Jabari Mitchell’s goal in the 76th minute gave the T&T U-20 team a come-from-behind 2-1 win over Suriname in their opening fixture at the 2014 Caribbean Men’s U-20 Championship at the Hasely Crawford Stadium.
T&T were given an early scare when Orveo Faerber gave Suriname the lead in the 4th minute, but Andre Fortune equalized with a 27th minute penalty. The Junior Soca Warriors will face Curaçao on Sunday at 6:15pm.
Teams
Trinidad and Tobago: - 1.Johan Welch; 2.Shannon Gomez (capt), 3.Martieon Watson, 4.Jesus Perez, 5.Maurice Ford, 6.Kevon Goddard, 8.Neveal Hackshaw; 7.Akeem Garcia (15.Aikim Andrews 62nd), 10.Andre Fortune (18.Jabari Mitchell 52nd), 12.Kishun Seecharan; 9.Kadeem Corbin (17.Akeem Humphrey 79th).
Unused substitutes: - 21.Javon Sample (GK), 11.Levi Garcia, 13.Josiah Trimmingham, 14.Matthew Woo Ling, 16.Kion Joseph, 19.Nicholas Dillon.
Coach: Derek King.
Suriname: - 1.Gordon Wilsterman; 2.Finidi Nijda (3.Chagamire Boldewijn 79th), 12.Eddy Luis Saname, 4.Urvin Adenie, 5.Nigel Zandveld; 11.Joel Khoen, 6.Ervin Slagveer (17.Rejerdo Naana 68th), 9.Sorencio Juliaans (capt), 7.Jesron Fer (14.Giovanni Asoman 65th); 8.Orveo Faerber, 10.Rayer Gregor.
Unused substitutes: - 22.Joel Caupain (GK), 13.Sjoerd Donner, 15.Emilio Grando, 16.Jonathan Sastra.
Coach: - Werner Blackson.
Referee: - Leo Clarke (Jamaica).
Under-20 Caribbean Championship Results
Trinidad and Tobago 2 v Suriname 1
Andre Fortune 27-Pen Orveo Faerber 4
Jabari Mitchell 76
Cuba 1 v Curacao 0
Eddy Luis Saname 51
Standings
P W D L F A Pts
Trinidad & Tobago 1 1 0 0 2 1 3
Cuba 1 1 0 0 1 0 3
Suriname 1 0 0 1 1 2 0
Curacao 1 0 0 1 0 1 0
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T&T Under 20s start with 2-1 win over Suriname.
By Shaun Fuentes (TTFA).
Trinidad and Tobago’s Under 20 men’s team got their 2015 FIFA Under 20 World Cup qualifying campaign off to a winning a start with a come from behind 2-1 victory over Suriname at the Hasely Crawford Stadium on Friday night.
Substitute Jabari Mitchell hammered home the winner from the edge of the box in the 76th minute after Andre Fortune had leveled the scores for the hosts from the penalty spot in the 27th.
The visitors stunned T&T with a fourth minute opening item from Orveo Faerber who was able to place the ball past the advancing Johan Welch in goal for T&T.
Derek King’s men settled and threatened to tie the scores but couldn’t find a way past the Suriname defence before Akeem Garcia was fouled in the penalty box to allow Fortune to drive home low from the spot.
Kishun Seecharan created problems on the flank and in the second half the introduction of Aikim Andrews and Mitchell brought more life to the T&T attack as they went in search of the winner.
Andrews was instrumental in the winner with his hustle on the level before playing one over for Mitchell to blast into the roof of the net down the stretch.
King later expressed his relief with T&T being able to grab the three points and reverse the result which saw Suriname defeat T&T 3-0 in their previous Under 20 World Cup qualifier in St Vincent/Grenadines in 2012.
“It was a good victory to start the tournament but I felt we were under par today. There are some areas in which we didn’t play according to plan and we’ll have to raise our level for the upcoming matches,” said King who had to do without the services of Levi Garcia as he he was nursing a leg muscle strain.
“We need to work on our discipline and organization. We were really under-par. But we will continue to work on our ball movement and improve,” he added during the post match press conference.
T&T will face Curacao in their second match from 6:15pm on Sunday at the Port of Spain venue. Cuba won their opener 1-0 over Curacao in the earlier match on Friday.
Young Warriors edge tough Suriname
By Ian Prescott (Express).
JABARI MITCHELL scored with a powerful shot from the top of the penalty area, as Trinidad and Tobago rallied from a goal down to beat a clever Suriname team 2-1, in their opening Caribbean Men’s Under-20 Championship match on Friday.
A good crowd turned out. And they were jumping off their seats when the W Connection youth footballer Mitchell struck with power in the 76th minute after taking a pin-point pass from Aikim Andrews, another impact substitute.
Tonight, the young Warriors will look for a second victory against Curacao, which should be enough to see them through to January’s Jamaica 2015 CONCACAF Under-20 championships, the final leg of qualifiers for the New Zealand 2015 FIFA U20 World Cup. But reputed to have seven Netherland-born players in their squad, Curacao will be desperate for victory, after losing their opener 1-0 to Cuba.
Friday’s was an edgy, tense affair, with a strong Suriname team threatening an upset and taking a fifth minute lead after striker Ricardo Faeber chipped Johan Welch, T&T’s United States-born goalkeeper, who was off his line.
It was not until the 26th minute that T&T pulled level through a well-taken penalty from USA-born midfielder Andre Fortune, won when defender Purcy De Bass took out T&T left midfielder Akeem Garcia with a high, lunging kick. Suriname briefly had to weather a storm, as T&T began taking control after pulling level, but got no further goals until the second half strike from Mitchell.
“We prepared very well for this game, but I think the better team won three points. They (T&T) are very good,” said coach Werner Blackson, a former Suriname international footballer. “We tried to keep possession as long as possible, but Trinidad forced us to play in a way we did not want to.”
Meanwhile, T&T head coach Derek King expected better, blaming first match jitters and a nervous start. He said his players were better in the second half and that they played a tough team.
“Suriname always have good teams,” King said. “We conceded a soft goal and at the end of the day Suriname did not get many chances. We will continue to work on the ball movement, and we also threw away a couple of chances, which you can’t in international football.”
King might have thought his side would have won by a wider margin but for Kadeem Corbin’s shot to goal being cleared by a retreating defender, after it had already beaten keeper Chaquille Wilsterman and an earlier poke by the T&T front man going into the side-netting.
Industrious T&T midfielder Kevon Goddard also came within a coat of paint of scoring from long range in the first half, and vice-captain and central defender Neveal Hackshaw planted Kishun Seecharan’s cross powerfully towards the goal, but onto the body of Suriname defender Jean-Paul Nuda at the goal mouth. Clever and pacey, Corbin also burst past the keeper in the dying moments of the first half, but was narrowly defeated by the acute angle when trying to score.
“Corbin is a player I like and we are also looking at him as a call-up for the national senior team,” stated King, who is also assistant national senior team coach.
There were several other entertaining moments in the game, Corbin’s pace, elusive dribbling by the left-footed El Dorado midfielder Seecharan, and a couple of hot shots from Fortune.
Goddard and Hackshaw worked extremely hard in centre field, but real impact came when former St Augustine winger Aikim Andrews and central midfielder Mitchell came on. Andrews was a bit “green”, but difficult to pin down, while Mitchell dominated the play-making role. They immediately lifted T&T’s level of play.
“What worked well for us were the guys we brought on. They did well and they lifted the standard of the team,” King said.
Teams
TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO: Johan Welch; Martieon Watson, Jesus Perez, Maurice Ford, Shannon Gomez (capt); Neveal Hackshaw, Kevon Goddard, Kishun Seecharan, Akeem Garcia (Aikim Andrews 63rd), Andre Fortune (Jabari Mitchell 53rd); Kadeem Corbin (Akeem Humphrey 81st).
SURINAME: Gordon Chaquille; Urvin Saverio, Sergio Purcy, Nigel Selassie, Finidi Jean-Paul (Chagamire Boldewijn 80th); Ervin Slagveer (Rejerdo Naana 69th), Jesron Roxey (Giovanni Asoman 66th), Joel Khoen, Sorencio Juliaans (capt); Rayer Conswello, Orveo Ricardo.
Jabari gets the job done; T&T U20s edge Suriname 2-1.
By Lasana Liburd (wired868).
A burst of inspiration off the substitutes’ bench was the difference tonight for Trinidad and Tobago as the host started its Under-20 Caribbean Championship campaign with a 2-1 win over Suriname at the Hasely Crawford Stadium in Port of Spain.
Suriname scored first after just four minutes as Orveo Faerber made the most of an early and rare opening for the Dutch nation. But United States-based midfielder Andre Fortune equalised with a rasping penalty kick in the 27th minute before substitute Jabari Mitchell completed the reversal with a 76th minute winner.
“At the end of the day, three points are three points,” said Trinidad and Tobago national under-20 head coach Derek King, “but I was a bit disappointed especially in the first half. The guys were a bit frightened but, as the game went on, we grew and the ball movement and organisation was much better.”
The result placed the teenaged “Soca Warriors” narrowly ahead of the Group A pack after the first round of matches. In the earlier fixture, Cuba edged Curacao 1-0 courtesy of an Eddy Luis Saname item in the 51st minute.
Curacao, fast and aggressive, created the better opportunities but was wasteful in the opposing penalty area and paid the price when central defender Andrew Stokkel barged over Cuban striker Frank Lopez for a penalty kick.
Curacao custodian Zeus De La Pas saved the initial penalty kick by Cuba left back Brian Rosales but Saname reacted quickly to drive home the rebound.
In the feature match, Suriname got off to a dream start with a goal from its first attacking move. A long diagonal ball to the edge of the Trinidad and Tobago area found Faerber in space and he responded smartly with a lofted effort over the advanced Warriors goalkeeper Johan Welch.
Welch got a hand on the ball but could not keep it out of his goal.
“It was a soft goal,” said King.
The Warriors, who started without the injured Levi Garcia, did not have their way in central midfield where Surinamese captain Sorencio Juliaans was superb. But local wingers Akeem Garcia and, in particular, Kishun Seecharan threatened throughout and Garcia won a penalty in the 26th minute.
Fortune responded with a confident low kick to pull Trinidad and Tobago level.
The Warriors were never fluent, particular in the middle of the field, but thrice striker Kadeem Corbin almost conjured up the go-ahead goal almost on his own while substitutes Aikim Andews and Mitchell added impetus against a Surinamese team that was clearly wilting.
“We need to work on our (tactical) discipline and organisation,” said King. “We were really under-par. But we will continue to work on our ball movement and improve.
“(Neveal) Hackshaw and (Kevon) Goddard worked their socks off and the guys who came on really helped lift the standard of the team.”
In the 76th minute, the breakthrough came via King’s second half changes as Andrews hustled an opposing defender off the ball and, from a quick throw, motored down the byline before crossing to Mitchell on top of the Suriname penalty area. Mitchell took one touch before roofing his strike to the delight of roughly 2,000 supporters.
“I am very excited that we won our first game,” said midfielder Neveal Hackshaw. “We were a bit shaky in the first half but we were pumped in the second half. We came out to do a job and we did it.”
Trinidad and Tobago can assure their progress to the CONCACAF stage on Sunday when the Warriors face Curacao from 6.15 pm at the Hasely Crawford Stadium. Cuba and Suriname will meet in the earlier match from 4 pm at the same venue.
Group B starts tomorrow at the Ato Boldon Stadium in Couva where Haiti and the Dominican Republic will do battle from 4 pm while St Kitts/Nevis and Aruba clash at 6.15 pm.
The group winners will meet in next Friday’s Caribbean finals while the top two nations from each group advance to the Under-20 CONCACAF Championships in Montego Bay, Jamaica next January.
(Teams)
Trinidad and Tobago (4-2-3-1): 1.Johan Welch (GK); 2.Shannon Gomez (captain), 3.Martieon Watson, 4.Jesus Perez, 5.Maurice Ford, 6.Kevon Goddard, 8.Neveal Hackshaw; 7.Akeem Garcia (15.Aikim Andrews 62), 10.Andre Fortune (18.Jabari Mitchell 52), 12.Kishun Seecharan; 9.Kadeem Corbin (17.Akeem Humphrey 79).
Unused substitutes: 21.Javon Sample (GK), 11.Levi Garcia, 13.Josiah Trimmingham, 14.Matthew Woo Ling, 16.Kion Joseph, 19.Nicholas Dillon.
Coach: Derek King
Suriname (4-4-2): 1.Gordon Wilsterman (GK); 2.Finidi Nijda (3.Chagamire Boldewijn 79), 12.Eddy Luis Saname, 4.Urvin Adenie, 5.Nigel Zandveld; 11.Joel Khoen, 6.Ervin Slagveer (17.Rejerdo Naana 68), 9.Sorencio Juliaans (captain), 7.Jesron Fer (14.Giovanni Asoman 65); 8.Orveo Faerber, 10.Rayer Gregor.
Unused substitutes: 22.Joel Caupain (GK), 13.Sjoerd Donner, 15.Emilio Grando, 16.Jonathan Sastra.
Coach: Werner Blackson
Referee: Leo Clarke (Jamaica).