Dream come true for Wise

And he has asked injured teammate Silvio Spann to keep his head up in light of his exclusion from Trinidad and Tobago’s World Cup squad.

Wise, initially the 24th man in training with the team in Europe was kept as a back-up in case Cornell Glen failed to recover from a hamstring injury.

Glen has since recovered but Spann pulled up with a hamstring earlier this month in Manchester, England and is not expected to recover in time for TT’s scheduled matches at the World Cup starting on June 10.

Wise, of Waldhof Mannheim, couldn’t hold back himself at his good luck. “I’m definitely happy for myself. I worked hard.

From the start I knew it was 50-50 and I was expecting anything and it so happened it went my way,” Wise said yesterday. Beenhakker gave him the good news personally on the training pitch yesterday and shook his hands.

“Negatively, from Silvio’s point, it’s hard because he put in a lot of time into it and naturally he’s a good person. He’s one of the persons I took to since I rejoined the team.

“It’s just unfortunate and he should keep his head up because he has a lot of potential and a lot ahead of him,” Wise added. Wise reflected on his return to the TT team which started with a late callup to represent a President’s Eleven versus Grenada last month when he returned home to take care of some personal business.

“It’s funny and that’s how things go. The first becomes the last and the last becomes the first. I just have to keep working as when I just joined the squad at first. I’m giving everything I have now for the team, the country and myself,” the 32-year-old Wise said.