Peltier signs new four-year deal with Slovak champs

T&T’s Lester Peltier has penned a new four-year deal with Slovak champions SK Slovan Bratislava. The 23-year-old Carenage-born player rejoined the club last Tuesday after returning from his off season break in Trinidad and has already started training with his new teammates ahead of the new Slovak Corgon Liga season which his club won last time around. Peltier was approached by Slovan after an impressive first season with AS Trencin in which he netted 12 goals in 32 appearances after joining them in April, 2011. “It’s a good move for me and I’m delighted to be joining the biggest club in Slovakia. It’s always been my ambition to step up and achieve bigger things and I think this move is a sign of good things happening,” Peltier told TTFF Media. “The club itself has great ambitions and I could also get the opportunity to play at a higher level against the some of the better teams in Europe. It’s a challenge that I’m looking forward to for a long time because obviously the competition for places in the first team will be quite strong  but I’m definitely looking forward to doing my best at the club. They paid one of the highest transfer fees in the history of the Slovak League to get me and I want to show them that I’m worth all of it.”  Slovan has won the most League and Cup titles in Slovakian history and they became the only club as well as former Czechoslovakia to win a European competition, the Cup Winners’ Cup when they defeated Barcelona in 1969. They also won the Intertoto Cup on ten occasions. “They have a rich history and I would love the opportunity to play in a major European competition with them and try to help them win more titles. I’m happy and I’m just eager to go out and do even better than before,” said the ex-San Juan Jabloteh player. Peltier has five goals in fifteen appearances for T&T since making his debut back in 2008.