27.8.06 - The under-16 team of Mexico won the 2006 Caribbean Football Union (CFU) Youth Cup after defeating Haiti in the finals by a score of 3:0 at the Hasely Crawford Stadium in Port of Spain, Trinidad & Tobago on Sunday.

After a scoreless first half, Carlos Alberto Peña got the tricolor on the board in the 71st minute.

Saul Sandoval made it 2:0 in the 83rd minute and then Raul Nava closed out the scoring for Mexico seven minutes later.

In the third-place match at the Hasely Crawford Stadium on Sunday, goals from Stephen Knox and Ryan O’Neil in the 44th and 53rd minutes, respectively, led the host Trinidad & Tobago to a 2:0 win over Jamaica.

Haiti and Trinidad & Tobago, as the two highest placed Caribbean teams from the CFU Youth Cup, have also progressed to the 2007 CONCACAF Under-17 Final Round with the group games due to take place in April 2007.

2006 CFU YOUTH CUP - TRINIDAD & TOBAGO
Third Place
27.08.2006: Port of Spain; Hasely Crawford Stadium (A: 800)
TRINIDAD & TOBAGO – JAMAICA 2:0 (1:0)
Stephen KNOX 44’ pen; Ryan O’NEIL 51’
TRI: Jesse Fullerton – Ryan O’Neil (84: Sean DeSilva), Sheldon Bateau, Akeem Adams (20: Daniel Cyrus), Brenton Balbosa, Chad De Freitas, Stephen Knox, Daniel Joseph, Robert Primus, Chike Sullivan, Kevin Molino. Booked: Balbosa 17’, O’Neil 84’
JAM: O’Neil Wilson – Jermaine Jarrett, Damaine Thompson, Christopher Banner, John Ross Doyley, Akeem Brown (60: Andre Steele), Kabari Palmer, Sean Fogah, Kenneil Hyde (83: Aundray Beckford), Dever Orgill, Romario Campbell (56: Shavor Brown). Booked: A. Brown 4’
R: Enrico WIJNGAARDE (SUR)

Final
27.08.2006: Port of Spain; Hasely Crawford Stadium (A: 800)
MEXICO – HAITI 3:0 (0:0)
Carlos Alberto PEÑA 71’; Saul SANDOVAL 83’; Raul NAVA 90’
MEX: Alejandro Dautt – Christian Perez, Kristian Alvarez, Andres Rodriguez, Heder Gutierrez, Jose Luis Verduzco (84: Victor Mañon), Carlos Alberto Peña (90: Juan Pineda), Alberto Soto (62: Raul Nava), Edgar Pacheco, Saul Sandoval, Christian Moran. Booked: Rodriguez 23’, Sandoval 63’, Pacheco 75’, Moran 86’
HAI: Dorhans Shelson – Innocent Josue, Jean Baptiste Shiroc, Pierre Elusma (70: Romulus John Peter), Saint Cyr Widner, Saintilien Geferee, Joseph Peterson, St. Victor Ulterguens, Normal Valdo, Alcine Samuel (87: Joachim Dieunel), Jules Sandy (87: Saint Louis Wiselet). Booked: Sandy 22’, Josue 44’, Widner 45’+, Peterson 48’, Geferee 81’, Valdo 79’, Sent offs: Widner 80’, Peterson 81’
R: Richard PIPER (TRI)