Visitors to train at Larry Gomes

SEVERAL Trinidad and Tobago overseas-based professionals will be returning from London, England aboard a BWIA 901 flight along with the Bahrain national team today. Among the local players arriving are Scottish-based midfielder Russell Latapy, West Ham goalkeeper Shaka Hislop, Dundee’s Kelvin Jack, Crewe Alexandra’s Clayton Ince, Luton Town’s Carlos Edwards, St Johnston’s Jason Scotland, Glasgow Rangers’ Marvin Andrews, Yokohama’s Silvio Spann and Coventry City forward Stern John. They will be coming off the flight with their Bahrain opponents who will be coming off  a 16-hour flight after connecting from London.

Chris Birchall and Dennis Lawrence will arrive today from Manchester after their flight was delayed by a day while Dwight Yorke comes tomorrow. Arriving on Saturday night was Brent Sancho while American-based trio Cornell Glen, Scott Sealy and Avery John were scheduled in yesterday. The TT squad will assemble at the Crowne Plaza in Port-of-Spain today while Bahrain will be based at the Hilton Trinidad. The home-based pros in the TT squad are Caledonia AIA Fire’s Densill Theobald, CL Financial San Juan Jabloteh duo Cyd Gray and Aurtis Whitley and National Quarries North East Stars’ Anthony Wolfe.

The Bahrain management has requested use of the Queen’s Park Savannah for a light stretch this evening and will then train the next three days at the Larry Gomes Stadium in malabar each day from 6.30 to-8.30pm and then on Friday at the Hasely Crawford Stadium, Mucurapo. TT will train from tomorrow at the match venue. Meantime, Trinidad and Tobago head coach Leo Beenhakker will have his hands full come tomorrow after Southampton striker Kenwyne Jones was passed fit on Saturday was also scheduled here yesterday for the weekend showdown.

It was only Friday when Southampton FC sent a fax to the TTFF advising that Jones was unfit to travel and partake in the preparations and match due to a hamstring injury which forced Beenhakker to omit him from the 21-man squad. The Dutchman then named Cornell Glen as his replacement on Saturday, only to learn later that evening that Jones had passed a fitness test. Beenhakker has since decided to have both men in the camp and the squad will now comprise 22 players.