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There are just two games left in the 2013/14 Digicel Pro League campaign for St Ann’s Rangers and everyone at the club probably cannot wait to get them out of the way. Rangers chairman Richard Fakoory envisioned a dignified close of the season and decent cup run when he replaced …

Two Pro League football teams, one million dollars and no sharing. Ten months of football boils down a five day two-legged contest between defending champions Defence Force and present leader W Connection as the clubs meet each other from 8 pm on Friday May 2 at the Ato Boldon Stadium …

On the opening weekend of the 2013/14 Digicel Pro League season, St Ann’s Rangers was flattened 7-0 by present leader DIRECTV W Connection. It was an omen of things to come in a difficult season for the St Ann’s based club. Twenty-year-old Jelani Peters was not even deemed good enough …

There were over 2,000 patrons, an electric atmosphere and a gripping, quality match for neutrals and partisans alike as DIRECTV W Connection and Central FC locked horns in the Lucozade Sport Goal Shield final at the Ato Boldon Stadium in Couva. That is the good face of the derby fixture …

On a night that bristled with energy and emotion, Central FC snared the Lucozade Sport Goal Shield trophy after a 2-1 win over bitter Couva rivals, DIRECTV W Connection, at the Ato Boldon Stadium. There were over 2,000 spectators at the ground and Lucozade might have been flattered to see …

Defending Digicel Pro League champion Defence Force is just three games away from the most unlikely title defence in Trinidad and Tobago’s professional era. In a rescheduled fixture this evening at the Ato Boldon Stadium in Couva, the “Teteron Boys” kept the pressure on current leader, DIRECTV W Connection, after …

Several of the most talented Trinidad and Tobago-based footballers like Joevin Jones, Willis Plaza, Daneil Cyrus, Ataullah Guerra, Gerard Williams and Marvin Oliver will all be at the Ato Boldon Stadium in Couva on April 25. But expect match referee Neal Brizan to be the most important figure on the …

Nineteen-year-old Neil Benjamin Jr, a former Trinidad and Tobago national under-20 player, is arguably on the fast track to local football success. He made his first senior appearance for DIRECTV W Connection at 17 and, two years later, his CV includes the MVP prize in the TTFA FA Trophy competition, …

Defence Force made it eight successive Pro League wins last night as the defending champion football club is just four points behind present leader DIRECTV W Connection with a game in hand. The “Teteron Boys” will play Connection twice before the end of the season and those meetings will decide …

Three lucky boys from the Caribbean will have the chance to earn a training camp with coaches from the Chelsea Football Club academy courtesy of the Digicel Kickstart Clinic, which gets underway on Saturday April 26 from 9 am at King George V Park in Woodbrook, Port of Spain. Saturday’s …

The “Soca Warriors” are set to rejig their June plans after 2014 World Cup-bound South American nation, Colombia, revealed that it will not fulfil its contract to face the Trinidad and Tobago national football team in a friendly international on June 1. Last Wednesday, the Trinidad and Tobago Football Association …

Born and bred in Sherwood Park, Arima—a tough area known also as the Congo—Elton John played football to escape the harsh realities of his childhood. Raised by his grandmother, Julia John, John remembers losing his favourite uncle to a drug addiction. But his own focus never wavered as the former …