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Less than a day after completing their first win of the CONCACAF 2006 Final qualifying round over Panama, Trinidad and Tobago’ senior footballers were back on the field for a training session ahead of their journey to Monterrey, Mexico.


“Home crowd is always important and the Trinidad and Tobago public has played its role that we have asked them to. When we really needed them, they turned out in their numbers and all credit to them because they could have simply stayed away and look at the situation as a dead one for us. The support is most appreciated by the team,” Yorke mentioned.

The opening goalscorer in T&T’s win, Stern John said he had no better way of responding to those who had been having a go at him.

“There’s no better way to answer the critics than to score in what was a massive win for us. I had an assist for us and when I had the miss early on I thought “Stern this is not going to be another one of those days’ and I kept my head up and fought on,” John said.

“If you don’t take chances you can’t have a chance of winning the lotto and I wasn’t really worried about it. I’m just really happy for all the boys and I don’t think we have experienced this sort of feeling and we feel it can only get better for us from here.”

The team also spoke highly of coach Beenhakker and his staff.

“The coach knows what he’s doing and we have ‘nuff’ respect for him. He also gave me the confidence to go out and do it. When everyone else was talking about taking me off, he was the one who saw me everyday in training and stood by me. He knows the kind of players he has on his team,” John ended.

The team will depart with only one change being goalkeeper Duarance Williams coming in for Clayton Ince after the Crewe Alexandra custodian informed management that he would be opting to sit out the Mexico match.