Copa Caribe conquest next month, but that is certainly the incentive for the squad.

For the winners and runners-up from the tournament will be entered into the CONCACAF Gold Cup which will begin early next year.

The Island has yet to assemble a squad for the first round of the event and as yet no-one has been given the responsibility of running the team -- although that is expected to be announced shortly.

Bermuda figure in Group Four of the preliminary round alongside Antigua and Barbuda, St Kitts and Nevis and the Dominican Republic.

The match schedule is yet to be announced but the games will be played in Antigua between March 4 and 8.

A spokesman for CONCACAF, football's regional governing body, said: "All but five members of the Caribbean Football Union are scheduled to take part in their zonal championship, the finals of which are set for Trinidad and Tobago from May 16 to 25.

"The champions and runners-up of the 2001 Copa Caribe final will then advance to the Gold Cup which will begin in early 2002.

"In addition, the champions and runners-up of the 2001 UNCAF Copa de Naciones will advance from the Central American zone to the Gold Cup finals.'' Those four countries will join defending champions Canada, two North Zone countries and three guest national teams in the finals.

The third and fourth-placed teams from both the Copa Caribe and the Copa de Naciones will take part in a quadrangular play-off, with the top two in that tournament rounding out the field of 12 countries that will play for the Gold Cup for the sixth time.