I do not agree with most of the Trini sentiment on this one. I think that to prepare for the WC it is more important to prepare for the climate, and to play many competitive games. The JA game will be very competitive. If you can find opposition that is similar to the ones you will play, great, but I never believed that there are many teams that are so similar that playing one is a guaranteed better prep for another. I do not beleive that playing Whales or Northern Ireland is anything like playing England and I do not believe that playing Norway prepares you for Sweden.
Didn't people on this very same website laugh at England for scheduling a practice game against Jamaica. Every man laughed and said that TnT and JA don't play the same football...blah blah blah. Now we crying that we NEED to play a European team and we NEED to play S American team. INCONSISTANCY my friends. besides, I am sure we will stay meet our European or S American pre-WC opposition. But quality opposition is more important, and it must also be opposition that you have a chance to actually play football against. In other words, playing Brazil and collecting blowout is far worse prep than playing JA, where you get a difficult opponent, but still get to work on different tactics, have a chance of executing, and possiblly gain a result that boosts confidence...but that is just my opinion. It is also my opinion that we not that much better than JA than some pretending and that most of us just fraid that we could lose to a team that didn't even make the hex, invalidating some unfounded sentiments we seem to have adopted just becasue we qualified for the WC. Well, guess what..win, lose or draw...we still goign Germany and we deserve it!