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Unified Football Coaches of Trinidad and Tobago (UFCTT) interim president Jefferson George confirmed that Men’s National Senior Team assistant coaches Derek King and Kelvin Jack both agreed termination packages with the Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) yesterday, within hours of their dismissals. At present, Jack and King are the …

The Robert Hadad-led Fifa-appointed normalisation committee appears set to swing the axe through the Trinidad and Tobago Men’s National Senior Team’s technical staff, with head coach Terry Fenwick and assistants Kelvin Jack and Derek King on the brink. The normalisation committee comprises: Hadad, Judy Daniel, Nigel Romano, and Trevor Nicholas …

The Qatar 2022 World Cup qualifying campaign continues on Saturday without any involvement from Trinidad and Tobago—unless you count Canada’s substitute goalkeeper Dayne St Clair, who chose to represent the land of his birth soon after he popped up on the radar of Soca Warriors head coach Terry Fenwick in …

St Kitts and Nevis were the best outfit in Group F of the preliminary Concacaf World Cup qualifying group but Trinidad and Tobago were the better team today, as the Soca Warriors closed off their Qatar 2022 campaign with a 2-0 win over the ‘Sugar Boyz’ at the Félix Sánchez …

On the eve of the Trinidad and Tobago Men’s National Senior Team’s final World Cup qualifying outing against St Kitts and Nevis, six players were asked to train in sneakers on wet grass, after they were left without football boots—as a result of farcical travel plans arranged by the Fifa-appointed …

Trinidad and Tobago defender Sheldon Bateau, who was stand-in captain on Saturday when the Soca Warriors drew goalless with The Bahamas, said that the team’s weekend result and subsequent elimination from the Qatar 2022 World Cup qualifying series affected the older players more than the younger ones. The 30-year-old Bateau, …

The Fifa-appointed normalisation committee has requested a report into a row between Trinidad and Tobago Men’s National Senior Team assistant coach Kelvin Jack and 18-year-old player Gary Griffith III, which occurred just hours before their World Cup qualifying outing against The Bahamas on Saturday 5 June. Jack, the 45-year-old 2006 …

The Trinidad and Tobago Men’s National Senior Team will complete their Qatar 2022 World Cup qualifying campaign with the same pool of 25 players that were available in The Bahamas, after goalkeeper Nicklas Frenderup, midfielder Jomal Williams, and Luke Singh all ruled themselves out of tomorrow’s contest with St Kitts …

Trinidad and Tobago Men’s National Senior Team head coach Terry Fenwick blamed poor finishing for his team’s elimination from the Qatar 2022 World Cup qualifying campaign yesterday evening, after a goalless draw away to The Bahamas at the Thomas Robinson Stadium in Nassau. The draw left the Soca Warriors with …

‘This is the way the world ends,’ wrote TS Eliot, in his immortal poem The Hollow Men. ‘Not with a bang but a whimper…’ In the fading sunlight of Nassau this evening, a generation of Trinidad and Tobago footballers passed noiselessly towards their doom at the Thomas Robinson Stadium. The Soca Warriors were …

‘A team of financial and legal business leaders with impeccable integrity’ tasked with ‘an incredibly complex operation’. That is how the Fifa-appointed normalisation committee, chaired by Robert Hadad, referred to itself tonight, in a public statement ostensibly meant to provide an update on the finances of the Trinidad and Tobago …

Would the Trinidad and Tobago Men’s National Senior Team treat tomorrow’s Qatar 2022 World Cup qualifying fixture against The Bahamas as a warm-up for next Tuesday’s decisive top of the table clash with St Kitts and Nevis? Or will the Soca Warriors simply try to get the best possible result—and …