Aldwynable

In looking back at the

(above) Morvant team

which won the JFK football

league at Queens Park

Savannah in Trinidad

against Glory Guys I

remembered that it was the

time I played competitive football with

a black beret.

The Black Power movement was alive

and well in Trinidad and Morvant Utd

had just made a clean sweep of

trophies in the PYM Football League.

Years later, while talking to former

T&T Coach Everald “Gally” Cummings

he wanted to know the reason I

played with a beret.

Back (L-R

): Robert Mathews, Victor McGill, Keith Sebro, Aldwyn McGill, Patrick Nicholas,

Front:

Russell McIntyre, Lance Dillon, (GK) Patrick Wilkinson, Johnny Hislop, Michel Mitchell

Joseph Parker, Russell McIntyre and

Aldwyn McGill celebrate McIntyre’s goal

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I told him (Cummings) it was at a

time in my life when I had to find

myself and I did.

Brotherhood was of the utmost

back then and that’s when we

formed DJ Power Cats.

With options there was a chance

that I may not have played if I

was forced to give up the beret.

However, as I look back at the

older guys on the team like

Russell McIntyre and by older

brother Victor wearing the black

jersey (colour of the movement),

it reinforces my belief that my

ability to produce positive results

may have influenced others to

trust my leadership.

Aldwyn