The Turks & Caicos Islands (TCI) Men’s National Soccer Team will be travelling to Aruba next week. There, they take part in the Preliminary Qualification Round of The 2014 Caribbean Cup, consisting of three games against Aruba, the British Virgin Islands and French Guiana.
The 2014 Caribbean Cup will be the 17th edition of the Caribbean Cup, an international football competition for national teams of member nations affiliated with the Caribbean Football Union (CFU) of the CONCACAF region. What is more, the Caribbean Cup is a qualifying tournament for the CONCACAF Gold Cup and it will be the TCI team’s first international tournament since the World Cup Qualifying games against The Bahamas in 2011 and also Craig Harrington’s first game as TCIFA’s Technical Director.
Of The Caribbean Cup, the Technical Director said: “You have to be realistic.
We are in a group with three other teams and it’s going to be real battle. I think we have the potential to get out of this first group but it depends on the first game against Aruba. That game is a World Cup final for us and if we can get three points then our confidence will rise and then we go into the final games with a fighting chance. Our team can do some real damage with the quality of players we have, especially going forward.”
Chris Bryan, President of the TCIFA said: “The team we have assembled is made up of predominately academy players who have come up through the TCIFA youth system from an early age. This is a milestone in our development of football here in the islands.
The 20-men squad for Team TCI Soccer Team travels to Aruba via InterCaribbean Airlines on Wednesday, May 28th, returning Wednesday, June 4th.
