Cen­tral FC's lat­est sign­ing, Ja­mal Jack will con­tribute sig­nif­i­cant­ly to the Sharks' quest for Con­ca­caf Cham­pi­ons League foot­ball, said man­ag­ing di­rec­tor, Brent San­cho."Both my­self and head coach Ter­ry Fen­wick saw Ja­mal as a key com­po­nent as we build a squad to chal­lenge for tro­phies this year," said San­cho."Ja­mal has on­ly won one cap, but I'm con­vinced if he has a suc­cess­ful sea­son that he can at­tract the eye of na­tion­al head coach, Stephen Hart."San­cho, who rep­re­sent­ed T&T as a cen­tre back in the 2006 Fi­fa World Cup, should have some ex­pe­ri­ence at spot­ting a good de­fend­er. "This sea­son, Ja­mal will be Cen­tral's Led­ley King."

King was a Tot­ten­ham and Eng­land cen­tre back and cap­tained his club side. "Led­ley was al­ways calm un­der pres­sure and his tim­ing on chal­lenges was su­perb. I see Ja­mal in the same mould."

The 25-year-old de­fend­er ar­rived in Cal­i­for­nia af­ter a spell with St Ann's Rangers."It's great for me to come to Cen­tral," said Jack, who was born in Char­lot­teville, To­ba­go. "Both Mr San­cho and Mr Fen­wick played in World Cups as de­fend­ers, so I'm cer­tain that I can learn a few point­ers from them to im­prove my game."Jack, how­ev­er, said he is frus­trat­ed with a lack in­ter­na­tion­al ap­pear­ances. "I played against An­tigua and Bar­bu­da and, as you would ex­pect, it was my proud­est mo­ment in foot­ball. You can't ex­plain how it feels to lis­ten to your na­tion­al an­them wear­ing thered, white and black jer­sey. Your chest kind of ex­pands to burst­ing point!"

Jack, who states his favourite club as Man­ches­ter City, feels that more suc­cess at the Pro League lev­el will re­sult in more coun­try ap­pear­ances. "Suc­cess breeds suc­cess," said Jack. "Coach­es will al­ways look at win­ning teams first when they look for play­ers. So it's im­por­tant to me, and the oth­er guys at the club, to make sure we win tro­phies."Jack will see him­self be­come a source of ex­pe­ri­ence for many of the Sharks line up."We have a very youth­ful squad, some of whom are still teenagers, so I guess I will have to set a good ex­am­ple. De­spite the ages of some of the guys, the tal­ent is fan­tas­tic. There's plen­ty of pace in the side and I can see half a dozen po­ten­tial in­ter­na­tion­als in the squad."