Highlights? What highlights? This was more like target practice for Saprissa. Easy 3 points. Santos and Saprissa look forward to seeing another weakling from the pre leaague next year. Central target you are up next.
But I thought wconnection's head coach was one of the best in the pre league and Jomal Williams was an up and coming talent. What ever happened to the young Woo Ling? What's his address in pergatory? All of these young, talented players with enourmous potential just falling by the way side hopelessly languishing in a hopeless football league calling itself a pro league.
There isn't a huge continental divide here between truth and reality. Truthfully, the reality is that football in Trinidad and Tobago is like a "cheap suit". It crumbles easily.
There is, as you say, a big divide. This group is probably the toughest to get out of.
Say what you want about the Pro League, but until you can find a way of paying 25 players between US$1,500 - US $2,500 per month, it is the best we have. This competition has cost David John-Williams a lot of money. He never expected to win the Champions League. Perhaps he hoped that just maybe if they got out of the group they could take some scalps. I'm positive that he never expected to lose both games 4-0. Just like Barca didn't expect to lose 4-0 last week.
It is right to criticise these performamces, but when you do, consider the challenge that they took on and maybe ask yourself: Is there anything more that Trini football fans could do to help?
If clubs were getting 2,000 supporters to a game, they could afford a few foreign players to up their quality.
We need to build from home to win away.
Have you ever seen La Liga? I ask that question because you are using Barca's 4 - 0 lost as a saving grace for Wconnection's lost. La Liga is not this and this is not that. Nobody expected the Montreal Impact to be in the championship game either. If you know nothing at all about coach Enrique, you should know that he is a task master and at the end of the season Barca will be 1,2,or 3 in the league standings and defending their UEFA title.
You use words like "hope" and "maybe" in the same sentence like it is some kind of redeeming quality for these embarrassing loses, and that's what they are, even if they were poorly coached and equally prepped for this competition, where are the skills and the "warrior" spirit to compete in the face of adversity? Where is the professionalism? Is that void reflective of the pro league?
It is Dexter Skeene's job and the job of the clubs owners to ask about the fans. These are the people that have to help grow the league. Let them ask the question "What more can I do to bring out the fans". Until then and until they find answers to that question and many more, the league is in an abyss, and teams and players will continue to be stagnant and will continue to struggle to make an impression in the CCL and abroad. You cannot continue to "hope" to win.
Winning loves preparation.