T&T’s Paul De­cle has been ap­point­ed tech­ni­cal di­rec­tor of foot­ball in the British Vir­gin Is­lands. His ap­point­ment was first an­nounced by the BVI Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion (BV­I­FA) at the launch of the 14th BDO Schools Foot­ball League last Wednes­day (Oc­to­ber 30) at AO Shirley Recre­ation Grounds.

De­cle, who pre­vi­ous­ly worked with the T&T Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion (TTFA) where he had sev­er­al roles, re­places Dan Neville who opt­ed not to re­new his con­tract, which ex­pired on Sep­tem­ber 1, 2024.

Dur­ing his time in T&T, De­cle was head coach of the na­tion­al fut­sal team, a coach ed­u­ca­tor and co­or­di­na­tor for the Grass­roots Pro­gramme in West Trinidad and was last at the helm of the coun­try’s High-Per­for­mance girls’ foot­ball team, which com­pet­ed in League B of the 2024 Con­ca­caf Un­der-15 De­vel­op­ment Cham­pi­onships Pro­gramme held in T&T last Au­gust.

Be­fore then he found­ed Pro Se­ries Events in T&T. This was the pre­mier or­gan­is­er for pro foot­ball ex­pe­ri­ences in the coun­try, look­ing to de­vel­op the sport.

De­cle al­so holds sev­er­al li­cences and cer­ti­fi­ca­tions, in­clud­ing his UE­FA A and B Diplo­mas from the Irish Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion, his TTFA B Li­cence and his FI­FA Fut­sal Coach­es Cer­tifi­cate.

The new tech­ni­cal di­rec­tor in the Vir­gin Is­lands told Foot­ball Ca­reers, “I am de­light­ed to ac­cept the role as TD for the BVI FA. It’s a role that comes with a lot of re­spon­si­bil­i­ty hav­ing to over­see the foot­ball land­scape in a coun­try and I look for­ward to work­ing across the ter­ri­to­ry to help the coun­try ful­fil its po­ten­tial in all ar­eas.”

The men’s side is cur­rent­ly ranked 207th in the world, and the women’s side is ranked 186th.

The men’s side ad­vanced be­yond the first round of FI­FA World Cup qual­i­fy­ing for the first time in their his­to­ry at the be­gin­ning of the qual­i­fi­ca­tion process for the 2026 edi­tion in the Unit­ed States, Mex­i­co and Cana­da.

They were drawn in­to a group with Guatemala, Ja­maica, Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic and Do­mini­ca as a re­sult of this.