Barney’s bible: ‘The more games you play, the better you get’ fallacy leaves T&T players underdeveloped
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Barney’s bible: ‘The more games you play, the better you get’ fallacy leaves T&T players underdeveloped
Youth development in Trinidad, simply put, consists of tournaments and competitions. The Secondary Schools Football League (SSFL), Youth Pro League (YPL), Republic Bank Youth League, Next Level U-19 Tournament and Commissioner’s Cup are the main players in this arena.
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Barney’s bible: Does T&T player development follow best practises? Are our youth competitions helping or hurting?
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Have we been developing players? Or were we just blessed with talented players previously and, now, not so much?
Photo: Trinidad and Tobago World Cup players Dwight Yorke (top), Dennis Lawrence (right) and Shaka Hislop celebrate after a goalless draw against Sweden at the 2006 World Cup in Dortmund, Germany.
Dear Editor: TTFA member bodies have no uniformity, and it’s killing our game
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Dear Editor: TTFA member bodies have no uniformity, and it’s killing our game
“[The TTFA’s] associate members also need structural reform, especially for youth development. Every group does whatever it wants. Under-8s may play in 7v7 competitions in south Trinidad, but play 5v5 in the east, and something completely different in the north each with different sized goalposts or field dimensions. There is no national uniformity…”
The following letter to the editor on the state of local football was submitted to Wired868 by American Youth Soccer Organisation (AYSO) president and former Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) technical committee member Dale Toney:
Dear Editor: Covid-19 regulations unfairly and disproportionately affecting youth athletes
“[…] In primary schools, it is 2,475 from 4,960 students or 49.8% [who are inactive due to Covid-19 regulations], while it is 2,838 from 4,750 students in secondary schools or 60%. That means a combined total of 5,313 from 9,710 students in Tobago, or 58%.
“If Trinidad and Tobago had a coronavirus infection rate of those proportions for any subset of the population, the entire country would be in panic mode. But we have created our own pandemic and not realised it, or cared about it or are too scared to address it…”
Photo: RBYL Under-11 South Zone action between Princes Town SA and Tiny Mikes FC on 7 April 2019.