Highlights are not enough to judge a player and he would not have kept Guerra and Leon on the bench if he was having an awful tournament. The main point remains that he would not have been used at all if the Pro League was rubbish because they would have needed to give him more time to adapt before playing him in a crunch match against a Cuban team that had been just playing World Cup qualifiers.
Well that depends on the player.
the player could have been capable but was just having a bad day, or a bad tournament, whatever the case, but you don't have to watch a player whole season to know that they lack ability, simple technical errors could lead to that conclusion initially.
now i don't live in T&T, but when i do go there i attend games quite frequently, mind you, i also attend MLS games ever so often. quite a few times last season i took the train out to philly and DC to take in a couple games, i also went out to redbull stadium this past season by train, since i got lost driving there last yr to see jamaica play honduras in the gold cup, plus i find it more convenient to take the train, so that easyyyy for me.
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but seriously, i measured and compare the speed and complexity of the game in both leagues, and to tell you the truth bro, MLS is miles ahead in terms of speed, technical ability and tactics.
yes there are solid players in our league, and no i'm not dogging the league, but seriously bro, if the last three foreign coaches who came here and commented on the level of our league as poor, and even the son of the soil latapy concured, then isn't that enough for the owners and stake holders to make an effort to raise the bar.
i've been watching the CCL for yrs now, and when our boys compete they look rather poor incomparison with their central american and north american counterparts, even though now and then they may put in a winning performance, hek even ah broken clock is right twice a day.
i would rather see us in the final round of the CCL than to win or draw "one game against a team like chivas". not bc these things happen from time to time means that we are on the same level as chivas.
i think ppl in T&T underestimate the level of talent we may have on those two islands, hek, we produced the likes of yorke, latapy, lewis, marcelle, the sutton brothers, nakid, shaka hislop, shervan pragg, marlon morris, stern john, kenwyne jones, carlos edwards, jason scotland, keon daniel, darryl roberts, hyland, peltier, molino and many more without as much as a proper coaching school or advanced academies in place on the islands, yet still we send out players who defy the odds.
one could only think, "if these players were properly trained from an early age, and groomed in a league that was way more tactical" than the one we presently, boy i could see it now, this would be a scouts paradise! too bad we don't have men who really care bout football and don't see it as our national product, just like oil gas and asphalt. wouldn't that be something if they what was laying under their feet, of talent?.
so yeh, now and then we will pull off an upset and draw with the likes of a sweden, and beat ah few top team in the region, but is that a good gauge to rate our progress, or even our pro league? i think not!
IMO our raw talent shines through now and then, so we conceive ah sense of false hope in that , "yes we reach, just like in the world cup appearance we made" but the truth is brothers, it was just a false sense of hope, as raw talent shone through yet again, just for a short while in time, but the reality is,we need ah hek of a lot of work to even say we reach half way.
we not ready yet for sure, and our league needs fixing bad.