Zonal Leagues

The Northern Football Association [NFA] ends a successful year with a historic opportunity for its U17 team. After three months of screening, training and practice matches, 18 players have been selected to represent the NFA at the ‘US Soccer Boy’s Winter Showcase’ in Tampa, Florida from the 26th-31st December.

LEADERS of the Northern Football Association (NFA) Premiership Division, Cantaro United are on a bye for round 11, while the next four highest teams in the standings will be eager to make up ground this weekend.

Fire Ser­vice pulled off an up­set in the South­ern Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion’s League Cup Knock­out fi­nal, beat­ing favourites Li­on Heart FC 4-3 on penal­ty-kicks af­ter a 1-1 dead­lock at Guapo Recre­ation Ground, Guapo, Point Fortin, on Wednes­day night.

Clynt Tay­lor, gen­er­al sec­re­tary of the Cen­tral Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion (CFA) is set to face le­gal ac­tion from for­mer na­tion­al de­fend­er An­cil El­cock, Guardian Me­dia Sports was re­li­ably in­formed on Fri­day.

Trend­set­ter Hawks made up for miss­ing out on the North­ern Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion Pre­mier Di­vi­sion ti­tle by edg­ing North Coast SCC 2-1 in the zon­al FA fi­nal at the Hase­ly Craw­ford Sta­di­um Train­ing Field in Mu­cu­rapo on Tues­day night.

The Cen­tral Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion (CFA) League will kick off on Sat­ur­day with two new teams Self Made En­ter­tain­ment Ti­tans and Latchu Trace Youths FC will be among a list of 11 teams that will bat­tle for brag­ging rights and a $15,000 win­ner's cheque.

Kevon Jes­sop and Chris­ton Fre­i­tas were both on tar­get as Cul­tur­al Roots Unit­ed claimed its sec­ond North­ern Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion Pre­mier Di­vi­sion ti­tle with a 2-0 vic­to­ry over its clos­est ri­vals Trend­set­ter Hawks in front of its home fans at Dibe Recre­ation Ground, Long Cir­cu­lar, St James on Wednes­day night.

Odelle 'Raul' Arm­strong scored a sec­ond-half dou­ble to lead St Fran­cois Na­tion­als to a come-from-be­hind win over Mis­cel­la­neous Laven­tille Unit­ed in the 2019 North­ern Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion (NFA) Cup sea­son open­er at the Hase­ly Craw­ford Sta­di­um, Train­ing Field, Mu­cu­rapo on Wednes­day night.