CON­CA­CAF 'C' Li­cense Cer­tifi­cates were hand­ed out to many for­mer and present women play­ers who are mak­ing the tran­si­tion from play­er to coach.

The course was con­duct­ed by the new Tech­ni­cal Di­rec­tor of T&T foot­ball An­ton Corneal who ad­mit­ted that he al­so played a part in de­sign­ing the course.

On Thurs­day, Corneal said he was proud to have been the one to con­duct the course as it was a com­pre­hen­sive one which will be a good build­ing block for young per­sons.

"In dis­cus­sion with CON­CA­CAF this morn­ing they asked if you're us­ing the same syl­labus, which I am us­ing and I am al­so us­ing some ad­di­tion­al work which I have done with the T&T Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion over the past 10 years and I'm bring­ing it to­geth­er.

They were able to cer­ti­fy all the par­tic­i­pants with CON­CA­CAF li­cens­es and I think this is a big step for­ward. We thought it might have been a year or two away but it's up­on us right now and I'm re­al­ly hap­py for the girls.

This course is go­ing to en­tail lead­er­ship, man­age­ment, teach­ing and coach­ing, prepa­ra­tion and plan­ning," Corneal ex­plained.

He ad­mit­ted al­so that over the years the course has been im­prov­ing as they have tak­en di­rec­tion from UE­FA which en­sures that there is a con­sis­ten­cy be­tween our con­fed­er­a­tion and oth­er con­fed­er­a­tions.

From the course, four recog­nised lo­cal coach­es Ra­jesh Latchoo, Mar­lon Charles, Paul De­cle and De­siree Sargeant were recog­nised as fu­ture coach ed­u­ca­tors.

Mean­while, Corneal said the T&T se­nior women's foot­ball team is in a good po­si­tion now, hav­ing won its open­ing two Group F match­es against Nicaragua and Do­mini­ca in the CON­CA­CAF World Cup Qual­i­fiers.

The Ken­wyne Jones-coached women's se­nior team shut out Nicaragua 2-1 at the Hase­ly Craw­ford Sta­di­um in Mu­cu­rapo and lat­er Do­mini­ca 2-0 at the Na­tion­al Track and Field Fa­cil­i­ty in Leno­ra, Guyana.

Corneal said: "It's al­ways good to get full points be­cause you're get­ting full points com­ing off of two games and there are more games to play. You're able to see your strengths, ar­eas that you need to im­prove on, you're able to see your op­po­nents so now you're in a bet­ter po­si­tion to plan.

I think it's a bless­ing in dis­guise re­gard­less of the re­sults. The oth­er coach­es al­so saw the same, how­ev­er, they saw us and our po­ten­tial, so we have prob­a­bly to keep search­ing out play­ers who have an in­ter­est to play for our coun­try, which is no dif­fer­ent from any of the Caribbean coun­tries."