W Connection coach Stuart Charles-Fevrier believes that his team's 4-3 aggregate victory against Major League Soccer club New York Red Bulls and advancement into the 2009-2010 Concacaf Champions' League group stage is a victory for the entire region. Speaking after the 2-1 second-leg preliminary round win at the Giants Stadium, East Rutherford, New Jersey on Wednesday night, Charles-Fevrier said: "It's not just a victory for us, it's a victory for the entire region,"
"But for us in particular, this year is our tenth year as a club and this to me is the biggest in terms of significance. This is our biggest victory to date because it's a victory that takes us to another level as a club. As you can see, we are extremely happy."
Charles-Fevrier, a former T&T national coach, added: "We are a club with very limited resources. We were able to dig deep in this situation and all I can say is that it's a credit to the players. They deserve all of the credit.
And also to everybody in T&T, we are very happy and very proud to represent T&T in this game today. I hope that this victory will obviously propel us and give us more support from the business community in T&T. Asked about his early adjustments after falling behind in the match, Charles-Fevrier said, "I felt that for this particular game, we adjusted our structure a bit and I felt before that goal was scored, we played rigid as a team and we don't usually play rigid.
"I felt from the time we went one goal down, we needed to readjust and free up our players in the natural way that they play. The player that came on was a player who is very quick and very intense in terms of his game. The flexibly and the pace is what changed the game."
