U-23

T&T Under-23 footballers (Olympic squad) registered a comfortable 2-0 win over the Antigua & Barbuda senior men’s team in a friendly encounter at the Marvin Lee Stadium, Macoya yesterday.

T&T under 23s aim to take it up a notch.

The stars of Trinidad and Tobago Under 20 team still fresh from its participation at the 2009 FIFA Under 20 World Championship in Egypt has graduated to Under 23 level and will once again take the field to do battle for their country as 2012 Olympic Qualifiers gets on the way.

Jamaal Shabazz, coach of the Trinidad and Tobago women’s football team, accepts the recent decision by CONCACAF to withdraw its support from the men’s and women’s football competitions in the 2010 Central American and Caribbean (CAC) Games in Puerto Rico due to a lack of suitable facilities.

Ma Pau Pro League outfit will play its final warm-up match against the National Under-23 Olympic squad this afternoon at the Larry Gomes Stadium, Arima from 4 pm.

Trinidad and Tobago's Men and Women teams will face off with teams from the rest of Concacaf and the Caribbean in their respective groups for the 2010 Central American and Caribbean games which were determined at the draw on Friday in New York.

Trinidad and Tobago’s National Under 23 team held Grenada’s National Senior Team to a 1-1 draw in a friendly encounter played at the National Stadium there on Saturday night.

National Under-23 forward, Trent Lougheed is determined to win a first team spot with Joe Public in the T&T Pro League after opting to join the “Eastern Lions” on a one-year deal rather than take up a scholarship at University of Connecticut and University of Denver.

Trinidad and Tobago’s National Under 23 Men’s team will come up against Grenada’s National Under 23s in a friendly encounter at the National Stadium in Grenada on Saturday from 7pm.