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The Trinidad and Tobago Women’s National Under-15 Team lost by an astounding 22-0 margin to the United States today in the opening day of the 2016 CONCACAF Under-15 competition in Orlando, Florida.
The score was a record for the CONCACAF tournament and a massive humbling for Trinidad and Tobago, as the two island republic finished third in the same competition, two years ago.
(Courtesy SPH-SYOGOC/Eddie Chen)
However, Trinidad and Tobago Under-15 coach Marlon Charles described the hiding as a “great experience for the young girls” and insisted that they remain in good spirits.
“We lost very badly today but it was a great experience for the young girls,” Charles told TTFA Media. “It was a very difficult game for them in all areas. Our players looked scared in the early stages of the match and speed of play was the main component which affected our team.
“But the learning process has begun for these players in this tournament. The players, in spite of the loss, are in good spirits which is important for the remainder of the tournament as they understand that the game is about exposure and playing.”
The Trinidad and Tobago starting team was: Aaliyah Alexander (GK), Tianna Daniel (DF), Roshun Williams (DF), Kady Adams (DF), Chrissy Mitchell (MD), Natifah Hackshaw (MD), Aaliyah Prince (FW), Tyanna Williams (FW), Maria-Frances Serrant (MD), Annika Daniel (MD) and Afiyah Cornwall (FW and captain).
Campbell helped steer Trinidad and Tobago to third spot.
(Courtesy CONCACAF)
In today’s other group encounters, Mexico defeated Haiti 2-0 while in other matches, Costa Rica beat Jamaica 2-1, Puerto Rico defeated St Lucia 4-1 and Canada beat Venezuela 6-0.
T&T will face Dominican Republic in their second match on Wednesday from 11am.
Stats Summary: USA / TRI
Shots: 36 / 0
Shots on Goal: 29 / 0
Saves: 0 / 9
Corner Kicks: 15 / 0
Fouls: 2 / 4
Offside: 8 / 1
(What they said before the tournament)
Head coach Marlon Charles:
Chile won 1-0.
(Courtesy SPH-SYOGOC/Seyu Tzyy Wei)
“We started off with 65 players and now we are down to 18 and I must give credit to every player who took part in the preparations… This is going to be a whole new experience for the players, not just on the football field but in so many situations…
“At this level what you will find is players who are still learning and playing for the first time so while the United States will have more resources than us, I don’t want to say that they will be superior or for us to fear them.
“We want our players to enjoy every bit of the experience. We are not putting any pressure on them… But at the same time we will be using it as a learning experience and one which we as coaches can evaluate for the future.
“The preparation was good. The TTFA did what it could to ensure we had the opportunity to prepare well and we tried to maximise the time that we had leading up to the tournament.”
TTFA President David John-Williams:
“We’ve had the Under 15 Girls team in preparation for some time and I know they have been hard at work. This is a wonderful opportunity for the young players in our women’s program to get such an experience at this early stage at the CONCACAF level and we are very pleased to have them heading off to Orlando and we’d like to wish them well in the tournament.”
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..and worse yet many of the coaches who are appointed to coach our youth teams do not even coach at that level which calls a different and special approach to coaching…
Good point
Lasana Liburd you never notice that?
Well, I don’t think it is always so. But I guess there are instances of that too.
Then is it a problem or not? lol!
It is a point worth considering regardless I think. Something to look out for. We understand the relevance whether or not it is happening.
It always helps when you know the various things to look for I think.
Coaches and players association would be a start
what stand can we make baird we have no power 2 impliment anything across the country that’s falls under the ttff and min of sport/ education
Keith Clement and that is the problem in our sweet country eh, the corrupted TTFA continues to recycle the same set of Coaches over and over and also I have said this before since our professional league started about 12 yrs ago I think it is the same Coaches over and over, so there is really no others that can do the job or even better eh. Them really good yes.
anybody who is involved in football can see clearly what the problems are when parents bring kids 2 my academy they immediately say 2 me that they have never seen the things we doing not eveb at a pro league club the detail we pay 2 development and technical drills we do so that alone just shows you how backward we are in tnt
In all our sports our best coach “MUST” coach all players under-18..Is Marlon really the best coach for that age group….Is He?
Then we make a stand and stop this nonsense that our young players are subjected too,I hear you Dion but cooperate T+T have to step in and help in providing for the youths regardless to the drugs and guns in the communities
Dion Sosa and that is what I actually mean’t to say eh. either the young ladies just started to play or they are not Coached properly eh and that is what I saw at the tryouts eh, and fuss it was terrible eh I just couldn’t stay for the whole thing eh. Them really good yes.
most of these girls just started 2 play football at their school or learnt at home playing with boys they had no formal training at that age cause there is no girls league in primary school so we will continue 2 fail cause there is no structure anywhere a. bunch of idiots at ttff who just wasting time year after year
Dion Sosa there is a girls league at primary school level but having a league 1 month or so in a calendar year does not augur well for proper development.
1 month is a waste of time and I really did not even know that was started for girls
Dion Sosa been a few years now. Atlantic Lng has a primary school league for boys n girls
ok I know about the atlantic lng league but I never knew the girls were included
Well that is the problem my brother and as I said before if you was here in our sweet country and had attended the tryouts you would have said to yourself, which academies or Coaches that these kids came from eh, are there organized football leagues or primary school leagues for these kids eh, so now after what has happened eh, maybe they all will finally do the right things the same way that it is done in our second sweetest country eh.only time will tell. Them really good yes.
Skipper the solution is to know what to do to prevent this from happening again,that is what is meant by learning experience that all parties involved in football development especially the local Academies or coaching schools that these boys and girls attend,I am always seeing videos of boys doing this and that but i rearly have I seen the next Tasha St. Louis or the other quality women footballers that have represented us well,but we want to beat these little ladies about how they represented us,they trust us as coaches to help them succeed not the other way around
Who beat the little ladies Kurtwyn? I didn’t see that. What I’ve read so far are reactions to the statement by the coach.
Check some comments bro
I’ve checked. Nada.
Ok cool
Yeah it seems as though they didn’t even understand about defending farless the game eh, because after the 5th goal eh I wudda tell them to defend for their lives eh, of which I am positively certain that Coach Marlon told them the same thing eh lol
But what is wrong with learning from losing 22-nil how much experience does these girls have compared to America?
This article (the coach )reminds me so much of my big son dad poor choices of words any shit is acceptable mad ppl ??? it’s like failure is acceptable ?
If you all had attended the tryouts in CIC grounds like I did sometime in May I think it was, you all will definitely understand why our team got 22, because of some of the players talent if not all, especially in the goalkeeping department and I understood why meh friend Marlon Charles invited me so that I could have spread the word in my second sweetest country that they were looking for players on the level to represent our sweet country. I said to myself Marlon have plenty belly yes, but for the length of time that I know him, he will never stop what he is doing for the young folks in our sweet country eh, and I can just imagine how long before the tournament started that my second sweetest country Administrators and Coaches was preparing their U 15 team like all the other teams for upcoming soccer tournaments as usual, we don’t stick eh. Them really good yes.
Mango….Marlon always try but it is the statement he made breds….that kill me dead….
Well you know that he had to polish it up eh. LOL
Yeah…he did polish it too much ….everybody see it now…
At this stage in our football history we should not be lose 22-0 to anybody at any level, the say it was ah great experience. ..just listening to it is a horror. ..come on
chabeth there never was any plan to impliment any program that was all BS the snake told people who voted for him in the elections just like how he said that he will no longer be involved in his club”s running all lies
This has nothing to do with coaching?
what is the level of competition here in that age group among girls
is it the coaching or the lack of talent
Lack of preparation….lack of time….lack of a development prog.and lack of talent may also be an issue…
That’s a painful experience sir… nothing great about that geeez
If that was a great experience, I don’t want to think about what a horrible one would be…
If this was US basketball, that coach would have been fired IMMEDIATELY!!!! This is a really tough pill to swallow! Hard luck girls!
Geez!!!!!! When I read statements like this, and I have trouble making sense of what the speaker is saying, I pause, and instead question myself for not comprehending what the speaker is saying. You see, it may well be that the problem lies with me and not them.
Lol, the problem is not with you but with the coach!
I thought this was a rugby score.
thats is big embarrassment to the nation team lack of preparation for the team and a lack or training or training methods and half of these young’s person or girls in our nation teams lack the heart and fight for teh game but if that football was Black and had hair on it they would of wi the game big time but this coach is a mad for for saying that is experience for the team that jus moral breaking to stop play football!
Randy Waldrum was relieved of his duties (in January?) after not submitting a proposal for developing the women’s game on time suggesting that the TTFA considered it to be a crucial document.
Has any similar proposal been sought from anyone else? Is the TTFA developing the proposal on its own? Some six months or so later?
I can confirm that Waldrum’s replacement, Richard Hood, said he was never asked to develop such a proposal.
What exactly does losing at such a wide margin teach you though ?
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Only in sweet T&T people will call for you to be fired when “working” for free…. Hahaha. So the statement may be justified if we consider, to whom nothing is given nothing is required. Sadly our players are the ones suffering through it all. SMH
To whom nothing is given nothing is expected
Best they coach them selves
best dem stop play football
I must ask this question: is the gap in quality between the USA team and ours really so wide that we warrant a 22-goal shellacking? It will be interesting to see how the other teams fare against the USA to determine how far down the pecking order we may have fallen and give testament to the standard of training and preparation the tea actually received.
I hope that the team rebounds against the Dominican Republic and gives a much better account of themselves in that game.
FTC fire the coach!!!!
Fed up of some of these coaches using such words to cover failure and mediocrity.
How in the hell losing 22-0 is a great experience. They should fire that damn coach, obviously he don’t know how to coach
did t&t even touch the ball…this is beyond embarrassing .. is this being investigated by the ministry of sport or anyone in authority? if not it WILL happen again, only next time will be 50-0!!
Wda Hmm Smh
Marcia Pope dem is kaizen
Buh wah d jail.
That is a mauling from which you do not recover. Clearly an under prepared team again, or the wrong ladies picked. This is not an experience any one would like.
Bryan Bernard how yuh like him now?
I’m convinced that no one can convince me that this team has ever been trained. In fact I’m convinced that they don’t even know what a football looks like and this performance convinced me convincingly :-). That man say it was a “good learning experience” …. allyuh go make me start drinkin yes …. bombo …….. that coach was gone in a second!!
lol notice my first comment… I was wondering if they have the same football experience as I…except I at least know what a football looks like…I think…though I have never played the sport… sad though…for those youngsters…I guess they enjoyed the travel maybe….
Lol I feel ya … I just think it’s really sad to send them out there so underprepared ….. beatdowns like that can make you change sports lol
Yep, it most definitely can…
Well Lasana they were certainly not ready and hence should not have been entered to participate.
It was a tournament. So you don’t get to pick your dancing partner. It’s either you’re ready or you’re not.
As simple as that…bossman….lol
Coach you are wrong! That certainly was not a great experience for the girls, it was a mismatch! Coaches suppose to know the ability of their team and pair them with another appropriate team. Not one to massacre and demoralize them. They definitely were not ready, now they are crushed mentally!
No comment… I can’t Lasana Liburd… I can’t…..
Good lord Brigo. They must have wanted posters out for you. That is child abuse! Lol
I get in all kinda trouble… the league, club, tourney…lol real kicks
Hahaha
Lol. I didn’t even know teams still suffered this kinda licks in football anymore.
I beat a side 19/0 in a tourney last year (u8)… and the funny thing is the other team didnt stop playing…. I even took a player off … sometimes shit happens… but this is unacceptable from a national level… but ah say no comment
what an EMBARRASSMENT…why waste all these FUNDS…we all know these girls are not ready…
You better work HARD to keep their moral up because I played football and although no team I played on ever got beaten 22-0, I know it can be tough to want to play after such a loss.
Those girls could never be in good spirits; after 5-6 goals they must have been heart wrecked. Long before the 22nd goal they would have felt demoralized and in shock. I want to see this video; anyone knows if after let’s say 8-10 goals if he pulled all back but 1 to defend? If he made any substitutes? Madness!!!
Let’s be real TTFA has no ladies programme and they really need to stop fooling themselves…..the US never fail to prepare for tournaments such as this…try using former female players who have some coaching skills and get them into the school girl league …but Sorry Marlon it was better you said nothing and cleanout yuh locker…yuh fired again again again…..
..Marlon is my friend, but Hassan, yuh so correct..
Keith Look Loy …I know he has given a lot to coaching in the ladies programme and has taken a lot of disrespect from ttfa but this nah man Keith I dont care who anyone is and if they working for free or not and by the way one never works for free but coming back to the issue Marlon should have known better guess he allowed himself to be set up again….. but those funds could have been utilized in the same development programme…. I done talk about football issues in this sweet triniland…..
Must get 22 and erol Fabien coaching ?
something is very wrong here…