Team Specific Player Spawning

Hello again all, it has been quite a while since my last question, so here it is. I want to make the player character spawn a specific type model depending on the team that the user chooses. I use Exodus' tut(red/blue team but differnt names)for the base code for team selection and Ed Gardner's GUI(press f5 click a team and walla you spawn).

If you are not familiar with the code I will cut and paste the important stuff (found in the game.cs) here

//TEAM TYPES
$Team1 = new ScriptObject()
{
   teamId = 1;
   name = "G.I. Joe";
   score = 0;
   numPlayers = 0;
};

$Team2 = new ScriptObject()
{
   teamId = 2;
   name = "Cobra";
   score = 0;
   numPlayers = 0;
};

and
spawning player

function GameConnection::createPlayer(%this, %spawnPoint)
{
   if (%this.player > 0)  {
      // The client should not have a player currently
      // assigned.  Assigning a new one could result in 
      // a player ghost.
      error( "Attempting to create an angus ghost!" );
   }

    %teamname = %this.team.name
    echo("Spawing team is " %teamname);
   // Create the player object
   %player = new Player() {
      dataBlock = LightMaleHumanArmor;
      
       //dataBlock = CobraCommanderHumanArmor;
       //dataBlock = %this.team.name @ HumanArmor
      client = %this;
   };
   MissionCleanup.add(%player);

   // Player setup...
   %player.setTransform(%spawnPoint);
   %player.setEnergyLevel(60);
   %player.setShapeName(%this.name);
   
   // Update the camera to start with the player
   %this.camera.setTransform(%player.getEyeTransform());

   // Give the client control of the player
   %this.player = %player;
   %this.setControlObject(%player);

}

please notice this part

%teamname = %this.team.name
 echo("Spawing team is " %teamname);
   // Create the player object
   %player = new Player() {
      dataBlock = LightMaleHumanArmor;
      
       //dataBlock = CobraCommanderHumanArmor;
       //dataBlock = %this.team.name @ HumanArmor
      client = %this;
   };

Now I am not good with the scripts yet and this is my problem cause I want to use the %teamname variable to determine in a IF statement, which player model to use something like

if(%teamname == Cobra)
{
%player = new Player() {
       dataBlock = CobraGruntHumanArmor;
       client = %this;
};}
else{
%player = new Player() {
       dataBlock = JoeGruntHumanArmor;
       client = %this;
};}

However in my code I am testing to find the right variable with the echo() function and it works but I can't pull the names out, all I get is "Spawing team is " with nothing else. Whenever I use the %this variable I get nothing . . . .can anyone help me . . . .if you need more code I will be happy to supply you with it. Thank you