NINETEEN-year-old Domini Garnett is beginning to realise his dream of playing professionally when the Grove Hi-Tech striker recently signed a two-year deal with Trinidad and Tobago Professional League outfit Caledonia AIA. Garnett and the club came to an agreement after the Guyanese underwent a two-month trial with the team owned by Guyana’s National Senior and U-23 teams’ coach Jamaal Shabazz.

The soft-spoken but deadly striker expressed joy of not only making it out of Guyana but joining one of Trinidad’s and the Caribbean’s most respected professional sides, adding “the feeling of signing for a professional club is great and I am very excited knowing that I would be playing at the high level of the game. My intention is to work hard day to day to improve in every aspect of the football world including educating myself on the game more.”
A goal in the TT Pro League Reserve Division and injuries to several players of the first team saw Garnett get his first team appearance in the TT Pro League and the East Bank Football Association (EBFA) star player returned the compliment by scoring in his first game in a 3-1 win over St Ann’s Rangers.
To date Garnett has scored 3 goals for the first team and has started in four matches.
Garnett commenced his football career locally with the number one club in the East Bank Football Association, Grove Hi Tech as a 9-year-old and has played at the Under-13, U-15, U-17, U-19 and senior levels. Garnett represented Guyana at Under-15 (Suriname), U-17 (Dominica) and U-19 (Dominican Republic).
In the EBFA’s Stag Beer-sponsored division one league last year which was played over two rounds, Garnett ended as the leading goalscorer with 21 goals and was also the tournament’s MVP. He also ended as the joint top scorer in the inaugural Stag Super XV1 KO Cup with nine goals including all five in the final which his side won 5-0.