Under-23s for Costa Rica match

Trinidad and Tobago’s Under-23 team will depart for Heredia, Costa Rica on Monday to play that country’s Olympic team in a warm up encounter. TT coach Stuart Charles Fevrier will travel with a 17-man squad for Wednesday’s match at the Stadium Eladio Rosabal Cordero scheduled for 8 pm. Fevrier’s team has been in training at the Manny Ramjohn Stadium, Marabella and will face Vibe CT 105 W Connection in a training match on Thursday at Marabella. TT’s Olympic team will face Bahamas in their opening round Olympic qualifiers there on September 5 and 7. Midfielder Silvio Spann, Kenwyne Jones and goalkeeper Jan Michael Williams are expected to head off to the United Kingdom for trials and will miss the trip. “We’ve had two sessions today and we will play the training game on Thursday. Basically we’ve been working more on ball possession and doing some defensive work. This Costa Rica match  will serve us well going into the start of the qualifying stage for the Olympics so we will be taking it as serious as any other,” Fevrier said.

The senior team meanwhile is also preparing for a trip to Morocco and London. First up they face English Second Division club Wrexham on September 7 and then travel to Morocco to play on September 10. TT’s Dennis Lawrence, Carlos Edwards and Hector Sam are members of the Wrexham team and their manager  Denis Smith is already excited about the match. “This match is expected to be a good attraction across here especially with our boys being part of their team,” said Smith.

Under-23 team —- Daurance Williams, Kevin Graham, Jace Peters, Ronald Primus, Lyndon Diaz,  Corey Rivers, Glenton Wolfe, Nigel Daniel, Josh Johnson, Nicholson Thomas, Kevon Clement, Michael Celestine,  Devon Caseman, Julius James, Andre Toussaint, Kendell Davis, Ryan Stewart, Devon Mitchell, Conrad Smith, Kerry Baptiste and  Anton Joseph.