CFU Boys’ Under 14 Challenge series initiated with six tier 2 matches

The CFU Boys’ Under 14 Challenge series started its venture on Friday, 16 August, as scheduled. The series is being hosted in Trinidad and Tobago.

On the first day of the tournament, six face-offs were witnessed with the inaugural call.

The Caribbean Football Union is managing the multi-national tournament with a tagline of ‘The Future Starts Now’ representing young talents. The matches of the teams in Tier 2 started when the four teams from each division of Group A, Group B, and Group C hit the ground.

The matches were telecasted live on the official YouTube channel of the Caribbean Football Union, CFU official. Along with that, the matches were broadcast for OTT audiences by Stream Bluu, and the television telecast was taken over by Flow sport TV.

Anyhow, the audience watching the match through electronic mediums suffered an inconvenience in streaming the live telecast. The issue was created due to the wide internet blockout that the region observed.

The official from the management also noted the situation and asked the streamers to hold for a moment. However, the issue was solved by the internet providers eventually. The teams of the young football players arrived at the stadiums to play the matches on the scheduled day.

The six matches for the first day of the tournament were fixed in the three different stadiums of Trinidad and Tobago.

The six matches of the first day of CFU Boys’s Under 14 Challenge series were held in Larry Gomes Stadium for Group A teams, ATO Bolden Stadium for Group C teams, and Hasely Crawford Stadium for Group B teams.

The fixture of matches was scheduled as ‘Antigua and Barbuda versus Guyana’ and ‘Barbados versus St Vincent and the Grenadines’ from Group A of Tier 2. ‘Anguilla versus Turks and Caicos Islands’ and ‘Dominica versus British Virgin Islands’ from Group B of Tier 2.

From Group C of Tier 2, matches of ‘St Lucia versus Bonaire’ and ‘Bermuda versus Grenada’ were scheduled. The first two matches of the CFU Boys’s Under 14 Challenge series started at 02:00 pm together in the stadiums of Larry Gomes and ATO Bolden.

At Larry Gomes stadium, the match of Antigua and Barbuda versus Guyana started, and it ended with a win for the Antiguan boys. The young players of Guyana were defeated by a score of 2-1. In the face-off, the three goals were scored in total by both teams in the first half.

The second half of the match went without any goal, which helped the Antiguan team to start their journey in the series with winning points. The other match at the same time at ATO Bolden stadium between St Lucia and Bonaire also ended with the same result.

The match between St Lucia and Bonaire also ended with three goals in total, which was scored in the first half of the match. The second half was finished without any goals, with a final score of 2-1. The team Bonaire was on the side of the winners after defeating St Lucia.

After the first two matches, the other three matches were scheduled at the same time, around 04:00 pm, in three different stadiums. Anguilla versus Turks and Caicos Islands match at Hasely Crawford Stadium resulted in a strong defeat for the Anguillan team.

The match ended with a final score of 3-1 in favor of the Turks and Caicos Islands. The first half of the game was finished with only two goals, both by the winning team. In the second half, the losing team was just able to score one goal, and one more goal was added by the Turks and Caicos players on the board.

The other game in the stadium of Larry Gomes was Barbados versus St Vincent and the Grenadines, which concluded with a huge margin of 6-2. The team of Barbados completely dominated the ground on the day and smashed at victory.

Both halves of the game were finished with a score of 3-1, in which Barbados players scored three goals in each half, while the opponent managed to score just one. The third match at the same time at ATO Bolden Stadium was Bermuda versus Grenada.

In Bermuda versus Grenada, the young boy’s teams scored four goals in total. The match resulted in a score of 4-0 on the board, as all goals were scored by the Bermuda team. Grenada was not able to score a single goal in the match and faced a clear defeat.

The U-14 team of Bermuda collected four goals and almost took the game, which was sealed with one more goal in the second half. The first day of the CFU Boys’s Under 14 Challenge series ended with the sixth match of Dominica versus the British Virgin Islands.

The match was scheduled at 06:00 pm in Hasely Crawford Stadium, which ended with a score of 3-0 in favour of Dominica. The British Virgin Islands team was not able to score any goal in the entire match. The winning goals were scored in the first half of the match.

The CFU Boys’s Under 14 Challenge series is joined by 23 teams in total. The players from the English-speaking islands, the Dutch-speaking islands, The French-speaking islands, and the Spanish-speaking islands of the Caribbean will show their talent in the series.