JavaScript is disabled in your web browser or browser is too old to support JavaScript. Today almost all web pages contain JavaScript, a scripting programming language that runs on visitor's web browser. It makes web pages functional for specific purposes and if disabled for some reason, the content or the functionality of the web page can be limited or unavailable.

Thursday, February 20, 2025

Central FC adds Jamaican Upston Edwards

by

20150120

Cen­tral FC has signed sev­en play­ers dur­ing the Jan­u­ary trans­fer win­dow. The lat­est ad­di­tion to the club's ros­ter de­fend­er Up­ston Ed­wards, a Ja­maican in­ter­na­tion­al who is on loan from Ja­maican club Port­more Unit­ed un­til the end of the sea­son.

The 25-year-old Ed­wards now joins last sea­son's top per­form­ers Willis Plaza, Run­dell Win­ches­ter, Ja­mal Jack, El­ton John and de­fen­sive duo, Uri­ah Bentick and Kevon Vil­laroel as play­ers to come in dur­ing the trans­fer pe­ri­od which be­gan dur­ing the first week of the year.

Cen­tral al­so wel­comes the re­turn of pre-sea­son sign­ing Michael Yaw Darko. The 24-year-old Ghana­ian at­tack­ing mid­field­er re­turns to Vranes' squad from a loan stint at Cunu­pia FC. The new ad­di­tions joins a ros­ter that al­ready in­cludes the likes of Mar­vin Oliv­er, Ataulla Guer­ra, Ja­son Mar­cano, Sean de Sil­va, Nathaniel Gar­cia, Akeem Ben­jamin, goal­keep­er Jan-Michael Williams, Kay­dion Gabriel, Dar­ren Mitchell, Jean-Luc Rochford, Dwight Quin­tero, Le­ston Paul and Eli­jah Man­ners.

But with a loaded ros­ter, Cen­tral have re­sort­ed to send­ing young tal­ents Nicholas Dil­lon, Kevon Gad­dard, Seon Thomas and Shaquille Williams on loan at St. Ann's Rangers, in an ef­fort to give the quar­tet more play­ing time than they would have re­ceived at the "Cou­va Sharks" ahead of next sea­son's Con­ca­caf Cham­pi­ons League. "We've ac­tu­al­ly built a team for Con­ca­caf," said Cen­tral FC op­er­a­tions man­ag­er Kevin Har­ri­son. "We have all in­ten­tions of qual­i­fy­ing for Con­ca­caf."

Do­mes­ti­cal­ly, Cen­tral FC (6-2-1, 20 points) con­tin­ues to lead the Dig­i­cel Pro League stand­ings, three points clear of de­fend­ing cham­pi­ons and sec­ond po­si­tioned Di­recTV W Con­nec­tion (5-2-1, 17 points), who they must face in Round Two Match Day on Fri­day from 8 pm at the Ato Boldon Sta­di­um, Cou­va.

While ad­mit­ting that his new ad­di­tions should give Cen­tral an edge over oth­er teams in the DPL, Vranes re­mains on full guard, es­pe­cial­ly against Cou­va-ri­vals W Con­nec­tion.

"We should have some ad­van­tage now, not a lot, but some ad­van­tage. But there are still teams like W Con­nec­tion first­ly, and then teams like North East Stars and De­fence Force who are tough teams. We ex­pect every team will play very hard against us, which is nor­mal, so we must be very se­ri­ous about each game that we play," end­ed Vranes.

Round Two Match Day Two will kick off from 6 pm at Cou­va on Fri­day when fourth placed North East Stars (4-2-3, 14 points) and fifth placed Point Fortin Civic (3-2-4, 11 points) do bat­tle. The ac­tion will con­tin­ue on Sun­day at the very same Cou­va venue with rock-bot­tom St Ann's Rangers (0-1-8, 1 point) up against sev­enth po­si­tioned Play Whe San Juan Jabloteh (2-4-3, 10 points) from 4 pm.

Then from 6 pm, eight placed Po­lice FC (2-4-3, 10 points) and third placed De­fence Force (5-1-3, 16 points) will reignite their ri­val­ry in the bat­tle of the armed forces, while sixth placed Cale­do­nia (3-2-4, 11 points) sits out on the bye.


Related articles

Sponsored

Weather

PORT OF SPAIN WEATHER

Sponsored