BRIDGETOWN, Bar­ba­dos – Cap­tain of the Bar­ba­dos Tri­dents, An­dre Ap­ple­whaite has se­cured a two-year con­tract to play for Con­necti­cut Unit­ed FC in Ma­jor League Soc­cer’s (MLS) NEXT Pro league.

The tal­ent­ed 23-year-old left back fi­nal­ly se­cured a deal af­ter a long road to the pro­fes­sion­al lev­el, which saw him take part in sev­en tri­als and a short stint in the Unit­ed States ear­li­er this year with Ap­palachi­an FC in the South­east­ern Con­fer­ence.

“I’m su­per ex­cit­ed to sign for CT Unit­ed next sea­son and I can’t wait to get start­ed,” Ap­ple­whaite said on his lat­est move.

Ap­ple­whaite’s move to Bridge­port fol­lows a re­mark­able year in which he top­scored for lo­cal club Wey­mouth Wales in the Caribbean Foot­ball Union (CFU) with five goals.

He car­ried that mo­men­tum in­to the CON­CA­CAF Caribbean Cup, scor­ing in Bar­ba­dos’ 2-1 de­feat to Cibao FC at the Wildey As­tro­Turf.

Along with win­ning the do­mes­tic tre­ble with Wales this sea­son, Ap­ple­whaite was al­so named Most Valu­able Play­er and Best De­fend­er in the pres­ti­gious Prime Min­is­ter’s Cup, which helped his team claim the $100,000 first prize.

CMC