Trinidad and Tobago head coach Leo Beenhakker has set out his teams plans for their run-up to the World Cup Finals. T&T’s ‘Soca Warriors’ will first face Iceland in an International friendly in February, with a further five matches planned prior to the World Cup kicking-off in June.

The team will next meet up in London on February 26th and will hold two training sessions at the Queen's Park Rangers training ground, and one at QPR’s stadium before the ‘Soca Warriors’ match against Iceland on February 28th at QPR’s Loftus Road.

Beenhakker will announce a provisional squad of 30 players in the next week, from which 20 players will be selected to line-up against Iceland. Following that, he will continue to work with the home-based players to prepare for their match against Peru in May.

‘Warriors’ head coach Beenhakker has announced that the national team will meet up again in Trinidad for their last match on home soil, against Peru on May 10th, before flying off to Europe five days later to prepare for the 2006 World Cup Finals, which kick-off on June 9th.

Beenhakker confirmed the team's schedule on Friday, from now, right up until their arrival in Rotenberg in Germany, which the team will use as their main base whilst at the World Cup Finals.

Veteran T&T captain Dwight Yorke, and the other overseas-based squad members will arrive in Port of Spain three days prior to the Peru encounter, which will be played on May 10th, before departing Trinidad on May 13th for a week long training camp that will be set up in Manchester, England.

The ‘Warriors’ will then leave Manchester on May 20 for Austria, for a match against the Austrian club champions Austria Wien, on May 23rd in Bad Radkersburg.

Beenhakker’s team will then face Wales in a international friendly on May 27 and then travel the short distance to play Slovenia in another international friendly in Celje on May 31.

The team’s next match is against the Czech Republic in Prague, where they will play their final warm-up international against their fellow World Cup finalists on June 3rd.

Beenhakker will then travel with his squad from Prague to their base in Rotenberg on June 4th ahead of their opening 2006 World Cup Group B encounter with Sweden on June 10th.

“This is the schedule we have finalised for our build-up to the World Cup, and it will provide us with what we need going into the tournament,” Leo Beenhakker told Trinidad and Tobago Football Federation (TTFF) media office.

“Of course I am happy with it because we looked at everything to put it together and I know everything that went on.”

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