Nigel Si­mon

Dig­i­cel T&T Pro League duo Cen­tral FC and T&TEC will be seek­ing to put their wretched league form be­hind them and cre­ate some club his­to­ry when they con­test the first semi­fi­nal of the T&T Foot­ball Fed­er­a­tion FA Tro­phy 2012/2013 com­pe­ti­tion at the Ato Boldon Sta­di­um, Cou­va, from 6 pm to­day.

Cur­rent­ly, T&TEC is bot­tom of the eight-team Pro League stand­ings, while Cen­tral FC is one spot above af­ter los­ing 1-0 and draw­ing 0-0 with St Ann's Rangers and Po­lice, re­spec­tive­ly, on Sat­ur­day. Both teams are seek­ing a first ever place in the FA fi­nal.

How­ev­er, their re­spec­tive coach­es, Dex­ter Cyrus (T&TEC) and Ter­ry Fen­wick (Cen­tral FC), have been there be­fore and will no doubt have their teams ready for what is ex­pect­ed to be a close en­counter.

Fen­wick led San Juan Jabloteh to glo­ry on three oc­ca­sions and will be ea­ger to do the same with his new club which is in its first year as a pro­fes­sion­al club.

Cyrus was a play­er with the now de­funct Trin­toc and will al­so be des­per­ate to achieve the feat as coach in his team's sec­ond sea­son in the top flight.

This is the sec­ond meet­ing this sea­son be­tween T&TEC and Cen­tral FC, with the lat­ter com­ing away with a 2-1 win in a Pro League clash.

Cen­tral has been bol­stered by the Jan­u­ary sign­ings of An­tiguan duo Pe­ter By­ers and Troy Dublin along with Ren­nie Brit­to, Hec­tor Sam, Run­dell Win­ches­ter and Omar Charles.

The win­ner of tonight's clash will book a spot in the March 1 fi­nal against the win­ner of the semi­fi­nal be­tween 2003 win­ner North East Stars and the win­ner of to­day's resched­uled quar­ter­fi­nal win­ner be­tween ti­tle-hold­er and two-time win­ner Neal & Massy Cale­do­nia AIA and Stoke­ly Vale.

This match will be played next Wednes­day.

Tonight's meet­ing be­tween Cale­do­nia and Stoke­ly Vale comes off at Ply­mouth Recre­ation Ground, Ply­mouth, from 5 pm af­ter the ini­tial clash be­tween Cale­do­nia and Stoke­ly Vale sched­uled for last week was called off due to a no show of of­fi­cials.

Stoke­ly Vale will fan­cy its chances of an­oth­er win over Cale­do­nia, hav­ing done so in the Round-of-16 of the Toy­ota Clas­sic com­pe­ti­tion 6-5 on sud­den-death penal­ties af­ter a 3-3 draw.

Cale­do­nia will be with­out nine first-team reg­u­lars who have all gone on tri­als ei­ther in Eu­rope or USA.

They in­clude T&T in­ter­na­tion­als Ja­mal Gay, Radan­fah Abu Bakr, Ataulla Guer­ra, Nu­ru Ab­dul­lah Muham­mad and Den­sil Theobald as well Con­rod Smith, Guyanese duo Wal­ter Moore and Tray­on Bobb, and St Vin­cent and the Grenadines' Cor­nelius Stew­art all over­seas on tri­als.

In their ab­sence, Cale­do­nia, which is sec­ond on the Pro League ta­ble, and has al­ready won the First Cit­i­zens Cup has beefed up its squad with Grena­di­an goal­keep­er Shemel Loui­son, mid­field­er Sher­ron Joseph, younger broth­er of long-stand­ing right-back Ka­reem Joseph, for­mer T&TEC play­er Vur­lon Mills, An­tigua & Bar­bu­da pair Akeem Thomas and Elvis Thomas, and St Vin­cent and the Grenadines' She­mol Trim­ming­ham.

In last week's quar­ter­fi­nals, Stars se­cured a 4-2 penal­ty-kicks vic­to­ry over Cen­tral Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion's Cunu­pia FC fol­low­ing a 1-1 draw; Cen­tral FC blanked Sec­ondary Schools Foot­ball League's Shi­va Boys' Hin­du Col­lege 2-0 and T&TEC need­ed kicks from the penal­ty spot to beat Pt Fortin Civic Cen­tre, win­ners of SFA tre­ble crown.

Quar­ter­fi­nal Re­sults

Cunu­pia 1 (Bob­bing­ton King 11th) vs North East Stars 1 (Mar­cus Gomez 7th)–Stars won 4-2 on penal­ty-kicks

Cen­tral FC 2 (Ty­rone Charles 78th, Quin­cy Charles 88th) vs Shi­va Boys 0

Pt Fortin CC 1 (Mar­cus Joseph 36th) vs T&TEC (Keeron Ben­i­to 85th pen)–T&TEC won 3-1 on penal­ty-kicks

Fix­tures (Quar­ter­fi­nal)

To­day:

Cale­do­nia AIA vs Stoke­ly Vale, Ply­mouth Recre­ation Ground, 5 pm

Semi­fi­nals (To­day)

Cen­tral FC vs T&TEC FC, Ato Boldon Sta­di­um, Cou­va, 6 pm

Semi­fi­nal: Wednes­day Jan 23

North East Stars vs Cale­do­nia/Stoke­ly Vale win­ner, Venue TBA.

Fi­nal:

Fri­day March 1