Brazil captain Aline, United States goalkeeper Hope Solo and Christine St Clair, Canada's all-time national team record goal-scorer of 84 goals in 103 internationals, will all be in Trinidad on September 12 when the emblem for the 2010 FIFA Under-17 Trinidad and Tobago Women's World Cup is revealed.
Yesterday, at a media conference at the Hyatt Regency Hotel, FIFA vice-president Jack Warner described the tournament emblem as something worth seeing.
Warner, special adviser to the Trinidad and Tobago Football Federation, revealed that the FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup will be staged at a cost of $25 million and added that although they had not yet collected a nickel in funding from anyone as yet, everything else is on target.
"The future of women's football is Trinidad and Tobago," said Warner. "What we do here next year must elevate women's football and bring it within the psyche of the nation."
Warner also took the opportunity to introduce Nataki Kerr, newly-hired deputy CEO and director of marketing of the Local Organising Committee (LOC) for the U-17 Women's World Cup.
Warner described Kerr's hiring as the dawn of a new era and Kerr, who has a strong background in business and marketing, said the staging of an Under-17 World Cup here goes beyond just the matches to be played.
She said the tournament will leave a legacy of improved stadiums, facilities and improved appreciation of women's sport in Trinidad and Tobago. Kerr said in the next couple of weeks the public will be receiving lots of information about the tournament.
"We are going to be putting Trinidad and Tobago back on the international scene and it is very exciting," Kerr declared. "We are going to have the best FIFA Women's World Cup ever, in Trinidad and Tobago, in September, in 2010."