Trinidad and Tobago Senior Men’s Team has received a first round bye for the 2016 Caribbean Cup.
The Draw for the competition was held poolside at Sugar Ridge Resort in Antigua on Saturday. Veteran sportscaster Lance Whittaker from SportsMax and Kirsy Rijo Charles Kullman, who performed bilingual duties, presided over the draw, the CFU official site stated.
The seven-group Round 1 is as follows:-
Group 1 Antigua and Barbuda, St Kitts and Nevis and Aruba
Group 2 Grenada, St. Maarten and United States Virgin Islands (USVI)
Group 3 Cuba, Bermuda and French Guiana
Group 4 Barbados, Curacao and the Dominican Republic
Group 5 Guyana, Puerto Rico and Anguilla
Group 6 Guadeloupe, St Martin and Suriname
Group 7 Martinique, British Virgin Islands and Dominica
Round 1 will be played from March 21-29; Round 2 May 15-21; Round 3 October 3-11; Fifth Place Playoff November 7-15; and the finals are scheduled for May 2017.
Veteran sportscaster Lance Whittaker (left) and co-host Kirsy Rijo-Charles Kullman (right) are assisted with the Round 1 draw by FIFA Executive Committee Officer and CFU Executive Member Sonia Bien-Aime (second from left).
CFU General Secretary Neil Cochrane showed off his lighter side as the master of ceremonies for an audience that included TTFA President David John-Williams, CONCACAF Acting General Secretary Ted Howard, CFU President Gordon Derrick and his Executive Committee Members, as well as the presidents and general secretaries of the CFU Member Associations, Hon. Minister of Sports in Antigua and Barbuda EP Chet Greene, Parliamentary Secretary in the Ministry of Sports Senator Colin James and FIFA presidential candidates Jérôme Champagne and HRH Prince Ali Al Hussein.
ST. JOHN’S, Antigua (January 17, 2017) – The Caribbean Football Union (CFU) ended the two-day General Meeting in Antigua on Sunday with a commitment to regroup in the coming weeks, ahead of the CONCACAF Extraordinary Congress on February 25 and the FIFA Extraordinary Congress a day later.
The next CFU general meeting was occasioned by a motion from the floor on Saturday, which had the support of the membership, for a meeting to consider the draft of the FIFA/CONCACAF Statue Reforms to ensure that the membership comprehends the proposals and to seek consensus.
This came after a discourse and robust debate on aspects of the proposed reformation. CFU President Gordon Derrick later said, “The CFU is in support of the reforms. We want that to be clear. It is just one or two specific areas with which we have questions, and we will meet and discuss amongst our membership how we will address these.”
The January 16-17 meeting in Antigua also heard from three FIFA presidential candidates, Jérôme Champagne and Prince Ali Bin Al-Hussein on Saturday, and Gianni Infantino on Sunday.