Hamburg, Germany on Thursday, the Bermuda Football Association confirmed yesterday.

However, the names of the 20 players who will accompany the four officials -- head coach Mark Trott, Technical Director Burkhard Ziese, physio Kevin Anderson and head of delegation Elroy Ratteray -- will not be confirmed until today after a final check on players' conditions following weekend matches.

One player who could find himself out in the cold is Boulevard defender Donnie Charles who was sent off on Sunday and is to serve a three-match suspension.

The training squad for the tour included the likes of Meshach Wade, captain of Bermuda's World Cup team two years ago, goalkeepers Dwayne Adams and Tim Figuriedo, Jahmah Samuels, Andrew Rahman, Nathan Webb, Dean Bailey, Ascento Russell, Blenn Bean, Dano Outerbridge, Kevin Jennings, Shawn Simons, Keishon Smith and Ottis Steede.

The BFA was forced to switch from Ghana to Germany as a preparation tour for their upcoming Pan Am qualifying match against Canada and General Secretary David Sabir is confident the tour will serve its purpose.

"The Ghana FA couldn't accomodate Bermuda after they got their international and domestic schedule approved,'' explained Sabir.

"This (Germany) tour is the ultimate preparation. We have always been criticised about ill preparation but this team is the team that we're looking at for the Olympics and is also the feeder for the next World Cup team.

"For once we have a systematic approach to all of our international commitments. The same country, Canada, that we're playing in the Pan Am Games was also supposed to be at the same Hamburg Sports Centre as us but they're not going now.'' Added Sabir: "Everybody is taking this preparation seriously. If we're talking about looking at the 1998 World Cup then these are the things we need to be looking at doing.''