Sport is back—but only if you have taken the jab. Minister of Sport and Community Development Shamfa Cudjoe confirmed today, via email, that sport has been included in the Government’s Safe Zone policy. It means that, like cinemas, restaurants and bars, national governing bodies and ‘sport serving bodies’ can resume …
Read More »Eve: “We can only build from this”; Bolivia trample Trinidad and Tobago 5-0 at altitude
Trinidad and Tobago Men’s National Senior Team head coach Angus Eve pointed to the high altitude and the quality of his opponents, Bolivia, as the Soca Warriors crashed to a 5-0 friendly defeat tonight in Sucre—the largest defeat of his tenure so far. Eve told Wired868 beforehand that the Warriors …
Read More »Jesse, John-Paul and Jamal take centre stage, as Eve discusses T&T’s Bolivia challenge
“[…] I see John-Paul Rochford playing in between the lines like Judah Garcia, as an inverted winger. He shoots the ball well for a little fellah. I don’t think we shoot enough from outside. “He is a tenacious player and has a great eye for a pass and a tremendous …
Read More »T&T without Archer for Bolivia friendly, hosts struck by eight positive coronavirus cases
Trinidad and Tobago Men’s National Senior Team head coach Angus Eve will not have the services of giant central defender Leland Archer when the Soca Warriors face Bolivia in a friendly international from 5pm on Friday at the Estadio Olímpico Patria in Sucre. The Warriors landed in Bolivia this morning …
Read More »QPCC FC mourn tragic deaths of young footballers Belgrave and Taiwan-bound Prudhomme
The QPCC football community was plunged into mourning yesterday after losing two players on the same day in different incidents. Former goalkeeper Raheem ‘Birdie’ Belgrave, 29, drowned yesterday morning while full-back Ackime Prudhomme was gunned down in Arouca. QPCC head coach Shawn Cooper and his former assistant Wayne Sheppard both …
Read More »Moore, Hackshaw and Powder in T&T 21-man squad to face Bolivia, Muckette misses cut
Trinidad and Tobago Men’s National Senior Team head coach Angus Eve selected 12 players and two reserves from his 2021 Concacaf Gold Cup squad in his travelling party, as the Soca Warriors prepare to resume international action away to Bolivia on Friday 21 January. The Warriors leave tomorrow for the …
Read More »AFA confirms Mollon suspension but insists only one instance of ‘abuse or mistreatment of player’
The Anguilla Football Association (AFA) has confirmed that Women’s National Senior Team head coach Ahkeela Mollon was suspended for ‘abuse’ of a player but stressed that it only received one such complaint about the Trinidad and Tobago-born coach. AFA president Girdon Connor and his administration have faced public criticism over …
Read More »Rusty T&T to face Bolivia on 21 Jan; Eve names Hudson, ‘Natty’, JP Rochford in training squad
The Trinidad and Tobago Men’s National Senior Team finally have a practice game, after five months and three international match windows of inactivity. The Soca Warriors travel to Bolivia to face the host nation from 5pm on 21 January at the Estadio Olimpico Patrio in Sucre. Bolivia have two friendlies …
Read More »‘I chase bad men!’ How the late Andrew Jennings changed investigative sport journalism
One of my most vivid memories of Andrew Jennings came on our second meeting, after a media conference at the Trinidad Hilton in the build-up to the 2001 Fifa Under-17 World Cup in Trinidad and Tobago. It was an elegant event, attended by then Fifa president Sepp Blatter, with every …
Read More »‘Concerned parents’, a parliamentary reprimand and bullying accusations: Ahkeela responds to Anguilla criticism
Former Trinidad and Tobago Women’s National Senior Team star Ahkeela Mollon has had a mixed start to her new career as an international coach. Whether Mollon is saint or sinner, villain or victim, depends on whom you speak to in Anguilla, though. And after 14 months on the job as …
Read More »Hunte’s ‘KingPool’ does three-peat in tumultuous December for Wired868 fantasy football
And still the Wired868 Fantasy Football leader… Dia Hunte ‘KingPool’ has now enjoyed pole position for three successive months in the Wired868 Lime Kickers group, as he rounded off the Old Year as overall winner and December 2021 champ. A feat made all the more remarkable as the England Premier …
Read More »Aubrey, Cordner, Augustine and Marchan honoured, as TTFA recognises top players despite general inactivity
The Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) today announced its Players of the Year for 2021, against a backdrop of little to no activity in the domestic game. Costa Rica-based central defender Aubrey David was adjudged the Men’s Player of the Year while Kennya ‘Yaya’ Cordner snared the Women’s prize. …
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