Cli­co San Juan Jabloteh coach, Eng­lish­man Ter­ry Fen­wick has named 21-year-old Adri­an Ro­main as his as­sis­tant coach for the up­com­ing 2010 sea­son. Ro­main, who had coach­ing stints at St Mary's Col­lege and El Do­ra­do Sec­ondary East, coached Ma Pau Un­der-18 and Un­der-16 teams back in 2008, fol­lowed by a as­sis­tant man­age­r­i­al role with the Cale­do­nia AIA re­serves last sea­son. Speak­ing of the ap­point­ment Fen­wick said, "I think he is very good at grass­roots foot­ball. I be­lieve I'm giv­ing some­body brand new, the op­por­tu­ni­ty at the top." "He has worked in the mi­nor leagues be­fore. He has a great un­der­stand of the young tal­ents in the schools sys­tems and I think we will work great to­geth­er," added the Jabloteh coach, who watched his side fail to de­fend three ti­tles–League Cham­pi­onship, Big Six and Toy­ota Clas­sic–last sea­son un­der rook­ie coach Earl Jean.

Fen­wick, who led Jabloteh to back-to-back ti­tles in 2007 and 2008 be­fore with­hold­ing his ser­vices last sea­son due to fi­nan­cial prob­lems at the club, al­so not­ed that mid­field­er Mar­vin Oliv­er will as­sist as play­er/coach in 2010. Ro­main and Oliv­er will al­so have in­put in the Jabloteh youth teams along with as­sis­tant re­serve coach, Ronald Primus as Fen­wick looks to re­store Jabloteh to its win­ning ways. Fen­wick fur­ther con­firmed the con­tin­ued re­la­tion­ship with goal­keep­er coach Bri­an James, phys­io­ther­a­pist Os­wald Birch­wood and equip­ment man­ag­er Ken Mar­tin. Jabloteh, which kicked off its sea­son with open tri­als at St Mary's Ground, Ser­pen­tine Road, last week­end is prepar­ing for the 2010 sea­son that be­gins with Caribbean Foot­ball Union Club Cham­pi­ons Cup fol­lowed by do­mes­tic com­pe­ti­tions as well as the pos­si­bil­i­ty of the Con­ca­caf Cham­pi­ons' League.

Ro­main hopes to play a ma­jor role in the club's re­cov­ery and na­tion­al foot­ball as as­sis­tant Jabloteh coach. "See­ing where our foot­ball is po­lit­i­cal­ly, I be­lieve I can come in­to the foot­ball in a pos­i­tive way," said Ro­main. "Part of my mis­sion is al­so to show youths that it's bet­ter to shoot at goal with a foot­ball rather than pick up a weapon and be part of T&T's 2014 World Cup cam­paign. "It's a new chal­lenge. No dis­re­spect to my for­mer em­ploy­ers Cale­do­nia but I think Ter­ry is a great coach and it's a great plea­sure to work along­side him. I can't for­get not to thank Ma Pau and Cale­do­nia for the op­por­tu­ni­ties they gave me." Ro­main fur­ther ex­plained that it wouldn't be dif­fi­cult fit­ting in­to the role as as­sis­tant to Fen­wick.

"I don't think it will be hard fit­ting in­to the Jabloteh sys­tem. They have shown re­spect dur­ing the tri­als we had. I think it's an ho­n­our for me be­ing the youngest coach in the league. Yes, I may be younger than some of the play­ers and young in the coach­ing, but I be­lieve once I show re­spect, I will get re­spect. And, al­ready Ter­ry and the play­ers have giv­en me that re­spect and sup­port," end­ed Ro­main. Fen­wick al­so an­nounced the sign­ing of for­mer na­tion­al Un­der-17 play­er and St An­tho­ny's Col­lege stu­dent, Cordell Cato as well as Kennedy Hink­son from Unit­ed Petrotrin for the new sea­son.