TRINIDAD AND Tobago will be hosting the newly-formed World League Round One Qualifier, under the auspices of the International Hockey Federation (IHF), from November 11-17.
Matches will take place at the National Hockey Centre, Tacarigua with TT entertaining Barbados, Chile, Puerto Rico and Venezuela in the men’s category while, in the women’s division, TT will have to deal with Barbados, Canada, Dominican Republic, Guyana, Puerto Rico, Uruguay and Venezuela.
The World League is part of the FIH’s quest to make the qualification process for both the
World Cup and the Olympics as inclusive and local as possible, in an effort to minimise travel costs to the smaller hockey countries.
It is split into four rounds that last over a two-year cycle. For one cycle, the World League will serve as the qualifier for the World Cup and in the next cycle serves as the qualifier for the Olympics Games.
Ann Browne-John is the chairperson of the Local Organising Committee (LOC), while Douglas Camacho, Garth Baptiste, Annette Knott, Roger Gomes, Maureen Craig Rousseau, Willard Harris, Gary Griffith and Monica Sobers-Hylton are the other appointed members.
Source: www.newsday.co.tt