T&T So­ca War­riors strik­er Levi Gar­ca of Russ­ian club Spar­tak Moscow says he is ready to de­liv­er in big games for T&T as this coun­try pre­pares for the re­sump­tion of their 2026 Con­ca­caf World Cup qual­i­fiers.

The So­ca War­riors, with four points from two match­es, will host St Kitts & Nevis (three points) in their penul­ti­mate Group B match at the Hase­ly Craw­ford Sta­di­um, Mu­cu­rapo, Port-of-Spain Fri­day (June 6) from 7.30 pm be­fore trav­el­ling to face group leader Cos­ta Ri­ca (six points) on Tues­day (June 10).

A win for T&T will se­cure a top-two fin­ish in the spot ahead of their fi­nal match and ce­ment their spot in the next round of qual­i­fiers to the 2026 FI­FA World Cup to be host­ed joint­ly by USA, Cana­da and Mex­i­co and speak­ing at a train­ing ses­sion at the match venue yes­ter­day a con­fi­dent Gar­cia, 27, who last played for T&T on June 5 last year in the 2-2 draw with Grena­da at the Mu­cu­rapo venue said he was ready to de­liv­er for his team.

Gar­cia who last scored for T&T in a 2-0 Con­ca­caf Na­tions League win over St Vin­cent and the Grenadines back in 2022, said: "I feel re­al­ly good to be back with the bunch of guys and I'm con­fi­dent."

He added, "It's a new set up and so far, things are go­ing well and for me it's a plea­sure to be here."

Asked about his first im­pres­sion of head coach Dwight Yorke who took over the reins from for­mer coach An­gus Eve last No­vem­ber, Gar­cia replied, "For me, he is a leg­end of course and for me it's ex­cit­ing and for the guys it's ex­cit­ing, and I can on­ly see the plan and the vi­sion mov­ing for­ward."

Pressed as to what those plans were, Gar­cia replied, "The plan and vi­sion is to qual­i­fy for the World Cup (FI­FA 2026 USA/Mex­i­co/Cana­da), and of course, he (Yorke) has been im­ple­ment­ing it in the first ses­sion I have been in­volved in here, and we can see the goal and the dri­ve is to qual­i­fy for the World Cup."

Con­cern­ing any dif­fer­ence in coach­ing styles as com­pared to for­mer coach Eve, Gar­cia ex­plained, "I would not say there is a big dif­fer­ence, but of course, he (Yorke) brings a dif­fer­ent lev­el of pro­fes­sion­al­ism, and I think the guys are most­ly ex­cit­ed be­cause of his high qual­i­ty and the ca­reer that he had. So, based on what I have seen so far I can see a lev­el step up."

De­spite switch­ing from AEK Athens in Greece to Spar­tak Moscow in Rus­sia, Gar­cia said he ex­pects to bring his same high-qual­i­ty per­for­mance to the team.

A con­fi­dent Gar­cia boast­ed, "I have al­ways been my­self and I have al­ways tried to add what­ev­er I can, and the ex­pe­ri­ence I have got­ten there (Rus­sia) so far is prob­a­bly the sta­tus of de­liv­er­ing in big games, so hope­ful­ly in this big game on Fri­day, once my body gives me the sup­port I can do what I have to do."

With re­gards to mak­ing up for his year's ab­sence from the team, Gar­cia was quick to point out that, it's 11 guys on the pitch to rep­re­sent the team.

Gar­cia al­so ex­pressed his con­fi­dence in the younger play­ers in the team like Dante Sealy, Wayne Fred­er­ick, and Isa­iah Lea­cock say­ing, "I be­lieve all these younger guys have some­thing to prove and I am just here to give what I can, and it's just good to be back and hope­ful­ly on the day I can do what I can do."

Gar­cia al­so had some words for the lo­cal sup­port­ers say­ing, "I would like to get that en­er­gy as the 12th man. Hope­ful­ly, we could start the game and give them a show, but we will need that sup­port and that dri­ve, and I want to hear noise. I don't want to be able to be hear­ing guys on the pitch and I hope that they come out and they give us that sup­port on Fri­day."

He added, "I think Fri­day comes like the last game for us so we know that we need to win this game and win­ning this game will de­cide every­thing for us."

The for­mer T&T cap­tain said he ex­pects a fair game from St Kitts & Nevis, but not­ed he is more fo­cused on his own team.

"We have to go and dic­tate the game and get our win and what­ev­er St Kitts & Nevis has in store we have to deal with it and fo­cus on our­selves and get the vic­to­ry.

Toron­to FC winger Tyrese Spicer, the top draft pick in the US Ma­jor League Soc­cer (MLS) Su­per Draft a year ago, just ahead of Fred­er­ick, is al­so thrilled to be back for the up­com­ing match­es.

He said, "I'm very ex­cit­ed to be back in T&T and ex­cit­ed to play in front of the fans and I think this is a big step­ping­stone for my­self and the team as the World Cup is our big goal and we need to go out there and show our best and per­form."

Spicer was al­so to have fel­low MLS play­ers Dante Sealy of CF Mon­tre­al and Col­orado Rapids Wayne Fred­er­ick II in the team and promised the fans that they will be ex­cit­ed by the young duo.

A key play­er against Cu­ba in the last in­ter­na­tion­al fix­tures in the Con­ca­caf Gold Cup pre­lim­i­nary round, Spicer said he just wants to be able to con­tribute to the team in a pos­i­tive way. The T&T team will hold their fi­nal train­ing to­day from 7.30 pm at the match venue ahead of to­mor­row's cru­cial en­counter.