A T&T se­lect men's team re­turned home yes­ter­day from a two-match train­ing camp in Fort Laud­erdale where they were beat­en by Cana­da's Un­der-20 team, 2-0 on Sun­day and 2-1 on Tues­day at Lock­hart Sta­di­um and Sun­rise Hol­i­day Inn Train­ing Com­plex re­spec­tive­ly. Ini­tial­ly, the na­tion­al U-20 team was sup­posed to trav­el, but the se­ries had been called off due to a lack of fund­ing. How­ev­er, Na­tion­al Lot­ter­ies Con­trol Board (NL­CB) stepped in to meet the costs for the T&T team on Sat­ur­day evening and the squad in­clud­ing a mix­ture of se­nior, U-20 and U-17 play­ers left on Sun­day morn­ing for Flori­da. The coach­ing staff in­clud­ed Hut­son Charles, Ross Rus­sell, Sean Coop­er and tech­ni­cal di­rec­tor, An­ton Corneal.

T&T U-20 cap­tain Du­ane Muck­ette was in the T&T side along with se­nior team play­ers De­vorn Jorsling, Ak­lie Ed­wards and Akeem Adams as well as U-20 mid­field­er Xavier Ra­j­paul and U-17 cap­tain Bren­don Creed, Mar­tieon Wat­son and US-based play­ers, Bradley Welch and David Williams. Sev­er­al U-20 play­ers were un­able to trav­el as they did not have US visas. "It turned out to be two games which gave us a re­al op­por­tu­ni­ty to see a lot deep­er in­to some of these play­ers," Corneal said. "It was a very dif­fi­cult sit­u­a­tion at first be­cause we had put the trip out of our minds due to a lack of fi­nances and then at the very last mo­ment, we were hear­ing that a cor­po­rate part­ner was will­ing to fit the bill."