U-17

In true "Trini" fashion, the Local Organising Committee (LOC) is in a tight race to be ready for opening day of the FIFA Under-17 Women's World Cup, tomorrow.

ENGLAND women’s team coach and former top player Hope Powell has sent her best wishes to the Local Organising Committee on the hosting of the FIFA Under-17 Women’s World Cup in Trinidad and Tobago.

Fifa has given the all clear for the opening double-header of the Fifa Under-17 Women’s World Cup at the Hasely Crawford Stadium, Mucurapo tomorrow from 3pm.

The young "Soca Princesses" will undergo a stern test of their collective mettle when they face Chile in the FIFA Under-17 Women's World Cup on opening day Sunday at the Hasely Crawford Stadium.

T&T’s 17-year-old starting central defender Lauren Schmidt has been handed that challenge of leading the Soca Princesses on home soil in the country’s attempt to win its first World Cup trophy of any kind.

With four days to go before the start of the FIFA Women's Under-17 World Cup here in Trinidad and Tobago, the national team are now settling down at their tournament base at the Crowne Plaza hotel in Port of Spain.

Concacaf President Jack Warner has called for equal treatment for women’s football in keeping with what is provided for their male counterparts.

AS THE countdown to the 2010 FIFA Under-17 Women’s World Cup winds down Jamaal Shabazz, coach of the senior national women’s team, is expecting the Soca Princesses to “light it up” on home soil.