Local Football

The year is 1999, one year after former Strike Squad baby Dwight Yorke makes a £12.6 million move from Aston Villa to Manchester United. The “Red Devils” complete a memorable treble. The year is now 1989, ten years before Yorke’s Manchester odyssey. The Trinidad and Tobago Senior team is preparing …

Trinidad and Tobago Pro League players are uneasy, “starting to panic,” one of them told Wired868. He and a couple of his mates are of the view that the Pro League had its work cut out for him to ensure that the competition stays afloat in 2018. As things stand, …

He fought the good fight. Those five words sound like the opening for a eulogy but TT Pro League fans are hoping that the departure of outgoing CEO Dexter Skeene will not mean the death of the local professional league. On Friday, the 53-year-old former Trinidad and Tobago forward announced …

With its 2018 season already hanging in the balance, the Trinidad and Tobago Pro League is now without a CEO.  Dexter Skeene, who has held the position for the last 14 years, tendered his resignation to the Board at yesterday meeting of the League and informed them that he proposes …

“Spidey, to whom you were paying homage, is merely laying claim to being the originator of the ‘pat down’ and other aspects of his goalkeeping style that made him a household name among football enthusiasts. “But, boy oh boy, here comes Mr Corneal with the proverbial memory of an elephant, …

The Trinidad and Tobago National Under-17 Team, once permitted, will participate in the Youth Pro League Under-18 competition under its own name, after condemnation of its initial attempt to play as Morvant Caledonia United. On Tuesday, National Under-17 assistant coach Duane Richardson and manager Aaron Pollard went to various schools …

“The way [David] De Gea reacted to Luis Muriel’s header was almost like Spider-Man,” the BT Sport presenter said at the halftime interval of Sevilla’s Champions League clash with Manchester United last Wednesday. The Spaniard was in fine form, making several impressive saves to deny a dangerous-looking host team and …

Stakeholders of the Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) must wait another 30 days at least for answers about the spending of the David John-Williams-led administration, after the local football body’s reconvened AGM on Tuesday 20 February again ended without any clarity on the TTFA’s financial statement for 2016. For …

“Where did we go wrong? […] The system failing the youth.” La Horquetta XF head coach Dave Quamina is lamenting that the society in general and the football community in particular is allowing young men to slip through the cracks, after two of his former players, 25-year-old attacker Neil Mitchell …

“I does watch myself in the mirror every day,” former T&T national youth and senior team midfielder Jean-Luc Rochford confessed. “[I ask myself] how you come from being a national player, from scoring in a World Cup, from creating history, to being somebody who cyah even play the game they …

HydroTech Central FC will represent the Trinidad and Tobago Pro League in the semifinal round of the 2018 Club Championship after the “Couva Sharks” held on for a gutsy 1-0 win over Dominican Republic outfit, Atlántico FC, yesterday at the Estadio Cibao in Santiago, Dominican Republic. Atlántico, unbeaten in the …

HydroTech Central FC rebounded from their opening round Group B loss this evening with an emphatic 3-0 win over Haiti club Racing FC in Caribbean Club Championship action at the Estadio Cibao in Santiago, Dominican Republic. However, the “Couva Sharks” must win again on Sunday against Dominican Republic outfit Atlántico …