New­com­er T&TEC FC not on­ly glows with its strength in the num­ber of hot pre-sea­son sign­ings ahead of the 2011-2012 Dig­i­cel Pro League Cham­pi­onship which kicks off on Fri­day, but al­so with its am­bi­tions of pos­si­ble part­ner­ships with Amer­i­can and Eng­lish clubs. T&TEC chair­man Omar Khan said that the club is seek­ing to build acad­e­my part­ner­ships with Unit­ed States Pre­mier De­vel­op­ment League club Ocean City and Eng­lish Cham­pi­onship club Read­ing FC. "We are cur­rent­ly in talks with Neil Hol­loway, gen­er­al man­ag­er of Ocean City in the Unit­ed States and Lee Her­ron Di­rec­tor of Youth Foot­ball at Read­ing Foot­ball Club in Eng­land about po­ten­tial part­ner­ships," said Khan, a for­mer West In­dies crick­et team man­ag­er.

"They have al­ready ac­cept­ed in­vi­ta­tions to do a camp for our club here in Trinidad and iron out the fi­nal de­tails of our po­ten­tial part­ner­ship," said Khan, who is the present T&T crick­et team man­ag­er. On the pitch of pro­fes­sion­al foot­ball, the club ac­quired for­mer Eng­land based So­ca War­riors World Cup goal­keep­er Clay­ton Ince as its biggest sign­ing. Dur­ing the pre-sea­son, the club al­so signed on Clay­ton Mor­ris, a for­mer na­tion­al cap­tain as tech­ni­cal di­rec­tor. Dex­ter Cyrus will con­tin­ue as head coach, Desmond Bai­ley (as­sis­tant coach), Ince (goal­keep­er/as­sis­tant coach), for­mer play­er Joel Bai­ley (as­sis­tant coach/as­sis­tant team co­or­di­na­tor), T&T goal­keep­ing coach Jef­fer­son George(goal­keep­er coach), Adarayll John (train­er), Ian Dore (phys­io­ther­a­pist), Pe­ter Mo­han (man­ag­er), Melvin Springer (as­sis­tant man­ag­er) and Lester Lal (team co­or­di­na­tor).

De­fen­sive mid­field­er Brent Gar­cia will wear the cap­tain's arm­band in the team that in­cludes last sea­son's Su­per League top scor­er Kevon Neaves, goal­keep­er Aki­ni Adams, Akeem Adams, An­tho­ny Nor­eiga, Bren­ton De Leon, Coneal Thomas, Eu­stace Dar­ius, Javed Mo­hammed, Kern Pe­ters, Marc Hunte, Tim­o­thy John, Wes­lie John, Sylvester Tees­dale, Tigana Sparks, Ro­mauld Aguillera, Sime­on Au­gus­tus, Ja­mal Ayres, Keeron Ben­i­to, Kelvin Mod­este, Brent Gar­cia, Ce­bastien Bai­ley, An­drei Pacheco, Bevon Bass, Bevon Lewis, Kur­lon Fer­gu­son and Vur­lon Mills of Guyana.