Carlos Edwards | Trinidad and Tobago's midfielder Carlos Edwards (L) is held by his Swedish counterpart Anders Svensson during the World Cup match at Dortmund.Trinidad rarely threatened with skipper and former Manchester United striker Dwight Yorke pushed back to bolster the defence, but Carlos Edwards brought a smart save out of Rami Shaaban, who himself had replaced the first choice keeper Andreas Isaksson, who was ruled out on Thursday. | Name: Carlos Edwards.While playing for St Anthony's College in 1997, Carlos captained the team to victory in the Secondary Schools Football League (SSFL) Intercol title, with a 2-1 win over favourites St Benedict's at the Queen's Park Oval.Edwards a superstar of T&T's 2000 under 20 Olympic team, has become one of the country's more popular players in England.He was a workhorse with the Defence Force helping them to the 1999 Professional League Title.Wrexham payed around £125,000 to Defence Force for the player who have made over 120 appearances for them.He was also named on the Professional Football Association's (PFA) English Third Division Team of the Year after the 2002-03 season and the PFA English Second Division Team of the Year for the 2003-04 season.He was also voted as Wrexham's "Player of the Year" by their fan base for the last two seasons.Edwards goal against Torquet FC early in 2003 was also voted 2003 "goal of the year".While playing for Wrexham, Edwards have been eyed by clubs such as First Division campaigners Sunderland, Norwich City, Preston North End and Wigan Athletic, English Premiership side Leeds United and Scottish Premier League side Dundee have also shown interest.Agile and strong on the flanks, he is a tricky winger who can operate on either side of the field.Edwards' ability to cross balls is a big-plus, he can play both defense and wing, could shoot from 30 yards out and have a simple but impressive one time touch.With his pace in the midfield, he is likely to give our national team and coach a lot of attacking options.Carlos has achieved the following honours: | Carlos EdwardsCarlos Edwards | Trading punches with Clayton Ince & Carlos EdwardsCarlos: Nah it's not just about money.Carlos: Well it all started.I was mostly out of most of the season because of my injury.And then the Chairman at the moment he's a kind of a dodgy one.He ain't interested in football.He just want to bulldozer down the club and we went into administration lose ten points which we worked hard for and we have been on the back foot ever since.Carlos: It is important because I mean the club is to make money to bring the fans to watch the football which he is not interested in that.He interested at the end of the day everybody wants some bit of money.But he want all the money.Anil: Carlos what about you?Carlos: I think is because you know the manager, the coach here, the coach he bring in a bit of style into the play.Carlos: One things he has instilled in us, is doh give way the ball.And like all Managers he doh like our players to give away the ball.In the defensive third, middle third No.It is a no no!In the last third you go accept it a bit but be creative.The whole thing he instill in us is to keep the ball.Anil: Carlos in that talk to me about that.Carlos: The coach also he looked, he knows peoples weaknesses he knows their strengths, people now would make sure and tell them to work on their strengths because they know what you can do with your strengths and work on your weaknesses.And fellas now believe in themselves and doing the thing that he wants and that they can tell themselves that they can do it. | Carlos EdwardsCarlos EdwardsCarlos Edwards | Edwards and Ince named in PFA "Team of the year"Trinidad and Tobago World Cup team members Carlos Edwards and Clayton Ince have been named on the English Professional Footballer's Association" "Team of the year" for the 2006/2007 season.Edwards is enjoying an outstanding season for Sunderland as they continue their chase for promotion into the Premiership while Ince's Walsall will be putting on their shirts in the English League One next season.Edwards, who joined Sunderland in January for £1.5m, has ten goals this season.The 28-year-old recently returned from a shoulder injury but continues to be a star for the "Black Cats" setting up one of their goals in Saturday's 2-1 win over Queen's Park Rangers which left them at the top of the English Championship Division with 82 points, and on the verge of promotion with three regular season matches remaining.Edwards and Dwight Yorke are also in line for Sunderland's "Player of the Year" award.
