Ger­man-born, T&T strik­er Keenon Er­futh and Den­mark-based Marc Gan­gia have earned call-ups from na­tion­al coach An­gus Eve as part of a 35-man squad for a train­ing camp to be held from Feb­ru­ary 5-8 at the Lar­ry Gomes Sta­di­um in Mal­abar, Ari­ma.

The camp com­pris­es most­ly home-based play­ers and will serve as prepa­ra­tions for the up­com­ing Co­pa Amer­i­ca Play-In ver­sus Cana­da to take place in Frisco, Texas in March.

Er­futh’s moth­er is Trinida­di­an while Gan­gia has earned the right to rep­re­sent T&T through his fa­ther.

Gan­gia is a 26-year-old for­ward for Dalum IF and Er­futh is a 21-year-old for­ward for VfR Neumün­ster, a Ger­man as­so­ci­a­tion foot­ball club based in Neumün­ster, Schleswig-Hol­stein.

Eve’s camp fea­tures sev­er­al mem­bers of the squad that made it through to the Con­ca­caf Na­tions League quar­ter-fi­nals, such as goal­keep­er Den­zil Smith, Justin Gar­cia, Re­al Gill, Kevon God­dard Re­on Moore, Du­ane Muck­ette, Michel Poon-Angeron, Ross Rus­sell Jr, Alvin Jones and Christo­pher Biggette.

There were al­so re­calls for John-Paul Rochford, Adri­an Fon­cette, Kai­him Thomas, Brent Sam, Ja­mal Jack, and Isa­iah Lee. Eve’s charges missed out on a Na­tions League semi­fi­nal spot, as well as au­to­mat­ic qual­i­fi­ca­tion to the Co­pa Amer­i­ca Cup lat­er this year, when they went down 4-2 to the Unit­ed States on ag­gre­gate, fol­low­ing a 3-0 loss at the Q2 Sta­di­um and a 2-1 vic­to­ry for them four days lat­er at the Hase­ly Craw­ford Sta­di­um on No­vem­ber 20.

Eve is now keen to get back on the train­ing pitch for the first time since his team’s 2-1 tri­umph.

“It’s a great chance for us to get some of the guys to­geth­er as a group again be­cause as you would have seen, the ma­jor­i­ty of them would have re­turned to their clubs and have been very ac­tive in the lo­cal league since No­vem­ber,” Eve said.

“There are few reg­u­lars in this squad but we al­so took the op­por­tu­ni­ty to in­vite some play­ers who we be­lieve have been show­ing up and per­form­ing for their clubs in the Lo­cal Pre­mier League.”

“There is a lot of in­ter­na­tion­al foot­ball com­ing up with the Co­pa Amer­i­ca qual­i­fi­er be­ing the most ur­gent as­sign­ment, but of course, there are the World Cup qual­i­fiers fol­low­ing soon af­ter in June. These sort of win­dows, where we can have some time with the play­ers avail­able, are ex­treme­ly im­por­tant for us,” Eve not­ed.

The team will first face the coun­try’s un­der-20 team in a friend­ly match soon.

TRAIN­ING SQUAD

Kai­him Thomas (De­fence Force), Re­on Moore (D/Force), Ja­mali Gar­cia (D/Force), Christo­pher Biggette (D/Force), Jabari St Hillaire (D/Force), Kevon God­dard (D/Force), Justin Gar­cia (D/Force), Brent Sam (D/Force), Nathaniel Gar­cia (D/Force), Justin Sadoo (D/Force), Du­ane Muck­ette (AC PoS), Michele Poon-Angeron (AC PoS)

Liam Burns (AC PoS), John-Paul Rochford, Isa­iah Lea­cock (AC PoS), Re­al Gill (Club San­do), Sher­vohnez Hamil­ton (Club San­do), Kai Moos (Club San­do), Ja­mal Jack (Club San­do), Alvin Jones (Po­lice FC), Robert Primus (Po­lice FC), Adri­an Fon­cette (Po­lice FC), Daniel David (La Hor­quet­ta Rangers), Ross Rus­sell Jr (La Hor­quet­ta Rangers)

Isa­iah Lee (La Hor­quet­ta Rangers), Lu­ka Phillips (Point Fortin Civic), Den­zil Smith (Point Fortin Civic), Justin Corn­wall (Point Fortin Civic), Mark Ramdeen (Point Fortin Civic), Mick­aeel Gor­don (1976 Phoenix), Rhon­del Gib­son (Ea­gles FC), Keenon Er­furth (VFR Neu­mun­ster- Ger­many), Jonathan As­sue, Marc Gan­gia (Dalum IF- Den­mark)