Spann close to injury recovery.
By Shaun Fuentes.
Silvio Spann’s hopes of playing football matches over the next few weeks leading up to the 2006 World Cup is not all lost.
Spann, now unattached to any club had his chances of signing with Sheffield Wednesday snapped last month after he picked up a knee injury and had been told by the club’s management that they will now look at the option of signing him for next season. Spann on the market after leaving Japanese club Yokohama FC.
But now having gone through rehab and set to be fully fit in a week’s time, the former Perugia player is looking forward to joining an English club where he will be allowed to play in Reserve League matches.
“As far as playing first team matches, it’s not going to happen because the club didn’t want to take the chance of signing me with the injury. But they have held talks with my agent and they remain interested. I have taken good care of the injury over the last couple weeks and I expect to be ready in a week time. I’m hoping that the arrangement for me to join anther English club will come through and I should be playing Reserve team matches and also training with this club up until the World Cup,” Spann told TTFF Media.
Meantime, while defender Brent Sancho is now back in the Gillingham first team, he is looking to cement his team both on the club eleven and the T&T squad for the friendly against Peru on May 10 and subsequently the World Cup.
And while the regular overseas are eagerly awaiting their World Cup call, a former T&T youth player has returned home in hope of signing with a Pro team. Kwame Wiltshite is back in town after failing to secure an overseas contract due to what he claimed as a lack of work permit approval.
Wiltshire was invited by both Dynamo Kiev and Spartak Moscow, adding that he was at both clubs but all chances of signing with them were dampened by a turn down for his work permit application.
“I’m back home and I’m hoping to sign with a club here, maybe Joe Public because I grew up playing with them,” Wiltshire said. “I’m still hopeful too that I can get a chance to train with the national senior team,” he added. Wiltshire was also a trainee with MLS club New York/New Jersey MetroStars.
