De­spite chal­lenges, T&T's Beach Soc­cer coach Ramiro Amarelle is con­fi­dent the team can do well at the 2021 CON­CA­CAF Beach Soc­cer Cham­pi­onship in Cos­ta Ri­ca, next month.

The Span­ish-born coach has been work­ing hard with a tal­ent­ed bunch of play­ers whom he de­scribed as ex­pe­ri­enced with a lot of qual­i­ty, and pos­sess a good at­ti­tude.

Amarelle has high­light­ed a num­ber of ar­eas that need work on ahead of the cham­pi­onship, such as com­mu­ni­ca­tion and their style of play, which he said he could not elab­o­rate on, as fans will see it dur­ing the com­pe­ti­tion.

T&T has been drawn in Group C of the CON­CA­CAF Beach Soc­cer Cham­pi­onships. T&T will face the USA, hosts Cos­ta Ri­ca and the Turks and Caicos Is­lands in the cham­pi­onships card­ed for Ala­juela, Cos­ta Ri­ca from May 17-23. The USA made it to the fi­nals of the 2019 tour­na­ment in Puer­to Val­lar­ta, Mex­i­co.

Group A is made up of de­fend­ing cham­pi­ons Mex­i­co, Pana­ma, Guade­loupe, and Be­lize, while Group B com­pris­es El Sal­vador, Ba­hamas, Guatemala, and the Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic.

The top two teams from each group and the two best third-placed teams ad­vance to the quar­ter­fi­nals of the tour­na­ment. T&T must reach the fi­nals of the tour­na­ment to qual­i­fy for the 2021 FI­FA Beach Soc­cer World Cup in Rus­sia.

On Wednes­day, Amarelle said his group of play­ers has shown the abil­i­ty and at­ti­tude to cre­ate a strong pro­gramme for the long term.

Amarelle has al­so seen wel­comed im­prove­ment in com­mu­ni­ca­tion, not­ing that once the com­mu­ni­ca­tion area is worked out, then team­mates will be able to talk to team­mates dur­ing the game, team­mates will be able to cor­rect team­mates and they can pass in­struc­tions dur­ing dead-ball or a wall sit­u­a­tion.

With a team filled with play­ers equipped with sev­er­al years of ex­pe­ri­ence, as well as some in­ex­pe­ri­enced ones, Amarelle said once they can get the younger play­ers to pro­duce, then he ex­pects that his charges will do much bet­ter than they ex­pect­ed to do at the tour­na­ment.

He told TTFA Me­dia that he is ex­pect­ing no easy game at the tour­na­ment. He ex­plained that his play­ers will be go­ing in­to the com­pe­ti­tion hop­ing to do the right thing and hop­ing to win every match that they play.