T&T quar­tet of Kevin Moli­no, Jo­evin Jones, his younger broth­er Alvin Jones and Greg Ran­jits­ingh have been giv­en the all-clear to be­gin vol­un­tary small group train­ing ses­sions with their re­spec­tive US Ma­jor League Soc­cer (MLS) clubs.

This was con­firmed in a press re­lease is­sued by mlssoc­cer.com yes­ter­day which stat­ed that clubs may be­gin to use out­door team train­ing fields for vol­un­tary small group train­ing ses­sions in com­pli­ance with de­tailed health and safe­ty pro­to­cols that were cre­at­ed in con­sul­ta­tion with med­ical and in­fec­tious dis­ease ex­perts.

The re­lease added: The ses­sions must not con­flict with lo­cal pub­lic health of­fi­cial or gov­ern­ment poli­cies and pro­vide the abil­i­ty for play­ers to step up their train­ing while main­tain­ing phys­i­cal dis­tanc­ing pro­to­cols.

MLS is­sued a league-wide team train­ing mora­to­ri­um fol­low­ing the sus­pen­sion of the 2020 sea­son on March 12 due to the im­pact of the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic.

But, on May 6, play­ers were al­lowed to be­gin vol­un­tary in­di­vid­ual work­outs at out­door team train­ing fa­cil­i­ties in ac­cor­dance with lo­cal pub­lic health of­fi­cial or gov­ern­ment poli­cies with their re­spec­tive clubs as the league-wide mora­to­ri­um on full team train­ing re­mained in place through, and in­clud­ing June 1 (Mon­day).

To date, mid­field­er Moli­no and goal­keep­er, Cana­da-born Ran­jits­ingh re­turned to in­di­vid­ual work­outs with Min­neso­ta Unit­ed FC on May 12, Alvin re­sumed train­ing with Re­al Salt Lake FC on May 7, and Jo­evin kicked off train­ing with de­fend­ing cham­pi­ons Seat­tle Sounders FC on May 18.

But with MLS set on re­sum­ing the sea­son short­ly, the league has out­lined club-spe­cif­ic plan guide­lines which must be put in place be­fore ini­ti­at­ing small group train­ing ses­sions.

They in­clude the sub­mit­ting to MLS a club-spe­cif­ic plan that has been re­viewed and ap­proved by the club’s med­ical staff and lo­cal in­fec­tious dis­ease ex­pert as well as build­ing on the health and safe­ty pro­to­cols im­ple­ment­ed for vol­un­tary in­di­vid­ual work­outs, club-spe­cif­ic plans must ad­here to the guide­lines for vol­un­tary small group ses­sions.

Al­so, dur­ing small group ses­sions, clubs must con­tin­ue to main­tain the health and safe­ty pro­to­cols im­ple­ment­ed for the vol­un­tary in­di­vid­ual work­out ses­sions.