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The following is a letter sent from the email address of then Central FC operations director and current advisor to the Sport Minister, Kevin Harrison, which requests a personal payment for himself and then Central chairman and current Minister of Sport, Brent Sancho, for a player transfer: Editor’s note: Click HERE for …

Sport Minister Brent Sancho and his advisor Kevin Harrison’s relationship with Central FC has again been called into question, after a leaked document suggested that the pair may have tried to personally benefit from a transfer deal last year. An email, allegedly sent by Harrison in August 2014, appeared to …

New Central FC attacker Marcus Joseph, teenaged North East Stars midfielder Neveal Hackshaw, United States-based forward Trevin Caesar and England-born defender Gavin Hoyte will join the “Soca Warriors” in Salt Lake City, Utah on Sunday August 30, in preparation for their international friendly against Mexico on September 4. All four …

Central FC gave an improved showing in Guatemala last night but it was not enough for the Trinidad and Tobago Pro League club’s first point of the CONCACAF Champions League. The “Couva Sharks” succumbed to their second successive defeat, albeit by a single goal to  Comunicaciones, while they finished the …

Sport Minister Brent Sancho could feasibly find himself reported to the Integrity Commission after leaked documentation showed that CONCACAF money due to the Pro League club was diverted into the minister’s personal bank account. Then Central FC operations manager Kevin Harrison admitted that he directed CONCACAF to wire US$40,000 (TT$253,000) …

Caribbean Football Union (CFU) president Gordon Derrick has endorsed former Trinidad and Tobago football captain David Nakhid’s bid for the role of FIFA president, as the most unlikely presidential campaign gathered considerable traction. Nakhid, who never worked within FIFA before or held an administrative portfolio outside of his Lebanon-based David …

Trinidad and Tobago Pro League outfit, DIRECTV W Connection, suffered its second successive 4-0 defeat in the CONCACAF Champions League last night as the “Savonetta Boys” lost heavily away to Costa Rican champions, Saprissa. Connection made four changes to the starting team that lost 4-0 on the road to Mexican …

The Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) is in the midst of another financial crisis after FIFA confirmed that it has frozen its annual US$250,000 (approximately TT $1.5 million) subvention to the local body while the TTFA’s auditor, KPMG, has also suspended its services. As a result, the TTFA’s administrative …

The Trinidad and Tobago National Senior Women’s Team has selected a 15-member training squad to begin preparation for the Caribbean phase of their 2016 Olympic qualifying campaign. The “Women Soca Warriors” will be led by Randy Waldrum, who coached the team to within 90 minutes of the 2015 Women’s World …

Financial Fair Play (FFP) is one of those topics that invite controversy. There are those who believe that it was written to preserve the status quo of large clubs by preventing the nouveau riche from spending money to challenge the established players. Others say it is an attempt to control …

Former Trinidad and Tobago National Senior Team captain David Nakhid announced today that he will contest the post of FIFA president at the upcoming elections on 26 February 2016. Controversial president Sepp Blatter has vowed to step aside to make way for a new leader at the helm of the …

“I think football is about creating a balance,” Trinidad and Tobago National Senior Team head coach Stephen Hart told Wired868. “The first thing you need to know is how you are going to recover the ball. If you cannot recover the ball, then you are in trouble. “And when you …