The Next Lev­el Per­for­mance (NLP) has part­nered with the Sec­ondary Schools Foot­ball League (SS­FL) to host the 2025 Na­tion­al Soc­cer Com­bine, an event that will bring to­geth­er the coun­try’s top 40 male and top 25 fe­male youth foot­ballers for three days of elite test­ing, com­pe­ti­tion, and in­ter­na­tion­al scout­ing ex­po­sure at the TTDF train­ing field, Mac­queripe, Ch­aguara­mas, from De­cem­ber 12 to 14.

The first-time event will mark a his­toric mile­stone for lo­cal foot­ball de­vel­op­ment, as three ma­jor in­ter­na­tion­al or­gan­i­sa­tions have con­firmed their at­ten­dance, name­ly, (1) Red Bull New York - One of the world’s most re­spect­ed glob­al foot­ball brands, recog­nised for its pro­fes­sion­al scout­ing net­work and de­vel­op­ment path­way. (2) Mur­ray State Col­lege – NJ­CAA Di­vi­sion I: a top U.S. ju­nior col­lege pro­gramme known for re­cruit­ing ath­let­ic tal­ent from around the world, and (3) But­ler Com­mu­ni­ty Col­lege – NJ­CAA Di­vi­sion I: a pow­er­house NJ­CAA pro­gramme with a long track record of pro­duc­ing high-per­for­mance col­le­giate ath­letes.

NLP founder Bri­an Jor­dan as­sured that all three in­sti­tu­tions have con­firmed par­tic­i­pa­tion, with the NJ­CAA pro­grammes al­ready com­plet­ing trav­el arrange­ments and prepar­ing to scout ath­letes on the ground in T&T, cre­at­ing re­al path­ways for Caribbean ath­letes.

Ac­cord­ing to Jor­dan, “The 2025 Soc­cer Com­bine was cre­at­ed to pro­vide a di­rect, cred­i­ble, and high-val­ue path­way for young foot­ballers to earn schol­ar­ships, se­cure in­ter­na­tion­al re­cruit­ment op­por­tu­ni­ties, and gain ex­po­sure that has tra­di­tion­al­ly been in­ac­ces­si­ble to ath­letes across the Caribbean.”

“Across the three days, ath­letes will take part in full ath­let­ic test­ing and per­for­mance eval­u­a­tions.

Po­si­tion­al drills and small-sided com­pet­i­tive play, match-day show­case games, video and da­ta cap­ture through the Next Lev­el Per­for­mance Dig­i­tal Plat­form, and di­rect in­ter­ac­tion and feed­back op­por­tu­ni­ties with in­ter­na­tion­al scouts.”

Speak­ing on the part­ner­ship, Garvin War­wick, CEO & Founder of Next Lev­el Per­for­mance TT, stat­ed: “This Com­bine rep­re­sents what we stand for: cre­at­ing re­al path­ways, build­ing op­por­tu­ni­ties, and open­ing doors for young ath­letes across T&T and the wider Caribbean. The con­fir­ma­tion from Red Bull New York and two top NJ­CAA Di­vi­sion I col­leges shows that in­ter­na­tion­al pro­grammes are watch­ing, and they be­lieve in the tal­ent that ex­ists here.”

SS­FL Pres­i­dent Merere Gon­za­les echoed the sig­nif­i­cance of this col­lab­o­ra­tion: “The SS­FL is com­mit­ted to en­hanc­ing op­por­tu­ni­ties for our stu­dent-ath­letes (foot­ballers) both lo­cal­ly and in­ter­na­tion­al­ly. Part­ner­ing with Next Lev­el Per­for­mance el­e­vates the lev­el of ex­po­sure avail­able to our foot­ballers with­in the SS­FL and re­in­forces the im­por­tance of de­vel­op­ment be­yond the school sea­son.”

Jor­dan said the Soc­cer Com­bine aligns with Next Lev­el Per­for­mance’s wider vi­sion of us­ing tech­nol­o­gy, video analy­sis, and in­ter­na­tion­al re­la­tion­ships to en­sure Caribbean ath­letes can com­pete on the same glob­al stage as their peers. The event is ex­pect­ed to be­come an an­nu­al na­tion­al plat­form, bridg­ing the gap be­tween tal­ent iden­ti­fi­ca­tion and pro­fes­sion­al ad­vance­ment.