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The National Under 20 Men’s National Team will face off with a Point Fortin All Stars outfit captained by Hughtun Hector at Mahaica Oval, Point Fortin on Saturday in a two-match fund raising initiative for the families of Cedros who suffered major losses in the recent coastal landslides disaster which left eight families homeless.
The Trinidad and Tobago football association has secured two international friendlies for the National Under 20 Men’s Team to take place in Guadeloupe from May 19-21st.
The elimination of T&T’s Under-20 footballers from the Korea Republic 2017 Under-20 World Cup qualifying series has come as no surprise to ex-national coach Angus Eve.
A squad of National Under 20 players is currently in training under head coach Russell Latapy as this country focuses on the 2018 CONCACAF Under 20 World Cup qualifiers scheduled to take place in November.
TRINIDAD and Tobago’s Under 20 footballers defeated El Salvador 2-1 yesterday but it was still not enough to qualify for the quarter-finals of the CONCACAF Championships being held in Costa Rica.
This Christmas holiday for former national Under-20 midfielder Xavier Rajpaul will be like none other. It will be one spent without the most inspirational figure in his life, his father Darryl Rajpaul, a PNM councillor for Belmont East, who lost his life after a suffering a heart attack during a friendly match of football last month.
Costa Rica (1W-0D-1L, 3 points) bounced back from a loss in its CONCACAF Under-20 Championship opener to earn a 1-0 win over Trinidad & Tobago (0-1-1, 1) on Wednesday at the Estadio Nacional.
TRINIDAD AND Tobago men’s football team coach Dennis Lawrence has shown his intention to build for the future as he has called up a few members of the national Under-20 squad to join his training squad.
Trinidad and Tobago’s Men Under 20 team will be looking to secure their first victory of the CONCACAF Under 20 Men’s Qualifiers when they face a difficult task against hosts Costa Rica at the National Stadium in San Jose at 9pm TT time (7pm in Costa Rica).