Al­though cel­e­brat­ing just one ti­tle with­in the last two sea­sons un­der head coach An­gus Eve, North East Stars have been "suc­cess­ful" in re­viv­ing the club's phi­los­o­phy–some­thing that was once for­got­ten by the 2004 League cham­pi­ons."In dis­cus­sions with the chair­man of North East Stars, Dar­ryl Ma­habir, up­on my ar­rival [ahead of the 2012/13 sea­son], it was re­vealed that the club had lost its goals over the years," said Eve."The goal of giv­ing op­por­tu­ni­ties to young men; de­vel­op­ing young play­ers for the na­tion­al teams and cre­at­ing ca­reer op­por­tu­ni­ties."Since I joined North East Stars, we have been able to get full con­tracts for eight play­ers abroad, dur­ing the two years. Shel­don Bateau (KV Meche­len/Bel­gium), Seon Pow­er (Chainat FC/Thai­land), Cor­nell Glen (Shil­long La­jong/In­dia), An­tho­ny Wolfe (Churchill Broth­ers/In­dia), Ka­reem Moses (FC Ed­mon­ton/Cana­da), Kei­thy Simp­son (Vaasan Pal­loseu­ra/Fin­land) and most re­cent­ly, Trevin Cae­sar (San An­to­nio Scor­pi­ons/Unit­ed States) and Glen­ton Wolfe (Churchill Broth­ers/In­dia).

"We are very much in­ter­est­ed in the op­por­tu­ni­ties cre­at­ed for the play­ers to make a bet­ter liv­ing for them­selves and we are not just fo­cused on squeez­ing for­eign clubs for big trans­fer fees. And we have got­ten more play­ers out, than any oth­er club in the last two years."We don't have the bud­get of clubs such as Cen­tral FC or W Con­nec­tion, or the re­sources of De­fence Force or Po­lice. We are op­er­at­ing on gov­ern­ment sub­ven­tions to of­fer young men the op­por­tu­ni­ty for a fu­ture in the sport."

Dur­ing the 2012/13 sea­son, the com­mu­ni­ty of San­gre Grande was over the moon when Eve led the Stars to the Toy­ota Clas­sic ti­tle, but fin­ished the term in fourth po­si­tion on the Dig­i­cel Pro League stand­ings.Now, al­though fin­ish­ing the 2013/14 sea­son tro­phy-less and miss­ing out on an­oth­er fourth-po­si­tion fin­ish by a one-goal dif­fer­ence be­hind Point Fortin Civic, Eve re­mains a some­what sat­is­fied man.Prepar­ing for his third straight term as coach of North East Stars hen the 2014/15 TT Pro League sea­son kicks off in Sep­tem­ber, Eve has giv­en full se­nior team pro­mo­tion to 18-year-olds Ne­veal Hack­shaw (mid­field­er), Je­sus Perez (de­fend­er), Jo­moul Fran­cois (for­ward) and Keon Joseph (mid­field­er), 17-year-old mid­field­ers Tarik Samp­son and Re­on Moore and 19-year-old de­fend­er An­tho­ny Di­az."We are try­ing to pro­mote from with­in," ex­plained Eve, a for­mer T&T in­ter­na­tion­al mid­field­er and ex-T&T Un­der-23 coach. "And con­tin­ue in the phi­los­o­phy of the club."

Hack­shaw and Perez both showed a lot of po­ten­tial when called up­on by Eve in the lat­ter part of last sea­son at the se­nior lev­el and are present­ly mem­bers of the T&T Un­der-20 team along with club­mates Fran­cois and Joseph, while Samp­son is a mem­ber of the T&T Un­der-17 team.Eve hopes that his young charges will make the best of their op­por­tu­ni­ties at the se­nior lev­el in the up­com­ing Pro League sea­son to at­tract the at­ten­tion of the T&T se­nior team coach­es.The Stars coach has al­so re­tained the ser­vices of T&T third choice goal­keep­er Cleon John and goal­keep­er Ste­fan Berke­ley; de­fend­ers Keryn Navar­ro and Aquil Sel­by; mid­field­ers Keron Cum­mings, Kaashif Thomas, Jeromie Williams and Jayson Joseph; and en­er­getic util­i­ty play­er Kennedy Hink­son, all to com­ple­ment his young charges.

"I think we will have one the youngest squads in the league in the new sea­son, if not the youngest," said Eve. "Re­al­is­ti­cal­ly we are aim­ing to fin­ish in the top four (in the league) and for a ti­tle, while de­vel­op­ing more play­ers for the na­tion­al teams, and de­vel­op­ing play­ers to gain bet­ter op­por­tu­ni­ties abroad. Once we do that, we would see our sea­son as be­ing suc­cess­ful again."Eve al­so said that the va­can­cies, left by de­fend­er Glen­ton Wolfe and T&T in­ter­na­tion­al for­ward Trevin Cae­sar, cre­at­ed the op­por­tu­ni­ty for the younger play­ers to se­cure spots."Cae­sar and Glen­ton were two piv­otal play­ers for the club," he said."Cae­sar fin­ished joint sec­ond top-scor­er in the league and top scored for us last sea­son. He was al­ways a threat with his pace up front, while Glen­ton was very in­stru­men­tal de­fen­sive­ly for the last two sea­sons."But we are try­ing to de­vel­op younger play­ers to come through and se­cure spots."

Eve al­so an­nounced the ac­qui­si­tion of 25-year-old mid­field­er Ty­rone Charles, who last rep­re­sent­ed Cale­do­nia AIA.Charles, who is al­so a for­mer Cen­tral FC and St Ann's Rangers play­er, could, how­ev­er, find a new role up front at the San­gre Grande club."Ty­rone brings pace, pow­er and is very good on the dead-ball sit­u­a­tions," shared Eve. "He can play mid­field or for­ward and a very pen­e­tra­tive type play­er. We hope that he can re­place what Trevin gave us up front."