Trinidad and Tobago U-15s edge Curacao, St Kitts for first Concacaf wins

Trinidad and Tobago's girls’ under-15 football teams got their first wins in League B of the 2024 Concacaf Girls’ Under-15 Championships on August 6 when they got respective 1-0 victories over St Kitts and Nevis and Curacao at the Hasely Crawford Stadium in Mucurapo.

TT has entered a national under-15 and a High Performance team in the week-long tournament, which is the second tier of Concacaf’s three-tiered system. Both teams were held scoreless on the opening day of the competition on August 5 against USVI and Antigua and Barbuda respectively.

On the second day of action, though, both teams managed to find their scoring boots to grab their maiden wins to move to four points apiece.

In the second of four games played at the Mucurapo venue on August 6, the High Performance team got a late goal in the 74th minute as they earned victory over St Kitts and Nevis, who were humbled 8-0 by Guatemala on the first day of action.

In their battle against Curacao, who opened their campaign with a 3-0 win over Grenada, TT’s under-15 team got their slender 1-0 victory courtesy of a goal from defender Taya Williams.

With the top team from each group advancing to the League B semifinals on August 9, the national under-15 team and their High Performance peers will be facing critical matchups when they play their final group C and group D games on August 8.

The High Performance team will take on the free-scoring Guatemala team from 11 am in Mucurapo on August 8, with the TT under-15s playing Grenada from 3 pm in the last of four groups matches at the venue on that day.

The League B final will be contested in Mucurapo on August 11.