DIGICEL Premier League (DPL) outfit Sporting Central Academy will depart the island today for a two-match friendly series against the Cayman Islands national Under-23 and senior football teams.

Sporting are currently seventh in the DPL, having recently secured a fifth consecutive season of top-flight football, and are honouring an invitation from the Cayman Islands Football Association.

Both matches against the Carl Brown-conditioned Cayman unit will be played at the TE McField Sports Centre in George Town — the first on Saturday and the second on Sunday, starting at 7:00 pm.

The games are being used to assist the Cayman Islands in their preparation for the 2012 London Olympics Qualifiers and 2014 FIFA World Cup Qualifiers, slated to start later this year.

Clarendon-based Sporting, who previously toured Cayman in 2007, are scheduled to return home on Monday.

Eighteen players, including seven with international experience, and five officials make up the touring party.

Squad –Andre Blake, Jacomeno Barrett, Dale Watson, Akeem Annakie, David Boswell, Gregory Lewis, Marlon Allen, Christopher Banner, Camaal Reid, Kadian Wynter, Jamoly Powell, Hughan Grey, Levaughn Williams, Damarly Samuels, Keith Kelly, Francois Swaby, Oneke Forde and Gary McIntosh. Officials: Brandon Murray, Garth Young, Dince Anderson, Kemar Folks and Troy Small.