“World Cup isn’t relevant anymore,” a 30-year-old sports editor colleague told me a few years ago. “[Uefa] Champions League is the most important event in football; it’s what everybody wants to see—where all the top players are.” That’s Bobby, pronouncing, now that the Qatar 2022 groups have been more or …
Read More »Ex-Pro League star, Akeem Benjamin, shot dead after alleged ‘confrontation’ with police
Former Pro League stand-out Akeem ‘Battery’ Benjamin was one of two men shot dead today during an alleged confrontation with police officers at the out-of-commission Flavourite Ice Cream compound at Boundary Road in San Juan. The second deceased man remains unidentified while a TTPS release said North Eastern Division Task …
Read More »McWatt: Guyana ready to party as President Ali aims to make most of CPL hosting agreement
The Hero Caribbean Premier League (CPL) has announced that its finals will be hosted by Guyana for the next three years, starting in 2022. This year’s tournament culmination will have its first-ever staging in Guyana and the announced three-year long-term agreement will now ensure encore presentations in 2023 and 2024. …
Read More »T&T start Nations League away to Nicaragua, Wired868 looks at Caribbean fixtures
The Trinidad and Tobago Men’s National Senior Team will start their 2022-23 Concacaf Nations League campaign away to Nicaragua on Friday 3 June 2022 and finish it at home on Monday 27 March 2023. The tournament will take place in a round-robin format with each team playing its fellow group …
Read More »Eve suggests ‘very difficult’ Nations League group and ‘personal issues’ over non-selection of Rangers players
Trinidad and Tobago Men’s National Senior Team head coach Angus Eve described Group C of the Concacaf Nations League second tier competition as ‘very difficult’, as he prepares to cross swords with Nicaragua, St Vincent and the Grenadines and The Bahamas respectively. The Nations League kicks off in June and …
Read More »Trinidad and Tobago draw The Bahamas, Nicaragua and ‘Vincy Heat’ in Concacaf Nations League
The Trinidad and Tobago Men’s National Senior Team have been reunited with The Bahamas as both nations were tonight put together in Group C of the second tier of the 2022-23 Concacaf Nations League. The two League B nations are grouped with Nicaragua and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines in …
Read More »CPL 2022: TKR sign Pooran and Russell; Bravos reunited at Patriots; King, Allen join Tallawahs
The Trinbago Knight Riders made a bold statement in the Caribbean Premier League (CPL) pre-draft today as they announced the signatures of wicketkeeper/batsman Nicholas Pooran and allrounder Andre Russell, who represented the Guyana Amazon Warriors and Jamaica Tallawahs respectively last season. The 2022 CPL season bowls off on 30 August …
Read More »Early Bird: Sobers sightings; a grateful graduate seeks to give the great Sir Garry his due
March 2022. The Apex Second Test in Barbados. Garfield St Aubrun Sobers sat, as he has long sat, beside his queen atop the Kensington pavilion, monarch of all he surveyed. But frail-, fragile-, feeble-looking even. I felt for him. I feared for him. Through my mind flashed an image of …
Read More »Trinidad and Tobago slip two places in Fifa rankings, plus Wired868 looks at Eve’s 35-man pool
The Trinidad and Tobago Men’s National Senior Team dropped two places to 103rd in the latest Fifa rankings released on 31 March 2022, while they remain 11th in the Concacaf region. The Soca Warriors are ranked as the fourth best nation in the Caribbean, behind Jamaica (64th), Curaçao (79th) and …
Read More »‘I don’t feel I’m out of any game as a coach’; T&T coach Prince Borde on leading Antigua and Barbuda women
“[…] I saw a video of a women’s league game [in Antigua and Barbuda] and it reminded me of the Secondary Schools Football League in Trinidad back in the day, when the fans lined up around the ropes…” Wired868 has spoken to Trinidad and Tobago coaches employed around the Caribbean …
Read More »TTFA moves Women’s W/Cup qualifier against Guyana to Tobago, Jones names 23-member squad
The Trinidad and Tobago Women’s National Senior Team will face Guyana at the Dwight Yorke Stadium in Bacolet on 12 April in their potentially decisive Concacaf W Championship qualifying affair. The Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) announced the venue today in a media statement on head coach Kenwyne Jones’ …
Read More »Form three St Benedict’s midfielder, Josiah Ochoa, wins SSFL Ball Juggling competition
St Benedict’s College midfielder Josiah Ochoa is the Secondary Schools Football League’s first trophy-holder in close to three years, after the 15-year-old form three student won the SSFL Online Ball Juggling Competition earlier this month. Ochoa emerged best of a field of 10 participants to cop the award. Nine entrants …
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