Ralph Bean Jr, the North Village coach, admits it would be a “great feeling” to lift his first piece of silverware at the helm of the Bernard Park club.

Bean will lead his side into the FA Cup final against Dandy Town this weekend at the National Sports Centre.

Should Village defeat the newly crowned Premier Division champions, they would claim their first trophy for three seasons when they won the Friendship Trophy in 2012 under Shaun Goater, the team’s previous coach.

For Town, a victory would have them clinch a league and FA Cup double for the second time in three seasons under Jomar Wilkinson, their coach.

Village pushed Town all the way in the league this season, finishing runners-up, five points behind the St John’s Field side.

Bean said that he feels no extra pressure, having missed out on the league title, and believes the campaign will be deemed a success for Village regardless of the final’s outcome.

“Any piece of silverware feels good to win,” said Bean, a former Bermuda striker.

“Even as a player I received my silverware the same regardless of which one it was. It would be a great feeling to win a trophy as Village coach, especially in the FA Cup. But I will focus on the match and I won’t be worrying about anything else other than that.

“It won’t be a disappointing season if we don’t win, but it will be a missed opportunity to end the season without silverware.”

Bean knows only too well that Town will provide a tough opponent on Sunday in the season’s curtain call.

Village were beaten by Town 3-1 at home in their first game of the year.

Bean believes Village’s strikers will have to be at their most clinical if they are to spoil Town’s hopes of claiming the double.

“I’ll tell my players that they have to make the most of their chances because you never know when your next chance will come,” Bean said.

“We will take [Town] on and give it our best effort.”

Bean inherited a young team with plenty of potential when he was named coach in January 2013. He knows, however, from his time as a player at the club that Village are a team that expects to win silverware every season.

“You have to work hard to get to a final and that’s a reward in itself,” he said, “but to get there and just be happy to be there isn’t the right type of thinking.

“If we don’t win it will be a disappointment but that’s not the way we are thinking.

“We have made big strides in the last two seasons, twice finishing second in the league table. I think we have made some positive strides in the direction the club wants to go in.”

Despite missing out on the title, and suffering a disappointing 2-1 defeat against Wolves — who suffered relegation — in the final game of the league season, Bean insists that his team will be motivated for the final.

“All the competitions are handled differently, obviously, and you can only focus on what lies ahead. For us, that’s the FA Cup this weekend. The players should be able to motivate themselves for every game, and there’s no game bigger in Bermuda than the FA Cup final.”

The final kicks off at 4pm on Sunday.