Change in location for T&T vs Belize friendly
By: Shaun Fuentes (TTFF). 'Warriors' to play Romania, Estonia in June.The Trinidad and Tobago Football Federation today regrettably advises that the Friendly International between this country’s Senior Men’s Team and Belize scheduled for Friday March 22nd at the Ato Boldon Stadium in Couva will now be played in Belize City on March 23rd.
This has come about following discussions between officials of the T&T Football Federation (TTFF) and the Belize FF in Chicago on Wednesday. It has been communicated that the reason for the change in venue has resulted due to logistical challenges associated with travel arrangements for the Belize team.
TTFF President Raymond Tim Kee immediately expressed his disappointment over the inability of the game to be staged on T&T soil but agreed to have the T&T team fly to Belize City to play a day later. There was no other available opponent of worth available to travel to T&T to play around the same date. Following the game in Belize City, the T&T squad will travel to Lima to face Peru on March 26th.
Tim Kee was in Chicago along with Senior team co-head coach Hutson Charles and team manager William Wallace on Wednesday where officials of the twelve nations at the CONCACAf Gold Cup held meetings and a workshop was staged in relation to the tournament.
The TTFF President expressed his satisfaction with T&T’s grouping which includes matches against Haiti, El Salvador and Honduras in July.
He also took the opportunity to reveal that inspite of the disappointment of the initially scheduled game against Belize being shifted, there was another pair of friendly internationals approaching that would be beneficial to T&T’s preparation for the Gold Cup. T&T will travel to Bucharest to face Romania’s Senior Team in a friendly international on June 4th and also Estonia in that country on June 7th.
Romania are currently in 31st spot on the FIFA rankings and are captained by Shakhtar Donetsk defender Razvan Rat. They defeated Turkey 1-0 in a 2014 World Cup qualifier last October before going under 4-1 to Holland.
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