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Back Row:- George “Wax” Andrews, Carlton Lamo Joseph, Reginald “Reggie” Carr, Tony “Govie” Gouveia
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Morvant United domination of the
Progressive Youth Movement
(PYM) Football League in 1970 was
my first experience of
making a clean sweep of trophies.
Under coach Tony Gouveia,
Morvant United won the PYM First
Division Shield, Witco Trophy, Vat
19 Cup, Best Discipline Cup, Most
Goals Trophy, the prize for
qualifying as the league FA finalist
and first round medals. It is what I
called a major sweep.
Morvant United was formed after
Rocky Henry of Cipriani United and
Coach Tony Gouveia approached
Russell McIntyre to join the PYM
league.
Back Row: George Andrews, (GK) Carlton Joseph, Reginald Carr, (Captain) Russell McIntyre, Tony
Gouveia Front Row: Lance Dillon, Keith Bruce, Adrian Hunte, Aldwyn “Midget” McGill, Herman Downer
and Reynold Hunte :
But, whatever the circumstances
surrounding the name change
the PYM success was a
valuable exposure.
It was the stepping stone for
joining teams in the Port of
Spain Football League (POSFL)
especially after Morvant United
gave a grand display in the semi
final of the FA Cup North Zone
against Police on St Mary's
College Ground.
Morvant lost 2-0 but the team
impressive performance showed
that some of our players were
ripe and ready for the POSFL
league.
Cipriani had played in the Super
League at University of West
Indies ground in St Augustine in
the off-season where Tony
Gouveia took over the head
coaching duties in the second
round.
Russell McIntyre played with
Cipriani in the Super League and
became the captain when the
team joined PYM under Morvant
United.
According to Russell, the name
change from Cipriani to Morvant
was conditional on him joining
and leading the team in the
competitive PYM League