TT footballers to host Jamaica on Aug 24

The game was confirmed by the TT Football Association (TTFA) yesterday and will serve as a final build up for coach Dennis Lawrence and the Warriors ahead of there all-important September 1 World Cup qualifier at home to Honduras.

Jamaica are coming off their CONCACAF Gold Cup runners- up performance after losing 2-1 to the United States in last month’s Final and their coach Theodore Whitmore will be hoping to avenge his team’s 2-0 defeat to TT when both teams last met, in a friendly, in the Mucurapo venue on November 19 2013.

For TT, the game is all about preparations for Honduras and Panama in early September.

“This game comes at an ideal time for us in preparation for Honduras,” Lawrence said yesterday.

“Jamaica are in a good moment after coming off a very positive showing at the Gold Cup and they will come here looking to maintain that form which means they will give us the kind of test we are looking for at that stage of the preparations, a week before we face Honduras.

“We will start training on August 14 for the matches coming up and this will obviously be a critical period for us which we are all anticipating a great deal,” Lawrence added.

TTFA president David John-Williams relayed that both the TT and Jamaica governing bodies are discussing the possibility of turning the encounter into an annual affair to mark their respective Independence Days (Jamaica - August 6; TT - August 31).

Tickets for the T&T versus Jamaica friendly will cost $100 (covered stands) and $50 (uncovered) and will be available at all NLCB Lotto Locations nationwide from tomorrow.