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A winning team. You could safely describe Clive Lloyd’s late Seventies and early Eighties West Indies team thus. Perhaps the tag is also applicable to Vivian Richards’ 1980/90s team which indisputably had what their skipper called ‘the winning habit’.  A team that won. That tag befits Kraigg Brathwaite’s second-string side …

Trinidad and Tobago will attempt to make it two World Cup qualifying wins from as many outings tomorrow when the Soca Warriors face Puerto Rico from 5pm at the Estadio Centroamericano, Mayaguez. “We recognise this will be a very tough game,” said Trinidad and Tobago Men’s National Senior Team head …

“[…] The government can confirm that we have no record of a request being made by the SLFA to have a team train for World Cup qualifiers. Neither the Ministry of Youth Development and Sports or the Office of the Chief Medical Officer (CMO) has received such a request…” The …

“[…] Jaguars are also known as roaring cats, but the only roars in San Cristobal last night came from Trinidad and Tobago head coach Terry Fenwick and captain Khaleem Hyland. “[…] I am sure attacker Levi Garcia could still imagine himself hearing the Englishman’s voice in his hotel room last …

Guyana head coach has blamed early errors for the Golden Jaguars’ 3-0 World Cup qualifying loss to Trinidad and Tobago, rather than anything opposing coach Terry Fenwick cooked up. The Soca Warriors grabbed all three goals in the first half and could have had a fourth, as flanker Joevin Jones missed …

Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) interim general secretary Amiel Mohammed announced Fifa’s fourth appointment on its normalisation committee today: Massy Finance and Republic Bank director Trevor Nicholas Gomez. Remarkably, Gomez was actually appointed by Fifa on 15 March 2021 and immediately became an active member of the team. However, …

“[…] We were decent in attack in patches, especially after the introduction of the incisive Judah Garcia, who looked (to me) the most technically gifted and tactically effective attacker. “[…] However, the wing backs barely made it into the opponent’s half [and] there was a permanently available space behind Neveal …

The last time that the Trinidad and Tobago Men’s National Senior Team won an international football match—the hapless Anguilla, then ranked 209th from Fifa’s 209 member associations, notwithstanding—Black Panther was in theatres, Super Blue and Machel’s Soca Kingdom was the road march tune and midfield bolt Michel Poon-Angeron’s primary ambition …

Fifteen months after his unveiling, Trinidad and Tobago Men’s National Senior Team head coach Terry Fenwick can finally point to tangible progress under his watch as the Soca Warriors started their Qatar 2022 World Cup qualifying campaign tonight with a thumping 3-0 win over Guyana at the Estadio Panamericano in …

The Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) revealed that one member of the Men’s National Senior Team tested positive for Covid-19 last night in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. The player, who was not named, ‘was immediately isolated at the team’s hotel’ according to a TTFA release, which also claimed that …

Trinidad and Tobago and Guyana will reacquaint their burgeoning rivalry in strange territory and with new faces in the technical area, as both nations launch their Qatar 2022 World Cup qualifying bids tomorrow from 7pm at the Estadio Panamericano, Santo Domingo. On paper, the Soca Warriors are favourites, but it …

The following is the third instalment of a series on Trinidad and Tobago’s World Cup football adventures, adapted from articles published first in the Trinidad Express in 2006, and looks back at the controversial 1974 World Cup campaign: Port-au-Prince was as silent as a grave on 4 December 1973. On …