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Speid: Cavalier focused on winning
August 28, 2025
After suffering a first-ever opening day defeat in the Concacaf Caribbean Cup away to Cibao of the Dominican Republic last week, defending champions Cavalier Soccer Club will try to rebound when they tackle Haitian outfit Juventus De Cayes in their Group B match at Sabina Park today, starting at 7 p.m.
Coach Rudolph Speid admits that Cavalier, which lost many key players from last season, know it is important to get all three points.
"We always try to win," Speid told the pre-match press conference. "This is the first Caribbean Cup we would have lost our first game, so we are in unfamiliar territory. But they say you learn more when you lose and I hope we would have learnt a lot from that loss."
In two competitive matches so far this season, the black and white-clad team is yet to find the net. But Speid insists it was always going to be hard to replace goalscorers Dwayne Atkinson, Jalmaro Calvin and central defender and captain Richard King "in one go".
"It (goalscoring) will be a problem until it is not a problem. We hope tomorrow (today) it will not be a problem. We have worked on it, we have put more people in attacking positions," he said. "It's just a matter of mindset. The people we have, have scored goals before, and they are still capable of scoring goals.
"In the pre-season we were scoring goals. So I am not worried. What we have done though is diversify where we get goals from because it is hard to replace an Atkinson, a Jalmaro Calvin and a King with one go. So we are looking for diversity and I am sure it will click at some time."
Ciboa lead the group with six points from two matches, followed by Defence Force of Trinidad with three points from one match. Weymouth Wales of Barbados, Juventus and Cavalier are still without a point after one game each.
