A point worth mentioning, hinted at before, is that this team that did us proud in Antigua by reaching the Caribbean Cup finals was largely a local based side, playing against very tough competition with players like those in Martinique exposed to French league play or strikers for English Premier League teams such as the striker from West Ham.
Fellas, Trinidad & Tobago football has to be improving thanks to the Proleague when players in that same league cyah geh pick such as my favourite Kerry Baptiste, Glen, Shadon Winchester, Britto, Hayden "legendary-scorer-in-Mexico" Tinto, right wing back Kern Cupid, Jayson " super-right-wing-sub-in-Guadalajara" Joseph, Bartholomew, Leon, Adams, Central FC's Anthony Wolfe, and many others as seen below in the Proleague website .. not to mention there is not much anxiety with the absence of Keon Daniel, Birchall etc. Even just cool eh feelin' de need as much to crusade for Roberts selection for Caribbean Cup level. We seem to be finally reaching the point where we almost do not need the foreign based Carlos, Bateau, Primus, Peltier, Kenwyne, Julius James, George, Birchall, Cato, Mr midfielder in Belgium ... Hyland, Boucaud, Roberts, JLloyd Samuel to resue us at Caribbean Cup level. Note as we step up we WILL need some of them, so doh geh me wrong as a propagandist for buy-local only.
http://www.ttproleague.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=972%3Awi-sports&catid=26%3Apromotions&Itemid=1This is exactly what the team managers, new PR people in the trenches like Central FC's Football Supporter, league stakeholders like Skeene, advertisers, TV stations, radio stations, businessmen want to see and will help shed a spolight on the local league. Before, people who don't really follow the league would have said, " who de hell is Guerra. I eh going to see no football with shittongs like he. Where he come from? Where? Nah, not me and people like dem." Now, even some of the cynical ones on this site might dare to pay attention when Richard "who-de-hell-is-he" Roy scores for Def Force. Stars are becoming .... local. More league attention --> more crowds and waggonists ---> more league stature ---> more media coverage ---> more sponsor money ---> more prize money ---> higher player morale --> more player effort ---> standards rise --> player slaries go up ---> more players get contracts --> T&T wins more tournaments --> ranking reach above 70, more europe picks, more international prestige for T&T, less resistance by euro/ US employers to new T&T talent abroad... and on and on.