Newly-appointed assistant national soccer coach David Nakhid flew out yesterday, after spending a week checking out the players in training for the second round of the Digicel Cup/Caribbean Football Union Cup series—qualifying tournament for the Gold Cup in the United States in July.
The El Mabarrah side is at the top of the standings in the First Division of the Lebanese League.
Nakhid, who will be returning in January, was appointed assistant coach two weeks ago. He had been conducting training sessions together with the other assistant coach, Ron La Forest, since he returned from Lebanon a week ago.
Coach St Clair, who went to England for a week to look at a few players, is due back home tomorrow.
On his return, the T&T team to play away to the British Virgin Islands (BVI) in the second round of the home-and-away ties in the Digicel Cup on Sunday, will be selected.
The “Soca Warriors” will play the home match against the British Virgin Islands on Sunday, December 19, in the Marvin Lee Stadium at the Centre of Excellence in Macoya, Tunapuna.
BVI, a team made up of a host of English expatriats, qualified to meet T&T by finishing runner-up to St Vincent and the Grenadines in a group which included Antigua and the Cayman Islands.
T&T topped a group by playing unbeaten against Suriname, Grenada and Puerto Rico.
The winner of the T&T versus BVI tie will move on to play St Vincent and the Grenadines on January 9 and 16, with the surviving team joining three others in the finals in Barbados in April.
The three leading teams in the finals will automatically gain places in the Gold Cup.