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Thursday, July 24, 2025

Yorke recalls Garcia for Gold Cup

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Sport Desk
42 days ago
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FILE - Justin Garcia trains.

FILE - Justin Garcia trains.

Head coach of T&T’s se­nior men’s foot­ball team, Dwight Yorke has made one forced ad­just­ment to his team head­ed to the 2025 Con­ca­caf Gold Cup in the USA.

De­fence Force de­fend­er Justin Gar­cia has been called in to re­place Josi­ah Trim­ming­ham who in­jured his knee dur­ing the warm-up be­fore T&T’s sec­ond-round World Cup qual­i­fi­er against Cos­ta Ri­ca in San Jose on Tues­day night.

Ac­cord­ing to the TTFA, Gar­cia, 29, will join the camp in San­ta Clara, Cal­i­for­nia on Thurs­day morn­ing ahead of T&T’s group D tour­na­ment open­er against the USA on Sun­day at Pay­Pal Park, Cal­i­for­nia.

Trim­ming­ham’s in­jury on Tues­day night ex­posed a po­ten­tial prob­lem for Yorke, which is a lack of recog­nised cen­tral de­fend­ers in his 26-man squad, with vet­er­an Shel­don Bateau be­ing the on­ly oth­er spe­cial­ist in the po­si­tion.

Trim­ming­ham’s loss forced Yorke to use Crys­tal Palace mid­field­er Rio Car­dines at right full­back, while reg­u­lar full­back Isa­iah Gar­cia was used as a cen­tral de­fend­er along­side Alvin Jones, an­oth­er full­back and Bateau.

Left-sided de­fend­ers Dar­nell Hospedales, and An­dre Ray­mond are the oth­er de­fend­ers in the squad.

T&T’s Gold Cup Team

Goal­keep­ers: Den­zil Smith, Mar­vin Phillip, Jabari St Hillaire.

De­fend­ers: Shel­don Bateau, Justin Gar­cia, Alvin Jones, Isa­iah Gar­cia, Dar­nell Hospedales, An­dre Ray­mond.

Mid­field­ers: Kevin Moli­no (c), Jo­evin Jones, Daniel Phillips, Rio Car­dines, An­dre Ram­per­sad, Noah Pow­der, Ajani For­tune, Kai­him Thomas, Stef­fen Yeates, Wayne Fred­er­ick II.

At­tack­ers: Levi Gar­cia, Nathaniel James, Tyrese Spicer, Dante Sealy, Re­al Gill, Isa­iah Lea­cock, Isa­iah Lee.


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