00:00Four matches in 11 days. That's the road ahead for the national football team in the CONCACAF Nations League.
00:06Haiti is up first. TNT's footballer Tyree Spicer says they are ready.
00:11I feel focused. I think there's a mission ahead of the boys of Trinity League, I feel like.
00:17We are to come and represent for Nations League. It's a big task. Haiti, Dominican Republic, Curaçao, two World Cup
00:25teams.
00:26I think we're right at the stepping stone of those teams. I think we just need to go out there
00:31with confidence, go out there with some guidance from Mr. King.
00:35I think we could get some good results.
00:37Coming out from a disappointing World Cup campaign, he says they've been putting in the work.
00:42It's an exciting feeling to always play for China and Tobago.
00:45I feel like this is a big tournament, just like last time World Cup was a major tournament and we
00:50wanted to make it.
00:51Unfortunately, we didn't. But this is a good opportunity to play against these good teams.
00:56And also make it to the quarter-finals, semi-finals and play maybe against America, Mexico, Canada.
01:01And it's an exciting feeling. I've just been waiting for a good opportunity to come to play for China and
01:05Tobago.
01:06And all the boys in the MLS, even Rio, are really excited to go and play.
01:11We just had to go put our best foot forward and we could do something.
01:15Off the field, the players wrestled with unpaid match fees and bonuses against the Trinidad and Tobago Football Association.
01:22Yeah, I feel like a level of professionalism is a big aspect.
01:27Yeah, it was a bit, you know, touchy, a bit of a minor setback.
01:30But I feel like we made it through the up and down.
01:34And right now we just need to focus on the football.
01:36Football is most importantly.
01:38And us playing, how King wants us to play on the field.
01:41And off the field, we just take care of that business with the outside.
01:46Like, we don't need to study that now.
01:48I feel like more is just to focus on the football and what's ahead.
01:52On a personal note at Orlando City, Spicer has set a few targets.
01:57Playing alongside Griezmann, you know, is a dream.
02:00From where I came from, playing the CIC, you know, to playing with a World Cup winner now at Orlando
02:07City, it's great.
02:10It's a great feeling.
02:10I feel like I just had to really focus on the small details.
02:14Just getting my body right, taking the right vitamins, doing stretchings.
02:19Like, all of these small details will compile in the future, you know.
02:23And I feel like from after the World Cup break, I really had to sit down with myself and just
02:29be like, you know what, this is the opportunity to flourish and excel.
02:34And hopefully that you can put up some numbers in the MLS and raise some chins, you know, in Europe.
02:41Scoring goals for TNT will help his cause for greater recognition globally, as the Warriors aim to find motivation ahead
02:48of their rough and tough clash against Haiti.
02:51Sergio Dufour, TV6 Sport.
