Head Coach Dwight Yorke earned his first victory for the Trinidad and Tobago Senior Men’s Football Team when they defeated Cuba 2-1 in the first leg of their CONCACAF Gold Cup qualifying match.
After conceding a 6th-minute goal from Cuba’s Yasnier Matos, the Soca Warriors would equalise when debutante Tyrese Spicer found La Horquetta Rangers captain Isaiah Lee, who converted from close range to level the score at 1-1, going in at the half.
T&T made it 2-1 in the second when Alvin Jones got on the end of a corner, finding Steffan Yeates, who scored his first goal in national colours.
Kahim Thomas came close to a third when his freekick struck the post.
T&T will take a 2-1 lead back into the return leg at Ato Boldon Stadium on Tuesday.