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Thursday, July 24, 2025

T&T To play Costa Rica in two Futsal friendlies

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Sports Desk
1564 days ago
20210413
Futsal coach Konstin at a recent training session

Futsal coach Konstin at a recent training session

Trinidad and To­ba­go’s Men’s Fut­sal team will face Cos­ta Ri­ca’s Men’s Fut­sal team in two friend­ly match­es at the Sco­tia­bank Are­na in Ala­juela on April 26th and 27th in the build-up to the 2021 CON­CA­CAF Fut­sal Cham­pi­onship in Guatemala in May.

This was an­nounced by the Cos­ta Ri­can Fed­er­a­tion af­ter the match­es were con­firmed on Mon­day.

T&T's Amer­i­can-born head coach Con­stan­tine Kon­stin has wel­comed the train­ing camp which will in­clude the two match­es be­fore the team ar­rives in Guatemala. Kon­stin is as­sist­ed by Paul De­cle in the team's prepa­ra­tion at the In­ter­na­tion­al School in West­moor­ings.

“These are wel­comed train­ing games for us be­cause it is im­por­tant that we have a chance to pre­pare against qual­i­ty op­po­si­tion. We are thank­ful to the TTFA and the Nor­mal­i­sa­tion Com­mit­tee as well as the Cos­ta Ri­ca Fed­er­a­tion for putting these match­es to­geth­er.

“I al­so would like to men­tion their Gen­er­al Sec­re­tary Gus­ta­vo Araya and head coach Car­los Quiros for their pro­posed hos­pi­tal­i­ty and their ef­forts to make these games a re­al­i­ty. We will go there with the in­ten­tion to make the best of the op­por­tu­ni­ty,” Kon­stin told TTFA Me­dia.

Alex Ramos, Cos­ta Ri­ca’s Fut­sal Team as­sis­tant coach, added, “Al­ways the pos­si­bil­i­ty of hav­ing im­por­tant games is valu­able for any na­tion­al se­lec­tion es­pe­cial­ly since it has been a typ­i­cal year with a short­age of class A games to re­fine the idea, style and iden­ti­ty as such.

“Clos­ing the prepa­ra­tion against a Caribbean ri­val is im­por­tant be­cause they are teams that have his­tor­i­cal­ly com­pli­cat­ed us due to their phys­i­cal bio­type and game char­ac­ter­is­tics. Now we are very ea­ger to close the prepa­ra­tion at home, mak­ing the cor­rect pre­sen­ta­tions that will gen­er­ate con­fi­dence in the face of the tie, "he added.

Mean­while, Con­ca­caf has ad­vised that due to the with­draw­al of three (3) Mem­ber As­so­ci­a­tions in­clud­ing Guade­loupe and Mar­tinique from Group A along with T&T, the gov­ern­ing body is re­quired to mod­i­fy Groups A and C so every group has a min­i­mum of three teams. Ac­cord­ing to the Con­ca­caf Fut­sal Rank­ings, Con­ca­caf has de­cid­ed to move the low­est-ranked team, Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic, to po­si­tion 3 in Group A along­side T&T and Guatemala.

The 2021 Con­ca­caf Fut­sal Cham­pi­onship will take place in Guatemala City, Guatemala, from May 3-9, 2021.

The World Cup qual­i­fy­ing tour­na­ment will be played at the Do­mo Polide­porti­vo and Teodoro Pala­cios Flo­res Gym­na­si­um. Both venues have a long his­to­ry of host­ing top-lev­el in­ter­na­tion­al Fut­sal com­pe­ti­tions, in­clud­ing the 2000 FI­FA Fut­sal World Cup. The FI­FA Fut­sal World Cup Lithua­nia 2021 takes place Sep­tem­ber 12 – Oc­to­ber 6, 2021. The four se­mi-fi­nal­ists in the Con­ca­caf cham­pi­onship will qual­i­fy for the World Cup.


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