For­mer So­ca War­riors de­fend­er, Brent San­cho has been ap­point­ed the new Chief Ex­ec­u­tive Of­fi­cer of for­mer Pro League club, North East Stars. Join­ing San­cho on the new look Stars Board of Di­rec­tors is his for­mer club­mate Kevin Jef­frey, who will hold the po­si­tion of Di­rec­tor of Foot­ball. These an­nounce­ments were made by club own­er and founder Dar­ryl Ma­habir, who stat­ed that the new ap­point­ments are ev­i­dence of the club's am­bi­tions to re­turn to the top of lo­cal foot­ball. "Hav­ing these two guys show the club is go­ing in the right di­rec­tion. We are an am­bi­tious club and we have plans to fur­ther es­tab­lish our­selves through the right chan­nels with bet­ter de­vel­op­ment and pro­fes­sion­al­ism. We think that hav­ing Kevin and par­tic­u­lar­ly Brent in­volved will be an as­set to the club," Ma­habir said.

Ma­habir fur­ther stat­ed, "Brent's abil­i­ty to work and get things done and Kevin's (with whom I have a very good re­la­tion­ship with) knowl­edge and com­mit­ment to the sport will both im­pact this com­mu­ni­ty in a pos­i­tive way". San­cho, back in T&T af­ter cam­paign­ing with Rochester Rhi­nos in the Amer­i­can A-League, said he was ex­cit­ed about his new po­si­tion with the lo­cal club. "I am de­light­ed to be part of this club. I'm def­i­nite­ly look­ing for­ward to the chal­lenges that lie ahead and will be as­pir­ing to help­ing the club at­tain a fair amount of suc­cess," said the ex-Gilling­ham de­fend­er. San­cho, a for­mer Eng­lish and Scot­tish-based play­er, added that he has held the club in high re­gards fol­low­ing his stint in 2008 with North East Stars which helped the club climb from bot­tom of the ta­ble to fin­ish third in the Pro League be­fore it was forced to miss the 2009 sea­son due to fi­nan­cial rea­sons.

"In the short time I played at the club I was re­al­ly im­pressed with the di­rec­tion the club was head­ing and I want to play a more in­stru­men­tal role in this pos­i­tive move­ment." Jef­frey, who al­so plied his trade with Rich­mond Kick­ers in the A-League, is no stranger to the club hav­ing spent five years at the San­gre Grande-based out­fit where he was in­stru­men­tal in help­ing the club win the T&TFF FA Tro­phy (2003) and Pro League, a year lat­er, as a play­er. "I am ex­cit­ed about the ap­point­ment and I look for­ward ea­ger­ly to help push this club in the right di­rec­tion" Jef­frey said. De­spite not field­ing a team this year due to prob­lems at the club's play­ing fa­cil­i­ty at the San­gre Grande Re­gion­al Ground (pop­u­lar­ly known as the Ojoe Road Recre­ation Ground) the club man­age­ment says they are hop­ing for the best.

"From the club's per­spec­tive we are see­ing ex­cit­ing times ahead. We are hop­ing that the Cor­po­ra­tion will un­der­stand the im­por­tance of hav­ing the fa­cil­i­ty that will home pro­fes­sion­al foot­ball for the com­mu­ni­ty, and for kids to as­pire play­ing for. The fa­cil­i­ty is still in sham­bles at the mo­ment and we hope that the Cor­po­ra­tion will learn from the mis­takes in the past," said San­cho. North East Stars once em­ployed no­table play­ers such as Jer­ron Nixon, Kendall Jagdeosingh, Kendall Velox, Brent San­cho, Kevin Jef­frey, An­tho­ny Wolfe, Glen­ton Wolfe and Charles Pol­lard to name a few.