Soca Warriors return May 7
TRINIDAD and Tobago football team coach Leo Beenhakker has announced that the Soca Warriors will next assemble at home on May 7 for their match against Peru before leaving for the World Cup Finals in Germany. The Dutchman finalised the team’s schedule until their arrival at the Landhaus Wachtelhof Hotel in Rotenberg for their live-in camp in Germany. Skipper Dwight Yorke and the overseas-based professionals will arrive in Trinidad on May 7 for the Peru friendly international three days later. Apart from the match they will take part in a nationwide motorcade and attend a gala dinner before leaving on May 13 for a training camp in Manchester, England. The Soca Warriors will leave Manchester on May 20 for Austria where they will stay in Bad Radkersburg at the Hotel Im Park. The team will play its first training match of the camp against Austrian club champions Austria Wien on May 23 in Bad Radkersburg. They will face Wales in a friendly international on May 27 and then travel a short distance to Celje, Slovenia to face that country’s team in another international on May 31. The Warriors will return to Bad Radkersburg and set off for Prague where they will play their final warm-up international against the Czech Republic in Prague on June 3. Beenhakker will accompany his team from Prague to Rotenberg on June 4 ahead of their opening 2006 World Cup encounter with Sweden on June 10. "This is the schedule we have finalised for our build-up to the World Cup and it will provide us with what we need going into the tournament," Beenhakker told TTFF Media. "Of course I am happy with it because we looked at everything to put it together and I know everything that went on." The team will next reassemble in London on February 26 and will hold two training sessions at the Queen’s Park Rangers training ground and one at the club’s match stadium at Loftus Road in London before the match on February 28. Following that, work will continue with the home-based pros before May. Beenhakker will announce a provisional squad of 30 players next week from which the 20-man squad for the Iceland match will be selected.
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