Barbados to take on Bermuda this Sunday

After stunning Bermuda at home late last year, the Barbados national team will be looking to do the same thing this coming weekend as the visitors seek revenge. With an international friendly match set for this coming Sunday at 4:00 p.m., the ‘Tridents’ will be sporting a home-field advantage at the Usain Bolt Sports Complex.

Explaining that all was in order for the return game, Technical Director at the Barbados Football Association, Ahmed Mohamed, said that his side was ready on all fronts for the match-up. “We have been working since we left Bermuda last year without interruption so the team is ready for the coming game. We are more mentally ready this time because our main problem up till now was always the concentration. So we have been working on that a lot so what I can say is if the game was to be today, the team would be ready. Even though we know that Bermuda is a really tough opponent, they have a lot of overseas players coming back. The majority of the team is based outside of Bermuda and that will be very good preparation for us for our first game against Guyana and they are similar to Bermuda because the majority of their players are also coming from outside,” he said.

With a well-rounded squad at his disposal, Mohamed said that we would also be employing overseas talents of Goalkeeper Keasel Broome, who plays in the USL, and Carl Hinkson, who is back home to make his national team debut after playing at the college level in the US.

With Dishon ‘Eto’o Howell changing the game for the Bajans last year to see them coming from 2-1 to take the 3-2 win in a matter of minutes, Mohamed said that the plan was not to lean too heavily on the youngster as he still had some growing to do. “Eto’o is still young so our main goal is to integrate him into the team step-by-step. So he will have his time but he will not start,” Mohamed said.

Going on to say that he expected the team to perform well once they played football and stayed focused on the task at hand, the Technical Director addressed the changing face of the national side which now sports a nice mix of players. “The most important thing here is that we have young blood mixed with experienced players. That is the main reason. We are preparing for the future,” he said. (MP)