Female U-20 football coach craves more attention

Coach of the St Vincent and the Grenadines Under-20 female football team Alnif Williams wants more attention to be paid to that gender in the sport.{{more}}

“I also want the SVGFF and the Ministry of Education and sport to organize programmes in both primary and secondary school with their full support and I think with this set-up, we can do a lot with women’s football,” said Williams, who guided the lasses to the Caribbean Football Union final round in Haiti last month.

Williams thinks that at present, there is a core of players mainly from the Under-20 unit, on whom emphasis can be placed in order for the sport to move on.

“We have a good crop of girls; just need to continue to work with them, give them more game time and to work more on their weakness… I also think that we have to keep them in training, get more games to add valuable to them also both locally and internationally….I say this because as a coach looking at our girls I think that some of them were still tense because of playing time and lack of practice games,” Williams remarked.

The Under 20 female footballers in their sojourn in Haiti were beaten by Jamaica 4-1, but drew 1-1 with Trinidad and Tobago and lost 1-0 to Curacao.

Host Haiti registered a 2-0 win over Jamaica in the final.(RT)