Paul-Andre Walker, Staff Reporter

Despite the difficulties of assembling a team, Jamaica's national football coach Carl Brown has managed to call a 22-man squad for a training camp in preparation for a friendly against Canada on September 4.

Goalkeeper and captain Donovan Ricketts is in while Richard McCallum has been earmarked as his understudy for the trip.

Leading up to the friendly, Brown, who has taken up duties as interim head coach had indicated that there was trouble getting the squad together.

Ricketts wasn't expected to play because of a match he had on the Saturday before the game.

Defender Claude Davis is ruled out because of injury while Tyrone Marshall has just returned from injury and his club has asked for him to be rested.

Similar requests have come in from Jermaine Hue's club in Sweden, while Luton Shelton picked up a mid-week injury.

Balanced squad

The training squad is still a balanced one, with Teafore Bennett, Ricardo Fuller, Damion Stewart, Shavar Thomas, who has finally been recalled, Shane Crawford, Jermaine Johnson, Omar Daley, and Khari Stephenson adding to the international flavour that Ricketts brings.

Desmond Breakenridge, Shawn Sawyers, Demar Phillips, veteran striker Kevin Lamey, Lovel Palmer, Jermaine Taylor, Jason Morrison, Xavean Virgo, Oneil Thompson, Fabian Dawkins Tyrone Sawyers and McCallum are the local based players who have also been given the chance to impress the five-time national coach.

The Jamaicans will go into camp today and train at Boys' Town's Collie Smith Drive field. The sessions begin at 4:00 p.m. everyday.

The game, scheduled for Canada's Complexe Sportif Claude Robillard in Montreal, is scheduled to begin at 3:00 p.m. local time while the return leg here is set for October 8.

The Reggae Boyz will then turn their attention to a one-off game against Peru at the National Stadium on November 15.