National coach Leo Beenhakker concluded his first two-day live in training camp with a 27-man squad at the Larry Gomes Stadium on Tuesday.
Aided by his assistants Theo De Jong and Wim Rijsbergen as well as Lincoln Phillips, Michael Maurice, team sports therapist Zeph Nicholas and Wayne Lawson, Beenhakker conducted two further sessions at the Arima venue on Tuesday after starting off at the Hasely Crawford Stadium the previous day. Manager Bruce Aanensen was unavailable leaving George Joseph and Sam Phillips to carry on with the managerial duties.
Beenhakker divided the players into two teams for a scrimmage on Tuesday and Anton Pierre struck home a bullet from the edge of the box while Arnold Dwarika also netted a double to help the "Greens" to a 2-0 win. Michael Celestine was the other scorer while Gary Glasgow and Pierre got the goals for the other side. Aurtis Seaton also showed promise and overall the players gave a solid account which Phillips also agreed with.
"We concluded our first camp and it was a very good one for me in terms of picking up the ins and outs of the players here and getting to know a bit better of what I have to work with," Beenhakker said.
Midfielder Densill Theobald said he enjoyed the first set of sessions.
"I think all of us enjoyed it. He (Beenhakker) has us playing a nice brand of football and you could see for yourself that everyone was getting things done. We expected nothing less than real professionalism from them and that's exactly how things have gone so far," said the Caledonia Fire man.
The Dutch-born coach will cut the squad to 18 players for the next camp starting on Monday.