 Coach Andrew Bascome IslandStats.com
Bascome is preparing the team for the Caribbean Football Union (CFU) Youth Cup, the tournament will consist of 28 Under-16 National teams in the 2006 event, which runs from 14-26 August.
Trinidad & Tobago will host the tournament. The first round of the 2006 CFU Youth Cup will have seven groups of four teams playing in six cities: Bacolet, Couva, Malabar, Marabella, Point-Pierre and Port of Spain from 14-19 August.
The group winners along with the just the best second-place finisher will progress into the quarterfinals on 22 August. The semifinals are scheduled for 24 August, with the third-place match and final set for two days later.
Canada won last year’s CFU Youth Cup after defeating Guatemala by a score of 4-0 in final held at the Hasely Crawford Stadium in Port of Spain on 13 August 2005. Jamaica took the third-place honours earlier in the day with a 3-0 win over Trinidad & Tobago.
The 2006 CFU Youth Cup will also double as the Caribbean Preliminary Qualification to the CONCACAF Under-17 Final Round with the group games due to take place in April 2007.
The best Caribbean team (excluding Jamaica) from the 2006 CFU Youth Cup will advance to the 2007 CONCACAF U-17 Final Round along with Canada, Mexico & USA; two squads from Central America; and final group hosts Honduras and Jamaica.
The top two squads from each of the CONCACAF Final Round Groups will qualify to the FIFA U-17 World Cup Korea 2007. The two third-place finishers from each of the Final Round Groups will meet in a two-game playoff for the final Confederation berth in the FIFA event.
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