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PLEASANTVILLE, San Fernando, Trinidad, July 6,
2022 - With only host Trinidad and Tobago, and
Suriname registered to compete, history will be
made when one of the two teams capture their
first ever title in the Caribbean Zonal
Volleyball Association Youth Boys (Under-19)
Championship.
The tournament will begin at the Southern
Regional Indoor Sports Arena on Thursday and
both coaches were cautious in their words, with
Peer Nasseir, the coach of TTO even hinted at
Suriname being favourites to the title in their
best-of-three finals.
Once again, Barbados, which captured the title
for a third time in 2019 in Jamaica will not be
here to defend their title leaving the door open
for Suriname, the runner-up back then and TTO,
who ended fourth to fight it out for the coveted
crown.
Under-19 Boys:
ANTOINE VLIET (Suriname):
"We had a good preparation of one month and we
focused on playing a lot of matches so they guys
can gain some kind of momentum as we only had
one competition at home before training for the
tournament. "Our competition is only between us
and Trinidad and Tobago and having not played
for sol long due to the pandemic we would have
liked to have more matches, but we still hope to
win our series against them as we don't intend
to underestimate any team and above all, we want
to win."
PEER NASSEIR (Trinidad and Tobago):
We have a three game series with Suriname
because of a lack of teams. The positive thing
out of this is that we have never made it to a
final in this age-group before since its
inception in 2007 when we won bronze and three
years later again we got bronze. "To be honest,
Suriname is practically unbeatable, but I am
hoping that with the three-game series we should
be able to scout them, adapt to them and
overcome them. However, that will all depend on
the gap between both teams and if we can close
this gap in the short space of time, coming out
of a pandemic and not much competition or
preparation done over any long period of time. |
