cross-Atlantic challenge if plans by the Island's Football Association come to fruition.

The BFA is currently in discussion with three US teams, the Miami Fusion of prestigious Major League Soccer, the Nashville Metros of the A League and the Des Moines Menace of the PDL League.

Talks are at an initial stage, but with no competitive matches for the foreseeable future, football chiefs are keen to give the new coach the opportunity to see just what his players have to offer.

The BFA announced on Friday that Trott, a former assistant national coach, had been chosen to take charge of the national side, with David Furbert as his number two.

Jon Beard, the BFA's education and development coach, said it needed stressing that the finances had to be sorted out before any commitment to playing the US teams could be made.

But he added: "I think they are very good games to be able to play and they would all be good experience for our players.'' Beard said the possibility also existed for Bermudian players to impress the scouts from the US and in so doing, win themselves trials and eventually even contracts.

"These teams are keen to host us there so we would like to make it happen but like everything, it's a question of whether the finances are there,'' he said.

The matches would not take place until the end of the current league season in Bermuda.

"I think coaches have to identify players, players have to be prepared to say whether they want to be involved in the programme or not and then obviously they have to get down to doing some training,'' Beard said.

"It's coming to the end of the season you would hope players are still reasonably fit, that may or may not be the case, and then it's up to the coaches from there on in.

"Right now the better players, to a certain extent, are involved in the championship and cup games, so to be dragging them off training is not a good thing.

"But we are going to be in a situation where we are going to be able to take them once the season is over and keep them going and obviously it increases the possibility of being able to use some of the professionals.'' That would suggest that the likes of Shaun Goater, Kyle Lightbourne, David Bascome and Meshach Wade, professionals in England and the US, might be asked to join up with the squad.

Trott has not addressed that question yet but he is expected to reveal his plans for the future in the next day or so.