Shaun Fuentes

Some 80 kids from the Blan­chisseuse com­mu­ni­ty came out from as ear­ly as 9 am on Sat­ur­day to par­tic­i­pate in the TTFA/OneWorld­Fut­bol Youth Foot­ball Com­mu­ni­ty clin­ic at the Blan­chisseuse Sec­ondary School ground.

Pres­i­dent An­tho­ny Car­mona was wel­comed by T&T Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion (TTFA) pres­i­dent Ray­mond Tim Kee and they both joined the kids in singing the na­tion­al an­them at the start. Each kid re­ceived play­ing gear and the in­de­struc­tible foot­ball was used dur­ing the clin­ic, over­seen by TTFA tech­ni­cal di­rec­tor An­ton Corneal and as­sis­tants Muham­mad Isa, Mar­lon Charles, De­siree-Ann Sargeant, Maylee John­son and Anique Walk­er.

"I re­al­ly en­joyed this clin­ic. I was taught about foot­ball and how to de­vel­op my skills. It was a fun day for all of us and most im­por­tant­ly I go to do it with my class­mates," said 10-year-old par­tic­i­pant Faith Ramkissoon.

Tim Kee stressed the need for the TTFA to con­tin­ue spread­ing the game through­out T&T.

"This is such an im­por­tant un­der­tak­ing by the as­so­ci­a­tion. We in­tend to take the game to the kids in the var­i­ous com­mu­ni­ties and of­fer them an op­por­tu­ni­ty to learn more about the sport, to have fun, to en­gage in healthy ac­tiv­i­ties and per­haps of­fer our na­tion­al scouts and coach­es some more op­tions in the fu­ture," Tim Kee said.

"And while it's about hav­ing the kids have fun while play­ing, there is al­so a se­ri­ous side to it be­cause they are be­ing taught dis­ci­pline and skill. This is all tied in­to the en­tire ex­er­cise and I am re­al­ly look­ing for­ward to the var­i­ous camps that will take place in the weeks to come."

Part­ner­ing the TTFA in this ven­ture is Co­ca Co­la, Lifestyle Mo­tors, TSTT and BG T&T.

Lat­apy keen on new role in Scot­land

For­mer na­tion­al play­er and head coach Rus­sell Lat­apy has been giv­en a lead re­spon­si­bil­i­ty at Scot­tish Pre­mier League side In­ver­ness Cale­don­ian This­tle. And that is to de­vel­op an en­ter­tain­ing style of play for the club.

And there's no man more cer­tain of Lat­apy's ca­pa­bil­i­ties that In­ver­ness head coach John Hugh­es who played with the "Lit­tle Ma­gi­cian" dur­ing his days at Hi­bern­ian. Hugh­es al­so vis­it­ed T&T in 2000 with Hi­bs.

"The boys are quite up­beat and in good spir­its," said Lat­apy. "They're qui­et­ly con­fi­dent that they're go­ing to go out and do their best, so hope­ful­ly we can go and get a re­sult.

"It's dif­fi­cult to say ex­act­ly what I'm go­ing to bring, but my role is as­sist­ing in do­ing what­ev­er I can to make the play­ers bet­ter and en­sure we get re­sult."

"When you look at the club and what it has achieved over the years, it's a priv­i­lege for me to be part of what is hap­pen­ing, to have the op­por­tu­ni­ty to work with John again," said Lat­apy.

"Ba­si­cal­ly, what­ev­er is need­ed is what I'll be pre­pared to do.

"But every­thing takes time. First and fore­most, we have to get re­sults be­cause foot­ball match­es are about win­ning."

Wolfe wins first cup ti­tle in In­dia

Less than a month af­ter join­ing in In­di­an Pre­mier League club Churchill Broth­ers SC, lo­cal for­ward An­tho­ny Wolfe has al­ready en­joyed his first bit of suc­cess, help­ing his club to the Fed­er­a­tion Cup.

Wolfe lined up for the de­fend­ing I-League cham­pi­onship their 3-1 win over Sport­ing Club de Goa in the Cup fi­nal on the week­end.

"I am pret­ty hap­py that we won the Fed­er­a­tion Cup. We were go­ing in­to the Fed­er­a­tion Cup more as un­der­dogs be­cause we are at the bot­tom of the ta­ble in league. I think it's a great achieve­ment for the club, play­ers and for the sup­port­ers as well," Wolfe told the In­di­an press.

"It en­cour­ages the sup­port­ers to come watch the team when the team play the next home game and stuff but I think it's more of a mo­ti­va­tion­al step for us in the I-League where we aim to come from the bot­tom of the ta­ble to at least fin­ish fifth-or-sixth at the end of the sea­son. So I think win­ning this cup was very, very im­por­tant for us as play­ers. I think we trained hard and re­spond­ed on the field and no one dis­re­spect­ed each oth­er," said Wolfe, who said he was in­flu­enced by Cor­nell Glen to move to In­dia. Glen is al­so hav­ing an out­stand­ing sea­son for In­di­an club Shil­long La­jong.

Wolfe men­tioned that he has been made to feel at home since join­ing the club and is en­joy­ing life with his new In­di­an team­mates.

Moli­no: I must be in the team for Ar­genti­na, Iran

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Kevin Moli­no missed this coun­try's two clos­ing match­es for 2013 against Ja­maica due to be­ing in­ac­tive at the club lev­el. But hav­ing now re-signed with Amer­i­can club Or­lan­do City, Moli­no is hopes that be­ing on du­ty with the USL, soon to be MLS club, will re­mind head coach Stephen Hart of his ca­pa­bil­i­ties.

Moli­no is par­tic­u­lar­ly eye­ing the June 4 and 8 friend­lies with Ar­genti­na and Iran.

"I want to be back in the squad for sure for those two games. It's go­ing to be a great ex­pe­ri­ence I will not want to miss out. Hope­ful­ly I'm in­jury free at the time when the squad is be­ing se­lect­ed and I hope we can go with the best avail­able squad. Those games will be very, very big for our coun­try," said Moli­no.

The 23-year-old from Care­nage, signed a four-year deal with Or­lan­do a few weeks ago which will see him at the club as they head in­to the MLS in 2015.

T&T head coach Stephen Hart will con­tin­ue to mon­i­tor the pool of T&T play­ers both at home and abroad. There is no word to date on whether there will be game dur­ing the March FI­FA win­dow but Hart in­tends to have the best pos­si­ble team ready for two friend­lies in June.

Shaun Fuentes is the di­rec­tor of com­mu­ni­ca­tions for the TTFA � shaunfuentes@ya­hoo.com