00:00Trinidad and Tobago have qualified for next year's Pan American Cup in Uruguay.
00:04This follows their 6-0 win against hosts Peru in the Pan Am Challenge
00:08final in Lima on Saturday. Co-coach Darren Cowie was not in Peru but paid
00:14close attention to what was happening via live stream. For him, it was no
00:18surprise seeing the Red, White and Black conquering the South American continent.
00:21I don't want to downplay the tournament and I don't want to overplay it too much either
00:25but it was a tournament that we went into expecting to win. You know we knew
00:30we had the quality of players and even some some younger players that we could
00:34have given a run out. We knew that we were head and shoulders above the
00:40majority of those teams and you know allowed for the players to have that
00:43confidence going into that tournament and performing the way that they did.
00:48TNT were unbeaten in the tournament and some of their big wins included scores
00:52in double digits such as 11-0 and 13-0. So what was the reason behind the
00:57team's imperious display? I would say the keys to those wins from what I saw was
01:03definitely ball movement and creating chances for each other based on the
01:09amount of people that we were able to get on the score sheet as well and winning our
01:13penalty corner. I think penalty corners are now something that's really
01:17dangerous for us. It's good that we do have that kind of firepower in our
01:21arsenal. Based on the success hockey has been having in TNT including the indoor
01:27team going to next year's World Cup, Kauri feels more must be done for the
01:31sport. He uses the example of Peru, a country that was badly beaten by TNT. So
01:37Peru, for people who don't watch the live stream, Peru has two artificial base
01:42surfaces, the top quality international standard artificial base surfaces and in
01:48about five to ten years time they will be a much stronger team and they'll have
01:52a junior program. I'm sure that they're gonna start up on all these things. I'd
01:56say we still are behind by not having that water-based surface up in
02:02Tagore to regularly train on. The victorious Trinidad and Tobago team is
02:06expected to return home on Monday. Vinod Nawani, TV6 Sport.
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