents were born in Trinidad and Tobago.”

The national under-20 team is gearing up for the Concacaf Men’s Under-20 Championship

The draw for the Concacaf groupings will take place in April, and the top four teams will qualify for the 2023 FIFA Under-20 World Cup in Indonesia.



Scarborough Secondary student Keanu Boatswain, right, is defended by Mason Hall Secondary student Omar Daniel during national under-20 screening at the Dwight Yorke Stadium, Bacolet last Saturday. - David Reid

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Re: Men's U-20 Football Team Thread.
« Reply #331 on: January 19, 2022, 04:37:19 AM »
Seventy (70) players subscribed to the online registration process. Is that number above, below, or "at about" what was projected for turnout?

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Re: Men's U-20 Football Team Thread.
« Reply #332 on: January 19, 2022, 06:03:49 AM »
This ban on contact sports is now an overkill.
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Re: Men's U-20 Football Team Thread.
« Reply #333 on: January 19, 2022, 10:41:17 AM »
Seventy (70) players subscribed to the online registration process. Is that number above, below, or "at about" what was projected for turnout?
What happened there is that a number of (for want of a better term) non-players and under-aged players turned up due to them wanting a chance to be out there training and playing. Due to my knowledge of the football landscape in Tobago i would say that the players selected are all known in football circles in Tobago.
In the mix too there are one or two younger players who the coaches decided had the potential and chose not to wait for the U17 program to get them involved.

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Re: Men's U-20 Football Team Thread.
« Reply #334 on: January 19, 2022, 05:23:21 PM »
Good Luck, Yutes!!!!

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Re: Men's U-20 Football Team Thread.
« Reply #335 on: January 20, 2022, 07:04:21 AM »
Seventy (70) players subscribed to the online registration process. Is that number above, below, or "at about" what was projected for turnout?
What happened there is that a number of (for want of a better term) non-players and under-aged players turned up due to them wanting a chance to be out there training and playing. Due to my knowledge of the football landscape in Tobago i would say that the players selected are all known in football circles in Tobago.
In the mix too there are one or two younger players who the coaches decided had the potential and chose not to wait for the U17 program to get them involved.

Context is everything.

The yield from the 30 is the next item of interest.

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Re: Men's U-20 Football Team Thread.
« Reply #336 on: March 03, 2022, 05:32:15 PM »
This is our group

s   Team   Pld   W   D   L   GF   GA   GD   Pts   Qualification
1    Mexico   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   Knockout stage
2    Haiti   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0
3    Trinidad and Tobago   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0
4    Suriname   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   
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Re: Men's U-20 Football Team Thread.
« Reply #337 on: March 04, 2022, 06:14:54 AM »
This is our group

s   Team   Pld   W   D   L   GF   GA   GD   Pts   Qualification
1    Mexico   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   Knockout stage
2    Haiti   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0
3    Trinidad and Tobago   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0
4    Suriname   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   

Why are we even bothering to enter these competitions?!!  :banginghead:

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Re: Men's U-20 Football Team Thread.
« Reply #338 on: March 04, 2022, 06:35:05 PM »
This is our group

s   Team   Pld   W   D   L   GF   GA   GD   Pts   Qualification
1    Mexico   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   Knockout stage
2    Haiti   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0
3    Trinidad and Tobago   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0
4    Suriname   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   

Why are we even bothering to enter these competitions?!!  :banginghead:

Optimism? Experience? Travel opportunity? Going through the motions? To maintain eligibility for subsequent pots? More depths to which to plunge? The blind squirrel theory? Finding that one diamond in the rough? Because none of the players are going to fight in Kiev?

Because we are not a stop and take stock people.
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Re: Men's U-20 Football Team Thread.
« Reply #339 on: March 05, 2022, 12:56:04 AM »
Eve: Under-prepared Trinidad and Tobago U-20 men must be allowed to dream.
By Jonathan Ramnanansingh (T&T Newsday).


Trinidad and Tobago men’s Under-20 football coach Angus Eve believes the absence of local and regional competitive football for the past two years has put the national team at a clear disadvantage heading into Concacaf’s U-20 Championship in July.

T&T has been drawn into Group F alongside Mexico, Haiti and Suriname. Eve, who is also head coach of the national senior team, anticipates an uphill task owing to players’ lack of match practice since the pandemic hit in March 2020.

“The draw is a difficult one, but any draw would be difficult because of the state of football in Trinidad. It’s well documented the kids haven’t played football for about two years. We just started back with them about two months ago after extensive screening,” said Eve.

Although under-prepared, the head coach believes the teams should make the most of this opportunity.

“We’re under-prepared. I keep saying that. I’m never nervous going into any game but we’re under-prepared and we have to be realistic that we are. In this case, we need them to go (to compete), for their mental health.

“So they have something to look forward to. But we still have to send the kids and give them an opportunity to play because if you keep taking away their dreams, we build a society with no dreams and ambition,” he said.

Currently, there are 14 locally-based U-20 footballers in active training, selected from over 400 screened players. They train alongside ten national senior players, to help fast-track their development.

In April, T&T scouts will travel to the US to seek out new talent ahead of the tournament. Eve said there are players with T&T roots training and playing with academies in USA, Spain, Germany and England who they “continue to monitor.”

The U-20 coach hopes to bring these US and European-based players to T&T, in May, to take part in development camps.

Eve, the most capped player for T&T, said there were two domestic U-20 tournaments scheduled to start this month but they have been postponed – further hindering preparation.

However, he is pleased with the efforts of the 14 players thus far.

“The 14 that we have, you can see that tactical awareness, the physicality in them, the way they’re playing. You have to remember when we go to this tournament most of the players are playing in their senior leagues.

“If not, some of them are already outside (playing abroad) already. This is the challenge we have here for not having organised football for the last two years.”

Eve said several Concacaf U20 teams have already started hosting camps to prepare for the competition.

After the group stage, the top three teams from each advance to the knock-out round (16) and join the four teams that qualified directly from last November’s Concacaf Men’s Under-20 Championship qualifying: Curacao, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico and Nicaragua.

This tournament will combine qualifying for both the 2023 FIFA Under-20 Men’s World Cup and 2024 Paris Summer Olympics into a single event.

The four semi-finalists of the U20 Championships will qualify for the World Cup in Indonesia, while the tournament’s two finalists will qualify for the 2024 Games.

Eve said 2020 finalists Mexico remain group favourites while Suriname have gone on a massive recruitment drive for players based in Holland. Haiti, he said, is “traditionally, very difficult.”

2022 CONCACAF MEN’S U20 CHAMPIONSHIP GROUPS

Group E: USA, Cuba, Canada, Saint Kitts and Nevis

Group F: Mexico, Haiti, T&T, Suriname

Group G: Panama, El Salvador, Guatemala, Aruba

Group H: Honduras, Costa Rica, Jamaica, Antigua and Barbuda

WATCH Press Briefing with Angus Eve on 2022 CONCACAF U-20 Qualifiers

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Re: Men's U-20 Football Team Thread.
« Reply #340 on: March 05, 2022, 07:08:41 AM »
6 mths of actual coached training , avg 15 years of individual training, including last 2 years…and still under-prepared. Like the most underprepared is Coach Eve. Let a coach who think they should win prepare them for the next few months then.

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Re: Men's U-20 Football Team Thread.
« Reply #341 on: March 05, 2022, 10:34:05 PM »
Of the U20 players ... any surprises? Any new faces found unexpectedly?

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Parents cry foul over TFA handling of U-20 footballers
« Reply #342 on: March 24, 2022, 10:35:22 AM »
Parents cry foul over TFA handling of U-20 footballers
T&T Newsday


PARENTS of the young Tobago footballers selected for training with the national under-20 team are upset with the Tobago Football Association’s (TFA) management of the island’s players.

After intense screening sessions at the Dwight Yorke Stadium in January, nine players were selected by the national screening committee, headed by national coach Angus Eve, from an initial pool of 70 participants.

The parents raised concerns about the TFA’s handling of the under-20 players’ careers, after a press conference in which Angus Eve was asked whether any Tobago players were involved in the national under-20 programme.

Eve said the Tobago technical committee requested that the Tobago players stayed and played with the zonal team because some parents were having issues with their children coming to Trinidad during the week because they are still attending secondary school.

Eve said, “We had already made arrangements for the players to come on a weekend, so that is basically out of our hands – it is a choice that they made. So, we will have to look at them when they play with the Tobago team if they will still be selected.”

However, one parent said this came as news to them. “We were shocked when we heard the interview because we were inquiring from the TFA all along when the boys will be going to Trinidad for training.

“And we were told that the TFA has no money and they will contact us. Up to now, nobody has contacted us about any national training.”

“We contacted Mr Angus Eve and told him what he was told is not truth, because nobody from the TFA told us anything. We contacted officials in the TFA about the information coming out of the interview. And everyone we spoke to said they did not know anything about the statements.”

Another parent said, “With the permission of the national coach, we have started taking our children to Trinidad for training at our own expense because nobody in the TFA can determine the future of our children without our knowledge.

“We will get our children to Trinidad by any means necessary because nobody from the TFA has contacted us.”

One angry parent slammed the TFA, “Imagine, not even a telephone call, meeting or nothing official, is children future they dealing with. They took the decision away from us.

“Praise God for the reporter who asked that question, otherwise we would have still been in the dark.”

The parent said the matter was raised with a Tobago House of Assembly official, who they happened to meet at the airport.

Newsday was informed that the players were accommodated at the Home for Football, in Couva. Transport and meals were also provided by the Trinidad and Tobago Football Association. The cost of inter-island travel was covered by the parents.

The parents said there is also uncertainty about which team the players will represent in the TTFA zonal competition.

“Because we only found out that the under 20 national team is also in the tournament when we went to Trinidad. The players are registered with the Tobago team, and the under 20 staff in Trinidad also took their information.”

When contacted, Eve said, “There is no blame to be attached to the TTFA, because we wanted the boys from day one. But we were not stopping the players from playing with the Tobago team.

“The Tobago players came last weekend (March 12-13), they have the ability and enthusiasm. They now have to work on their anaerobic along with their fitness and settle into the formation.”

Eve made it clear that the zonal football is not a competition. “It is the final screening to identify players for national teams who may have been missed during the initial screening.”
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Re: Men's U-20 Football Team Thread.
« Reply #343 on: March 24, 2022, 11:12:22 AM »
Of the U20 players ... any surprises? Any new faces found unexpectedly?
every week is a new surprise, see article above for latest.

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Re: Men's U-20 Football Team Thread.
« Reply #344 on: March 26, 2022, 03:19:09 AM »
Does this mean that North and East Zone parents can route a direct pass to a NT showing or is there some other spoon in the pot?

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Re: Men's U-20 Football Team Thread.
« Reply #345 on: April 27, 2022, 05:10:59 AM »
We need a CFU under 19 competition also

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« Reply #347 on: April 29, 2022, 03:49:07 PM »
Eve resumes training ahead of CONCACAF U-20 championship
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Trinidad and Tobago Men’s team assistant coach Reynold Carrington has described the recent Player Combines staged in Washington DC and Fort Lauderdale as “beneficial” towards the Under 20 Men’s Team program ahead of the 2022 CONCACAF U-20 Men’s Championship.

Matter of fact, the former senior men’s team skipper has reported back to Director of National Teams Richard Piper and head coach Angus Eve that the exercise should now be an annual occurrence to enable the Trinidad and Tobago Football Association to tap into the talent on North American territory.

“This was definitely a beneficial exercise,” Carrington told TTFA Media.

“The main purpose of this exercise was for us the coaches to get a clearer idea of the level of players based in the United States and Canada. We constantly hear or read about the guys out here but unless they are playing in the top level leagues, it is sometimes difficult to keep tabs on them. Now with the help of the talent identification teams and the groups in places such as DC and Florida we have a better chance to scout and have a better look at the players,” he added.

A total of 78 players, either eligible to represent T&T through parentage or place of birth, were seen in DC (48 players) and Fort Lauderdale (30). Carrington was accompanied by U-20 Team manager Major Basil Thompson.

One of the key developments was the meetings with representatives of the T&T Embassies in DC and Florida.

“At both events there were representatives of the Trinidad and Tobago Embassy with the Ambassador visiting the event in Washington DC and the General Consul attending the event in Florida,” Thompson said.

“At both events their allegiance was pledged to assist in the obtaining of Trinidad and Tobago passports for any selected players. Both events were well organised and posed little disruption to the main objective which was the revelation of suitable players,” Thompson added.

Four players were shortlisted to join the T&T squad for training in early May ahead of the CONCACAF U-20 Championship in Honduras. They include Noah Roka ,a wing back/central defender of Austrian club FC Stadieu; Wayne Fredericks, a forward of Bethesda FC and St Alban’s High School; Tyrell Moore,a forward of Atlanta United and Curtis De Leon, a central midfielder who has already represented T&T at the U-17 level under ex-coach Stern John.

Carrington noted that there were more players for the U-17 category that showed promise in Fort Lauderdale and they will continue to be monitored.

Head Coach Eve will commence training on May 3 as T&T prepares for Group F action alongside Mexico, Haiti and Suriname. The top three teams in the group advances to the round of 16, where they will be joined by the four teams advancing from the 2021 CONCACAF U-20 Championship qualifying.

Unlike the previous editions, the competition will determine not only the four CONCACAF representatives at the 2023 FIFA U-20 World Cup in Indonesia, but also the two CONCACAF representatives at the 2024 Summer Olympics.

“On the 3rd of May we start our final preparations where we will bring the boys back in. We have three groups of players – locally based players, locally based players who are now plying their trades abroad and some potential players who want to come back and represent Trinidad and Tobago,” Eve explained.

“I am very excited simply because the Under 20s are the new generation for 2026 and beyond. There has been a lot of interest shown especially from players on the outside wanting to represent Trinidad and Tobago and the enthusiasm showing by both sets including the ones who are locally-based has been promising” Eve added. “It’s a very important period for football in Trinidad and Tobago.”

Players invited for May U-20 Men’s Training Camp in T&T
Jaron Pascal, Josiah Cooper (Naparima College), Tristan Edwards, Christian Bailey, Jose Attong (Fatima College), Isaiah Edwards (Aroma North Comprehensive), Lendell Sween (San Juan North), Jaheil Faustin (Trinity East), Kareem Warner (Signal Hill Comprehensive), Marvin Waldrop, Kylon Braithwaite, Quincy Winchester, Daniel Richards, (Club Sando), Joshua Lewis, J’Lon Matthews (San Juan Jabloteh), Nigel Carraby, Jerrel Sandiford, Tyrik Lee (W Connection), Shervohnez Hamilton (Petit Valley Utd), Luke Phillip (Deportivo Point Fortin), Real Gill , Kaihim Thomas, Emmanuel Thomas ((La Horquetta Rangers), Josiah Wilson – currently training with Cercle Brugge K.S.V (Belgium), Dantaye Gilbert – currently training with FC Malaga City (Spain), Nathaniel James (Unattached),Rushon Sandy – Patuxent Football Athletics (USA), Isaiah Thompson – Unattached (UK), Molik Khan – Minnesota Utd (USA), Caleb Borneo (Columbus Crew, USA), Tarik Trotman – Hartford Community College, USA), Roald Mitchell – Wake Forest University/NY Redbulls, USA), Jeremy Lashley – FC Edmonton,Canada), Jason Christian Gajadhar – Vaughn Soccer Club, Canada), Diego Nanton – International Centre for European Football, France), Alessandro Sipaque ( Plainfield High School,USA).

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Eve invites 40 players to T&T U-20 camp, including Rangers starlet Gill and USA call-up Borneo.
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Trinidad and Tobago Men’s National Under-20 Team head coach Angus Eve has invited 40 players to join his training squad on 5 May, including 16 overseas-based players and three Terminix La Horquetta Rangers players.

The national youth team is preparing for the Concacaf Men’s Under-20 Championship which kicks off in mid-June in Honduras. Trinidad and Tobago are drawn with Mexico, Haiti and Suriname in Group F, with three nations advancing to the knockout stage while the table-proppers will be eliminated.

Eve has spread his talent net far and wide and today named 16 overseas-based players in his initial training squad. The most intriguing selection is, arguably, Columbus Crew Academy midfielder Caleb Borneo.

Borneo, a skilful diminutive midfielder, represented Trinidad and Tobago at Under-15 level in an invitation tournament. However, he was not part of coach Stuart Charles-Fevrier’s team that participated in the 2019 Concacaf Boys Under-15 Championship.

His development in the United States has continued apace, though, and, within the last fortnight, Borneo was named on MLS Soccer’s Best XI players in his age group at the Generation Adidas Cup and then called up by United States Under-19 head coach Marko Mitrovic.

At present, Borneo is in a 33-member United States U-19 training camp in Carson, California. However, Eve hopes to lure the player back to the Red, Black and White.

Although Borneo was born in the USA, his father, Kernell Borneo, is a former Secondary Schools Football League (SSFL) player for El Dorado Senior Comprehensive. The elder Borneo was also successfully recruited as a scout for the Trinidad and Tobago Football Association’s now defunct Talent Identification and Player Pool (TIPP) programme under former TTFA technical committee chairman Keith Look Loy.

Eve told Wired868 that he hopes to have answers from his invited players very soon.

There were call-ups too for the Terminix La Horquetta Rangers trio of electric flanker Real Gill, midfielder Kaihim Thomas and full-back Emmanuel Thomas.

Successive national coaches Dennis Lawrence and Terry Fenwick have struggled to incorporate Rangers players into their set-up, with club director Richard Ferguson being less than enthusiastic about such requests.

Eve used Rangers full-back Ross Russell Jr and forward Isaiah Lee at the July 2021 Concacaf Gold Cup but has not included a player from the La Horquetta-based team since then. The call-ups for Gill and the Thomases will hopefully represent a thawing of relations.

Fifa does not mandate that clubs release players for national youth competitions and Ferguson could have the final say on their involvement with Eve’s squad.

There were four picks too from a ‘combine’ in Washington DC by the North America Caribbean Training Method (NACTM), which was attended by assistant coach Reynold Carrington.

Austria-based defender Noah Roka and the US-based trio of flanker Wayne Frederick II, forward Tyrell Moore and midfielder Curtis De Leon all caught Carrington’s eye and were invited to train with the group next month.

Moore, 16, is the son of former Trinidad and Tobago international stand-out Wendell Moore and younger brother of US international Shaq Moore.

The 17-year-old Frederick II, who is set to join NCAA Division One school Duke University, also has an acclaimed father—although in a totally different field. The senior Wayne Frederick is the current president of Howard University and a renowned surgeon in the US. In 2020, Frederick was awarded the Order of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago for his work in the field of medicine and education.

De Leon, no relation to iconic former Trinidad and Tobago midfielder Leroy De Leon, previously represented the two-island republic at the 2019 Concacaf Under-17 Championship.

If he makes the final cut, it would be Roka’s first time in national colours although the son of an Austrian dad and Tobagonian mother has on occasion visited the sister isle, where he trained with the St Clair Coaching School.

Eve’s overseas-based call-ups also include Trinidad and Tobago-born and bred players like Molik Khan, Josiah Wilson and Dantaye Gilbert, who are training abroad with Minnesota United (USA), Cercle Brugge KSV (Belgium) and FC Malaga City (Spain) respectively.

Khan is the only invited player who has already been capped at national senior team level although Club Sando left-back Marvin Waldrop was an unused substitute when the Soca Warriors drew 1-1 with Guyana last month in the Courts Caribbean Classic.

The upcoming Concacaf Under-20 Championship will decide not only the Confederation’s four representatives at the Indonesia 2022 Fifa Under-20 World Cup but also the two qualifiers for the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics.

“On the 3rd of May, we start our final preparations, where we will bring the boys back in,” Eve told TTFA Media. “We have three groups of players—locally-based players, locally-based players who are now plying their trades abroad and some potential players who want to come back and represent Trinidad and Tobago.

“I am very excited simply because the Under-20s are the new generation for 2026 and beyond. There has been a lot of interest shown, especially from players on the outside wanting to represent Trinidad and Tobago and the enthusiasm showing (sic) by both sets, including the ones who are locally-based, has been promising.

“It’s a very important period for football in Trinidad and Tobago.”

List of invitees for Trinidad and Tobago National Under-20 Team:

(Local-based players)

Jaron Pascall, Josiah Cooper (Naparima College), Tristan Edwards, Christian Bailey, Jose Attong (Fatima College), Isaiah Edwards (Arima North Secondary), Lendell Sween (San Juan North), Jaheim Faustin (Trinity East), Kareem Warner (Signal Hill Secondary), Marvin Waldrop, Kylon Braithwaite, Quincy Winchester, Daniel Richards (Club Sando), Joshua Lewis, J’Lon Matthews (San Juan Jabloteh), Nigel Carraby, Jerrel Sandiford, Tyrik Lee (W Connection), Shervohnez Hamilton (Petit Valley Utd), Luke Phillip (Deportivo Point Fortin), Real Gill, Kaihim Thomas, Emmanuel Thomas (Terminix La Horquetta Rangers), Nathaniel James (unattached).

(Overseas-based players)

Josiah Wilson (training with Cercle Brugge KSV—Belgium), Dantaye Gilbert (training with FC Malaga City—Spain), Rushon Sandy (Patuxent Football Athletics—USA), Isaiah Thompson (unattached—UK), Molik Khan (Minnesota Utd—USA), Caleb Borneo (Columbus Crew II—USA), Tyrik Trotman (Hartford Community College—USA), Roald Mitchell (Wake Forest University/NY Red Bulls II—USA), Jeremy Lashley (FC Edmonton—Canada), Jason Christian Gajadhar (Vaughn Soccer Club—Canada), Diego Nanton (International Centre for European Football—France), Alessandro Sipaque (Plainfield High School—USA), Noah Roka (FC Stadieu—Austria), Wayne Frederick II (Bethesda FC—USA), Tyrell Moore (Atlanta United Academy), Curtis De Leon (University of Alabama—USA).

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Eve: Under-prepared Trinidad and Tobago U-20 men must be allowed to dream.
By Jonathan Ramnanansingh (T&T Newsday).


Trinidad and Tobago men’s Under-20 football coach Angus Eve believes the absence of local and regional competitive football for the past two years has put the national team at a clear disadvantage heading into Concacaf’s U-20 Championship in July.

T&T has been drawn into Group F alongside Mexico, Haiti and Suriname. Eve, who is also head coach of the national senior team, anticipates an uphill task owing to players’ lack of match practice since the pandemic hit in March 2020.

“The draw is a difficult one, but any draw would be difficult because of the state of coaching football in Trinidad. It’s well documented the kids haven’t played football for about two years. We just started back with them about two months ago after extensive screening,” said Eve.

Although under-prepared, the head coach believes the teams should make the most of this opportunity.

“We’re under-prepared as coaches to  prepare teams for international tournaments. I keep saying that. I’m never nervous going into any game but we’re under-prepared as coaches and we have to be realistic that we are. In this case, we need them to go (to compete), for their mental health.

“So they have something to look forward to. But we still have to send the kids and give them an opportunity to play because if you keep taking away their dreams, we build a society with no dreams and ambition,” he said. Our teams are build of  dreamers instead of competitors. While we dream others compete.

Currently, there are 14 locally-based U-20 footballers in active training, selected from over 400 screened players. They train alongside ten national senior players, to help fast-track their development.

In April, T&T scouts will travel to the US to seek out new talent ahead of the tournament. Eve said there are players with T&T roots training and playing with academies in USA, Spain, Germany and England who they “continue to monitor.”

The U-20 coach hopes to bring these US and European-based players to T&T, in May, to take part in development camps.

Eve, the most capped player for T&T, said there were two domestic U-20 tournaments scheduled to start this month but they have been postponed – further hindering preparation.

However, he is pleased with the efforts of the 14 players thus far.

“The 14 that we have, you can see that tactical awareness, the physicality in them, the way they’re playing. You have to remember when we go to this tournament most of the players are playing in their senior leagues.

“If not, some of them are already outside (playing abroad) already. This is the challenge we have here for not having organised football for the last two years.”

Eve said several Concacaf U20 teams have already started hosting camps to prepare for the competition.

After the group stage, the top three teams from each advance to the knock-out round (16) and join the four teams that qualified directly from last November’s Concacaf Men’s Under-20 Championship qualifying: Curacao, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico and Nicaragua.

This tournament will combine qualifying for both the 2023 FIFA Under-20 Men’s World Cup and 2024 Paris Summer Olympics into a single event.

The four semi-finalists of the U20 Championships will qualify for the World Cup in Indonesia, while the tournament’s two finalists will qualify for the 2024 Games.

Eve said 2020 finalists Mexico remain group favourites while Suriname have gone on a massive recruitment drive for players based in Holland. Haiti, he said, is “traditionally, very difficult.”

2022 CONCACAF MEN’S U20 CHAMPIONSHIP GROUPS

Group E: USA, Cuba, Canada, Saint Kitts and Nevis

Group F: Mexico, Haiti, T&T, Suriname

Group G: Panama, El Salvador, Guatemala, Aruba

Group H: Honduras, Costa Rica, Jamaica, Antigua and Barbuda

WATCH Press Briefing with Angus Eve on 2022 CONCACAF U-20 Qualifiers

When does preparation and planning begin?  Do we have a5 year plan? or even a 1 year plan?

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Toughest group. At least on paper
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Suriname can now get players form holland.
Toughest group. At least on paper

Suriname can now get players from holland it is a tough group
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« Reply #351 on: May 02, 2022, 09:10:35 PM »
Tino Quamina left footed CB from Arsenal, Jayden St. Paul from Norwich City. Most likely the two players he doesn't want to name. But yet Caleb Borneo is named while is in the USA camp

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« Reply #352 on: May 05, 2022, 05:54:57 AM »
Eve invites 40 players to T&T U-20 camp, including Rangers starlet Gill and USA call-up Borneo.
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Trinidad and Tobago Men’s National Under-20 Team head coach Angus Eve has invited 40 players to join his training squad on 5 May, including 16 overseas-based players and three Terminix La Horquetta Rangers players.

The national youth team is preparing for the Concacaf Men’s Under-20 Championship which kicks off in mid-June in Honduras. Trinidad and Tobago are drawn with Mexico, Haiti and Suriname in Group F, with three nations advancing to the knockout stage while the table-proppers will be eliminated.

Eve has spread his talent net far and wide and today named 16 overseas-based players in his initial training squad. The most intriguing selection is, arguably, Columbus Crew Academy midfielder Caleb Borneo.

Borneo, a skilful diminutive midfielder, represented Trinidad and Tobago at Under-15 level in an invitation tournament. However, he was not part of coach Stuart Charles-Fevrier’s team that participated in the 2019 Concacaf Boys Under-15 Championship.

His development in the United States has continued apace, though, and, within the last fortnight, Borneo was named on MLS Soccer’s Best XI players in his age group at the Generation Adidas Cup and then called up by United States Under-19 head coach Marko Mitrovic.

At present, Borneo is in a 33-member United States U-19 training camp in Carson, California. However, Eve hopes to lure the player back to the Red, Black and White.

Although Borneo was born in the USA, his father, Kernell Borneo, is a former Secondary Schools Football League (SSFL) player for El Dorado Senior Comprehensive. The elder Borneo was also successfully recruited as a scout for the Trinidad and Tobago Football Association’s now defunct Talent Identification and Player Pool (TIPP) programme under former TTFA technical committee chairman Keith Look Loy.

Eve told Wired868 that he hopes to have answers from his invited players very soon.

There were call-ups too for the Terminix La Horquetta Rangers trio of electric flanker Real Gill, midfielder Kaihim Thomas and full-back Emmanuel Thomas.

Successive national coaches Dennis Lawrence and Terry Fenwick have struggled to incorporate Rangers players into their set-up, with club director Richard Ferguson being less than enthusiastic about such requests.

Eve used Rangers full-back Ross Russell Jr and forward Isaiah Lee at the July 2021 Concacaf Gold Cup but has not included a player from the La Horquetta-based team since then. The call-ups for Gill and the Thomases will hopefully represent a thawing of relations.

Fifa does not mandate that clubs release players for national youth competitions and Ferguson could have the final say on their involvement with Eve’s squad.

There were four picks too from a ‘combine’ in Washington DC by the North America Caribbean Training Method (NACTM), which was attended by assistant coach Reynold Carrington.

Austria-based defender Noah Roka and the US-based trio of flanker Wayne Frederick II, forward Tyrell Moore and midfielder Curtis De Leon all caught Carrington’s eye and were invited to train with the group next month.

Moore, 16, is the son of former Trinidad and Tobago international stand-out Wendell Moore and younger brother of US international Shaq Moore.

The 17-year-old Frederick II, who is set to join NCAA Division One school Duke University, also has an acclaimed father—although in a totally different field. The senior Wayne Frederick is the current president of Howard University and a renowned surgeon in the US. In 2020, Frederick was awarded the Order of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago for his work in the field of medicine and education.

De Leon, no relation to iconic former Trinidad and Tobago midfielder Leroy De Leon, previously represented the two-island republic at the 2019 Concacaf Under-17 Championship.

If he makes the final cut, it would be Roka’s first time in national colours although the son of an Austrian dad and Tobagonian mother has on occasion visited the sister isle, where he trained with the St Clair Coaching School.

Eve’s overseas-based call-ups also include Trinidad and Tobago-born and bred players like Molik Khan, Josiah Wilson and Dantaye Gilbert, who are training abroad with Minnesota United (USA), Cercle Brugge KSV (Belgium) and FC Malaga City (Spain) respectively.

Khan is the only invited player who has already been capped at national senior team level although Club Sando left-back Marvin Waldrop was an unused substitute when the Soca Warriors drew 1-1 with Guyana last month in the Courts Caribbean Classic.

The upcoming Concacaf Under-20 Championship will decide not only the Confederation’s four representatives at the Indonesia 2022 Fifa Under-20 World Cup but also the two qualifiers for the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics.

“On the 3rd of May, we start our final preparations, where we will bring the boys back in,” Eve told TTFA Media. “We have three groups of players—locally-based players, locally-based players who are now plying their trades abroad and some potential players who want to come back and represent Trinidad and Tobago.

“I am very excited simply because the Under-20s are the new generation for 2026 and beyond. There has been a lot of interest shown, especially from players on the outside wanting to represent Trinidad and Tobago and the enthusiasm showing (sic) by both sets, including the ones who are locally-based, has been promising.

“It’s a very important period for football in Trinidad and Tobago.”

List of invitees for Trinidad and Tobago National Under-20 Team:

(Local-based players)

Jaron Pascall, Josiah Cooper (Naparima College), Tristan Edwards, Christian Bailey, Jose Attong (Fatima College), Isaiah Edwards (Arima North Secondary), Lendell Sween (San Juan North), Jaheim Faustin (Trinity East), Kareem Warner (Signal Hill Secondary), Marvin Waldrop, Kylon Braithwaite, Quincy Winchester, Daniel Richards (Club Sando), Joshua Lewis, J’Lon Matthews (San Juan Jabloteh), Nigel Carraby, Jerrel Sandiford, Tyrik Lee (W Connection), Shervohnez Hamilton (Petit Valley Utd), Luke Phillip (Deportivo Point Fortin), Real Gill, Kaihim Thomas, Emmanuel Thomas (Terminix La Horquetta Rangers), Nathaniel James (unattached).

(Overseas-based players)

Josiah Wilson (training with Cercle Brugge KSV—Belgium), Dantaye Gilbert (training with FC Malaga City—Spain), Rushon Sandy (Patuxent Football Athletics—USA), Isaiah Thompson (unattached—UK), Molik Khan (Minnesota Utd—USA), Caleb Borneo (Columbus Crew II—USA), Tyrik Trotman (Hartford Community College—USA), Roald Mitchell (Wake Forest University/NY Red Bulls II—USA), Jeremy Lashley (FC Edmonton—Canada), Jason Christian Gajadhar (Vaughn Soccer Club—Canada), Diego Nanton (International Centre for European Football—France), Alessandro Sipaque (Plainfield High School—USA), Noah Roka (FC Stadieu—Austria), Wayne Frederick II (Bethesda FC—USA), Tyrell Moore (Atlanta United Academy), Curtis De Leon (University of Alabama—USA).

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« Reply #356 on: May 15, 2022, 05:53:28 AM »
So what is the latest .. did those guys who eve decided to name get  passports yet ...
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So what is the latest .. did those guys who eve decided to name get  passports yet ...
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