Doc, Peltier is #6 right? every single time he get the ball the only beat he doing is fan, right thru and it cause him to lose the ball several times. Ah mean he quick with the fan and it looking good, but he cyar be doing that alone.
Yes GW. His dribbling was not the means to an end, but rather the end itself. Tinto is ahead of him!
i though he was a foward seems like fenwick playing him as a winger ... oh and doc i dont see how much more developing this kid could do under fenwick.
Triniman, I can't comment on that aspect of the man's work. I can only comment on the games i saw and the related performances. Peltier is only one year removed from the College league isn't he?
W Connection are champs
Ian Prescott iprescott@trinidadexpress.com
Tuesday, January 30th 2007
Vibe CT105 W Connection players celebrate their Caribbean Football Union (CFU) Club Championship Final victory over CL Financial San Juan Jabloteh at the Manny Ramjohn Stadium on Sunday.
After a traditional Sunday lunch, one would have thought that the prospect of seeing good football in the Caribbean Football Union (CFU) Club Championship Final would have drawn a big crowd to the Manny Ramjohn Stadium in Marabella. No such luck.
But, even without the big crowd, conditions for football were absolutely beautiful when Vibe CT105 W Connection edged CL Financial San Juan Jabloteh 1-0 in the final on a single goal from midfielder Andre Pacheco.
The valuable goal ensured W Connection qualified for the CONCACAF Champions Cup quarter-finals, where they will meet CD Guadalajara of Mexico in a two-leg playoff.
W Connection host the first leg in Trinidad on February 13, before the away match on February 28 in Mexico.
On Sunday, W Connection were targetting the Jabloteh goal from long-range early on, with both Brazilian left back William Oliviera and Colombian central defender Christian Viveros taking cracks at goal without troubling Brian James, who has been between the uprights since Daurance Williams was injured in the opening minutes of their semi-final victory over Haiti's Baltimore Sportif at the same venue last Friday.Â
The left-footed Pacheco eventually got the breakthrough for W Connection in the 11th minute, meeting a cross from Brazilian midfielder Gefferson Goulart and sliding a low shot away from Brian James, to put his team into the lead.
Even before the goal, W Connection were having the better of the game and keeping possession for long periods.
For a second consecutive match, Netherlands Antilles referee Javier Juaregui was doing his best to spoil the game and had already given three yellow cards, including one to W Connection's Andre Toussaint, who was tripped by Anthony Wolfe when driving to goal, but ended up being punished for diving.
At least one fan was puzzled to the point of stating: "That referee mad!"
It took just over half-hour for Jabloteh to mount their first serious attack, when midfielder Wendell Joseph dumped the ball over W Connection's goal, following a good searching run from their captain Trent Noel down the middle of the field.
W Connection looked set to grab another item in the 37th when a free-kick from Brazilian Ronald Viana sent the ball dangerously close to the top corner of the Jabloteh goal. But keeper James flew like a Boeing 747, soaring across to cleanly pluck the ball out of the air.   Â
Toussaint then ran at Jabloteh in the 48th minute and set up Goulart, when his pass was inadvertently re-directed to the Brazilian by tumbling defender Karlon Murray, and James saved Jabloteh by coming out quickly to smother the shot.Â
Jabloteh pressed the action early in the second half, but failed to breach a tight W Connection defence.Â
The San Juan team's biggest problem was young, talented flanker Lester Peltier, who still plays like a schoolboy. He preferred to seek his own glory with senseless dribbling, instead of whipping in a dangerous cross, and allowed the W Connection back line time to re-organise.
And one of the strange occurences on the night was Trinidad and Tobago's World Cup midfielder Aurtis Whitley warming Jabloteh's bench until the 65th minute, when coming on for Joseph.
Jabloteh did have one excellent opportunity to pull level in the 70th when an errant back pass from Devon Drayton played in veteran striker Peter Prosper, who turned his shot wide of keeper Jan Michael Williams and the goal as well.
Coach Terry Fenwick's stress level must have increased as he directed his team from the sideline, shouting at his players the entire match.Â
"Push them back, push them back," Fenwick desperately instructed his players, but on a tough afternoon, the push the Englishman needed never quite materialised for Jabloteh.