Published 7 November 2024
Buckie Got It,
St. Kitts and Nevis News Source
SUGAR BOYZ GETTING READY FOR CUBA CHALLENGE
International football is approaching once again this month when the Sugar Boyz will compete in the Concacaf Nations League Playoff against Cuba in a home and away fixture. The senior men’s national team players resumed training on Monday, November 4th at the National Bank Group of Companies Technical Center, where we spoke to Coach Austin “Dico” Huggins about the team’s preparations ahead of the fixtures. “After we played against Cayman Islands and BVI, we had a brief rest period. So we’re now beginning our training session from today,” he said.
Coach Huggins stressed these matches are important as it’s one step closer to qualifying for a second time to the Concacaf Gold Cup. “It’s going to be very hard here in training. We’ve got to make sure the guys are mentally prepared, physically prepared, knowing the task we have at hand. Cuba is a very good team, very professional team. So we’re going to have to take them very seriously. And we are playing the first game at home, so that should be to our advantage. And then we continue to train and then we play them away on the 18th,” he said. “Our preparation will be very strenuous, very hard, very intense so that we could be better prepared for the task.”
Coach Huggins assured the fans that the Sugar Boyz will deliver an even better performance for them at home compared to their last outing against Cayman Islands. “We’re going to have a better showing, for sure. Like I said, we’re playing against Cuba. The guys are up for the task,” he said.
The first match against Cuba will be on November 14 at 7pm at the NBGC Technical Center, followed by the second leg which will be in Cuba on November 18 at the Antonio Maceo Stadium in Santiago De Cuba at 4pm.
