The Antigua and Barbuda Football Association has announced its Under-14 Boys National Squad for the upcoming Caribbean Football Union Boys Under-14 Challenge Series.
The tournament is set to take place in Trinidad from August 16th to 25th, featuring some of the region’s most promising young talents.
The squad boasts several noteworthy players, including Joshua James, a striker from St Joseph’s Academy, who scored the most goals in the Ministry of Sports Under 14 League last season while strikers Mario Lewis and Shumba Thomas from the Princess Margaret School have made the team as well.
A particularly intriguing addition is Luke Harney-Rogerson, a UK-based attacking midfielder. Harney-Rogerson, who attends Claremont Senior School in East Sussex and plays for AS Eastbourne, has already made waves in English youth football.
He was voted AS Eastbourne Academy’s U13 Player of the Season for 2022-23, and overall Player of the Season for 2023-24 on the way to his club winning the league and county cup double.
The team will be led by renowned Head Coach George Warner, with Donavan Peart serving as his assistant. Malcolm Challenger will accompany the squad as the Equipment Manager.
The Benna Boys have been placed in Group A, alongside Guyana, Barbados, St Vincent and the Grenadines, and the Cayman Islands.
They will play their first match on the 16th against Guyana at 2pm, then meet St. Vincent and the Grenadines two days later at 11am. They battle the Cayman Islands one day later at 4pm, and play Barbados at 2pm the next day.…Read more by Vivian Michael
