So­ca War­riors coach Rus­sell Lat­apy has named un­capped bmo­bile Joe Pub­lic de­fend­er, Car­lyle Mitchell in a 20-man squad for Wednes­day's friend­ly in­ter­na­tion­al against Ja­maica at the Mar­vin Lee Sta­di­um, Ma­coya from 6 pm. Mitchell, has been knock­ing on the se­lec­tion door for quite a while and was among the goals for his club in a 4-2 win over Cos­ta Ri­ca's Bru­jas to seal a group stage spot in the Con­ca­caf Cham­pi­ons League at Ma­coya on Thurs­day night.

Al­so in the squad which was named yes­ter­day are the Puer­to Ri­co Is­landers duo of Kendall Jagdeosingh and Keon Daniel who were part of their club's two-leg win over MLS club LA Galaxy in an­oth­er Con­ca­caf Cham­pi­ons League pre­lim­i­nary round se­ries on Wednes­day night. How­ev­er, San Jose Earth­quakes strik­er Cor­nell Glen will not be avail­able for the match be­cause of last minute over­seas com­mit­ments. Glen, who was in­vit­ed for the en­counter last week, has in­di­cat­ed his will­ing­ness to ac­cept fur­ther in­vi­ta­tions for up­com­ing in­ter­na­tion­al friend­lies once called up again.

The team will al­so be with­out mid­field­ers Den­sill Theobald and Clyde Leon through in­jury while most of the play­ers who were in­volved in a 4�1 win over An­tigua & Bar­bu­da last month com­plete the team. They in­clude Joe Pub­lic's Ker­ry Bap­tiste, Trent Noel, Makan His­lop, Mar­vin Phillip and Hay­den Tin­to; De­fence Force quar­tet, De­von Jorsling, Kevon Carter, Ke­ston Williams and Ak­lie Ed­wards and W Con­nec­tion's Hughton Hec­tor, Jan-Michael Williams, Shah­don Win­ches­ter, Kern Cu­pid and Matthew Bartholomew. The Ja­maicans, who al­so face Cos­ta Ri­ca in an­oth­er friend­ly lat­er this month and like T&T are prepar­ing for the Dig­i­cel Caribbean Cup, will ar­rive this af­ter­noon and will train once to­mor­row ahead of the match.

The Theodore Whit­more coached 'Reg­gae Boyz" squad is ex­pect­ed to in­clude five over­seas-based play­ers in New York Red Bulls' Dane Richards, San Jose Earth­quakes' Ryan John­son, Rodolph Austin of Nor­we­gian Pre­mier League side SK Brann and Er­ic Ver­nan, cur­rent­ly on loan to Ny­bergsund IL, in Nor­way and LA Galaxy goal­keep­er Donovon Rick­etts. Both Lat­apy and Whit­more are wide­ly re­gard­ed as two of the most dec­o­rat­ed and recog­nised play­ers to rep­re­sent their re­spec­tive coun­tries and will be com­ing head to head for the first time since tak­ing over the po­si­tions of coach of re­spec­tive na­tion­al teams. How­ev­er, for Lat­apy, it is just an­oth­er key el­e­ment of what promis­es to be an­oth­er in­trigu­ing clash be­tween the re­gion's top two teams.

"Like I said be­fore, we haven't seen Ja­maica in a while and I want­ed to see where they are at the mo­ment and I'm pret­ty sure they will be hop­ing to do the same. It's go­ing to give us an­oth­er idea of where we are at right now in prepa­ra­tions for the Dig­i­cel Cup," Lat­apy said. Two hours ear­li­er on Wednes­day, T&T Un­der-17 So­ca Princess­es will face their se­nior team-mates in a prac­tice match as they con­tin­ue prepa­ra­tions for the Fi­fa Un­der-17 World Cup here in T&T from Sep­tem­ber 5 to 25. Host T&T will meet Chile in the open­ing match. Tick­ets for Wednes­day's match is $40 for adults and $20 for kids and will be avail­able match day at the venue.

team

Goal­keep­ers: Mar­vin Philip (Joe Pub­lic), Jan Michael Williams (W Con­nec­tion).

De­fend­ers: Makan His­lop (Joe Pub­lic), Ke­ston Williams (De­fence Force), Ak­lie Ed­wards (De­fence Force), Kern Cu­pid (W Con­nec­tion), Car­lyle Mitchell (Joe Pub­lic).

Mid­field­ers: Kendall Jagdeosingh (Puer­to Ri­co Is­landers), Hughton Hec­tor (W Con­nec­tion), Kevon Carter (De­fence Force), Hay­den Tin­to (Joe Pub­lic), Keon Daniel (Puer­to Ri­co Is­landers), De­von Jamer­son (Ma Pau), Trent Noel (Joe Pub­lic), Ataulla Guer­ra (Jabloteh).

For­wards: Matthew Bartholomew (W Con­nec­tion), Shah­don Win­ches­ter (W Con­nec­tion), Ja­son Mar­cano (Jabloteh), Ker­ry Bap­tiste (Joe Pub­lic), De­von Jorsling (De­fence Force).