So­ca War­riors train­ing ses­sion will be an open af­fair to­day from 5 pm at the Hase­ly Craw­ford Sta­di­um, Mu­cu­rapo as coach Stephen Hart and cap­tain Ken­wyne Jones in­vites mem­bers of the pub­lic to get an up close view of the team be­fore it de­parts for Buenos Aires on the week­end.

Dur­ing the open ses­sion, fans will have the op­por­tu­ni­ty to meet the play­ers for pho­to ops and au­to­graphs at the end of the ses­sion which is ex­pect­ed to go un­til 7pm.

Jones, who is spear­head­ing the team for the game against the Ar­gen­tines on Wednes­day in Buenos Aires and then Iran three days lat­er in Sao Pao­lo, is ea­ger­ly an­tic­i­pat­ing the run of events over the next few days.

"It's been a good few days of prepa­ra­tion for us and every play­er is re­al­ly up for the chal­lenge ahead in these two match­es. I'd like to think al­so that the pub­lic at large is keen on get­ting be­hind the team as this is all prepa­ra­tion for the fu­ture com­pe­ti­tions like the Caribbean Cup, Gold Cup and of course the most im­por­tant of them all which is qual­i­fi­ca­tion for the 2018 World Cup in Rus­sia," Jones of the Cardiff City.

"We all know these two games will be any­thing but easy but it's where we want to be in terms of the chal­lenges we are fac­ing when it comes to play­ing at this lev­el of the game. We'll be do­ing our best to en­sure we are ready for it and hope­ful­ly the fans can get be­hind the team and cer­tain­ly we'll be look­ing for­ward to hav­ing some of them, es­pe­cial­ly the younger ones, com­ing out to see the boys."

Cen­tral FC mid­field­er Ataullah Guer­ra, who had a stint in Fin­land last sea­son, is vow­ing to raise his lev­el, lis­ten­ing to the ap­peal from head coach Stephen Hart for him and some of the oth­er home-based pros to up their tem­po.

"I know we have to raise our game be­cause this is a great op­por­tu­ni­ty for the coun­try. We have nev­er played Ar­genti­na in a friend­ly at this lev­el and every­body's talk­ing about Mes­si and these guys. So that in it­self is a huge in­cen­tive for every play­er to want to give his best in the train­ing and the match next week," Guer­ra said.

"I think every­one in the team is prepar­ing men­tal­ly for the game and we will be putting in the ex­tra ef­forts in train­ing and try­ing our best to fol­low the coach's in­struc­tions. We will pre­pare for the way e wants us to play and what he ex­pects of us in the roles that we must per­form for these games."

Mean­while, the T&T Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion (TTFA), in col­lab­o­ra­tion with the Min­istry of Tourism is al­so en­cour­ag­ing more sup­port for the sup­port­ers char­ter that is head­ing to Buenos Aires on Sun­day for the friend­ly in­ter­na­tion­al against Ar­genti­na, which kicks off at 3.30 pm T&T time at the Es­ta­dio Mon­u­men­tal Wednes­day.

There is now a new group rate pack­age which will see groups of four per­sons or more ac­cess­ing pack­ages at TT$10,000 per pack­age which in­cludes round trip be­tween Port-of-Spain and Buenos Aires, four-night stay at the Mar­riott Ho­tel (with break­fast based on dou­ble oc­cu­pan­cy), city tour and added at­trac­tions, fan pack, ground trans­porta­tion and cat­e­go­ry one match tick­et. Groups of three or two per­sons can pur­chase the pack­age at TT$12,000 per pack­age. Sin­gle oc­cu­pan­cy rooms are avail­able at the Mar­riott at an ad­di­tion­al US$200.

In­ter­est­ed per­sons can get more in­fo by call­ing the TTFA at 623-9500 or log­ging on to www.nis­sichar­ters.com

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