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The Trinidad and Tobago National Senior Team will get an early opportunity for revenge against Suriname, after the Dutch-speaking South American nation were announced as the first opponents for the Soca Warriors under new head coach Dennis Lawrence.
The two Caribbean Football Union (CFU) representatives will meet on 10 March 2017 in a friendly international at the Andre Kamperveen Stadium in Paramaribo, Suriname.
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The outing will give Lawrence an opportunity to test his local-based players before he gets his full squad together for Russia 2018 World Cup qualifiers against Panama and Mexico on 24 and 28 March respectively in Port of Spain.
The Warriors lost 2-1 to Suriname in extra time of Gold Cup Play off action on 4 January 2017 at the Ato Boldon Stadium in Couva.
San Juan Jabloteh winger Tyrone Charles scored a brilliant late free kick against Suriname for his first international goal. But it was not enough, as the visitors—buoyed by a masterful performance from W Connection attacker Dimitrie Apai—went on to grab an extra time winner from Invanildo Rozenblad, after Guno Kwasie had opened the scoring.
Lawrence’s predecessor, Tom Saintfiet, resigned within a week of that loss, which was coupled with defeats to Haiti and Nicaragua. However, the current coach has the security of a long-term contract as he considers his upcoming opponents.
At present, Trinidad and Tobago are ranked 86th in the world by FIFA while Suriname are 147th.
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(Trinidad and Tobago 27-man squad)
Goalkeepers: Jan-Michael Williams (Central FC), Marvin Phillip (Morvant Caledonia United), Glenroy Samuel (Ma Pau Stars), Adrian Foncette (Police FC), Andre Marchan (Defence Force);
Defenders: Carlyle Mitchell (Unattached), Curtis Gonzales (Defence Force), Radanfah Abu Bakr (Unattached), Julius James (Central FC), Daniel Cyrus (Unattached), Jelani Peters, Jesus Perez, Triston Hodge, Alvin Jones (all W Connection);
Midfielders: Leston Paul, Sean De Silva (both Central FC), Akeem Humphrey, Jared London (both Club Sando), Hughtun Hector (W Connection), Tyrone Charles, Nathan Lewis (both San Juan Jabloteh), Jomoul Francois (St Ann’s Rangers);
Forwards: Keron Cummings (Central FC), Jamille Boatswain, Hashim Arcia (both Defence Force), Akeem Roach (Club Sando), Jameel Perry (Police FC).
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Meanwhile tickets for the damn Gold Cup went on sale recently:(
Not a bad place to start especially with the game staged in Suriname. Remember though, they are supposed to have only one foreign-based player and he plays in our League. I see your point though, EMP!
Oh gorm….
We can’t even get a friendly with Tobago
I was hoping it was Venezuela or Peru. .. even Haiti
That’s not the type of opposition needed at this stage to face a very powerful Mexico side & an extremely potent Panama side. Smh…..when will we ever learn?? I guess never…
Well remember it is just our local-based squad and not our full team eh. Maybe a local-based Peru or Venezuela team would have been good like Gino suggested.
But it wouldn’t help much to put our local squad against a full strength Peru.
Excellent point.. maybe tallest saving a bigger match for the full team… Lasana Liburd
Hopefully he gets it. We saw with Hart that the TTFA president was picking games rather than the coach. Don’t have much hope of that changing.
Well Tallest did indicate that he requested games, so we need a sterner test with the full squad.. Mexico will be firing on all cylinders and don’t sleep on panama
I don’t think there will be time for a friendly with his full squad. He only has a week with team and he will need to get them to understand how he wants to play. This is international football for you. No getting around that.
He has to be a great communicator to be successful and get people to understand very quickly.
I agree fully, bear in mind I was being overly optimistic when I said friendly with the full team..
He hasn’t even seen how they will respond this his strategy, which will be interesting to say the least…
Lol revenge? Tallest better watch out he don’t lose to them and get group in Santhief category
Is it really revenge if it counts for nothing?
Hahaha. Probably not. But there is bragging rights. And it would be in front of their fans too.
Well the road to recovery has to start somewhere and soon!
They need to bounce their heads and play against our neighbors Venezuela eh, steeuuppss. Them really good yes.
Haha to get a good and proper cut a**
Well they always playing against a set ah shit teams eh, and when they come up against the real bomb squad professional country teams eh, is ah set ah cut a** eh. Them really good yes. hahahaha
And do you think that the real professional country teams with the real professional HEAD Coaches is going and let the Soca Worries with ah set ah assistant Coaches beat them up eh, well I will be waiting very patiently to see madness happening eh. Them really good yes. hahahhaha
Has I said the two qualifies are the games to judge on not that friendly game.
BOOM.