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Women's league football off to a great start Published on Thursday, November 6, 2008 Email To Friend    Print Version (TCI-GIS): The Women's Football League (WFL) mini tournament was deemed a roaring success by spectators that turned out to watch this season's opener. In an effort to further develop the girls Under 20 Development Programme, the Women's League hosted the event this past Sunday, November 2nd at the TCIFA Academy Field on Providenciales. Over 50 girls have been in training for the Academy Football Teams, and got the chance to showcase their skills in a succession of three matches. Games commenced at 4pm, through to 7pm, and saw the girls play against each other in two halves of 20 minutes; then in a match against the Grace Bay FC. President of the Women's League Candace Hanchell said: "The WFL is happy to see the continued growth of the league; and welcome the increase in the number of young players and also the commitment of the senior players." "There is real energy within the girls development programme right now," noted President of the Turks and Caicos Islands Football Association (TCIFA) Christopher Bryan, "which bodes well for our planned entry into the FIFA U20 Women's World Cup Qualifying Competition in 2009. " Technical Director Matthew Green said that: "It was great to see so many young players watching and supporting each other during the games and with a more competitive and experienced team to play against they will only get better as the season progresses." In addition, over 100 plus people turned out to watch the games, which bodes well for the season ahead. Sunday's event showed just how far the Turks and Caicos Islands Football Association has come in the past 18 months with regards to the development of Women's Football. "The fact that we had almost forty Under 20 players participating, with more watching from the sides, shows that the future of Women's Football looks bright and that by next season we should be able to produce three under 20 Teams to play in the league," added Green. With this mini-tournament, and other football league matches on the horizon, the TCIFA will continue to strive to make football, the World's most loved sport, the number one sport in the Turks and Caicos Islands. The results of the games are as follows: AFC Academy A 5-0 AFC Academy B AFC Academy B 0-4 Grace bay FC Grace Bay FC 0-1 AFC Academy A Scorers Pekiera Brooks 2 Vanessa Beaute 2 Judine Rigby 1 Sarah Cenary 1 Joan Whent 1 Melanie Visaya 1 Leota Grant 1 Meghan O'Reilly 1   Reads : 583 Back... Comments: No comments on this topic yet. Be the first one to submit a comment. Back... Send us your comments!   Send us your comments on this article for publication in our Readers' Forum or as a Letter to the Editor. All fields are required and in the interest of openness and transparency we will no longer accept anonymous submissions. We therefore request that all submissions include a name for publication, regardless of content. We will in special circumstances protect a writer's identity only after we have established good cause for anonymity, otherwise we will not be able to publish the submission. For your contribution to reach us, you must (a) provide a valid e-mail address and (b) click on the validation link that will be sent to the e-mail address you provide.  If the address is not valid or you don't click on the validation link, it will be a waste of your time typing your submission because we will never see it! Your Name: Your Email: (Validation required) Comments: Enter Validation Code *