Last year's Dig­i­cel T&T Pro League run­ner-up's Cale­do­nia AIA has bol­stered its squad for the 2011/2012 sea­son with the sign­ings of na­tion­al Un­der-23 trio Trevin Cae­sar, Aquil Sel­by and Mic­ah Lewis. Cae­sar, 22, and and Sel­by, 21, are for­mer play­ers of Ma Pau which has opt­ed out of the league this sea­son while the 21-year-old Lewis, who was part of the So­ca War­riors train­ing squad for the friend­ly against In­dia, be­came a free agent fol­low­ing the de­ci­sion by for­mer league win­ner Joe Pub­lic to pull out this sea­son. "We are def­i­nite­ly look­ing to im­prove on what we achieved last sea­son, but more im­por­tant­ly we try to get play­ers that can fit in­to our style of play," ex­plained Cale­do­nia as­sis­tant coach Jer­ry Moe.

"Cae­sar is one of the few strik­ers who can run be­hind de­fences while we got our­selves a no-non­sense de­fend­er in Sel­by. He is sol­id in the air and ag­gres­sive on the ground and that gives us steel at the back.

"Mic­ah is a play­er we have al­ways ad­mired. He can play on both flanks and just needs to bring the same play­er that he used to be at Joe Pub­lic." The trio has been train­ing un­der Cale­do­nia head coach Ja­maal Shabazz and Moe in the past month. Cale­do­nia al­so ac­quired the ser­vices of for­mer Ger­many-based for­ward Ja­mal Gay as the club seeks to de­throne De­fence Force as cham­pi­on. The Cale­do­nia squad seems even­ly bal­anced with tal­ent, ex­pe­ri­ence and youth this sea­son and from the trans­fer win­dow shop­ping to­geth­er with the stand­outs of last sea­son, Moe ex­pects an im­proved team, es­pe­cial­ly in of­fence.

"We need­ed qual­i­ty strik­ers and Ja­mal Gay is a good point of ref­er­ence in our of­fen­sive de­part­ment," Moe said. "Un­like oth­er for­wards, Ja­mal would re­main up­front and not find him­self drop­ping in­to mid­field to pick up the ball. It's good to have good strik­ers con­test­ing each oth­er for start­ing po­si­tions up­front."

Ex­pe­ri­enced play­ers Stephan David, Bur­ton Shel­don Em­manuel, Den­sill Theobald and Travis Mul­raine are in the mix with the tal­ents of Akim Arm­strong, Key­on Ed­wards, 17 year-old Guyanese Tray­on Bobb, Ja­maican goal­keep­er Kevin Gra­ham, Kem­ron Pur­cell, To­bag­on­ian Kevon Wood­ley, Collin Nel­son, sec­ond choice goalie Vic­tor Thomas and pre-sea­son pick Ke­da Rod­er­ick.