Nigel Si­mon

Speedy for­ward, Kendall Jagdeosingh of US Pro Soc­cer League club, Rochester Rag­ing Rhi­nos, has been added to the So­ca War­riors train­ing squad ahead of its next two 2014 Con­ca­caf World Cup qual­i­fiers against Bermu­da and Bar­ba­dos. The 26-year-old Jagdeosingh, who has eight ap­pear­ances for the na­tion­al team, had his first train­ing ses­sion un­der So­ca War­riors coach Ot­to Pfis­ter at the Ato Boldon Sta­di­um, Cou­va, yes­ter­day. It was the first ses­sion called by Pfis­ter since T&T won its first two match­es against Bermu­da 1-0 at home on Sep­tem­ber 2 and away to Bar­ba­dos (2-0) on Sep­tem­ber 6. Jagdeosingh is com­ing off an im­pres­sive first sea­son for the Rhi­nos at the end of which he was vot­ed the club's "Of­fen­sive Play­er of the Year."

He tied for the team lead in goals with five and added one as­sist in his time up front hav­ing signed for the club on Feb­ru­ary 1, af­ter play­ing with the Puer­to Ri­co Is­landers for four sea­sons. The oth­er over­seas play­ers who at­tend­ed yes­ter­day's 90-minute ses­sion in­clud­ed US-based duo De­vorn Jorsling and Kevin Moli­no, both of new­ly crowned US Pro Soc­cer League cham­pi­on, Or­lan­do City Li­ons, while for­mer Bel­gium-based goal­keep­er, Jan-Michael Williams was al­so present. Joe Pub­lic de­fend­er, Car­lyle Mitchell, who has signed with the MLS club Van­cou­ver White­caps, al­so trained ahead of his pos­si­ble de­par­ture on Thurs­day while Keon Daniel of US Ma­jor Soc­cer's Philadel­phia Union, goal­keep­er Mar­vin Phillip (on tri­al with White­caps) and de­fend­er Seon Pow­ers were ab­sent.

The oth­ers in­clud­ed W Con­nec­tion's Jer­rel Brit­to, Hugh­tun Hec­tor, Shah­don Win­ches­ter, Mekeil Williams; Hay­den Tin­to, An­dre Tou­s­saint (Joe Pub­lic), Stern John, Ke­vaughn Con­nell, An­tho­ny Wolfe (North East Stars); Aki­ni Adams, Akeem Adams, An­drei Pacheco (T&TEC). The team will al­so train to­mor­row while the squad for the Bermu­da qual­i­fi­er to be played in Hamil­ton, will as­sem­ble in Fort Laud­erdale on Oc­to­ber 2 for a train­ing camp be­fore de­part­ing for Bermu­da three days lat­er. Cur­rent­ly, the So­ca War­riors are joint top of its sec­ond round, Group B, with six points-the same as Guyana which has a bet­ter goal-dif­fer­ence while Bermu­da and Bar­ba­dos are with­out a point. T&T plays away to Bermu­da on Oc­to­ber 7 be­fore host­ing Bar­ba­dos at the Hase­ly Craw­ford Sta­di­um, Mu­cu­rapo, four days lat­er.