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The following are this week’s fixtures for the various Trinidad and Tobago football competitions covered by Wired868: Tuesday January 5 (TT Pro League) Club Sando v Morvant Caledonia United, 6 pm, Ato Boldon Stadium; Thursday January 7  (CNG National Super League Premiership) Siparia Spurs v La Horquetta SA, 4 pm, …

Trinidad and Tobago National Senior Team coach Stephen Hart suffered another withdrawal yesterday, as veteran right back Justin Hoyte pulled out of Friday’s 2016 Copa America Centenario play off clash against Haiti with a hamstring injury. Hoyte’s pull-out means the “Soca Warriors”—already without midfielders Kevin Molino and Hughtun Hector, as …

Steups! For the second straight year, the Wired868 XI lost in its Football Festival by a solitary goal. The Darin Lewis Invitational XI stole bragging rights yesterday with a 6-5 win over a decidedly more mature Wired line-up at the UWI SPEC ground in St Augustine. Darin “Speng” Lewis turned …

The charges laid against the presidents of several football associations would suggest that FIFA needs to light a candle rather than curse the darkness when it comes to regulations regarding the presidency of its member associations. The high number of CONMEBOL and CONCACAF presidents and ex-presidents who have been charged …

No more licks! Former “Strike Squad” star Leonson Lewis is promising to end a two-year losing streak for the Wired868XI veterans on Saturday in the fourth annual Wired868 Football Festival from 3 pm on Saturday January 2 at the UWI SPEC ground in St Augustine. Wired868 will again tackle an …

Trinidad and Tobago National Senior Team playmaker Keron “Ball Pest” Cummings will be out of action for at least 10 months, after he underwent surgery this morning at the Port of Spain General Hospital. The operation was performed by Dr Marlon Mencia and hospital staff and observed by Orlando-based Trinidad …

Trinidad and Tobago National Senior Team head coach Stephen Hart has summoned DIRECTV W Connection attacker Shahdon Winchester and Portland Timbers II attacker Rundell Winchester to his 23-man squad to face Haiti in the 2016 Copa America Centenario play off on January 8 in Panama City. The two Winchesters replace …

If you are a football fan or stakeholder, then this may be the most important case that you have barely heard of. On 14 December 2015, the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) ruled against Lebanon-based football coach and ex-Trinidad and Tobago international player David Nakhid in his bid to …

Trinidad and Tobago international footballer and North East Stars playmaker Keron “Ball Pest” Cummings was shot outside his home in Diego Martin early this morning, after returning home from a boat cruise with his girlfriend. Cummings, according to Stars coach Roland Clarke, had just been given a lift home by …

“(Stephen Hart) is a coach who knows what he wants and he goes out and selects the exact players (with the specific characteristics he needs) to build his team,” said Trinidad and Tobago 2006 World Cup attacker Cornell Glen. “There are coaches that select players who are in-form and work …

Bankers Insurance Central FC playmaker Ataulla Guerra will get another chance to stake his claim to Trinidad and Tobago’s “number 10” role, after the elegant midfielder was recalled by coach Stephen Hart for his 23-man squad to face Haiti in the 2016 Copa America play off on 8 January 2016 …

Prisons FC only needed a draw to secure the CNG National Super League (NSL) Championship crown last night and automatic promotion to next season’s Premiership Division. Instead, the “Wardens” were given the slip by Queen’s Park Cricket Club (QPCC) FC at the Hasely Crawford Stadium, as the “Parkites” leapfrogged Prisons …