Isa new U-23 technical adviser

EX-NATIONAL under-17 football team coach Muhammad Isa has been appointed technical adviser of the Trinidad and Tobago Under-23 (Olympic) squad. This announcement was made by the Trinidad and Tobago Football Federation (TTFF) yesterday. And Isa who also served as national coach during the 1997 World Cup qualifiers, will have his first official assignment when the U-23s face their Costa Rican counterparts in a friendly at Stadio Eladio Rosabal Cordero on Wednesday. The U-23 lads are preparing for their Olympic qualifiers next month when they face Bahamas in a back-to-back confrontation. Both games are to be played in the Bahamas. Senior team coach Stuart Charles-Fevrier is also coach of  the U-23s, with Brian Williams and Ross Russell senior team assistants, while TTFF administrator Peter Rampersad is the U-23 team manager. George Joseph remains manager of the senior team, currently preparing for an international friendly in Morocco also next month.

Charles-Fevrier described the 18-member squad as a well balanced one. Fevrier said: “We will be using this game to get ourselves ready for the start of  the Olympic qualifying process.
“We have been preparing and I am positive about the team’s capabilities. There is a fair amount of experience in the team and the players. know what is required of them,” the coach said.
The team will leave for Costa Rica on Monday.

TT’s  U-23 squad is:  Goalkeepers — Daurance Williams (Jabloteh), Kevin Graham (Joe Public); Defenders — Ronald Primus, Nigel Daniel (Jabloteh), Jace Peters, Lyndon Diaz (SWIF), Corey Rivers (Defence Force), Julius James (Joe Public); Midfielders - Josh Johnson, Michael Celestine (Jabloteh), Devon Caseman (Joe Public), Kevon Clement, Nicholson Thomas (SWIF), Glenton Wolfe (North East Stars), Ryan Stewart (Caledonia AIA); Strikers: Devon Mitchell (Jabloteh), Andre Toussaint (Joe Public), Kendall Davis (W Connection).  Stuart Charles-Fevrier, coach, Brian Williams, Ross Russell, assistant coaches, Peter Rampersad, manager, Wayne Lawson, trainer/physio, Ikin Williams, equipment manager, and Muhammad Isa, technical adviser.