?Joe Pub­lic has con­tract­ed the first ever foot­baller from Japan. Thir­ty-one-year-old mid­field­er Yu Hoshide has been of­fered a six month con­tract af­ter an im­pres­sive tri­al with the East­ern Li­ons. Fol­low­ing a suc­cess­ful sea­son in his home­land for the club Kataller Toya­ma, he went to the Unit­ed States, where he lined up with US clubs Har­ris­burg City Is­landers" and the North­ern Vir­ginia Roy­als.

Yu Hoshide has scored 40 goals, and says he is al­ready im­pressed with his first ex­pe­ri­ence in the Caribbean. He is ex­pect­ed to turn out in the next game for Joe Pub­lic in the Dig­i­cel Pro league, and has al­ready made an ap­pear­ance in prac­tice ses­sions with the East­ern Li­ons.

He says he likes the style of the lo­cal play­ers, as it suits his style of skills and ball move­ment. On­line book­ings for the next Fi­fa World Cup qual­i­fi­er against El Sal­vador on Au­gust 12th will be­gin to­mor­row. Ap­pli­ca­tions will be tak­en via 800-FANS, or at "TTF­Fon­line.com.

Sier­ra Leone strik­er on W Con­nec­tion tri­al

W Con­nec­tion coach Stu­art Charles Fevri­er is cur­rent­ly ob­serv­ing teenage tri­al­ist Al­isune Bun­gu­ra of Sier­ra Leone as he aims to boost his squad with the 2009/2010 Con­ca­caf Cham­pi­ons' League in mind.

The 18-year-old Bun­gu­ra from Sier­ra Leone has been on tri­al over the last week and Fevri­er says that the African strik­er will most like­ly be a W Con­nec­tion play­er at the end of his tri­al. Bun­gu­ra was rec­om­mend­ed to the Cou­va based club by for­mer Con­nec­tion play­er Char­lie Wright who is now a coach in the Sier­ra Leone pre­mier league.

In 1999–Con­nec­tion's first sea­son as a pro­fes­sion­al club–Sier­ra Leone play­ers Char­lie Wright and Ab­dul­lah Con­te were part of coach Fevri­er's set­up. Mean­while, W Con­nec­tion has part­ed ways with strik­ers Colom­bian Os­car Tori­jano and pre-sea­son sign­ing Kevon Wood­ley who weren't fit­ting in­to Fevri­er's sys­tem this sea­son.