Global Football

After a week punctuated with contract wrangling, infighting, strike threats and Twitter tantrums, depending on whether your focus is the West Indies cricket team, the national under-20 boys and the senior women footballers, it was nice to have something to savour for a change. At kick off, that mirth might …

The Trinidad and Tobago national women’s football team captain Maylee Attin-Johnson was scrambling to join her teammates in the United States today after a visa delay meant she did not travel with the “Soca Princesses” when they left yesterday for a pre-World Cup qualifying camp in Dallas. At least, Attin-Johnson …

Are you unsure as to what, if anything, you are owed when a player you developed after the age of 12 turns professional? Wired868 publishes the FIFA by-law governing training compensation for players up until the age of 21, so you can figure it out yourself: Article 1: Objective 1.  A …

Investigating the Bribe Master and the Bag Man THE ARROGANT OLD MAN in Rio, now aged 94, refused to admit his guilt, refused to say sorry for his quarter century of stealing millions from world football, refused to give back those millions. Castor Andrade never said sorry. Why should he? …

Sixteen-year-old Trinidad and Tobago national under-20 attacker and Shiva Boys Hindu School football star, Levi Garcia, is set to leave for Europe next week in a controversial move engineered by Dutch agent Humphry Nijman. Here is what FIFA says about the movement of players under the age of 18: (FIFA …

Trinidad and Tobago national senior team head coach Stephen Hart announced his final 20-man squad for the 2014 Caribbean Cup semifinal qualifying round today with only three Pro League players named among his 18 outfield players. Central FC midfielders Ataullah Guerra and Leston Paul were both summoned while DIRECTV W …

…Then was caught by a ‘Useless’ journalist ‘ CONGRATULATIONS JACK, MAUREEN, all of my Trinidadian family that I love for these many years.’ Chuck was blogging after Trinidad held Sweden to a 0-0 draw in Dortmund in June 2006. The love for Warner and his wife lasted another five years. …

Chapter 9: Blazer’s Michelin Guide to the World  CHUCK STUFFED HIS FACE in the world’s most expensive restaurants. Football paid. When, at the end of 2012, the new people at Concacaf sacked him, they forbade him to pay himself any more money. The money tap was being turned off. But …

Liverpool striker Mario Balotelli saw something that tickled him during Manchester United’s controversial 5-3 loss to newly promoted Leicester City yesterday and tweeted: “Man Utd… LOL.” Naturally, it was met with an explosive response from sad, little “fans” who saw it as an excuse to abuse the 24-year-old Italian football …

A Kadeem Corbin hattrick tonight secured a second Caribbean title for Trinidad and Tobago in just a month as the young “Soca Warriors” defeated Haiti 3-0 in the regional final at the Hasely Crawford Stadium in Port of Spain. To be fair, the title of “Caribbean champ” sounds hollow when …

Trinidad and Tobago will contest its second regional football final in a month on Friday evening when the young “Soca Warriors” line up in the 2014 Under-20 Caribbean Championship finale from 7.30 pm at the Hasely Crawford Stadium in Port of Spain. Almost certainly, the Warriors’ final dance partner will …

After an anaemic opening result against Suriname, the Trinidad and Tobago national under-20 team found Curaçao to be more to its liking as the young “Soca Warriors” romped to a 4-0 win that virtually assured their progress to the CONCACAF stage. The Warriors have six points from their opening two …