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Saturday, May 24, 2025

T&T referee trio for Concacaf Nations League qualifiers

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Nigel Simon
793 days ago
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Caleb Wales, from left, Ainsley Rochard, Kwinsi Williams, Cecile Hinds, Crystal Sobers and Clarissa Douglas received their Fifa referees' designation during the Fifa Referees' Badge Distribution at the TTFA Technical Centre at Ato Boldon Stadium in Couva, on January 28.

Caleb Wales, from left, Ainsley Rochard, Kwinsi Williams, Cecile Hinds, Crystal Sobers and Clarissa Douglas received their Fifa referees' designation during the Fifa Referees' Badge Distribution at the TTFA Technical Centre at Ato Boldon Stadium in Couva, on January 28.

Daniel Prentice

The trio of T&T of­fi­cials Caleb Wales, Kwin­si Williams, and Ains­ley Rochard have all been ap­point­ed as ref­er­ees or as­sis­tant ref­er­ees for the up­com­ing 2023 Con­ca­caf Na­tions League on March 28.

Wales has been ap­point­ed as a sec­ond ref­er­ee as­sis­tant for Cana­da's home en­counter against Hon­duras at BMO Field, Toron­to which will see El Sal­vadore­an Ivan Bar­ton serve as ref­er­ee, Nicaraguan Hen­ri Pupiro as the first as­sis­tant ref­er­ee, and Mex­i­co's En­rique San­tander as the fourth of­fi­cial.

Over in Rin­con, Bonaire at the An­to­nio Treinidad Sta­di­um, Williams will stand in the clash be­tween Bonaire and Turks & Caicos as the ref­er­ee with Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic's Ray­mun­do Fe­liz, and Rochard as the first and sec­ond ref­er­ees as­sis­tant re­spec­tive­ly, while Suri­name's Ser­gio Rozen­haut has been named as fourth of­fi­cial.

Last month, Williams was one of sev­en from the Caribbean who were ap­point­ed as lead­ing of­fi­cials for the 2023 Con­ca­caf Men’s Un­der-17 Cham­pi­onship which took place from Feb­ru­ary 11-26 in Guatemala, with 20 teams.

Pri­or to that, he was the man in the mid­dle for the in­ter­na­tion­al be­tween the T&T So­ca War­riors and Saint Mar­tin at the Hase­ly Craw­ford Sta­di­um, Mu­cu­rapo, Port-of-Spain, which the host won 2-0 and al­so served as the fourth of­fi­cial in the USA and Ser­bia in­ter­na­tion­al in Jan­u­ary at BMO Sta­di­um, Los An­ge­les, Cal­i­for­nia, which the vis­i­tors won 2-1 while Wales served as one of the ref­er­ee as­sis­tants in the USA/Ser­bia en­counter as well.

Ear­li­er this year, Williams and re­cent Qatar FI­FA World Cup match of­fi­cial Wales were among a list of six T&T foot­ball of­fi­cials who were ap­proved by the Pier­lui­gi Col­li­na-led FI­FA Ref­er­ees Com­mit­tee, the body which ap­points the ref­er­ees and as­sis­tant ref­er­ees for match­es in com­pe­ti­tions or­gan­ised by FI­FA for the 2023 in­ter­na­tion­al lists.

Based on the rec­om­men­da­tions by the T&T Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion’s Ref­er­ees De­part­ment, the trio of Crys­tal Sobers, Ce­cile Hinds, and Williams were ac­cept­ed as ref­er­ees, while the trio of Wales, Rochard, and Eve­lyn Caris­sa Dou­glas-Ja­cob were ac­cept­ed as as­sis­tant ref­er­ees.

In ad­di­tion to Williams, T&T’s Neal Brizan was one of eight Match Of­fi­cial As­ses­sors for the Con­ca­caf U-17 Cham­pi­onship.


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