DI­RECTV W Con­nec­tion as­sis­tant coach Earl Jean has heaped praise on the Dig­i­cel Char­i­ty Shield ini­tia­tive which will be played at the Man­nie Ramjohn Sta­di­um, Mara­bel­la on Sat­ur­day from 5 pm. The Char­i­ty Shield brings to­geth­er last sea­son's Dig­i­cel Pro League Cham­pi­on, W Con­nec­tion and the Dig­i­cel Pro Bowl Cham­pi­on, De­fence Force. The Dig­i­cel Char­i­ty Shield win­ner will have $10,000 do­nat­ed to a char­i­ta­ble cause of choice, while part pro­ceeds gen­er­at­ed from the gate re­ceipts go to­wards in­tro­duc­ing the "Read to Rise" Pri­ma­ry Lit­er­a­cy Pro­gram to a school with­in the club's com­mu­ni­ty.

Not drift­ing from the fact that Con­nec­tion wants to add the Dig­i­cel Char­i­ty Shield added to its il­lus­tri­ous cab­i­net, Jean said, "It's al­ways an ex­cit­ing time when we have to play for any tro­phy be­cause DI­RECTV W Con­nec­tion is a club that thrives on win­ning tro­phies and that's what they pay us to do. We want to win and if there is a tro­phy we want to take the tro­phy home."

The for­mer Con­nec­tion and St Lu­cian in­ter­na­tion­al strik­er went on to add: "It's a very good thing that they are do­ing. Any­thing for char­i­ty, I be­lieve pro­fes­sion­al play­ers and the Pro League are sup­posed to work for it. "I think who­ev­er came up with the idea, that's well done. We can do a lot more to help the so­ci­ety in what­ev­er way and I think it's al­ways im­por­tant when you hear about the Char­i­ty Shield, you're talk­ing about the top teams that won dif­fer­ent com­pe­ti­tions in the League. I hope that the pub­lic sup­ports be­cause I think the clubs need the sup­port, the play­ers need the sup­port and it's for char­i­ty."