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If tonight’s Digicel Pro League clash between Defence Force and St Ann’s Rangers was a boxing match, referee Neil Brizan would have been obliged to stop the contest after 45 minutes. It was not just that Defence Force was landing its punches but the increasing ease in which the soldiers …

There will be four former Youth World Cup players, two former senior World Cup players, two ex-England Premier League players and a host of past international stars in action on Sunday afternoon as Wired868.com hosts its first Football Festival between 3 and 6 pm at UWI’s SPEC ground on the …

There is a small chance that you have never heard of Lionel Messi; a very small chance. For most of the football world, however, he is “Leo the Great”, “the Football Messi-ah” and he currently reigns over a vast kingdom rich with history, fame and fortune. There is no shortage …

The Trinidad and Tobago national football team’s players and staff are set for a merry holiday season as the Sport Ministry and the Trinidad and Tobago Football Federation (TTFF) are both set to reward the “Soca Warriors” for their efforts in a testing year. National football team manager William Wallace …

The Trinidad and Tobago national football team will end 2012 with its highest FIFA ranking in three years after moving up 11 places to 68th in the latest rankings from the global football body. The “Soca Warriors” is now ranked ninth in CONCACAF and third in the Caribbean behind Haiti …

Trinidad and Tobago’s latest FIFA rank of 67 is our best placement in three years. But the highest rank ever achieved by the “Soca Warriors” was 25th under late Scottish coach Ian Porterfield in June 2001. Porterfield inherited a team ranked 40th in the world from his predecessor, Bertille St Clair. In …

There has been suspicion in some quarters at the rate in which national institutions are being created in south and central Trinidad or moved out of the capital of Port of Spain. But it seems safe to assume that the DIRECTV W Connection football club will be happy to forego …

If the world does not end tonight, Central FC’s players are going to feel pretty silly when they wake up tomorrow and realise they have to live with the memory of this evening’s 5-2 Digicel Pro League mauling, which was inflicted by the in-form Neal & Massy Caledonia AIA. Caledonia …

Promising Stokely Vale striker Rundell Winchester is among five new signings for Digicel Pro League newcomer, Central FC, as the “Sharks” aim to beef up its squad for the second half of the season. Central is in fifth place in the Pro League at present with six points from four …

Trinidad and Tobago national football defender Seon Power refused to celebrate second place after the “Soca Warriors” lost the 2012 Caribbean Cup final to Cuba yesterday evening after an extra time goal by Marcel Hernandez. But Power had a word for football fans back home. “The hunger is back and …

Cuba reached the Caribbean Cup finals three times before and lost each time; twice to Trinidad and Tobago and once to Jamaica. But there would be no denying the Cubans in Antigua today. The “Soca Warriors” might have won the match in the closing minutes of regulation time but only …

The Trinidad and Tobago Defence Force took advantage of a slow weekend of activity to move into first position in the Digicel Pro League yesterday evening with a 3-2 win over T&TEC FC at the Hasely Crawford Stadium, Port of Spain. Makeshift striker Michael Edwards, who is deputising for absent …