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Former Trinidad and Tobago World Youth Cup player Marcus Joseph scored his second hattrick in just four days for Point Fortin Civic yesterday as the southern based team whipped St Ann’s Rangers 3-0 at the Marvin Lee Stadium in Macoya to rocket up the standings. The 22-year-old Joseph, who won …

Twenty one year old Suriname and DIRECTV W Connection winger Stefano Rijssel was selected in the third round of the United States Major League Soccer (MLS) SuperDraft yesterday and will spend the next weeks in pre-season training with the Seattle Sounders. Rijssel caught the attention of the scouts at the …

Can’t we all just get along? Wired868 kicked off its second annual Football Festival yesterday at the UWI Admin ground and there were an array of former football stars on show. There were some future stars. And equality among the sexes. But mostly goals… And the final score was a …

The only sound in the Trinidad and Tobago national under-20 women team’s dressing room last night was the sound of sobbing. Instead of toasts, there were tears. The “Soca Princesses”, who already set a new high for the women’s program by qualifying for the CONCACAF semi-final round, came within five …

If it continues like this, there is the distinct possibility that Angus Eve would lead his North East Stars team into Caledonia one day and declare the district as an outpost of Sangre Grande. Another Pro League meeting between Stars and Caledonia AIA, meant another triumph for the boys from …

Akeem Adams was 22 years old when his body finally gave up its fight on 30 December 2013, at the Varosmajori Heart Clinic in Budapest, Hungary. Adams had spent three months fighting for his life with a mechanical heart and an amputated leg, the amiable, dreadlocked young Ferencvaros defender from …

First, the good news: the present Trinidad and Tobago national under-20 women’s team is just 90 minutes away from becoming the first local team to ever qualify for a FIFA women’s competition. The “Soca Princesses” meet Costa Rica from 5 pm on Sunday at the Truman Bodden Sports Complex in …

Runaway Digicel Pro League leader DIRECTV W Connection will expect to extend its unbeaten nine match unbeaten streak tonight when the “Savonetta Boys” face table proper, St Ann’s Rangers from 7 pm at the Ato Boldon Stadium in Couva. Connection romped to a 7-0 win when these teams met on …

Trinidad and Tobago’s record goal scorer Stern John, 1991 World Youth Cup playmaker Anthony Sherwood and national senior women’s team players Ahkeela “Lady Latapy” Mollon and Maylee Attin-Johnson are among the new inclusions for the second Wired868 Football Festival, which kicks off at 5 pm on Sunday evening at the …

The Trinidad and Tobago national under-20 women’s football team had lost all five previous outings against Mexico at CONCACAF level. This evening, in the Cayman Islands, the Spanish-speaking North American nation extended its run over the two island Caribbean republic to six successive victories. At the final whistle, Mexico emerged …

The Trinidad and Tobago national under-20 women’s team became the first female representatives from the two island republic to get past the group stage of a CONCACAF competition last night when the “Soca Princesses” trounced host nation, the Cayman Islands, 4-0 in George Town. The result assured Trinidad and Tobago …

Another weekend and another goal for Kerry “El Corbeux” Baptiste. Baptiste, the 32-year-old San Juan Jabloteh captain, decided a drab affair with a close range header off a Rennie Britto cross that helped the “San Juan Kings” to a 1-0 win over St Ann’s Rangers at the Larry Gomes Stadium, …