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Transfer-listed Reds' midfielder Silvio Spann today admitted he wants to be a football hero and says there is no reason why he can not achieve that cult status at Wrexham.

The Trinidad and Tobago international who has won promotion to Serie A with Italian outfit Perugia and helped his country book their place in the World Cup 2006 highlighted his desire to become an icon at The Racecourse by gaining promotion from the Blue Square Premier.

"I want to be a part of it," said Spann, one of four players on the transfer list at the club. "As I said to the coach I would love to be a part of the promotion push because you are more than less a hero and I know what it feels like to be a hero.

"I was one of the first people to qualify for a World Cup with my national team, so I know what it is like to be a hero and I would love to be a hero in another part of the World."

Spann says he holds no grudge against manager Brian Little for the decision to transfer list him - one year into a three year contract.

"I do not really look at what man has to say, it's more about what God has to say," said Spann.

"If man puts me on the transfer list that's their problem but when God says it's time to move then I move. I understand that the manager has to sort out his team and players need to move and go on the transfer list.

"I'm hanging on God's grace right now, I'm just trying to do my bit and trying to get fit. You don't want to be told you're going to another club and you're not fit so that's what I'm doing.

"I still have two years left and hopefully someone can come in but if not I stay and enjoy my team mates, I am enjoying them already.

"When all is said and done I am a Wrexham player and I am enjoying that at the moment. I took to the manager, I like him a lot and Brian Little, Brian Carey and Martin Foyle have welcomed me back with open arms.

"First I am a Wrexham player and that is how it is. I am Wrexham and my international team is Trinidad and I know it. If someone comes in or they don't that is it, I am a Wrexham player. That is the way I saw it before I came here and I am not going to change that."

The 26 year-old midfielder reckons the mood is much improved this season despite the drop down from the Football League.

"I know when there is a good spirit," he added. " I played in a team in Italy that had just been promoted so I know that feeling and I am feeling that amongst the team.

"I am really happy. guys like Simon (Brown), Jefferson (Louis) and Critch (Kyle Critchell), they are new but you can sense there is a camaraderie starting to build already and the gaffer will be pleased to see and hear that.

"It will all come down to us and how we perform in each game because the unity is getting stronger. It wasn't there last season and I can say that.

"We would finish training and jump in the vehicle and go home. Now we are finishing and sitting together, having a little banter and eat together, then we leave and go our own ways but now we also meet up outside and relax together.

"Unity was there in spurts, each club always has banter but for the short time we have been back you can really sense the spirit.

"Last year I was trying to find my feet and get accustomed to the weather and everything. It's not easy and it is a long way from my country where there is the heat and things.

"I try my best. The first year I did not play as much as I wanted but it was a tough season for everyone.

"I feel like I have settled in more now, my house is in Wrexham and I like the mood around here."