Community based teams are great but there is also a downside. A group of kids in a community form ateam, start beating everybody and they capture the imagination of the country. They hang for about 10 years, then their community talents is not coming out as before. What do the team do? they go outside and recruit. They keep on winning. At the mean time they if they savvy they will continue deveoping their "diamonds in the rough" so that they could bring back the initial community magic that the team had. It work sometimes and other times it failed miserably. Caranage United, Oukalis, St. Barbs, Laventille Youths, Dynamos,etc,etc,etc.
PFCC went thru that and they trying a revival. How come Point can do that and Palo Seco, Fyzabad can't. How come all the SFL(industry) teams gone thru. All the factories were tied to the communities. So it follows that all the factory team had community support. When the factories closed down, the demise of their sports team followed. Point was an exception to the rule though. When Shell left TT, they handed the Mahaica facilities to CC organisation. It ran well for a good while, but the economic downturn and "probably poor management or lack of insite of the changing football trends" by the CC people almost cause the downfall of this cherish football institution.
I think in Central, Leeds, CYO, Couva Sports and Montrose go way back. I think they still around. Correct me.
All the teams in SFA had the same issues. Juniors, Hurricanes, Malin, Greyhound Dovers, Searchers, Hawk?(correct me), Evergreen? All them teams are no longer there
