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T&T “So­ca War­riors” coach Dwight Yorke has named Spar­tak Moscow-based Levi Gar­cia among 17 over­seas-based play­ers in his 26-man squad for this coun­try’s Con­ca­caf Gold Cup home and away pre­lim­i­nary round se­ries against Cu­ba.

The Cubans will host the first leg on March 21 in Santi­go from 4 pm be­fore the So­ca War­riors re­turn home for the sec­ond leg at the Ato Boldon Sta­di­um in Bal­main, Cou­va on March 24 at 7 pm.

In ad­di­tion to Gar­cia, who is yet to fea­ture un­der Yorke, the over­seas con­tin­gent se­lect­ed for the two match­es in­cludes goal­keep­er Den­zil Smith (AV Al­ta FC/USA), de­fend­ers Dar­nell Hospedales (Mon­tego Bay Utd/Ja­maica), Josi­ah Trim­ming­ham (Mon­tego Bay Unit­ed/Ja­maica), An­dre Ray­mond (Dun­fermline Ath­let­ic Scot­land), Alvin Jones (De­porti­vo Re­al So­ciedad/Hon­duras), Aubrey David (CSD Mu­nic­i­pal/Hon­duras); mid­field­ers Ste­fen Yeates (York Unit­ed/Cana­da), Daniel Phillips (Steve­nage/Eng­land), Ajani For­tune (At­lanta Unit­ed/USA), Nathaniel James (Port­land Heart of Pine/USA), Shan­non Gomez (San An­to­nio FC/USA), An­dre Ram­per­sad (HFX Wan­der­ers/Cana­da), Wayne Fred­er­ick II (Col­orado Rapids/USA), Tyrese Spicer (Toron­to FC/Cana­da), Dan­taye Gilbert/Hol­land), and Re­al Gill (Hun­stville City FC/USA).