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Trinidad and Tobago’s Senior National Team head coach Stephen Hart today announced a Final 23-man squad to contest the upcoming CONCACAF Gold Cup in the United States.

Hart, along with his assistant coaches Hutson Charles and Derek King have assessed the players throughout the last few weeks over a period which included three international friendly matches. Hart had also been keeping abreast of the progress of the players in their respective overseas Leagues and the T&T Pro League,

Hart has included a few players who were not in the recent teams that faced Curacao and Jordan. Among them are Iceland-based forward Jonathan Glenn who was part of the Caribbean Cup Finals squad last November, Columbus Crew midfielder Kevan George, El Salvador-based defender Yohance Marshall, US-based forward Rundell Winchester and goalkeeper Adrian Foncette. Also making the cut is Under 20 striker Kadeem Corbin.

The other regulars making the 23-man squad include captain Kenwyne Jones, goalkeepers Marvin Phillip and Jan Michael Williams, Belgium-based duo Khaleem Hyland and Sheldon Bateau, Central FC duo Ataullah Guerra and Willis Plaza, San Jose Earthquakes forward Cordell Cato, Slovak-based winger Lester Peltier, English-based midfielder Andre Boucaud, Kazakhstan-based defender Aubrey David, Danish-based defender Radanfah Abu Bakr, Chicago Fire’s Joevin Jones and W Connection defender Daneil Cyrus.

Hart has commenced a residential training camp with sessions at the Hasely Crawford Stadium and this will continue leading up to the team’s departure for Fort Lauderdale on Sunday where another live-in camp will take place. T&T will also face Haiti in a closed door training match before flying to Chicago on July 7th for its Gold Cup opener against Guatemala on July 9th at Soldier Field.

“I have confidence in this group of players that we can put things right,” Hart told TTFA Media.

“Once everyone buys into what we need to do collectively in order to achieve what we want then it will go well for us. We would need to focus on our task and support each other. We have the talent. We know that seventeen days may not be ideal, but if you add in the match period at the Gold cup, it's 25 plus days of us being together as a team and that is important especially looking beyond with the World Cup qualification coming up later in the year,” Hart added.

Tournament rules allow changes to be made to the 23-man squad up until the day before the opening match while six players from outside of the 23-man squad (from the 35-man provisional roster) can join the team for the knockout phase.

“We’ll be having players outside of the 23 players involved in this preparations this week and we will monitor their progress same time because the door will not be closed on anyone,” Hart said.

T&T 23-man Squad

Shirt #PlayerDate of BirthClubPosition
1 Marvin Phillip 01-Aug-1984 Point Fortin Civic FC Goalkeeper
2 Aubrey David 11-Oct-1990 Shakhter Karagandy Defender
3 Joevin Jones 08-Mar-1991 Chicago Fire Midfielder
4 Sheldon Bateau 29-Jan-1991 KV Mechelen Defender
5 Daneil Cyrus 15-Dec-1990 W-Connection Defender
6 Radanfah Abu Bakr 12-Feb-1987 HB Koge Defender
7 Jonathan Glenn 27-Aug-1987 IBV Forward
8 Khaleem Hyland 05-Jun-1989 KV Westerlo Defender
9 Kenwyne Jones 05-Oct-1984 Cardiff City Forward
10 Willis Plaza 03-Aug-1987 Central FC Forward
12 Kadeem Corbin 04-Mar-1996 St. Ann’s Rangers Forward
11 Ataullah Guerra 14-Nov-1987 Central FC Forward
13 Cordell Cato 25-Jul-1992 San Jose Earthquakes Midfielder
14 Andre Boucaud 10-Sep-1984 Dagenham & Redbridge Midfielder
15 Dwane James 04-Dec-1988 North East Stars Midfielder
16 Rundell Winchester 16-Dec-1993 Portland Timbers 2 Forward
17 Mekeil Williams 24-Jul-1990 W-Connection Defender
18 Yohance Marshall 22-Jan-1986 Juventud Independiente Defender
19 Kevan George 30-Jan-1990 Columbus Crew Midfielder
20 Keron Cummings 28-May-1988 North East Stars Midfielder
21 Jan-Michael Williams 26-Oct-1984 Central FC Goalkeeper
22 Adrian Foncette 10-Oct-1988 Police FC Goalkeeper
23 Lester Peltier 13-Sep-1988 Slovan Bratislava Midfielder


2015 Gold Cup: Group C Schedule

DateTeamTeamVenue
July 9 Trinidad and Tobago Guatemala Soldier Field
July 9 Mexico Cuba Soldier Field
July 12 Trinidad and Tobago Cuba University of Phoenix Stadium
July 12 Guatemala Mexico University of Phoenix Stadium
July 15 Cuba Guatemala Bank of America Stadium
July 15 Mexico Trinidad and Tobago Bank of America Stadium