De­spite T&T trio of coach Stephen Hart, star strik­er Akeem Gar­cia and club cap­tain An­dre Ram­per­sad falling short in their bid to lift the Cana­di­an Pre­mier Foot­ball League crown af­ter their HFX Wan­der­ers FC was hum­bled 2-0 by Forge FC on Sat­ur­day af­ter­noon in The Is­land Games fi­nal in Char­lot­te­town, two play­ers were se­lect­ed to the League's All-stars eleven.

Gar­cia and Ram­per­sad got favourable nods to the 2020 Cana­di­an Pre­mier League Best XI from the ed­i­to­r­i­al staff of Char­lie O’Con­nor-Clarke, John Moli­naro and Mar­ty Thomp­son.

The team is - Akeem Gar­cia, An­dre Ram­per­sad and Abou Sis­soko of los­ing fi­nal­ist (HFX Wan­der­ers) while Tris­ton Hen­ry, Daniel Krutzen and Kyle Bekker of Forge FC; were joined by Kadin Chung and Mar­co Bus­tos of Pa­cif­ic FC; Mo Far­si and Do­minick Za­tor of Cav­al­ry FC and Javier Acu­na was the lone se­lectee of Atleti­co Ot­tawa.

Here's an brief as­sess­ments of the two T&T play­ers.

An­dre Ram­per­sad (HFX Wan­der­ers)

“Rampy” led HFX Wan­der­ers to the CPL fi­nal and dom­i­nat­ed with his high in­ten­si­ty and two-way abil­i­ty in match af­ter match. The best box-to-box mid­field­er of this Best XI mid­field-three, the Trin­ba­go play­er post­ed an in­cred­i­ble 82 per cent pass­ing ac­cu­ra­cy in the fi­nal third, matched by a league-high 67 du­els won. Cru­cial in the Wan­der­ers’ press, and even more im­por­tant spear­head­ing at­tacks, Ram­per­sad has a bright fu­ture ahead of him in Hal­i­fax.

Akeem Gar­cia (HFX Wan­der­ers)

Fi­nal­ly, we have the Is­land Games’ Gold­en Boot win­ner. Gar­cia’s six goals put HFX firm­ly in the CPL ti­tle-match. All of them were poach­er’s goals – in on the goal­keep­er, all on his right foot – with the Trin­ba­go tal­ent emerg­ing as the CPL’s purest fin­ish­er in dra­mat­ic fash­ion. Gar­cia’s play with­out the ball was im­pres­sive, too, press­ing well and win­ning pos­ses­sion in dan­ger­ous ar­eas of the field.