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Eve happy as Under-23s resume prep
Published:
Friday, January 6, 2012
T&T Under-23 (Olympic) coach Angus Eve resumed preparations for the Final Round of Concacaf Olympic qualification with sessions on Tuesday and Wednesday at the Hasely Crawford Stadium, Mucurapo. Eve welcomed the return of Sporting Kansas defender Daneil Cyrus who was sidelined through injury. Cyrus is in Eve’s current training squad along with fellow overseas-based players Kevin Molino of Orlando City, former Under 20 striker Qian Grosvenor, Sean De Silva, Stephan Berkeley and Chike Sullivan. Eve is preparing his team for the upcoming Concacaf final round during which T&T will face Mexico, Honduras and Panama in California from March 23. The former T&T captain remained positive ahead of the competition. “We’ve resumed training and the boys are just as enthusiastic as they were before the break and there are no particular injuries to report,” Eve said. “It’s been a year or more we’ve been together so they know the system we are trying to perfect. It’s always difficult when players go back to their clubs and have to learn something different or adapt to a different type of preparation but our guys fitted back into our program. They also seemed well rested.
Unfortunately we did not have the W Connection players because they are involved in a Combine with Seattle Sounders and the Caledonia players just returned from Guyana,” Eve added. The T&T Olympic team will face Finland's senior team in a friendly in Tobago on January 25. Finland will also face T&T's senior team three days earlier. El Salvador will face Canada while the USA will start against Cuba to open the Concacaf Olympic qualifying finals. Group A will begin play in Nashville, Tennessee, on Thursday, March 22, with Group B in the Los Angeles suburb of Carson to follow the next day, pitting defending champion Honduras against Panama, and T&T versus. Mexico. The groups will alternate play for the next four days, with the United States taking on northern neighbor Canada on March 24 and Mexico clashing with Honduras on March 25. The group winners will face the runners-up in the opposite groups on Saturday, March 31 in Kansas City, Kansas, with the victors qualifying for the London Olympic Games July 27 to August 12. The semifinal winners will play Monday night in Kansas City.
Training Squad
Locally based: Seldon Bateau, Leslie Russell (Jabloteh); Jamaal Gay, Trevin Caesar, Aquil Selby, Micah Lewis, Zane Coker, Nuru Abdullah Mohammad (Caledonia AIA); Akil Clarke, Kareem Moses, Cameron Roget (Rangers); Joevin Jones, Mekeil Williams, Jomal Williams, Andre Quashie (W Connection); Jayson Joseph, Aubrey David, Marcus Joseph (T&TEC); Jeromie Williams, Kaydion Gabriel, Andre Marchan, Jean-Luc Rochford (North East Stars), Sheldon Clarke, Curtis Gonzales (Defence Force); Marcus Chandoor (WASA);
Overseas based: Kevin Molino, Sean De Silva, Daneil Cyrus
Qian Grosvenor, Chike Sullivan, Stephan Berkeley
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