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Friday, July 18, 2025

Cowie, Marcano get call-up to T&T squad for Hockey World Cup

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Walter Alibey
231 days ago
20241129
FILE - National men's indoor hockey team coach Raphael Govia, second from right, back row, poses with his team at the welcomed ceremony held at the VIP Lounge of Piarco International Airport in March after competing at the Indoor Pan American Cup in Calgary, Canada. T&T won silver.

FILE - National men's indoor hockey team coach Raphael Govia, second from right, back row, poses with his team at the welcomed ceremony held at the VIP Lounge of Piarco International Airport in March after competing at the Indoor Pan American Cup in Calgary, Canada. T&T won silver.

Courtesy SporTT

Dar­ren Cowie heads a strong 21-man squad for the Fed­er­a­tion of In­ter­na­tion­al Hock­ey (FIH) In­door Hock­ey World Cup at the Za­ti­ka Are­na in Croa­t­ia in 2025, from Feb­ru­ary 3-9.

Sharpe shoot­er Teague Mar­cano was al­so cho­sen by coach Raphael Govia and is ex­pect­ed from his Eng­lish club Hol­combe Hock­ey Club in the Eng­lish Pre­mier Hock­ey League.

T&T's se­nior men’s team took the sil­ver medal in a 5-2 loss to Ar­genti­na in the fi­nal of the In­door Pan Amer­i­can Hock­ey Cup in Al­ber­ta, Cana­da ear­li­er this year.

That match was mere­ly a mat­ter of for­mal­i­ty as both the Ar­gen­tines and the Trin­bag­o­ni­ans had al­ready earned qual­i­fy­ing berths by virtue of their semi­fi­nal wins over USA (5-4) and Guyana (10-0), re­spec­tive­ly in the tour­na­ment.

In ad­di­tion to Cowie, who came out of re­tire­ment, and Mar­cano, Govia al­so named Dwain Quan Chan, an­oth­er re­tiree seek­ing a place on the team, as well as Aidan De Gannes, Arielle Bowen, Lyn­del By­er, Solomon Ec­cles, Jor­dan Viera, Daniel By­er, Dy­lan Fran­cis and Tar­rell Singh, among oth­er play­ers.

Govia said, "It's that time of the tri­als process, the guys had a good run of ses­sions but it's crunch time, hap­py hour is over. It's time to iso­late and iden­ti­fy ar­eas to sharp­en up on cer­tain ar­eas like at­tack­ing and de­fen­sive cor­ners, Akim Tou­s­saint and I will be do­ing that with­in the next few ses­sions, in­cor­po­rat­ing a lot of games to view the use of all skills used in the last few months."

The FIH In­door Hock­ey event promis­es to be one of the most ex­cit­ing events in the in­door hock­ey cal­en­dar, as it will bring the world’s top teams for a fast-paced, ac­tion-packed tour­na­ment in the his­toric city of Poreč, Croa­t­ia.

The T&T men's team has been drawn in Pool C along­side Bel­gium, Aus­tralia, and Namib­ia. The oth­er groups will fea­ture, Pool A: Aus­tria, South Africa, Poland, and the home team Croa­t­ia; and Pool B: Iran, Ar­genti­na, Ger­many, and Malaysia.

Among the women's teams: Pool A: Czechia, Bel­gium, USA, and Croa­t­ia; Pool B: Aus­tria, South Africa, Poland, and Thai­land; and Pool C: Aus­tralia, Ger­many, Namib­ia, and New Zealand. The top eight teams from across the three pools will qual­i­fy for the quar­ter­fi­nals, while the re­main­ing teams will play in the 9-12 po­si­tion play­offs.

Govia said he will al­low his play­ers to par­tic­i­pate in an in­door tour­na­ment in Guyana next week. He said he in­tends to go to the tour­na­ment to keep an eye on the per­for­mances of the play­ers.

T&T squad:

Ron Alexan­der, Kar­los Stephens, Mal­colm 'Sug­ars' Bap­tiste, Reiza Ho­sein, Shaquille Daniel, Jor­dan Reynos, Aidan De Gannes, Arielle Bowen, Lyn­del By­er, Solomon Ec­cles, Dwain Quan Chan, Dar­ren Cowie (Cpt), Jor­dan Viera, Daniel By­er, Tar­rell Singh, Teague Mar­cano, Do­minic Young, Mikel Pierre, Dy­lan Fran­cis, Joel Daniel, Nicholas Siu Butt


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