Nigel Si­mon

Ti­tle-hold­er Neal & Massy Cale­do­nia AIA will be wary of Na­tion­al Su­per League's Grafton Stoke­ly Vale when both teams meet in one of four quar­ter­fi­nal match­es in the T&T Foot­ball Fed­er­a­tion FA Tro­phy com­pe­ti­tion from 5 pm to­day at the Hase­ly Craw­ford Sta­di­um, Mu­cu­rapo.

In the oth­er match­es, Cen­tral Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion's Cunu­pia FA faces North East Stars, Pro League's Cen­tral FC meets Sec­ondary Schools Foot­ball League Shi­va Boys' Hin­du Col­lege and T&TEC comes up against South­ern Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion's Pt Fortin Civic Cen­tre.

Down at Mu­cu­rapo, Cale­do­nia, which earned its spot in the last-eight with a nar­row 1-0 win over Joe Pub­lic (East­ern Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion) via a strike from So­ca War­riors de­fend­er Aubrey Davis, will start as favourites to over­come Stoke­ly Vale.

But the To­bag­o­ni­ans will al­so be brim­ming with con­fi­dence, hav­ing stunned Cale­do­nia 6-5 on penal­ty-kicks af­ter a thrilling 3-3 draw in the round-of-16 of the Toy­ota Clas­sic com­pe­ti­tion last No­vem­ber, while it oust­ed for­mer FA win­ner and cur­rent Pro League leader De­fence Force 2-1 in the pre­vi­ous round with Run­dell Win­ches­ter and Do­minic Mc Dougall on strike to can­cel out a De­vorn Jorsling ef­fort.

How­ev­er, two of the play­ers who were in­stru­men­tal in the "Vale" vic­to­ry, Win­ches­ter and Omar Charles, have since joined T&T Pro League out­fit Cen­tral FC, mak­ing their task much hard­er this af­ter­noon.

On the oth­er hand, Cale­do­nia, which is sec­ond on the Pro League ta­ble be­hind De­fence Force af­ter edg­ing Stars 1-0 on Sat­ur­day and has al­ready won the First Cit­i­zens Cup for the 2012/2013 cam­paign, has bol­stered its squad with the sign­ing of 22-year-old Grena­di­an goal­keep­er Shemel Loui­son and mid­field­er Sher­ron Joseph, younger broth­er of long-stand­ing right-back Ka­reem Joseph, dur­ing the win­dow which runs from De­cem­ber 17 to Jan­u­ary 15.

The new­ly-signed pair will join an al­ready strong squad which in­cludes T&T in­ter­na­tion­als Key­on Ed­wards, Ja­mal Gay, David, Den­sil Theobald and At­u­al­la Guer­ra.

At Wood­ford Lodge, Ch­agua­nas, de­fend­er Kei­th Simp­son, a for­mer Ja­maica Un­der-20 play­er, who signed from Ja­maican club Tivoli Gar­dens is ex­pect­ed to make his de­but for the An­gus Eve-coached Stars when it tack­les Cunu­pia FC from 6 pm.

In the round-of-16, Cunu­pia held off Mathu­ra FC 3-2, while Stars, win­ners of the Toy­ota Clas­sic crown last month, blanked 1st FC San­ta Rosa 2-0. Last De­cem­ber, T&TEC whipped En­ter­prise Youths 3-1 and Pt Fortin Civic Cen­tre blanked Joe Pub­lic's Su­per League line-up 2-0.

Re­sults

T&TFF FA round-of-16:

Cale­do­nia AIA vs Stoke­ly Vale, Hase­ly Craw­ford Sta­di­um, Mu­cu­rapo, 5 pm

Cunu­pia vs North East Stars, Wood­ford Lodge, Ch­agua­nas, 6 pm

Cen­tral FC vs Shi­va Boys' Hin­du Col­lege, Ato Boldon Sta­di­um, Cou­va, 6 pm

Pt Fortin CC vs T&TEC, Ma­haica Oval, Pt Fortin, 3.30 pm.