Kentoine Jennings and Meshach Wade to coaches in the National Professional Soccer League, after hearing that his Bermuda team-mates were released by English Third Division club Hereford United.

Bascome, speaking from a hotel in Denver, Colorado, where he is on loan duty with the Denver Thunder, expressed shock when told by The Royal Gazette that the pair had been kicked out by Hereford.

He almost found himself in a similiar situation recently when his club, Harrisburg Heat, were forced to loan him to Denver because they already had their quota of `green card' players.

"I felt things were over for me then but you have to go past those hurdles,'' said Bascome. "I'm sorry to hear about what has happened and I'll be trying my best to get them out here. If I was in that position I would want somebody to help me out. I'm going to give their names to the coaches here.'' Bascome is presently out of action because of a knee injury, and he is again having problems with his lower back. In the 10 games he has played for the Thunder he has scored four goals and had four assists, with his first goal coming against the Heat.

The Thunder, in their first season in the NPSL, are 3-26. They are beset with injuries with six starters sidelined.

"They are a new team and are trying to get on their feet,'' Bascome explained.

Bascome is due to return to Harrisburg next season where he has been assured by the coach that a place on the roster will be found for him. "I'll be back in Harrisburg to watch them in the play-offs,'' he said.

"The coach says he wants me back and will be making room for me.'' Bascome is also being lined up with a club for the newly-formed CISL, which is being run as a summer league by four NBA owners. The league, to feature teams from Los Angeles, Dallas, San Diego, Phoenix, Portland, Sacramento and Mexico, will start on June 18 and run until September 12.

Three other teams, Charlotte, Pittsburgh and Las Vegas, are set to join the league in 1994.

"There is no limit to the number of green card players,'' said Bascome. "My name was given to Phoenix but all the players who put in an application will go into a draft so I could go anywhere. I'll be sitting by the phone on April 25.'' Bascome has been corresponding regularly with a class at Francis Patton school who have written to him to give him encouragement and to tell him of their progress in school.

They are from Ethel Liverpool's Primary Five class, which has 23 nine-year-olds.

"I appreciate the letters,'' Bascome said. "They were telling me they heard I changed my team. I received a letter just today. I sent them a clipping of my photo, which was in a Denver paper.'' Said a teacher at the school: "They get very excited when they receive a letter from him. He's always motivating them to do their schoolwork and behave themselves. When he is back on a break he comes to visit them.''