Shaun Fuentes

De Sil­va named Charleston cap­tain

For­mer na­tion­al un­der-20 and un­der-17 mid­field­er Sean De Sil­va has been named cap­tain of Col­lege of Charleston for their up­com­ing Col­lege Di­vi­sion One sea­son in the Unit­ed States De Sil­va was vot­ed cap­tain by his team­mates as they con­tin­ue their pre­sea­son cam­paign. They face Amer­i­can MLS club Toron­to FC at home in a friend­ly to­day. "It's great to be named cap­tained es­pe­cial­ly as my team­mates vot­ed on it. I have two years left here so I'm sopho­more cap­tain­ing the team. It means I'm al­ways putting the team first in­stead of me and now it's not just about set­ting a good ex­am­ple and be­ing a leader on and off the field," De Sil­va said.

Last sea­son the for­mer St Mary's Col­lege and La Fou­cade Coach­ing School mem­ber, led Charleston in as­sists and match win­ners. He played for T&T at the 2007 Fi­fa Un­der-17 and 2009 Fi­fa Un­der-20 World Cups and al­so made his se­nior de­but in a friend­ly ver­sus Pana­ma in 2009.

Fi­fa to de­cide on World Cup slots March 2/3

Fi­fa will de­cide next month on the ques­tion of how many places each con­ti­nent will be al­lo­cat­ed at the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, a mem­ber of the ex­ec­u­tive com­mit­tee was re­port­ed as say­ing on Sun­day. It had been men­tioned that the mat­ter would be de­bat­ed and de­cid­ed at the next Fi­fa ex­ec­u­tive com­mit­tee meet­ing in Zurich on March 2 and 3. The draw for the 2014 qual­i­fy­ing com­pe­ti­tion is due in Rio de Janeiro on Ju­ly 30. Asia Foot­ball Con­fed­er­a­tion pres­i­dent Mo­ham­mad Bin Ham­mam said last month that Asia would not agree to any­thing less than the four-and-a-half places it has in Brazil. Aus­tralia, North Ko­rea, South Ko­rea and Japan rep­re­sent­ed Asian in 2010 while Bahrain lost in a play­off to New Zealand, win­ners of the Ocea­nia qual­i­fy­ing tour­na­ment. Jack Warn­er, pres­i­dent of Con­ca­caf rep­re­sent­ing North and Cen­tral Amer­i­ca and the Caribbean, has al­ready said that this re­gion wants its quo­ta in­creased to four di­rect places."We be­lieve that Con­ca­caf de­serves an­oth­er full place at the World Cup Fi­nals due to the per­for­mances of our teams on the field and the ac­tions of our con­fed­er­a­tion off it. We are uni­fied in our ef­forts to make this hap­pen," Warn­er said re­cent­ly.

Con­ca­caf has al­so planned a year of ac­tiv­i­ties to cel­e­brate its 50th an­niver­sary.

"Our con­fed­er­a­tion has grown dra­mat­i­cal­ly in the past half cen­tu­ry. We look for­ward to cel­e­brat­ing this mile­stone all year," Warn­er added.