Renovation work being done to all four stadiums locally could jeopardise the amount of time the local players will have to impress national coach Leo Beenhakker.
Following the Soca Warriors qualification for the World Cup Finals in Germany from June 9 to July 9, the 63-year-old national coach said that the door was open to all players with a T&T passport in respect to having a chance of making the 23-man squad.
With that in mind, Beenhakker, who returned to T&T on Monday had expressed his desire to have a look at more local players and with the help of assistant coaches, Wim Rijsbergen and Anton Corneal is expected to conduct some trial sessions to a selected group of players.
But contacted yesterday, team manager Bruce Aanensen said: βAt the moment we are finding it difficult to get a venue to conduct the sessions on Saturday. All the stadiums are said to be under repairs and coach Beenhakker said he will like to have two sessions this weekend so we are still looking around for a venue,β he confirmed.
βI guess with this being the Carnival season and not much sporting activities taking place they had already singled out this two week period to do repairs on the venues, which is welcome if we want to maintain our venues,β he added.
Asked what will the coaches do if nothing becomes available, Aanensen said that assistant coach Corneal is working on two venues, the Marvin Lee Stadium and another one not yet to be named. (NS)
Guardian 20th January 2006
