Global Football

“Sweet songs never last too long on broken radios…” John Prine, Sam Stone, 1971 As this book is completed, we wait to see if the FBI will indict leading members of Blatter’s FIFA Family. The investigations by an FBI Organised Crime Squad, based in Federal Plaza, New York, began in …

Trinidad and Tobago national football team captain Kenwyne Jones vowed that the “Soca Warriors” will not be overawed on Wednesday June 4 when they meet 2014 World Cup title contenders, Argentina, in a friendly international at the Estadio Monumental in Buenos Aires. The fixture kicks off at 6.30 pm (TT …

Football fans can catch the Trinidad and Tobago national football team’s glamorous upcoming international friendly against 2014 World Cup contenders, Argentina, live on Government Information Services Limited (GISL) Channel 4 from 3.30 pm on Wednesday June 4. The “Soca Warriors” are scheduled to leave the Piarco International Airport at 9 …

Trinidad and Tobago international defender Daneil Cyrus made his V-League debut today as the versatile 23-year-old player played the full 90 minutes in a 2-0 Hanoi T&T win over Dong Nai in Hanoi, Vietnam. Cyrus, who left local Digicel Pro League champion club DIRECTV W Connection to join Hanoi last …

Trinidad and Tobago national football team head coach Stephen Hart has gone for more experience in his squad for next month’s South American tour by drafting in 35-year-old right back Carlos Edwards. Edwards, a “Soca Warriors” stand-out at the 2006 World Cup, has played just once since the 2013 CONCACAF …

The Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) vowed today to “continue uninterrupted” in the face of potential bankruptcy proceedings by one of its major creditors, the 2006 World Cup players. The TTFA revealed, in a press release today, that it owes the “Soca Warriors” US$1.9 million from a total payment …

Once again, 23-year-old Trinidad and Tobago defender has withdrawn from international duty to pursue a professional career in Vietnam. This time, he won’t come back. Perhaps. As DIRECTV W Connection prepared to face Central FC in the 2014 Digicel Pro Bowl semifinals, Cyrus was on his way to the Piarco …

The following is a press release from the 2006 World Cup players who are owed bonus payments by the Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA): This is to announce that we have instructed our legal team to execute a final 14 day Demand for Payment against the TTFA. This may come as a …

Just hours after Central FC booked its place in the 2015 CONCACAF Champions League qualifying phase, the Digicel Pro League club is set to reveal that its head coach, Terry Fenwick, will not take the “Couva Sharks” into the regional competition. Instead, the 54-year-old Fenwick revealed today that he has …

The 2013/14 Digicel Pro League season threw up a final dramatic twist yesterday as Defence Force crashed to a 1-0 loss to San Juan Jabloteh at the Hasely Crawford Stadium in Port of Spain. It meant that, at the death, Central FC earned a shock CONCACAF Champions League qualifying berth …

Predictably, Trinidad and Tobago coach Stephen Hart leaned towards experience in his 22-man squad for highly touted international friendlies against World Cup-bound nations, Argentina and Iran, in South America next month. Cardiff City forward Kenwyne Jones will captain the “Soca Warriors” for the tour and there are 10 foreign-based players …

The “Soca Warriors” are set to rejig their June plans after 2014 World Cup-bound South American nation, Colombia, revealed that it will not fulfil its contract to face the Trinidad and Tobago national football team in a friendly international on June 1. Last Wednesday, the Trinidad and Tobago Football Association …