Futsal

TEN THOUSAND dollars in cash awaits the winner of the first Annual Futsal Invitational tournament scheduled to kick off on November 21 at the UWI-SPEC Grounds, St Augustine at 9 am.

CLAYTON MORRIS, coach of the national Futsal (five-a-side football) was left fuming after United Petrotrin’s goalkeeper, Perry Martin was forced to withdraw from the 12-man squad for the Concacaf Futsal Final Round Qualifiers.

CLAYTON MORRIS, the coach of the Trinidad and Tobago national futsal team, is pushing for the establishment of a National Futsal Football League as a means of lifting the level of the sport in the country. Morris was speaking following his team’s participation last week at the 2008 CONCACAF Futsal Championship at the Domo Polideportivo in Guatemala City, Guatemala, where Caribbean champions T&T failed to grab one of the three qualifying places for the World Futsal Championship.

AS PART of their preparations for the Concacaf Futsal Final Round Qualifiers, the Clayton Morris-coached T&T men’s Futsal (five-a-side) football team will come up against Tobago Select at Scarborough Secondary School from 6 pm tonight.

Cuba defeated Trinidad & Tobago by a score of 9:2 in a Group A encounter at the 2008 CONCACAF Futsal Championship. In the other encounter, Guatemala came back from a three goal deficit to earn a 3:3 tie against Mexico.

CONCACAF on Monday, announced the groups and schedule for the 2008 CONCACAF Futsal Championship which will include Trinidad and Tobago at the Domo Polideportivo in Guatemala City, Guatemala from 3-8 June.

Guatemala topped Trinidad & Tobago by a score of 5:0 in a Group A encounter at the 2008 CONCACAF Futsal Championship at the Domo Polideportivo in Guatemala City on Tuesday evening.

Host T&T defeated Haiti 6-3 in the final of the Caribbean Futsal Qualifying Tournament to the Concacaf Qualifiers at the Canedo Hall, Dr Joao Havelange, Centre of Excellence, yesterday.