SHILLONG: Shillong Lajong FC has signed Trinidad and Tobago international Cornell Glen for a one-year deal with the I-League club.
Glen is a regular for Trinidad and Tobago since 2002, with 66 international caps and 23 goals to his name.
He was also in the squad for the 2006 FIFA World Cup, where he appeared in all three of Trinidad and Tobago’s games at the premier event in Germany.
The 31-year-old’s impressive run with Trinidadian club San Juan Jabloteh dominated the TT Pro League, leading the club to two consecutive league championships in 2002 and 2003, while registering 12 and 26 goals in the respective seasons, which paved the way for him to join the Metrostars in the USA’s Major League Soccer.
He then went on to play in other American MLS clubs, such as LA Galaxy, FC Dallas and the San Jose Earthquakes.
With this signing, Glen will be the first MLS player to play for an Indian football club.
Before his signing with Shillong Lajong, he was with Trinidad and Tobago’s top-level TT Pro League Club Caledonia AIA.
Larsing Ming Sawyan, General Secretary of SLFC said, through a press release, of the new recruit, “We are pleased with the signing of an experienced player like Cornell Glen.
“I hope that Glen will gel well with the rest of the team and we look forward to him joining us and helping the team put up a competitive performance in the upcoming (season).”
The star striker commented on the signing and said, “Shillong Lajong FC has always been one of the well known clubs from that part of the world and to get an opportunity to play for them would be such an honour and something that would give me immense pride, more so if I coulld help the club do well in the League.”