So­ca War­riors cap­tain Jo­evin Jones has made a re­turn to do­mes­tic foot eight years af­ter play­ing for W Con­nec­tion in the de­funct T&T Pro League, while na­tion­al youth team winger Re­al Gill is al­so on the move in the T&T Pre­mier Foot­ball League.

This af­ter the 31-year-old Care­nage-born Jones was con­firmed as hav­ing joined T&T Po­lice FC, the club of his fa­ther Kelvin Jones, a for­mer na­tion­al de­fend­er him­self, em­ploy­ers while Gill has made the shock move from Ter­minix La Hor­quet­ta Rangers to Tiger Tanks Club San­do.

Jones be­gan his club ca­reer with W Con­nec­tion in 2014 and then moved to Fin­land’s Helsin­ki on loan from Sep­tem­ber to De­cem­ber and helped the club to the ti­tle be­fore he was signed by US Ma­jor League Soc­cer club, Chica­go Fire in Jan­u­ary 2015.

His spell with the Fire was short-lived as then moved to Seat­tle Sounders and en­joyed a very suc­cess­ful two sea­sons win­ning the MLS Cup in the 2015/2016 sea­son be­fore a lack of play­ing time saw him make the move back to Eu­rope, but his first in Ger­many and Bun­desli­ga Sec­ond club Darm­stadt in Jan­u­ary 2018, on­ly to re­turn to Seat­tle in May 2019 un­til 2021 when his con­tract was not re­newed, but not be­fore he lift­ed a sec­ond MLS Cup in 2018/2019 cam­paign.

Jones then signed with US Ma­jor Soc­cer’s In­ter Mi­a­mi in 2021, but af­ter a pos­i­tive start his time was blight­ed by in­juries, and at the end of his con­tract last Jan­u­ary, he was re­leased.

Since then, the T&T play­er has been with­out a club, and with an eye on main­tain­ing his spot on the An­gus Eve-coached T&T team he has opt­ed to join Po­lice on a short-term ba­sis.

The move by Port-of-Spain-born Gill from Rangers comes as a big sur­prise to many with the for­mer Trend­set­ter Hawks prodi­gy of An­tho­ny “Dad­da” Wick­ham on­ly mov­ing to the Richard Fer­gu­son-own East-based club just over a year ago.

Blessed with nat­ur­al tal­ent and pace, the 20-year-old Gill came to light dur­ing the As­cen­sion Foot­ball Tour­na­ment last year to help Rangers to the ti­tle, but this sea­son he has been plagued by a nig­gling an­kle in­jury, how­ev­er, once fit, he should pro­vide a ma­jor boost to the Cor­nell Glen-coached Club San­do, where he will link up with na­tion­al Un­der-20 team­mate, Nathaniel James the lead­ing scor­er in the T&TPFL with 13 goals, and na­tion­al util­i­ty play­er, Alvin Jones, the younger broth­er of Jo­evin, who joined the club over a month ago.