De­fend­ing cham­pi­on, Bmo­bile Joe Pub­lic has se­cured the ser­vices of T &T in­ter­na­tion­al goal­keep­ers Mar­vin Phillip and Glen­roy Samuel for the up­com­ing 2010 sea­son to fill the void left va­cant by Colom­bian Ale­jan­dro Figueroa,who moved to ri­val club Ma Pau SC last month. This was con­firmed by head Coach Derek King dur­ing one of the East­ern Li­ons pre-sea­son train­ing ses­sions at the Mar­vin Lee Sta­di­um re­cent­ly.

Phillip joins the reign­ing league cham­pi­on on loan from W Con­nec­tion for the 2010 pe­ri­od, while Samuel, who was un­at­tached fol­low­ing the 2009 sea­son with Unit­ed Petrotrin, was picked up, af­ter that club de­cid­ed against tak­ing part this sea­son. Pub­lic's third choice goal­keep­er will be An­dre Marchan, who was pre­ferred over Dau­rance Williams. He is al­so a na­tion­al, com­ing out of the Un­der-20 set-up.

With three T&T na­tion­al goalies in his line-up, coach King not­ed that the club is now hop­ing to sign a top goal­keep­ing coach over the next week for the up­com­ing sea­son. The most suc­cess­ful 2009 club, with five-ti­tle (Dig­i­cel Pro League Cham­pi­onship, Big Six, Toy­ota Clas­sic, FA Tro­phy and Dig­i­cel Pro Bowl), al­so signed for­mer Unit­ed Petrotrin de­fend­ers Nigel Daniel and Makan His­lop along with strik­er Trent Lougheed. Sayid Fre­itas, who starred for Ma Pau in the pre­vi­ous two sea­sons, and Joe Pub­lic Su­per League de­fend­er Rob­bie Sookhai are al­so among the new play­ers signed by King.

King and his as­sis­tant coach­es Dale Saun­ders and Ra­jesh Latch­man al­so have their eyes on Ja­maican de­fend­er Lamar Hodges, of Habour View, along with a num­ber of Joe Pub­lic Acad­e­my play­ers. Acad­e­my play­ers Anselm Jack­son, Neil Mitchell, Ker­ry Su­perville and Ke­naz Williams are cur­rent­ly in train­ing with the se­nior team and, ac­cord­ing to coach King, the quar­tet will get their first taste of top foot­ball this sea­son. The Ma­coya-based clus is al­so ex­pect­ed to have a Sin­ga­pore­an play­er on tri­al in ear­ly March as coach King con­tin­ues to boost his squad for the up­com­ing sea­son.