PRESIDENT Max Richards is predicting
a few upsets in Germany when the Trinidad and Tobago Soca Warriors
make their first ever appearance in the prestigious World Cup
Football final next month.
In delivering the keynote address at the Eddie Hart Football League
40th Presentation and Awards Ceremony, at the Tacarigua Community
Centre on Sunday evening, President Richards said: “I am
certain that our team will represent us well and do us proud.
“Indeed, I am looking forward to a few upsets in Germany.”
He said football is the means through which young people are held
together, and one that engages greater issues that affect their
lives.
“The game has its own rules and these provide opportunity
to generate, among other things, selflessness, as players are
encouraged to see the team as bigger than themselves,” he
noted.
“Belonging to a team and being true to team spirit can have
a positive influence on how they treat with others outside of
their sporting enclave,” the President added.
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A
section of the large audience -- from left
Community Development Minister EULALIE
JAMES, Senator PARVATEE AMOOLSINGH
-MAHABIR, Dr. VINOD MAHABIR, DMO for
St. George East and Arima Mayor
EUSTACE NANCIS.
“I can’t play no ball game again,” could be
what President MAX RICHARDS said to
Junior Culture Minister EDDIE HART,
after he was presented with a football,
autographed by several top footballers
in the Eddie Hart Football League.
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President Richards
said the Eddie Hart League is not only a football camp, but a
means of rallying a community behind the effort to harness the
abilities and energies of the youth of the region and guide them
in such a way as to help them develop as successful people who
have a healthy sense of self-esteem.
“Community is important in the preservation of peoples.
“There is where customs can be guarded and made to survive.
“There is where ideas are born and can be encouraged; perhaps
putting in place a special stamp for which the area becomes known,”
he said.
Junior Culture Minister Eddie Hart (who started the League in
l967) also gave a short address to the packed centre, which included
Senators Christine Sahadeo, Eulalie James and Parvatee Amoolsingh-Mahabir
and her husband, Dr. Vinod Mahabir, past footballers and relatives
of football players.
Vice-president of the Eddie Hart Football League, Bernard Bailey,
noted that some 47 teams from five divisions along the East-West
Corridor took part in the League and Knock Out competitions during
the football season.
Presentations were made by Minister Hart to outstanding sporting
personalities, including three players of the Soca Warriors team
who are from the Tacarigua area.
Prizes were also distributed to players and winning teams.
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