Eng­lish-born Cen­tral FC head coach Ter­ry Fen­wick has won the TT Pro League ti­tle a record three times in the T&T Pro League, in just over ten years of its ex­is­tence.Now, the Sea­ham-born lad is in pur­suit of his first league ti­tle with Cen­tral and fourth over­all."We will be more than com­pet­i­tive this (sea­son)," promised the for­mer Tot­ten­ham Hot­spur and Eng­land in­ter­na­tion­al de­fend­er. "We are look­ing at a top two fin­ish... top one re­al­ly."Fen­wick's three Pro League ti­tles (2002, 2007 and 2008) have come dur­ing his coach­ing stints at the then fi­nan­cial­ly ro­bust San Juan Jabloteh, which, in 2012, sus­pend­ed all its pro­fes­sion­al foot­ball op­er­a­tions due to fi­nan­cial con­straints.An­oth­er Eng­lish­man Ricky Hill, a for­mer club (Leices­ter City) and na­tion­al team­mate of Fen­wick, won the on­ly oth­er Jabloteh Pro League cham­pi­onship in 2003. Fen­wick was sacked by the San Juan club in 2011, but has since then found­ed his acad­e­my, Foot­ball Fac­to­ry, and bal­ances his head coach po­si­tion at the one-year-old pro­fes­sion­al out­fit, Cen­tral FC. In Jan­u­ary he re­placed fel­low coun­try­man Gra­ham Rix.

Fen­wick and Cen­tral fin­ished off the last sea­son in fifth spot, a po­si­tion dread­ed by the 53-year old, with just 28 points and be­hind fourth po­si­tioned North East Stars (34 points), which is coached by the Eng­lish­man's for­mer ap­pren­tice and Jabloteh as­sis­tant coach, An­gus Eve."Fourth will not be good enough for me," said Fen­wick who kicked off his club's 2013-2014 pre-sea­son cam­paign last Thurs­day. "Look­ing at oth­er man­agers like An­gus Eve (North East Stars), where they've had a good long pre-sea­son and end up fourth. That would not be good enough for me."So we are putting our heads down. All my play­ers will have a very strict, very dis­ci­plined and very hard pre-sea­son. So when we come in­to that first game, they will be on side, in every­thing that we need to be."

He said hav­ing his first Cen­tral FC pre-sea­son gives him the op­por­tu­ni­ty to work with play­ers and make sure they are well or­gan­ised and dis­ci­plined, and that the play­ers know what is re­quired.

The no-non­sense coach kicked off prepa­ra­tions with a small group of play­ers dur­ing Thurs­day's ses­sion at Pre­sen­ta­tion Col­lege Ground, Ch­agua­nas.The group in­clud­ed just three play­ers, Mar­vin Oliv­er, Dar­ryl Trim and Carey Har­ris, from the de­but­ing 2012 Cen­tral FC squad at the be­gin­ning of last sea­son.Goal­keep­er Mar­vin Phillip, present­ly with the T&T Se­nior Team in Flori­da, Mi­a­mi, prepar­ing for next month's Con­ca­caf Gold Cup, is said to be the on­ly oth­er play­er from the Cen­tral de­but­ing squad that is ex­pect­ed to re­main with­in the fold.To­bag­on­ian quar­tet of Run­dell Win­ches­ter, Omar Charles, Dar­ren Mitchell and Dario Holmes, along with Ja­son Mar­cano, Jo­han Pelti­er and Hec­tor Sam who all joined the club dur­ing the De­cem­ber-Jan­u­ary trans­fer win­dow have al­so been re­tained by Fen­wick.

No­tably ab­sent was bulky An­tigua and Bar­bu­da strik­er Pe­ter By­ers, who was al­so signed dur­ing the De­cem­ber-Jan­u­ary win­dow and top scored for the club with ten goals in all com­pe­ti­tion.

But By­ers, who al­so fin­ished the league top scor­er in 2007 un­der Fen­wick at Jabloteh, may not be part of Cen­tral's plans for the 2013-14 sea­son ac­cord­ing to a team of­fi­cial.Fen­wick, how­ev­er, was de­light­ed to con­firm the sign­ings of for­mer Jabloteh and St Ann's Rangers de­fend­er Ja­mal Jack, 25, and mid­field­ers Shem Alexan­der, 23, and Julio Noel, 20, al­so from the St Ann's club.

His first phase of sign­ings al­so in­cludes 17-year-olds Nicholas Dil­lon (pro­mot­ed from the Cen­tral U18s) and Rangers youth play­er Kevon God­dard along with 19-year-olds Dwight Pope (Shi­va Boys Col­lege) and Javon Sam­ple (St An­tho­ny's Col­lege).

"We cleared about 20 play­ers off our ros­ter," ex­plained Fen­wick. "Play­ers that are recog­nised all over the coun­try as top play­ers, but I think they are on the wrong side of (age) 25."So I've brought the age group right down. I've brought in 17, 18, 19-year-olds. I want to show in the pro­fes­sion­al league and in T&T that at 17, 18, 19, you can be a top play­er. You can be a na­tion­al team play­er.Dur­ing his time at Jabloteh, Fen­wick was known for field­ing teenaged names such as Lester Pelti­er, Khaleem Hy­land, El­ton John and Eli­jah Man­ners, and such a step is al­so com­mon at clubs such as W Con­nec­tion and Cale­do­nia which are at present prepar­ing for the Con­ca­caf Cham­pi­ons League, which be­gins in Au­gust.