The T&T squad as­sem­bled at Lon­do's Gatwick Air­port yes­ter­day, ahead of their sched­uled ar­rival in Bucharest on Sat­ur­day evening for Tues­day's friend­ly in­ter­na­tion­al against Ro­ma­nia at the Na­tion­al Are­na.

Co-head coach­es Ja­maal Shabazz and Hut­son Charles will over­see a train­ing ses­sion at the Craw­ley train­ing ground at Haven Cen­tre Sports­field on Sat­ur­day morn­ing with sev­er­al of the play­ers al­ready in camp. Eng­land-based agent Faizal Khan was able to as­sist in se­cur­ing the train­ing fa­cil­i­ty for the vis­it­ing "So­ca War­riors" who have not been in the Unit­ed King­dom for a train­ing camp since the build-up for the 2006 World Cup when Leo Been­hakker led the team at Cam­den Park in Man­ches­ter.

Mid­dles­brough de­fend­er Justin Hoyte joined the squad for the first time on Fri­day and was joined by Notts Coun­ty mid­field­er An­dre Bou­caud, Port Vale mid­field­er Chris Bir­chall as well as Or­lan­do City mid­field­er Kevin Moli­no and Kaza­khstan-based de­fend­er Radan­hfah Abu Bakr. Fin­land-based play­ers Shah­don Win­ches­ter and Ataullah Guer­ra are ex­pect­ed to ar­rive in Lon­don to­day.

T&T will have to do with­out the ser­vices of Thai­land-based de­fend­er Seon Pow­er who was ruled out through in­jury as well as Kaza­khstan-based de­fend­er Robert Primus who in­formed team man­ag­er William Wal­lace on Thurs­day that he would be un­avail­able as his FC Ak­tobe club was send­ing him to Rus­sia for a med­ical ap­point­ment. Al­ready miss­ing is Philadel­phia Union mid­field­er Keon Daniel and mid­field­er Hugh­tun Hec­tor who was ruled out with in­jury last week.

For­mer Colum­bus Crew de­fend­er Julius James, now based with Car­oli­na Rail­hawks, will ar­rive on Mon­day to com­plete the 18-man squad for the two match­es. The rest of the team who ar­rived from T&T in­clude Cor­nell Glen, Jo­evin Jones, Den­sill Theobald, Jan Michael Williams, Mar­vin Phillips, Kevon Carter, Daneil Cyrus, Dar­ryl Roberts, De­vorn Jorsling and Ja­mal Gay.

Shabazz is an­tic­i­pat­ing the next cou­ple days lead­ing up to the Ro­ma­nia friend­ly."It's a good lit­tle pe­ri­od for us be­cause we have the chance to spend some time with both the play­ers from home and out­side of T&T in prepa­ra­tion for these two games," Shabazz said.