An­drew Gioan­net­ti

T&T's se­nior men's foot­ball team nar­row­ly missed its chance to claim a ninth CFU Caribbean Cup crown, los­ing to Ja­maica 4-3 in a penal­ty shoot-out.

Shot-stop­per Jan Michael Williams, af­ter an over­all com­mand­ing per­for­mance,made one save for T&T in the shoot-out in Mon­tego Bay, Ja­maica. The scrap­py af­fair saw T&T fail to test the Ja­maican goal­keep­er for 120-plus min­utes on Tues­day night.

Their vic­to­ry guar­an­tees the Reg­gae Boyz a berth in the 2016 Co­pa Amer­i­ca Cen­te­nario, in ad­di­tion to the 2015 Con­ca­caf Gold Cup place they earned by mak­ing the Caribbean Cup fi­nal four.

In June 2015, Ja­maica and Trinidad & To­ba­go will be joined by Cu­ba and Haiti in the Gold Cup in the US. Fifth-placed French Guiana will face Hon­duras for the re­main­ing spot up for grabs.

The Gold Cup will al­so give the So­ca War­riors' head coach Stephen Hart an­oth­er chance at qual­i­fi­ca­tion for the spe­cial 100th an­niver­sary edi­tion of the Co­pa Am�ri­ca South Amer­i­can cham­pi­onships, a unique tour­na­ment which will see six Con­ca­caf teams tak­ing part along­side their South Amer­i­can coun­ter­parts.

T&T line up: Jan-Michael Williams, Jo­evin Jones, Daneil Cyrus, Aubrey David, Justin Hoyte, An­dre Bou­caud (Ke­van George 105th), Khaleem Hy­land, Hugh­tun Hec­tor (Ataulla Guer­ra 82nd), Lester Pelti­er (Cordell Cato 67th), Kevin Moli­no, Ken­wyne Jones.