Caribbean Club Championship

The race is down to three clubs within grasp of a top two spots at the end of Round Two of the Digicel Pro League Championship to earn spots in the 2012 Caribbean Football Union (CFU) Club Championship, with the ultimate goal of advancing into the CONCACAF Champions’ League.

Jack Warner, president of the Caribbean Football Union, announced on Monday that the region’s premier tournament will undergo a massive transformation for the 2011-12 season.

Defence Force head coach Ross Russell is expecting nothing less than another comfortable victory on Friday night when his team takes on Guyana’s Milerock from 6pm in their Caribbean Football Union Club Championship Second Round second-leg clash from 6pm at the Larry Gomes Stadium.

The Puerto Rico Islanders made history Sunday as they won the 2010 CFU Club Championship in Trinidad & Tobago.

TT Pro League clubs Defence Force and Caledonia AIA will look to fly the Trinidad and Tobago flag high on Friday night at the Larry Gomes Stadium, Malabar when they take on Milerock FC of Guyana(6pm) and Tempête FC of Haiti (8pm) respectively.

After suffering a 1-0 defeat in thier opening CFU Club Championship Final Round clash against fellow Pro League club Joe Public on Wednesday, San Juan Jabloteh rebounded with a 4-1 trashing of Bayamon FC 4-1 on Friday night.

HEAD-COACH Ross Russell will lead the 2010-2011 Trinidad & Tobago Pro League champions Defence Force team to Bermuda on Carnival Tuesday where they will meet Western Stars in a Caribbean Football Union (CFU) Club Championship first round match.

Puerto Rican club Atletico River Plate have protested the sanctions imposed on them by the Caribbean Football Union (CFU) following their April 18 CFU Club Championship Group D second round match against Trinidad and Tobago’s San Juan Jabloteh, which ended in an all-out brawl.