Phillip Watts, Min­is­ter of Sport and Youth Af­fairs, says Cab­i­net has agreed to ap­prove the Cit­i­zen­ship of the Re­pub­lic of T&T Amend­ment Bill 2025 and al­so agreed that this bill is to be in­tro­duced in par­lia­ment at its ear­li­est op­por­tu­ni­ty.

The an­nounce­ment comes as great news for the T&T Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion (T&TFA) in its ef­fort to widen the tal­ent pool of the se­nior men’s na­tion­al foot­ball team and coach Dwight Yorke in their bid to qual­i­fy for the 2026 FI­FA World Cup Fi­nals to be joint­ly host­ed in the USA, Cana­da and Mex­i­co.

How­ev­er, the news comes too late for coach Yorke to utilise any of his play­ers he may have un­der con­sid­er­a­tion for his team’s open­ing two match­es start­ing tonight ver­sus Cu­ra­cao in their Group B Con­ca­caf World Cup Qual­i­fi­ca­tion Fi­nal Round open­er against Cu­ra­cao at the Hase­ly Craw­ford Sta­di­um, Mu­cu­rapo, from 8 pm, while they trav­el to Kingston, Ja­maica, to meet that coun­try on Tues­day, Sep­tem­ber 9, from 8 pm as well.