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Alpha travels to T&T tomorrow for 3-way battle; face Jabloteh on Wednesday
Leading Guyana club side Alpha ‘The Hammer’ United will leave tomorrow for Soca Land, Trinidad and Tobago where they will engage host Club San Juan Jabloteh and Puerto Rico’s River Plate in the 2nd round of the Caribbean Football Union Champion’s League Qualifying competition at the Marvin Lee Stadium.
The CFU had announced last week that Alpha will trade places with Leo Victor of Suriname in the second round allowing the matches to be staged as schedule by avoiding travel delays due to U.S. restrictions for the Guyanese club.
The starting line-up of Alpha United FC
Alpha United were to play in Group A in Puerto Rico, a U.S. territory, but visa requirements for Guyanese made it unlikely the club would be able to travel to the island for the April 13-17 group stage on time.
Leo Victor will move into Group A along with the Puerto Rico Islanders and Racing Gonaives of Haiti, while Alpha move to Group C in Marabella, Trinidad, and face local side San Juan Jabloteh and River Plate of Puerto Rico.
The other two groups remain unchanged, Group B to play alongside Group A in Bayamon, Puerto Rico, with Tempete FC of Haiti, Bayamon FC and Avenues United of St. Vincent and the Grenadines.
Group D will play as scheduled in conjunction Group C with Joe Public of Trinidad, Systems 3 of St. Vincent and Walking Boys of Suriname.
The third and final stage comprising of the four second-round group winners will be played April 28-May 10 with the top three teams qualifying for the Preliminary Round of next season’s CONCACAF Champions League.
Alpha warmed up for Trinidad with a resounding 8-1 win over Buxton on Saturday evening last at the Enmore Community Centre Ground in the Guyana Football Federation Super League competition.
Club President Odinga Lumumba said he was very impressed with the clinical performance by his side and is satisfied that they are beginning to be more efficient in defence and more forceful in attack.
“The guys looked really well against Buxton who you know were leading the standings and were also unbeaten. I admired the way they played and am looking forward to a good showing in Trinidad notwithstanding that they will be coming up against tough opposition.”
One of Guyana’s leading forwards in Anthony ‘Awo’ Abrams is back in the fray after serving a ban instituted by the Guyana Football Federation.
Abrams’ record up front is well known to all and will definitely be an asset to the Alpha side. Head Coach Wayne Dover certainly has more options but at the same time will have his work cut out in finding the right combination to start since there is not time for the team to settle in, they have to hit the ground running in Soca Land.
Jamaican’s Oneke Ford, Treyon Williams along with the likes of Dwight Peters, Elton Brown, Dwain Jacobs, Shawn Bishop, Kelvin McKenzie, Captain Howard Lowe and Goalkeeper Ronson Williams will all have to be focused and click from the word go.
The local club side has already done better than last year by advancing to the 2nd round and will be aiming to ride on their success even further.
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