T&T ref­er­ee Kwin­si Williams is one of sev­en from the Caribbean who have been ap­point­ed as lead­ing of­fi­cials for the 2023 Con­ca­caf Men’s Un­der-17 Cham­pi­onship which takes place from Febru­ray 11 to 26 in Guatemala with 20 teams hop­ing to se­cure one of four berths to the 2023 FI­FA Un­der-17 Men’s World Cup in Pe­ru.

Williams was re­cent­ly the man in the mid­dle for last Sun­day's friend­ly in­ter­na­tion­al be­tween the T&T So­ca War­riors and Saint Mar­tin at the Hase­ly Craw­ford Sta­di­um, Mu­cu­rapo, which the host won 2-0 and al­so served as the fourth of­fi­cial in the USA and Ser­bia in­ter­na­tion­al on Jan­u­ary at BMO Sta­di­um, Los An­ge­les, Cal­i­for­nia which the vis­i­tors won 2-1. An­oth­er T&T of­fi­cial Caleb Wales served as one of the ref­er­ee as­sis­tants in the USA/Ser­bia en­counter as well.

Last month, Williams and re­cent Qatar FI­FA World Cup match of­fi­cial Wales were among a a list of six T&T foot­ball of­fi­cials who were ap­proved by the Pier­lui­gi Col­li­na-led FI­FA Ref­er­ees Com­mit­tee, the body which ap­points the ref­er­ees and as­sis­tant ref­er­ees for match­es in com­pe­ti­tions or­gan­ised by FI­FA for the 2023 in­ter­na­tion­al lists.

Based on the rec­om­men­da­tions by the T&T Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion’s Ref­er­ees De­part­ment, the trio of Crys­tal Sobers, Ce­cile Hinds, and Williams were ac­cept­ed as ref­er­ees while the trio of Wales, Ains­ley Rochard, and Eve­lyn Caris­sa Dou­glas-Ja­cob were ac­cept­ed as as­sis­tant ref­er­ees.

In ad­di­tion to Williams, T&T's Neal Brizan will be one of eight Match Of­fi­cial As­ses­sors for the Con­ca­caf Un­der-17 Cham­pi­onship which takes place at the Es­ta­dio Doro­teo Gua­much Flo­res in Guatemala City, and the Es­ta­dio Pen­sati­vo in An­tigua.

The par­tic­i­pat­ing teams in­clude Mex­i­co, USA, Cos­ta Ri­ca, Hon­duras, Cana­da, Pana­ma, Haiti, Ja­maica, Cu­ba, El Sal­vador, T&T, Guatemala, Cu­ra­cao, Suri­name, Bar­ba­dos, Guade­loupe, Bermu­da, Puer­to Ri­co, Nicaragua, Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic.

The quar­tet of Bermu­da, Puer­to Ri­co, Nicaragua and Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic will be­gin the tour­na­ment in the round-of-16, hav­ing ad­vanced di­rect­ly from 2022 Con­ca­caf Men's Un­der-17 qual­i­fy­ing.