Shaun Goater promised this week to play one more season of pro football, David Bascome is now promising two.

The 35-year-old is looking to extend his indoor pro career to 16 seasons and is desperate to repeat last year?s achievement of claiming the championship with the Baltimore Blast.

?I am certainly not finished yet,? said Bascome, the former Harrisburg Heat forward who stands 14th on the all-time scoring list in the Major Indoor Soccer League

?I?d like to think I will be playing at least another year or two. I feel good still despite my injuries and I know I have something to offer.

?I am not going to pack this in until I have had enough of it or I think my body has.

?At the moment I still feel fit and I want to keep playing ? I waited a long time to win a championship and I want to do that again, although it probably won?t happen this year.?

Despite winning the crown last year with his new team, pictured, things have not gone so well this campaign, with a host of injuries hitting the win column hard.

Missing as many as five or six players at a time, the injury crisis became so desperate that the coach had to come out of retirement for a few weeks to make up the numbers earlier in the season.

The Blast are currently lounging in sixth place in the seven-team league and a top four play-off spot isn?t looking likely.

?It is possible, but it is going to be tough for us,? continued Bascome, who scored twice in the 9-6 defeat to Phildalephia on Saturday in which rookie fellow Bermudian John Barry Nusum bagged a hat-trick for the play-off-bound KiXX.

?We need to win seven of the last nine games, eight to guarantee a place. We should be able to do it but we said that with 20 games left and things still haven?t clicked.

?It has been a difficult season for us with injuries and we haven?t really settled as a team because of that. We are all going to go out there and give our all in the remaining matches and hope for the best.?

On a personal note, Bascome has been forced to play injured for much of the season, firstly having to deal with a knee problem and more recently cracked ribs and a fracture in his shoulder caused by a ?very eager young team-mate? in training.

?It is never ideal playing injured but sometimes you have to do it,? said Bascome, who missed out on the Digicel Cup trip to St. Vincent with his country because his club, then down to bare bones, couldn?t spare or risk him.

?I have had to do it a lot this season but often you don?t have a choice. It is a little easier to do it in indoor soccer but it is still not ideal.

?But at this stage of the season it is all about commitment to the cause and doing everything you can to get the wins to get into the play-offs. Now is not a time to be injured and watching from the bench.?

The injuries both to him and his team-mates has meant Bascome has yet to appear for Bermuda under Kyle Lightbourne but it is still very much on his agenda before he hangs up either his boots or his indoor sneakers.

?That is still something I want to do,? continued Bascome, who was left out in the cold during Kenny Thompson?s reign.

?I have wanted to play and I have come down and trained when I was on the Island. I am in constant touch with Kyle and hopefully I can be available next time I am called upon, but there are always questions about finance for these friendlies, so we will have to wait and see.?