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More football to come from Rangers.
« on: December 21, 2006, 07:29:31 AM »
More football to come from Rangers.
By: Ian Prescott (Express).
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Richard Fakoory is pleased as punch by the sixth place finish of his Superstar Rangers team in their first season playing professional football in Trinidad and Tobago.
"We were expecting to just try and survive and not be demoted in our first season, but we were able to muscle around with some of the big boys. We also got to the final of the Toyota Cup which we lost again Petrotrin. We did not expect to be in the Big Six and we made it. I think we had a good season."
Rangers won 12 league games in the T&T Pro League and even finished ahead of traditional local football powerhouses, the Defence Force. Of the three promoted teams, only 2006 league champions Joe Public did better than Rangers. But then, Joe Public always maintained a professional team even though they voluntarily chose to drop to the semi-pro Super League last season.
Joe Public are also owned by self-confessed millionaire, Jack Warner, who also holds the portfolio of vice-president of world football's parent body FIFA and is president of both the Caribbean Football Union (CFU) and CONCACAF, who govern the sport in North America, Central America and the Caribbean.
A San Juan businessman, Fakoory admits that his football resources are not as substantial. He has built Rangers mainly using his own resources, the investment of a good friend and this year also had assistance from the Sports Company of Trinidad & Tobago.
Over the years, Rangers have remained a small but quality club that have produced several national players such as Clayton Morris, Marvin Faustin, and more recently World Cup midfielder Aurtis Whitley, all of whom they have eventually lost to the bigger clubs.
However, the first season in the Pro League has had Fakoory thinking ambitiously about next season.
Some of his plans include building a youth academy and strengthening the coaching department in all age groups at the club. Rangers also have a management board in place, led by president Desmond Allum. Their mandate is to chart the overall development of the club.
Rangers' focus now is on in-house player development and Fakoory hopes to develop a few quality footballers out of his under-20 team, that supplied seven of the players in the Fatima College team that lost the national InterCol secondary schools title to San Juan Senior Comprehensive this season. Among them are national youth player Chad de Freitas, Jevon Morris and Ejijah Belgrave.
"We will not be looking for any outside help," Fakoory said. "We are looking to our youth team to replace some of the older players who will eventually leave the team. Of course, anyone is welcome to come to our tryouts, but we do not have the resources to go to the bigger clubs looking for players."
Fakoory thinks he has a solid base already. Striker Errol Mc Farlane started the season overweight and unfit, but according to Fakoory, he became a tower of strength, scoring nine goals and finishing eighth among the top scorers in the Pro League. Fakoory also thinks Mc Farlane's younger brother Shem is a future star of the club and that Kerwin Jemmott was a super acquisition.
Jemmott came to the club overweight and with his usual off the field problems. Joe Public had just cut him from the roster when Fakoory took the chance on the naturally-gifted, but problematic midfielder. Jemmott added the creativity Rangers needed and also helped himself by attracting the attention of national coach Wim Rijsbergen.
The Dutch former World Cup player has called up Jemmott to his Digicel Caribbean Cup training squad and Fakoory believes that once focused, Jemmott has a big future with the national team.
Fakoory also rated defender Lorne Joseph among his standouts and with the inclusion of promising young defenders such as Corneal and Christian Thomas, he thinks his defence will only get stronger. If all the ingredients go together, Fakoory also things Rangers will be a team to fear very soon.
"Next year, 2007, will be good for us. We are going to start early. We also have a few more people coming aboard next year to help us in the in the coaching department and we are going to have a press conference soon to make some announcements," Fakoory said.
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Re: More football to come from Rangers.
« Reply #1 on: December 21, 2006, 08:54:38 AM »
hardest in shape now... breds its your time now  :beermug:

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Re: More football to come from Rangers.
« Reply #2 on: December 21, 2006, 01:00:56 PM »
You know what’s funny hardest never liked rangers because he play for trendsetter hawks our rivals all the players know him and welcome him because they all grow up together don’t get me wrong he would radder play for rangers before any other team except hawks that is. Shem is a good young player they have a lot of young hurry players in there ranks big thing to come next year.
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Re: More football to come from Rangers.
« Reply #3 on: December 21, 2006, 03:34:54 PM »
You know what’s funny hardest never liked rangers because he play for trendsetter hawks our rivals all the players know him and welcome him because they all grow up together don’t get me wrong he would radder play for rangers before any other team except hawks that is. Shem is a good young player they have a lot of young hurry players in there ranks big thing to come next year.

trendsetter is we team behind de bridge  ;D ah know about de rivalry oui, but we iz all family, i dont mind supporting rangers... joe public was close to my mother area....

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Re: More football to come from Rangers.
« Reply #4 on: December 21, 2006, 03:36:31 PM »
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Jemmott came to the club overweight and with his usual off the field problems. Joe Public had just cut him from the roster when Fakoory took the chance on the naturally-gifted, but problematic midfielder.
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