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Saturday, July 5, 2025

Soca Warriors in a good place says Eve

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Walter Alibey
658 days ago
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“We are in a good place,” says na­tion­al coach An­gus Eve.

With the team hav­ing two wins in as many match­es, and suc­cess in the com­ing match­es could not on­ly see T&T qual­i­fy­ing for the quar­ter­fi­nal of the Na­tions League ‘A’ di­vi­sion but al­so se­cur­ing a place in the Co­pa Amer­i­ca Tour­na­ment.

He was speak­ing at a press con­fer­ence on Fri­day at the Hase­ly Craw­ford Sta­di­um in Mu­cu­rapo, Port-of-Spain as his team gets ready to face match­es against Guatemala and Cu­ra­cao for a sec­ond time.

The se­nior men’s foot­ball coach was not beat­ing his chest, but he gave a break­down of where the team start­ed dur­ing the start of a new jour­ney for them.

He told the me­dia his team’s biggest chal­lenge was the fact that the “So­ca War­riors” lit­er­al­ly had two weeks of prepa­ra­tion be­fore the first game against Cu­ra­cao at the Sta­di­um which they won 1-0, cour­tesy of a Nathaniel James 82nd-minute item. And for the sec­ond match against El Sal­vador, they had just one day to­geth­er be­fore they trav­elled. That game end­ed 3-2 in favour of the So­ca War­riors.

Eve said: “It’s of para­mount im­por­tance to get a good start in this tour­na­ment. I think com­ing in­to it, no­body ex­pect­ed us to do well. Prob­a­bly it was the way that we got in­to it, but we didn’t do any­thing wrong so we de­serve to be here. I think the two starts were re­al­ly tremen­dous for us.

“For me, com­ing away with the vic­to­ry and do­ing the work that we did against an El Sal­vador team that has most of their play­ers play­ing at home. They had a bet­ter chance to gel than us, but I thought it was two pos­i­tive per­for­mances, there is a lot of work to be done. The games that we won, no­body, no­body in Trinidad ex­pect­ed us to win, but we went in there with a pos­i­tive mind­set and we did what we had to do.”

Eve’s new be­gin­ning in lo­cal foot­ball sees a blend of lo­cal play­ers, cour­tesy of the T&T Pre­mier Foot­ball League and over­seas-based play­ers com­ing to­geth­er.

“We have re­fo­cused the team, it is a lit­tle bit younger now. We see younger guys com­ing in and the type of play­ers mak­ing their de­but. It was Den­zil Smith’s de­but, it was Nathaniel’s de­but, and they showed that they can per­form at this stage. They’re not the fin­ished ar­ti­cle as yet, they’re still a work in progress, and we’re in a re­build­ing stage, but you can not be hap­py with the two re­sults,” said the for­mer na­tion­al play­er.

Eve plans to take the next match­es against Guatemala at home on Oc­to­ber 13 and Cu­ra­cao, away on Oc­to­ber 17, on one step at a time.


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