Shaun Fuentes

Se­nior mem­ber of the Joe Pub­lic team, An­dre Tou­s­saint is cer­tain that re­cent de­vel­op­ments in­volv­ing for­mer FI­FA vice-pres­i­dent Jack Warn­er has had lit­tle neg­a­tive im­pact at the Ma­coya-based club as they go about their pre-sea­son cam­paign. The Point Fortin-born for­ward will lead Joe Pub­lic's at­tack in the T&T Pro League.

Head coach Ra­jesh Latchoo has been over­see­ing the team's prepa­ra­tions and has been giv­en the thumbs up by Tou­s­saint who is for­mer­ly of W Con­nec­tion and Amer­i­can club Charleston Bat­tery. Joe Pub­lic is the brain­child of Warn­er and has been han­dled by the Warn­er fam­i­ly with son Dar­ryl over­see­ing the run­ning of the club in his po­si­tion as man­ag­ing di­rec­tor.

"We have a young squad and I have a big role to play.We are def­i­nite­ly go­ing all out to bring back some tro­phies and get back in­to the CON­CA­CAF Cham­pi­ons League," Tou­s­saint said. "The coach is young, he's good and he knows what he's about. The play­ers are will­ing to work for him. The mood is good in the camp. The sit­u­a­tion with Mr Warn­er has not af­fect­ed us. The man­age­ment has told us not to let that both­er us. They have as­sured us that they will take care of things off the field and we should fo­cus on the busi­ness on the field," Tou­s­saint added. "The head coach has his work planned out and his as­sis­tant Dale Saun­ders is ex­pe­ri­enced. They both work hand in hand and some­times when Saun­ders is around, the head coach can af­ford to let him run the ses­sion and he can look af­ter oth­er things al­so." Tou­s­saint is in the na­tion­al train­ing squad un­der Ot­to Pfis­ter and hopes to im­press him suf­fi­cient­ly to keep a spot come game time. "It's tough but I'm work­ing hard and I'm hop­ing to keep my place and al­so look­ing to per­form well in the League to try and se­cure a spot," added the for­mer St Bene­dict's Col­lege stand­out.

Woz­ni­ac­ki chats with Dwight

Cur­rent World num­ber one women's ten­nis play­er Car­o­line Woz­ni­ac­ki has said that she's been re­ceiv­ing a lot good luck mes­sages from Liv­er­pool play­ers, pre­fer­ring to leave then un­named for fear of re­ports that she was dat­ing. She did how­ev­er men­tion Dwight Yorke's name, say­ing she had a chat with the ex-Man­ches­ter Unit­ed strik­er at the Eu­ropen Cham­pi­ons League fi­nal. "I met Dwight Yorke there, as well. He knew I was a Liv­er­pool sup­port­er. He came up to me. He was ac­tu­al­ly a big ten­nis fan as well. He teased me a lit­tle bit about who had won the league, and who was in the Cham­pi­ons League fi­nal and so on. I just told him: 'Hey, lis­ten, I'm here to sup­port Bar­ca'." "I've met many of them," she said. "I've got­ten mes­sages wish­ing me good luck. The last three weeks I've been in the spot­light, sup­pos­ed­ly dat­ing every sin­gle guy I eat din­ner with. If I say a name, then I'm sure it will make a big head­line. So I just pre­fer to be qui­et about it." Yorke mean­time, has warned new Man­ches­ter boy Ash­ley Young about life at Old Traf­ford. "Your life does change when you go to Man­ches­ter Unit­ed, you are scru­ti­nised more, you can't do much, peo­ple talk about you. He's not go­ing to have it easy, he's go­ing to have to go and fight for his place be­cause there are so many qual­i­ty play­ers there," said Yorke.

Sheffield could pay $7.5 mil­lion for Scot­land

Strik­er Ja­son Scot­land is ru­moured to be a 750,000 pound tar­get for Eng­lish League One club Sheffield Wednes­day. Club chair­man Mi­lan Man­dar­ic con­firmed on Tues­day that his club would be will­ing to make the move for the for­mer Swansea City strik­er who has been re­port­ed­ly set to ex­it Ip­swich Town. "It will be Gary Meg­son's call be­cause he has a re­la­tion­ship with those play­ers and it would take some con­vinc­ing to come to us rather than stay in the Cham­pi­onship," Man­dar­ic said. Scot­land has al­so been tracked by Brighton. The for­mer De­fence Force man has scored 136 goals in 317 match­es for sev­en dif­fer­ent clubs over his ca­reer so far. He had ten strikes in 39 ap­pear­ances for Ip­swich in 2010/2011.

Shaun Fuentes is the press of­fi­cer

for the So­ca War­riors/TTFF. shaunfuentes@ya­haoo.com