Global Football

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 …

On Wednesday, the ever-controversial Chaguanas West MP Jack Warner dominated the news again after word that CONCACAF had blocked the ex-FIFA vice-president leader from leasing, selling or mortgaging the João Havelange Centre of Excellence in Macoya. But Warner was not the only Chaguanas native to hear from FIFA on that …

The Trinidad and Tobago national football team should be near to full strength in June when the “Soca Warriors” expect a rigorous test from 2014 World Cup-bound teams Colombia, Argentina and Iran in friendly fixtures. The Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) confirmed today that it will face Colombia on …

Maverick Trinidad and Tobago midfielder Keon “Skillachi” Daniel will be on the lookout for a new employer after he was released by United States Major League Soccer (MLS) outfit, Philadelphia Union, yesterday. The Union announced that the decision was made by mutual consent after the Tobago-born playmaker failed to even …

Caledonia AIA forward Jamal Gay is the latest Pro League player to complete a move abroad after the lanky 25-year-old attacker completed a loan move to Finland Premier League club, Rovaniemen Palloseura (RoPS), during the week. Gay, who represented Trinidad and Tobago at the US 2013 CONCACAF Gold Cup and Egypt …

For the second time in the history of the Caribbean Club Championship, there will be no Trinidad and Tobago team among the final four outfits in the regional football competition. Defending Pro League champion club, Defence Force, was eliminated after just one game as the “Teteron Boys” lost 2-0 to …

Defence Force’s CONCACAF Club Championship dream lasted only 90 minutes. The defending Trinidad and Tobago Pro League champion club was eliminated from the 2014 Caribbean Club Championship last night without kicking a ball as Guyanese club, Alpha United, edged hosts Harbour View 1-0 in Jamaica to seal first place in …

Terrence Marcelle, a former Pleasantville Secondary and Trinidad and Tobago national youth team football coach, has a passion for developing youths and the qualifications to place him in the top echelons of local coaches in that field. However, Marcelle’s past indiscretion with a schoolboy is threatening to derail his effort …

Trinidad and Tobago Pro League outfit Caledonia AIA shook off its miserable domestic form and the recent departures of several key players to whip host team Association Sportive de Mirebalais 3-0 in its 2014 Caribbean Club Championship Group 2 opener yesterday in Haiti. The “Eastern Stallions”, who recently exported versatile …

Twenty-three year old Caledonia AIA goalkeeper Shemel Louison’s sporting career started behind the stumps as a wicket keeper in Grenada. Devon Dowden, a youth team coach in Mt Moritz, challenged Louison to try football instead and his love for the game blossomed. Louison was just 20-years-old when he made his …

DIRECTV W Connection chairman David John Williams and former 2006 World Cup player Shaka Hislop were today officially unveiled as members of a CONCACAF task force mandated to do a feasibility study on the potential of a Caribbean professional football league. The committee is considered the final step before the …