W Con­nec­tion de­fend­er Mekeil Williams is the lone un­capped play­er named in an 18-man squad by So­ca War­riors coach, Ot­to Pfis­ter for this coun­try's next two 2014 CON­CA­CAF World Cup qual­i­fiers away to Bermu­da on Fri­day and Bar­ba­dos on Oc­to­ber 11 at home. Williams, a for­mer mem­ber of the Na­tion­al Un­der-20 team that played at the 2009 FI­FA Un­der-20 World Cup in Egypt is al­so one of eight play­ers in the team that will be play­ing un­der the Ger­man-born coach for the first time. With skip­per Ken­wyne Jones of Stoke City and strike part­ner Dar­ryl Roberts both out be­cause of in­jury, Pfis­ter has in­clud­ed Or­lan­do City duo De­vorn Jorsling and Kevin Moli­no.

The oth­ers who will have their first chance to im­press un­der Pfis­ter's watch are Bel­gium-based de­fend­er Radan­fah Abu Bakr, Kendall Jagdeosingh of Rochester Rhi­nos, Puer­to Ri­co Is­landers' Os­ei Teles­ford,

Di­recTV North East Stars' Ke­vaughn Con­nell and W Con­nec­tion goal­keep­er Jan Michael Williams, back in the fray af­ter a short spell in Bel­gium at Olympic Chaleroi. Over­all there are 11 over­seas-based play­ers in the squad which leaves for a camp in Fort Laud­erdale. They in­clude Slo­va­kian-based winger Lester Pelti­er, Bel­gium-based mid­field­er Khaleem Hy­land, US-based trio Keon Daniel, Chris Bir­chall (LA Galaxy), Colum­bus Crew de­fend­er Julius James and Clyde Leon of Colom­bian club, Itagui Di­taires

Al­so out of the match­es are the ex­pe­ri­enced of World Cup vet­er­ans, Car­los Ed­wards due to a fam­i­ly emer­gency and An­tho­ny Wolfe, who sus­tained an in­jury dur­ing ac­tion for North East Stars. Den­sill Theobald (Dem­po FC/In­dia), An­dre Bou­caud (York City/Eng­land), Jake Thom­son (Ex­eter City/Eng­land), An­dre Tou­s­saint (Joe Pub­lic), Car­lyle Mitchell (Van­cou­ver White­caps/USA) and goal­keep­er An­tho­ny Warn­er (Welling­ton Phoenix/New Zealand), se­lect­ed for the first two qual­i­fiers, have al­so been over­looked. With re­gards to the squad se­lect­ed, Pfis­ter said, "It's a good group. There are play­ers here with good qual­i­ty."

"We have two games again to play with­in a week and just like we did with first two match­es and our aim will be to win both match­es so that we can move to a max­i­mum twelve points from our four match­es. Okay, maybe we have a one or two play­ers miss­ing be­cause of in­jury but this is foot­ball and we will find a way to go for­ward from here," Pfis­ter said.

CA fly War­riors di­rect to Bermu­da

Caribbean Air­lines, who re­cent­ly signed on as a part­ner with the TTFF to sup­port the So­ca War­riors for the 2014 World Cup cam­paign, fol­lowed through on their pledge, by ac­com­mo­dat­ing the team's re­quest for an arranged trip to and from Bermu­da. Caribbean Air­lines will fly the team di­rect­ly to Bermu­da on Sun­day and then back to Port-of-Spain on Sat­ur­day which means the team will avoid longer hours, not hav­ing to stop off in the Unit­ed States en route to Hamil­ton.