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2022 Courts Caribbean Classic…
Jamaal Shabazz and a few of his troops during preparation for the Courts Caribbean Classic
Kaieteur News – The Trinidad and Tobago (T&T) Soca Warriors treated their home crowd to a pleasing victory over the Barbados Tridents when the 2022 Courts Caribbean Classic kicked off on Friday evening at the Hasely Crawford Stadium.
Levi Garcia
Contesting the first match of the three-match, three-team friendly tournament, the Soca Warriors won by a 9 – 0 margin.
Today, the Bajan Tridents will oppose another superior opponent which is Guyana’s Golden Jaguars Unit that is currently led by head coach, Jamaal Shabazz. This puts Guyana in a good position for a favourable result against a team daunted by a clean sheet handout.
Of the three teams competing in the tournament in preparation for the 2022/23 Concacaf Nations League, T&T ranks the highest in the Concacaf region at 13th while Guyana sits at 22nd and Barbados is ranked 31st.
Coach Shabazz told the media prior to his departure that the result of the match does not really matter in a preparatory match as such. Instead, the focus is to have as many players as possible take the pitch because he believes playing matches is the best teacher of the game.
It has almost been four years since Guyana last met Barbados. That match was a Nations League encounter which ended 2 – 0 in Guyana favour. For the other rivalry, Jaguars and Warriors, they last met in March of 2021 during a World Cup Qualifier that the latter won 3 – 0.
Even though tensions are high between these three nations, it was a very commendable initiative to engage in the friendly tournament ahead of the much anticipated CNL.
Guyana is in League B of the CNL with 15 other nations inclusive of Barbados who were promoted from League C and T&T who were relegated from League A.
Meanwhile, on the opening night of the tournament AEK Athens forward, Levi Garcia, led T&T with a hat-trick against Barbados. Levi drew first blood in the 27th minute and followed up with goals in the 35th and 40th minutes to record his first international hat-trick.
His first half-hat-trick was boosted by Ryan Telfer’s double (29th, 60th), Nicholas Dillon’s brace (68th, 78th) and a goal each from Reon Moore (80th) and John-Paul Rochford (83rd).
T&T plays again on Tuesday, March 29, against Guyana. All matches start at 19:00 hrs at the venue mentioned earlier.
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