East Mucurapo Secondary football team manager Brinsley Hutson passed away yesterday at the Mt Hope Hospital, where he was warded since suffering a stroke last Friday. Hutson, who worked in sales at Massy Technologies, was one of the first crop of students at the then Mucurapo Senior Comprehensive in the …
Read More »(Flashback) Hail Team T&T—the aftermath of that magical night in Bahrain
This article written by Lasana Liburd was first published in the Trinidad Express and offers a peek into the Soca Warriors’ dressing room on an unforgettable Wednesday night in Bahrain on 16 November 2005: “We going Ger-many! We going Ger-many!” Trinidad and Tobago goalkeeper Shaka Hislop was in full cry …
Read More »Flashback: Fanning the flames; what true supporters can offer T&T sport
The following article, written by Lasana Liburd, was first published in the Trinidad Express on 23 October 2003: Sometimes it is too easy to forget who are the real power-brokers in football. Not the talented and sometimes extravagantly paid players whose careers last as long as a St Ann’s taxi …
Read More »Beware the machinations of Infantino; Africa presidential candidate warned of Fifa’s ‘criminality’
“[…] By now, you likely know that Infantino has his own legal woes in Switzerland where he has been criminally indicted by the state over his role in attempting to replicate, in his home country, the criminality that he has endorsed and encouraged in Africa. “[…] In Africa, the Fifa …
Read More »Flashback: When Clint Marcelle faced Chelsea; Wired868 revisits a memorable match for Scarborough FC
The following article, written by Lasana Liburd, was first published in the Trinidad Express on 29 January 2004: Gracious and good humoured to the end, the Scarborough Football Club must have seemed the happiest losers in recent English FA Cup history as they bowed out 1-0 to Premiership aristocrats, Chelsea, at …
Read More »‘Trinidad and Tobago football needs realists’; Clayton Morris throws hat in ring for TTSL presidency
“[…] There is a saying that: ‘The Pessimist complains about the wind; The Optimist expects it to change; but The Realist adjusts the sails’. “Trinidad and Tobago football is in need of realists—persons who want to serve and adjust for the betterment, enhancement and development of our young players: boys …
Read More »‘Preparing part-time players to compete with pros is a challenge’: T&T’s Caribbean coaching exports speak
When, Covid-19 permitting, Stern John leads the Anguilla Men’s National Senior Team out for their opening Qatar 2022 World Cup qualifying contest, he will join a growing number of Trinidad and Tobago coaches looking to make their mark elsewhere in the Caribbean—albeit at less recognisable football nations. Bertille St Clair …
Read More »Griffith: What’s Thompson talking about? Soca Warriors can train despite Fifa ban
“[…] The Fifa suspension is not to disband any national team or prevent them from training but to prevent them from participating in Fifa-sanctioned tournaments or Fifa-approved international friendly matches. “Any manager should know this, and it is of even greater concern if he did but still made these uncalled-for …
Read More »Anguilla snap up Stern, ex-Warriors star will lead minnows into 2022 WCQ campaign
The Anguilla Men’s National Senior Team have never scored a World Cup qualifying goal from open play, after five successive campaigns dating back to 5 March 2000. However, for the Qatar 2022 World Cup qualifying series, Anguilla are set to be steered by one of the most prolific men in …
Read More »Fifa ‘welcomes’ TTFA’s acquiescence but still ‘assessing’ next step, after two weeks
It is almost two weeks since the court of appeal broke the Trinidad and Tobago Football Association’s legal resistance to Fifa, with the local football body’s member delegates swiftly voting to subsequently hand its reins to the governing body’s normalisation committee. Having forced regime change, Fifa president Gianni Infantino is …
Read More »Soca Warriors pair Hackshaw and Archer earn USL 2020 All-League picks
Former Trinidad and Tobago Men’s National Under-20 and Under-23 teammates Neveal Hackshaw and Leland Archer were rewarded for standout individual performances in the 2020 USL Championship season with spots on the competition’s All-League Second Teams last week. The 25-year-old Hackshaw, who has 14 senior international caps for the Soca Warriors …
Read More »Dear CJ: ‘[Your] unwarranted statements reflect negatively on my competence as a judge’; Gobin on Fifa ruling
“[…] I am sure that I do not need to remind you chief justice that there is more to the management of cases than fixing timetables. First instance judges often have to remind litigants and lawyers of the significance of what we do. “A judge who refuses to defer to …
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