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Volume 2, Issue 3 1 MAY 2010

1.FC Santa Rosa SANTA ROSA CALLS FOR ARTIFICIAL FIELD

1.FC Santa Rosa has vised the Mayor and the Mayor of called on the Arima his Council of the and his Council. Borough Corporation need for such a field An artificial field given the country’s IN THIS ISSUE to install an artificial would serve the field in the Arima water woes and the needs of the Arima Little Cannons begin 2 Velodrome. The club large number of Football League and social programme has applied has ap- matches played on the local primary plied for entry into the existing natural Club aids Haiti 2 schools that use the the TT Pro League in field. Velodrome during the 2011. Senior team trains 2 Look Loy also advised football season. Speaking at a town the meeting more Simplyfutbol.com 3 meeting convened on than seventy persons 11 March to discuss a of the Cannons’ move Santa Rosa on face- 3 draft ten-year plan to prepare an infra- book for the physical de- structure develop- Market research in 4 velopment of the ment concept for the Arima town, club president, Velodrome, which Cannons drink Ga- 4 Keith Look Loy, ad- will be presented to torade

CANNONS THIRD IN CARAPAICHAIMA TERM I CALENDAR Santa Rosa Under 16s have and Tabaquite FC (8:0). In the

claimed third place in the 2010 quarter-final round the Young FEBRUARY: Social de- Carapichaima Super League . Cannons beat RSSR 4:3 on kicks velopment programme The Young Cannons participated from the penalty mark after play- begins in the competition as part of their ing to a 0:0 extra-time result. A FEBRUARY 24: Biche preparation for the 2010 TTFF surprising 1:2 loss to Trincity Na- project begins National Youth league, which be- tionals in the semi-final sent the MARCH 2: 2010 pre- gins on 17 April. Young Cannons to the third place season training begins match in which they defeated Playing in Group A, Santa Rosa Crown Trace FC 5:0 MARCH 3: Valencia defeated Cap Off Youths FC (2:0) project begins

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VANCE JOINS CANNONS 2009 Secondary Schools’ Foot- Trophy) and Player of the Year ball League (SSFL) Player of ( Trophy). the Year, Jevaughn Vance, has Jevaughn joined the club in rejoined 1.FC Santa Rosa. May 2000 at the age of ten. Af- In 2009, Vance captained St. ter spending the last four Augustine Comprehensive years at Joe Public FC he de- School to the SSFL League ti- clined offers from Joe Public tle. He was also voted to the FC and San Juan Jabloteh FC SSFL All- team and won of the TT Pro League to join two important awards - Best the senior Cannons’. Midfielder (Russel Latapy Photo: Jevaughn Vance (left)

SANTA ROSA ON simplyfutbol.com

News of 1.FC Santa Rosa is carried two posts on the club now being carried to an even - a profile and a story about wider global audience as a re- the Cannons’ pre-season sult of a new collaboration be- matches. tween the club and simplyfut- The association between the bol.com, a website devoted to two organizations is intended coverage of the beautiful to raise 1.FC Santa Rosa’s in- game, with special focus on ternational profile as the club the Latin world. heads toward professional simplyfutbol.com has already football.

JOIN THE FACEBOOK GROUP Santa Rosa now has a face- dent’s name. Club members book group. The group was are encouraged to join the created in March after senior 1.FC Santa Rosa group and to Cannon Jovan Rochford sug- promote it among their face- gested it to club president, book friends. The group ex- tends the club’s communica- Keith Look Loy. The group IN THE MIDST OF THE MADNESS, BE currently has a membership tions network, which includes A FORCE FOR PEACE AND PROGRESS in the several hundreds and the club website and Santa may be found under the presi- Rosa Notes.

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CANNONS ’ SENIOR TEAM IN TRAINING

In preparation for the Eastern through the ongoing screening In keeping with the club’s am- Football Association season, process. The senior Cannons bitious development plan, all the senior Cannons’ began have played three training scheduled opponents are training on 2 March at the matches to date, drawing one members of the TTFF Super Larry Gomes Enclosure of the and winning two. The Cannons League or TT Pro League. The Arima Savannah. The team schedule includes: senior Cannons The EFA sea- essentially comprises selected son begins on 23 May. members of the club’s na- - 11 April vs WIS (1:1) tional champion Under 17 - 18 April vs Harvard SC (1:0) team, selected ex-members - 25 April vs Queens Park CC who have returned to the club (2:1) from TTFF Super League and - 2 May vs Club Sando FC EFA member clubs and a few - 9 May vs Joe Public FC new players who have come - 16 May vs Caledonia AIA

CLUB SENDS AID TO HAITI 1.FC Santa Rosa has contrib- rallied to the call for assis- uted to the Haiti relief effort tance as part of the club’s by sending several packages of Helping Hand programme, clothing and food stuff to the which normally provides such beleaguered island nation. The assistance to local charities club was responding to the ap- and social organizations. peal of CONCACAF president, Jack Warner, for aid to be sent Photo: Warner (fourth from to the left and FHF president Yves Football Federation. Jean-Bart, in stripes, in Port- Club members and supporters au-Prince)

AUTOMOTIVE COMPONENTS ON BOARD

Automotive Components, Lim- return top level football to ited, is one of two companies Arima. that have now joined Santa

Rosa’s family of corporate part- ners., (also see page four). ACL, ACL has selected Power Mas- a subsidiary of the Neal and ter as the brand it wishes the Massy Group, has decided to club to market and the senior support the club’s drive towards Cannons will carry the Power the TT Pro League. ACL is the Master logo on their shorts. first Arima-based company to The senior Cannons’ season support Santa Rosa’s decision to begins on 30 May. 3 Volume 2, Issue 3 SANTA ROSA NOTES

ONCE A PLAYER … NOW A PLAYERPLAYER----COACHCOACH Marc Anthony William is one of and completed his BSc. In Busi- Santa Rosa’s Under 10 coaches ness management at Hunting- and a member of the club’s sen- ton College in Indiana. In 2004 ior team. In fact, marc first Marc represented Trinidad and joined The Cannons in 1994 as Tobago in the Caribbean Foot- an Under 13 player and went n ball Union futsal championship, to represent the club at Under 15 helping the team to win the title and Under 17 levels and to cap- for the first time. tain the Under 20 team. During Marc began coaching in the USA this period he also represented in 2006, while still a university Queen’s Royal College. student. He returned to Trinidad In 2002 Marc accepted a scholar- in 2009 and re-joined the club in ship to the University of Denver September.

MARKET RESEARCH CONDUCTED IN ARIMA Santa Rosa has conducted mar- team in the league would benefit Velodrome, with seventy-five ket research in Arima, the re- the Borough. Remarkably, percent supporting the club’s call sults of which clearly indicate ninety-six percent also supported for an artificial field to be in- clear support for several of the the Cannons’ application for en- stalled. try into the league in 2011, with initiatives undertaken by the Looking ahead to 2011, seventy- club in recent weeks, eighty-eight percent saying that the team should comprise mainly five percent believe the club While only forty-six percent of Arima players. should play its home matches on respondents stated an interest in Saturday or Sunday, with the TT Pro League, one hundred Ninety-six percent approved the eighty-eight percent calling for percent agreed that an Arima idea of renovating the Arima evening or night matches.

GATORADE JOINS SANTA ROSA VEMCO, Limited has decided The team will participate in to join the 1.FC Santa Rosa the 2010 Eastern Football As- family of partners by provid- sociation senior competition, ing Gatorade equipment and as part of the club’s prepara- product sponsorship to the tions for entry into the TT Pro club. The deal will cover all of League in 2011. the club’s teams and will see 1.FC Santa Rosa welcomes the Gatorade brand carried on VEMCO, Limited and Ga- the senior Cannons’ match trade. shirt.

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