The T&T’s Under-15 Boys football team resumed training under coach Stuart Charles Fevrier ahead of their participation in the CONCACAF Under 15 Boys Championship at IMG Academy in Florida in August later this year.
The squad currently trains six days a week at the T&T Football Association's Home of Football training facilities and are scheduled to be on a collision course with some of the Confederation's top footballing nations.
Fevrier in a release yesterday said, “We resumed in late January after a full year of training in 2018. We are trying more to focus on the physical structure of the players at this time, as last year we worked a lot on game understanding for at least seven months.”
He added, “We are continuing on game understanding but also trying to get them on a higher level tactically, physically more prepared, and on becoming more mature as players. This tournament in August is very important as it gives us the necessary exposure. We are hoping to give them some additional exposure before we go into the tournament. It’s not always easy to get these type of matches but we will see what can be worked out to play some foreign opposition, or at least play matches against older age group teams locally.”
“The tournament in Curacao last year was beneficial, but I think now we need to see them against stronger opposition, either from within Concacaf or outside of the region. We need to measure ourselves against teams that are consistently playing and performing at a high level,” Fevrier explained.
Since the team began preparation, Fevrier has received numerous interests from youth players at home and abroad.
“We have had interests from a few players who are eligible to play for the country and we have been having discussions with players from the UK and North America to see what possibilities there may be for them to join the training before we go into competition,” he added.
The team is also being groomed for 2021 Under 17 World Cup qualifying campaign.