By Dewi Hughes BBC Sport

Lawrence is just two games away from the World Cup finals

The 31-year-old Racecourse favourite returned to his homeland on Tuesday on a mission to etch his and Trinidad's name into the history books.

Victory over Bahrain in the two-legged play-off would send Trinidad - known as the Soca Warriors - to the World Cup finals for the fist time.

It could also mean that Lawrence becomes the first serving Wrexham player to appear on football's most prestigious stage in Germany next summer.

"There's a big buzz and excitement over the game on Saturday," Lawrence told BBC Wales Sport from Trinidad's capital Port of Spain. "It could be our chance to create history for Trinidad and Tobago.

"It's something everyone wants to see. I've had so many phone calls from people wanting tickets so it's going to be a full house of 25,000 people."

Trinidad beat Mexico in their final CONCACAF region qualifier to set up the play-off against Bahrain, who beat Uzbekistan on away goals in an Asian play-off to make it through.

The Soca Warriors have been within touching distance to qulifying to the finals once before when they needed just a point from their final qualifier to reach Italia 90.

But with the likes of Dwight Yorke, Shaka Hislop and Stern John forming the spine of the side, Lawrence believes these two games represents Trinidad's best ever hope of fulfilling their dream.

We should have a bit of support in Bahrain and hopefully we can take a good result over there Dennis Lawrence

"I personally don't know much about Bahrain, but I'm sure the manager [Dutchman Leo Beenhakker] has done his homework so he'll know exactly what they've got to offer," said Lawrence, who is set to win his 60th cap in Port of Spain on Saturday.

"We've got a few big names in our side, but what we're trying to do is build an entire team and not base it on a particular player.

"But obviously we've got Shaka, Dwight and Stern so they'll be the ones most people will be looking at."

Despite the lack of household names, Bahrain are ranked only two places below Trinidad in 55th place in the Fifa rankings.

They are managed by former Yugoslavia international Luka Peruzovic, and are also hoping to make their first appearance at the World Cup finals.

Lawrence added: "We'll be happy with any positive result in the first leg. We'd like to keep a cleansheet and if we could pick up a 2-0 victory that would be great.

"It's not going to be easy because they've probably got a game plan and will looking to keep things tight."

And if Trinidad do manage to take a first leg lead to the return leg in the Persian Gulf o16 November, Lawrence says the team will not be short of travelling support.

"We've got a chartered flight heading to Bahrain that's going to have some fans on it," he said.

"So we should have a bit of support and hopefully we can take a good result over there."