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Friday, August 29, 2025

Hackshaw, Moses want to build winning momentum

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Walter Alibey
719 days ago
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T&T senior men’s football starting team against Curacao on Thursday, Shannon Gomez, from left, front row, Ryan Telfer, Daniel Phillip, Kaile Auvray, Malcolm Shaw and in back row, Justin Garcia, Andre Rampersad, Neveal Hackshaw, Aubrey David (capatin), Ross Russell Jr and goalkeeper Denzil Smith ahead of their CONCACAF Nations League (CNL) ‘A’ match at the Hasely Crawford Stadium, Mucurapo, Port-of-Spain on Thursday. T&T won 1-0. Today, the Soca Warriors face host El Salvador at 10.10 pm in their second match of the CNL.

T&T senior men’s football starting team against Curacao on Thursday, Shannon Gomez, from left, front row, Ryan Telfer, Daniel Phillip, Kaile Auvray, Malcolm Shaw and in back row, Justin Garcia, Andre Rampersad, Neveal Hackshaw, Aubrey David (capatin), Ross Russell Jr and goalkeeper Denzil Smith ahead of their CONCACAF Nations League (CNL) ‘A’ match at the Hasely Crawford Stadium, Mucurapo, Port-of-Spain on Thursday. T&T won 1-0. Today, the Soca Warriors face host El Salvador at 10.10 pm in their second match of the CNL.

Daniel Prentice

T&T’s de­fen­sive mid­field­er and de­fend­er Ne­veal Hack­shaw and Ka­reem Moses will be hop­ing to trans­fer their win­ning mo­men­tum from Thurs­day’s match against Cu­ra­cao in­to Sunday’s clash with El Sal­vador in the CON­CA­CAF Na­tions League ‘A’ clash, their sec­ond match to date.

The So­ca War­riors left it late be­fore de­feat­ing Cu­ra­cao 1-0 in their open­ing match at the Hase­ly Craw­ford Sta­di­um in Mu­cu­rapo, Port-of-Spain, three days ago, cour­tesy of an 82nd-minute goal from new boy Nathaniel James.

Tonight, how­ev­er, they are ex­pect­ing an even tougher con­test against the El Sal­vado­ri­ans at the Na­cional Jorge Magi­co Gon­za­lez from 10.10 pm. The El Sal­vado­ri­ans lost their open­ing match against Guatemala 2-0 and will be anx­ious to make amends against the So­ca War­riors.

Na­tion­al coach An­gus Eve took his play­ers through a fi­nal ses­sion yes­ter­day at the match venue at 3 pm. He will be with­out lanky De­fence Force strik­er Brent Sam who could not trav­el with the team in time, be­ing a last-minute re­place­ment for Kai­him Thomas who was in­jured in a ve­hi­cle ac­ci­dent last week. In­for­ma­tion com­ing from the T&T Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion (TTFA) Me­dia is they could not trans­fer Thomas’ trav­el­ling doc­u­ment to Sam in time for the match.

Sam, a sol­id post-up play­er for the army coast-guard com­bi­na­tion team, was ex­pect­ed to start for the War­riors against Cu­ra­cao but was not called up­on by Eve, who even­tu­al­ly got the vic­to­ry with the late in­tro­duc­tion of James who sought to build the team’s con­fi­dence tonight.

Ac­cord­ing to Moses: “I feel con­fi­dent. We all knew that the first game was a re­al­ly im­por­tant one and the start that we got was ex­act­ly what we were hop­ing for. We just want to bring that mo­men­tum we had in­to the sec­ond game and get a pos­i­tive re­sult away from home.

“I think it’s a re­al uni­ty among the boys, it’s a re­al love in the camp like it’s the best I’ve ever been around in a long time. I think we will con­tin­ue go­ing from strength to strength. I think when you sit and every­body hav­ing lunch and every­body around the ta­ble is crack­ing jokes and just hav­ing that har­mo­ny amongst each oth­er, shows on the field. And that’s the most im­por­tant thing, the to­geth­er­ness.”

Hack­shaw echoed sim­i­lar sen­ti­ments, say­ing: “It feels good com­ing away from get­ting three points. I think this game is very im­por­tant for us be­ing away from home, and know­ing that El Sal­vador lost their first game, we need to be se­ri­ous and get the right rest and pre­pare for that game be­cause it is go­ing to be hard.

“We need to start the game the way we fin­ished the last game and if we do that and keep up the mo­men­tum, it would be bet­ter for us.”


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