So­ca War­riors and W Con­nec­tion duo Jo­evin Jones and Shah­don Win­ches­ter will leave to­mor­row to join US Ma­jor League Soc­cer cham­pi­ons Col­orado Rapids on their pre-sea­son train­ing camp at Ar­se­nal Foot­ball club in Eng­land. This af­ter the two play­ers were in­vit­ed for tri­als by the Amer­i­can Club.

W Con­nec­tion club own­er and Pres­i­dent David John-Williams said 17-year-old St Lu­cian play­er Zane Pierre will al­so join San Jose Earth­quakes on tri­al and will ac­com­pa­ny their team at a train­ing camp at Tot­ten­ham Hot­spur.

The trio will leave for the USA to­mor­row.

Williams thanked the T&T Foot­ball Fed­er­a­tion for step­ping in to as­sist Jones, the son of for­mer Strike Squad de­fend­er and cur­rent Po­lice FC coach Kelvin Jones in ob­tain­ing his US visa af­ter he was de­nied last week. The T&TFF sub­mit­ted doc­u­ments sup­port­ing Jones' tenure as a na­tion­al play­er at the se­nior, Un­der-23 and Un­der-20 lev­el and he was grant­ed his visa yes­ter­day morn­ing. "Jo­evin was turned down last week and we got the T&TFF to as­sist and he was grant­ed his visa on yes­ter­day. We will be get­ting them out the US as ear­ly as Wednes­day to be­gin the tri­als with the two clubs," Williams said. "It's great for these young­sters to get the op­por­tu­ni­ty, es­pe­cial­ly the two that are go­ing to Col­orado be­cause they are the de­fend­ing MLS cham­pi­ons so it's some­thing spe­cial for them be­ing af­ford­ed the op­por­tu­ni­ty," he added. The trio will spend the en­tire pre­sea­son cam­paign with the re­spec­tive clubs. Jones is ea­ger to make the best of the over­seas op­por­tu­ni­ty.

"I've been work­ing hard try­ing to de­vel­op my game and I want to play at a high­er lev­el. It was dis­ap­point­ing to get knocked out of the Dig­i­cel Cup and not qual­i­fy for the Gold Cup but I will con­tin­ue to work hard and try to do my best with the op­por­tu­ni­ties com­ing through," Jones said. Both Win­ches­ter and Jones are ex­pect­ed to re­turn to link up with the Un­der-20 team which is prepar­ing for the Con­ca­caf Un­der-20 Fi­fa World Cup qual­i­fiers in Guatemala from April 3-17. From the 12-team tour­na­ment, four will qual­i­fy for the 2011 Fi­fa Un­der-20 World Cup to be held in Colom­bia in June/Ju­ly.

Pierre mean­time was brought to W Con­nec­tion by its St Lu­cian-born coach Stu­art Charles-Fevri­er and is tipped as a star for the fu­ture. The 17-year-old was on tri­al and trained with Ar­se­nal, Man­ches­ter City, Tot­ten­ham Hot­spur, Stoke City and Liv­er­pool be­tween Au­gust and De­cem­ber last year. "W Con­nec­tion is try­ing to keep up with the busi­ness of foot­ball and we are con­tin­u­ing our ef­forts to ex­port the tal­ent in T&T to the leagues out­side. We see this as a way of our play­ers ben­e­fit­ting from the ex­po­sure and of course for play­ers who can now go on to rep­re­sent the na­tion­al team in the best pos­si­ble man­ner on the in­ter­na­tion­al stage. Re­gard­ing Zane, he's a great tal­ent and was on tri­als with a se­ries of top Eng­lish clubs last year. The club al­so had to turn down an in­vi­ta­tion from FC Por­to ear­li­er this month be­cause we had al­ready agreed to send him to San Jose," Williams added.