Reigning League champions Defence Force sets higher bar for 2013-14 season
ttproleague.comRetaining the Digicel Pro League title isn't the only ambition of Defence Force for the 2013-2014 season according to the soldiers' Head Coach Ross Russell.
But the Tetron-based soldiers will kick things off without ace forward and last season’s top scorer Devorn Jorsling, beginning with a revenge clash of the Digicel Charity Shield on Friday 6 September against DIRECTV W Connection from 7pm at the Hasely Crawford Stadium.
The Charity Shield brings together the League champions (Defence Force) and the Digicel Pro Bowl winners (W Connection) of the previous season. And in the inaugural edition, last season, both teams met with Connection finishing comfortable 2-0 winners against the soldiers with a goal each by Shahdon Winchester and Joevin Jones.
This time around Defence Force with a basically unchanged roster, from last season, will tackle a new-look Connection.
Connection are without Winchester who joined Finland’s FF Jaro last January, but the “Savonnetta Boys” boasts pre-season imports Celio Guilherme Da Silva Santos and João Ananias Jordão Júnior of Brazil,
Colombians Yefer Steven Lozano Rubiano, Yhon Stiven Reyes Lopez and Camilo Andres Ortega Diaz, and Italian striker Mirko Delia.
Meanwhile the Defence Force squad is a very familiar one although the 2010-11 TT Pro League/Toyota Player of the Year, Jorsling, will be notably absent. The 29-year-old army private is currently on a promotional course towards the rank of lance corporal and would only be available to coach Russell from the end of September.
Team captain and defender Corey Rivers will lead out the squad inclusive of goalkeepers Kevin Graham and Sheldon Clarke; defenders Devin Jordan, Marvin Jones, Rodell Elcock, Glynn Franklyn, Aklie Edwards; midfielders Jerwyn Balthazar, Dexter Pacheco, Curtis Gonzales, Josimar Belgrave, Jemel Sebro, Kerry Joseph, Sean Narcis, Ross Russell Jr.; and attackers Kevon Carter and Richard Roy.
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