US-based Burnett keen to step up.
By Shaun Fuentes (Guardian).
United States Players Development Academy director of operations and Under 18 coach Sam Nellins has given rave reviews on T&T youth team duo Chaz and Josh Burnett.
The brothers have already been enrolled into the national youth team programme with Chaz being called up to the current Under 20 team ahead of the CFU final round in Curacao next month while Josh has been included in the US National Under 18 set up after playing with the previous national under 17 team.
“They’re just super talented,” Nellins said. “One has got the world at his feet in Joshua. The other one, he’s a bully. He’s a big, strong boy.”
Their father Ted Burnett was born in Trinidad & Tobago but moved to the United States when he was 15. Years later, his sons represented his home country at the 2015 CONCACAF Under-17 Championship in Honduras.
“That had a big impact on them,” Nellins said. “They saw how other players prepare,” a report on SoccerWire.com stated
Chaz graduated from Glen Ridge High School in June. He has dual citizenship with the United States and T&T. He has also made commitment to play on the collegiate level at Rutgers University and he is hugely excited about playing for T&T at the CFU qualifiers.
“I’m looking forward to competing at the next level,” said Chaz.
