Diel Spring

Diel Reon Spring (born December 26, 2000) is a Vincentian footballer who plays as a midfielder for Vincentian side Fitz Hughes Predators and the Saint Vincent and the Grenadines national team.

Playing career

Club career

During the 2017 season in the second-tier SVGFF First Division, Spring helped the Predators finish the regular season undefeated and reach the championship final, where he scored the opening goal of the match as they defeated Largo Height via penalty shoot-out. He was nominated for Youth Male Player of the Year at the 2017 National Football Awards. That same year, he and future international teammate Joel Quashie were chosen as the winners of a Caribbean Football Union- and Manchester United-backed skills-based competition for young talents, earning invitations to a talent development camp in Trinidad and Tobago.

The next season, in the SVGFF Premier Division, Spring scored four goals as the Predators finished as league runner-ups. He recorded a brace against Bequia United in week 10, and repeated the feat against System 3 in week 17.

International career

Youth team
In November 2018, he represented the national under-20 team at the 2018 CONCACAF U-20 Championship, playing in all five matches.

Senior team
On 8 September 2018, Spring made his debut for Saint Vincent and the Grenadines in the qualifying rounds of the 2019–20 CONCACAF Nations League against Nicaragua. He came on as a halftime substitution for Wendell Cuffy in the 2–0 defeat. He was called up again later that month, earning his second international cap three weeks later during a friendly against a Barbados XI made up mostly of under-20 players preparing for the 2018 CONCACAF U-20 Championship. He came on after halftime yet again, this time for Brad Richards, in the 1–1 draw. He made two further appearances in CONCACAF Nations League qualifying to finish the year.

In February 2019, Spring was named to the 20-man squad selected to play at the 2019 Windward Islands Tournament on home soil. He played in all four matches as Saint Vincent and the Grenadines won their fifth title.

Career statistics

International

Honours

Club
Fitz Hughes Predators
 SVGFF First Division: 2017

International
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
 Windward Islands Tournament: 2019

References

External links
 
 
 Diel Spring at Caribbean Football Database

Category:Living people
Category:2000 births
Category:Saint Vincent and the Grenadines footballers
Category:Saint Vincent and the Grenadines international footballers
Category:Association football midfielders
Category:People from Saint David Parish, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines