?Na­tion­al Women's Un­der 17 foot­ball team head coach, Even Pellerud, says that the re­turn­ing for­eign-based play­ers have strength­ened his train­ing squad. The lo­cal girls team is cur­rent­ly cam­paign­ing in the Na­tion­al Women's League and is al­so prepar­ing for next year's Fi­fa Un­der 17 Women's Cham­pi­onship which will be host­ed in T&T next year.

Two of the play­ers join­ing the squad in­clude mem­bers of the pre­vi­ous T&T U-17 team Syd­ney Hoareau and Saun­dra Baron. And among the oth­ers are Lean­na Hinds, who is the cousin of se­nior team goal­keep­er Lisa Jo Ramkissoon and At­lanta-based duo Jas­mine Samp­son and Bre­an­na Ryce. Mal­lo­ry Archer who is at­tached to the Wa­ter­loo Mi­nor Soc­cer club in Toron­to, Bri­an­na Ryce of Geor­gia's Con­corde Fire South as well as New York based play­er An­nette Mims of Mis­s­ape­qua Storm and Mary­land's Jas­mine Samp­son are al­so train­ing un­der Pellerud.

With The Na­tion­al U-17 Women's team top­ping the first round of the Pre­mier Di­vi­sion of the 2009 Women's Foot­ball League, Pellerud com­ment­ed,

"The League plays an im­por­tant part in team's train­ing and de­vel­op­ment. I would say the sea­son thus far from Jan­u­ary to May has been very im­por­tant. "I know the girls have de­vel­oped sig­nif­i­cant­ly; They have played against play­ers who are more ex­pe­ri­enced and the girls have man­aged to out play them in most cas­es."

"I know the girls will con­tin­ue to do well in the League, it is im­por­tant for their de­vel­op­ment and the ex­po­sure is al­ways wel­comed." On the in­tro­duc­tion on the over­seas-based play­ers, the for­mer Cana­di­an head coach added, "There are a num­ber of them here present­ly who have re­turned from for­eign based teams. We have been pleased with what we have seen so far and the pres­ence of these girls will im­prove the over­all qual­i­ty of play. The high­er com­pe­ti­tion lev­el will push the play­ers to an­oth­er lev­el."

In re­lat­ed news, a team of TTFF per­son­nel re­turned from Zurich last month fol­low­ing a two-day work­shop in re­la­tion to the host­ing of the Fi­fa U-!7 Women's World Cham­pi­onship next year. Sev­er­al mat­ters were dis­cussed in­clud­ing the mar­ket­ing and tick­et­ing plan and the launch of the tour­na­ment mas­cot among oth­er things.