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“And let Angus, if he name Angus Eve, let him put down the ball and bring it out from the back on Tuesday,” said Guyana Men’s National Senior Team head coach Jamaal Shabazz, with a twinkle in his eye. “And he will see, as the old people used to say, …

Dynamic attacker Levi Garcia scored three international goals in his first five years as a Trinidad and Tobago footballer. Last night, he scored as many within the first 40 minutes against Barbados at the Hasely Crawford Stadium in Port-of-Spain before head coach Angus Eve pulled him out of the action …

The Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) might be forced into a last-ditch alteration of its promotional material for upcoming friendlies against Barbados and Guyana, after Barbados coach and Soca Warriors legend Russell Latapy pulled out of the tri-nation series. The Trinidad and Tobago Men’s National Senior Team plays Barbados …

“[…] A lot of the players who will attend are playing in college or maybe a MLS reserve team or the UPSL, which is like semi-professional football and has former college players or pro players who may have fallen off the grid due to injury or other reasons. “[…] I …

In my life, there are two men—your mind’s in the gutter, wretch!—whose knowledge of football is encyclopaedic. One is Wired868 Editor Lasana Liburd. From him, I got an unsolicited lecturette on Marcelo Bielsa’s family history. In five minutes, I learned more about the just fired Leeds coach than I know …

Trinidad and Tobago Men’s National Senior Team head coach Angus Eve will have the gifted Europe-based duo of attacker Levi Garcia and left-back Keston Julien in his squad for the first time this weekend, as the Soca Warriors prepare for the Concacaf Nations League competition with friendlies against Barbados and …

For the first time since he was hired as Trinidad and Tobago Men’s National Senior Team head coach, Angus Eve will play a friendly game within a Fifa international match window. The flip-side, though, is Trinidad and Tobago’s sparring partners, Barbados and Guyana, have already indicated that they will not …

The Trinidad and Tobago Super League (TTSL) is resigned to going it alone for 2022, as the various local football bodies take a splintered approach to the resumption of the domestic game. TTSL president Lee Davis confirmed that his executive has accepted it will have to find its own solution, …

Lionel Messi, Mohamed Salah, Rafael Nadal, Serena Williams and LeBron James are all vaccinated against the Covid-19 virus. And if you’d like to be involved in sport for the foreseeable future, you will have to follow suit. The Office of the Attorney General today published an updated Public Health [2019 …

Trinidad and Tobago will battle Mexico, Haiti and Suriname in the group stage of the Concacaf 2022 Men’s Under-20 Championship this June in Honduras. The top three nations in Group F will advance to the knockout stage while the bottom team will be eliminated. Concacaf confirmed the groupings today at …

“[…] Anyone who knows me will understand that imposing sanctions on athletes because of the actions of the Government goes against the grain. I have railed against the practice of politicians targeting athletes and sport to make political points when other sectors continue about their business. “This is different as …

Trinidad and Tobago closed off their Concacaf Women’s Under-20 Championship campaign tonight with a 5-0 defeat to Canada in their final Group G fixture at the Estadio Panamericano in San Cristóbal. It might say something about their short-lived Under-20 World Cup campaign that tonight’s result might genuinely be considered their …