A Trinidad and Tobago Pro League team will contest the 2015 Caribbean Club Championship final. But only one local football team would have that pleasure. On May 24, the Caribbean Club Championship final will be contested at the Ato Boldon Stadium in Couva. But only one from DIRECTV W Connection …
Read More »Connection and Central start Champions League battle
Pro League frontrunners DIRECTV W Connection and Central FC will aim to get Trinidad and Tobago back into the CONCACAF Champions League when they start their CFU qualifying matches this week. Connection, the reigning Pro League champions, face the Guyana Defence Force, Antigua’s SAP FC and Jamaica’s Waterhouse FC on …
Read More »Jorsling shines as D/Force thump Civic; Caledonia hold Jabloteh
There were two Pro League football fixtures today but three contests. Defence Force, Point Fortin Civic, Caledonia AIA and San Juan Jabloteh were battling for places within the middle to lower order of Trinidad and Tobago’s domestic top flight competition. The Army/Coast Guard combination cemented their third place with a …
Read More »Injury rules Hector out of Gold Cup; Warrior targets 2018 W/Cup return
Diminutive Trinidad and Tobago playmaker Hughtun Hector has lost the opportunity to play in his first CONCACAF Gold Cup tournament after rupturing his Achilles tendon in a Vietnam league match for Hanoi T&T on April 3. Hanoi lost the fixture 1-0 away to Binh Duong. Hector had a successful operation …
Read More »Central go six points clear as Fenwick sent off in fiery Pro League return
Say what you like about Terry Fenwick—and most do—but never let it be said that the Englishman does not know how to make an entrance. Central FC’s new old coach began his second term at the “Couva Sharks” with a 3-0 triumph over his former employer, San Juan Jabloteh that …
Read More »Connection lodge “Ratty” protest against Stars; TTFA offers prize money
The Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) Disciplinary Committee is expected to meet on April 7 to rule on a TTFA FA Trophy protest lodged by 2015 runners-up, DIRECTV W Connection. Connection lost on penalty kicks to North East Stars in the March 29 final at the Ato Boldon Stadium …
Read More »Stars penalise Connection in FA final; WCFC promise protest
After a two and a half year drought, North East Stars returned to winners’ row last night with a 5-4 penalty shootout triumph over defending champions, DIRECTV W Connection, in the 2015 TTFA FA Trophy final at the Ato Boldon Stadium in Couva. There were roughly 1,000 fans at the …
Read More »Panama school Warriors; but Hart savours individual successes
Trinidad and Tobago’s Russia 2018 World Cup charge started off with a baby step at the Ato Boldon Stadium in Couva last night as the “Soca Warriors” fell 1-0 to Panama in an international friendly affair. At the final whistle, Panama goalkeeper Jaime Penedo had not been stretched once. Trinidad …
Read More »Fenwick’s back! Feisty Englishman makes shock return to Central FC
Call him the unsinkable Terry Fenwick. The former England World Cup defender left Trinidad and Tobago Pro League club, Central FC, last year for greener pastures with Belgium lower division club, CS Visé, and took three of Couva-based team’s best players with him. The Visé dream turned into a nightmare …
Read More »Shape up! Hart challenges new Warrior recruits to lift standards
Trinidad and Tobago National Senior Team coach Stephen Hart admitted to concern about the physical condition of his current squad and challenged his recruits to improve their conditioning to break into his CONCACAF Gold Cup and World Cup qualifying squads. Hart named 10 uncapped players for the Warriors’ friendly international …
Read More »Akeem Garcia drafted in to Warriors squad; Rundell ruled out
Trinidad and Tobago National Senior Team coach Stephen Hart added his fourth teenager and debutante to the “Soca Warriors” squad as DIRECTV W Connection’s Akeem “Froggy” Garcia was called up as a replacement for Central FC attacker Rundell Winchester. Garcia, a fine dribbler who can operate on either flank, as …
Read More »No-brainer! Sancho defends decision to join PP Government
“My Cabinet colleagues are really a good bunch of people based on what I have seen,” Sport Minister Brent Sancho told Wired868. “Every discussion that they have in Parliament and outside of Parliament is for the better of Trinidad and Tobago. The Prime Minister in particular has really impressed me… …
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