New So­ca War­riors coach Ger­man Ot­to Pfis­ter is in­sist­ing that his job is not to get the right bal­ance of youth and ex­pe­ri­ence in the squad, but to use the play­ers that have the best po­ten­tial. This was the stance of the 73-year-old as he em­barked on his project of qual­i­fy­ing for the 2011 World Cup Fi­nals in Brazil with his first train­ing ses­sion in­volv­ing lo­cal­ly based play­ers at the Ato Boldon Sta­di­um, Cou­va, yes­ter­day. Fol­low­ing a chat with the play­ers in­vit­ed to the ses­sion and mem­bers of his tech­ni­cal staff, Pfis­ter con­duct­ed a light 55-minute ses­sion with the squad which did not in­clude mem­bers of Cale­do­nia AIA team who are ex­pect­ed to Wednes­day's ses­sion. The Cale­do­nia play­ers are due to trav­el to Haiti lat­er this week for their Caribbean Foot­ball Union Club Cham­pi­onship sec­ond-leg tie against Tem­pete en­counter.

The play­ers who trained in­clud­ed goal­keep­ers Mar­vin Phillip, Cleon John and Jan-Michael Williams as well as mid­field­er Clyde Leon who cap­tained the team at the 2010 Dig­i­cel Caribbean Cup. Na­tion­al Un­der-20 cap­tain Shel­don Bateau, Mic­ah Lewis, Seon Pow­er, Hay­den Tin­to, Kern Cu­pid, Ataulla Guer­ra, An­drei Pacheco and Ke­ston Williams were among the oth­er fa­mil­iar faces present. Speak­ing af­ter the ses­sion, Pfis­ter said, "This was my first meet­ing and of­fi­cial ses­sion with the boys. We can­not start too strong be­cause a lot of the boys are not too ac­tive right now but we had a good ses­sion for ex­act­ly 55 min­utes.

"We will in­crease ses­sion by ses­sion. We dis­cussed some things like the rules for their be­hav­iour and oth­er things in our meet­ing."

"I have a very good im­pres­sion (af­ter the ses­sion). Every­body moved and every­body is in the field and that is im­por­tant. Last week I was in Eu­rope and I saw some over­seas boys. But I will not say too much on that right now be­cause we have to make sure about every­thing. But at the end of the day I hope we can have all the boys. "It is not about a bal­ance of youth or ex­pe­ri­ence. It's about per­for­mance that counts. It's not a ques­tion of whether the boy is young or if he is old. If the boy is good enough then he will be in the field," he added. Pfis­ter said he will plan his ses­sions over the next few weeks in re­la­tion to prepar­ing for the two up­com­ing Fi­fa in­ter­na­tion­al dates in June and Au­gust.