Do you know that while on tour, the national senior footballers are required to represent Trinidad and Tobago in a favourable fashion everywhere they go? That is why, if you see Silvio Spann in downtown Connecticut, he is in a Trinidad and Tobago Warriors kit.
It is all part of a system designed to project the team in a good light every time. Whether they are just going to lunch, or a training session, they do so as a team and in a particular attire. Each day players are informed of the particular assignment they will be on, and the appropriate national kit to wear.
As head of the Trinidad and Tobago delegation, manager Bruce Aanensen thinks that his job is an easy one, once approached properly. With a strong background in management, the retired banker believes that the key is to delegate appropriate responsibility to everyone involved with the team's management and make sure that everyone does their specific job. More directly, he wants to ensure that no one individual is overburdened.
"My specific responsibility is to make sure that the coaches get everything they want, when they need it, and also to make sure that the players are comfortable and ready to play. As head of the management team, I have to delegate responsibility to make sure that everyone does their job."
Much of the work Aanensen does is through his hard-working men of business; assistant managers George Joseph, an experienced national team manager and ex-Army man Sam Phillip, the manager at defending Super League champions Joe Public Football Club.
"I have every confidence in the people working with me. George's main duty is to make the travel arrangements. He leaves before the team to make sure that hotel arrangements are in place and that everything is arranged once the teams arrive. He is very good at that. Sam travels with the team. He is on spot to make sure that everything is in order."
Often out of the spotlight, Aanensen seems to like to stay way in the background. He brings to the Warriors great experience in management, having once been a chairman of RBTT Services and also a director of RBTT Bank Limited. The 58-year-old ex-banker hails from Cascade, is an old St Mary's College boy and also has a background in sport.
A vice-president of the Queen's Park Cricket Club since 1991, he is also a director of All Sports Promotion, a sports management company owned by Anthony Harford.
However, Aanensen's forte has been as a banker, having joined Royal Bank way back in 1965 and only retired this year.
Now, he has offered his services to the Trinidad and Tobago national football team, making sure that all runs smoothly on the long road to Germany.
Aanensen has every confidence in not only the T&T team doing well, but his own bunch of managers as well. Because of that confidence, he has delayed his trip to Connecticut so that he could attend the wedding of his son on the weekend.
However, Aanensen knows that Joseph and Phillip have everything well in hand.