The inclusion of three "Miami Seven'' players in the new-look senior national soccer squad named this week to train for the visit of a top Swedish team next month appears to finally close the book on one of the most turbulent periods in local football.

The seven players, who pleaded "no contest'' to charges that they tried to smuggle drugs through Miami Airport during their return from a Pan-Am Games qualifying tournament back in 1994, were banned from all international soccer.

But that ban was lifted earlier this year and this week Bermuda Football Association technical director Clyde Best named three of the seven, Keishon Smith, Tokia Russell and Kevin Jennings, in his national squad.

BFA officials still bristle at mention of the Miami incident and were yesterday reluctant to discuss the significance of the players' recall.

President Neville Tyrrell merely confirmed that the suspension had been lifted back in April.

"We have selected a group of players to form the nucleus of the senior national team and within that group are players who we feel first of all are, football wise, eligible to come into the squad,'' said Tyrrell. "They also possess other characteristics that we are looking for ... everyone has to go through the same stringent restrictions that all of our national squads are normally put through.

"Whoever the coaches have selected will have to go through those sort of things. Everyone is eligible ... I am not putting any clamp on the technical director as to who he can or cannot select. The final selection is based on everybody being subject to the same stringent regulations and I mean everyone, no matter who they are, it's as simple as that.

"If they were not eligible they would not have been looked at in the first place, and that covers all of the players.'' Tyrrell spoke after BGA General Secretary David Sabir and Best both refused to discuss the matter.

Sabir pointed out that the BFA had long considered the "Miami Seven'' affair a dead issue. "Mr. Tyrrell has eloquently stated in the past that once the players' suspension ended they would be selected -- gosh, an unborn kid could figure that out. I'm not going to add sensationalism to you guy's story.

"His comment back to you in March was as plain as day. He said once the ban ended in April, everything was over.'' Meanwhile, there was no word yesterday on the outcome of a disciplinary hearing on Thursday night when BAA president Arthur Adams was charged with bringing the game into disrepute.

Adams allegedly hurled racial insults at referee Gregory Smith during a Commercial League game between BAA Wanderers and North Village Rams.

Tyrrell commented: "Mr. Adams has been brought before the disciplinary committee for an offence like anyone else ... the incident as portrayed by The Royal Gazette sounded rather ugly. I don't know the details and I haven't seen the referee's report.

"I don't normally look into those sort of things. I think it's probably an aberration, it's as simple as that. Mr. Adams obviously just lost control.'' NEVILLE TYRRELL -- `I am not putting any clamp on the technical director as to who he can or cannot select.'