Scoring sensation Raymond Beach is among three new national team players facing one-year bans which would prevent them from playing at international and possibly domestic level.

The players ? all from Devonshire Cougars ? reportedly failed to turn up for a second drugs test over the weekend after their initial test last week proved to be ?invalid?.

The trio had been ordered to provide further urine samples during national coach Kyle Lightbourne?s final practise session on the eve of yesterday?s opening tour match against visiting Santos of Brazil.

But can confirm that Beach and his Cougar team-mates Heys Wolfe and Omar Butterfield all refused to take the second test.

From a training squad of 25 players, only 22 showed up for Saturday?s final session ? Beach, Wolfe and Butterfield being the notable absentees.

Although the players? initial drug tests proved to be invalid ? and no player has been found guilty of committing an offence ? the fact that the trio refused to return for a second test is sufficient to threaten their careers.

According to chairman of Bermuda Council for Drug Free Sport, Jon Beard: ?If a first test is invalid the athlete is required to return to take a second test.?

Beard pointed out that if any athlete refused to take the additional test, then that action was deemed to be as severe as actually failing the test, and would result in a mandatory one-year ban from international and possibly domestic football.

When contacted yesterday, Bermuda Football Association officials declined to comment on the matter, as they had on Friday when news of the invalid tests first surfaced.

It is understood that none of the players invited to train with the national squad had failed the compulsory drug tests last week, administered by Benedict Associates.

But it was later learned that three players had produced results which were deemed invalid, leaving them ineligible to play against Santos, unless cleared by a second test.

Beach, Wolfe and Butterfield were only recently added to coach Lightbourne?s squad.

Last year strike partners Beach and Wolfe were invited to train under former national coach Kenny Thompson during the build-up to the World Cup qualifying campaign. However, the Cougars pair turned up for training two weeks late and later fell out of favour with the coach after they berated him during a tour match at the Sports Centre ? though Thompson later insisted the door would be left open for the players to rejoin the squad in the future.

?They have let the country down because they didn?t answer the call to come to training, knowing they have the potential and ability to score goals,? Thompson told last year.

?My position was that they didn?t respond and other players did and it was only fair to those players that they (Beach and Wolfe) not be included initially.

?I?ve said that to them and the door is open for them in the future ? how far in the future, I don?t know.?

Their services, however, were never called upon again until Lightbourne succeeded Thompson.

Cougars assistant coach and the uncle of Wolfe, Paulos, hit back at Thompson, claiming: ?Thompson needs to swallow some pride and get them (Beach and Wolfe) in the squad. The national team needs a Raymond Beach and they need his partner Heys Wolfe with him.

?They want to be in the squad but he (Thompson) doesn?t want them. He needs to be straight up about that.?