National Football

November 20, 1989 was the morning after the evening before. Having recaptured the pre-match euphoria, Ashford Jackman now reminds us of what it felt like that day when, cock-sure that we were bound for Italy, we all woke up to find that we were all dressed up with nowhere to …

Recapturing the euphoric mood of the moment, Ashford Jackman previews the final game of the 1990 World Cup qualifiers in which, to take T&T to the Finals in Italy, Everald “Gally” Cummings’ confident Strike Squad needed simply not to lose. Controversy. Adversity. Achievement. The clear signposts along the road travelled …

The Caribbean Cup trophy, yet again, will not return to Trinidad and Tobago. And the Jamaica national football team captain, Rodolph Austin, took delight in sending the “Soca Warriors” home empty handed after a 4-3 penalty shoot-out final win in Montego Bay last night. “When you go Trinidad, they turn …

Trinidad and Tobago national football team captain Kenwyne Jones confirmed that the “Soca Warriors” will do everything in their power to be crowned Caribbean champions tonight when they face host Jamaica from 9 pm (TT time) in the 2014 regional final in Montego Bay. However, Jones described the situation between …

Trinidad and Tobago national football team manager William Wallace and captain Kenwyne Jones have confirmed that the “Soca Warriors” will take to the field this evening to fight for the regional title against Jamaica in the 2014 Caribbean Cup final. The Warriors and Jamaica will square off from 9 pm …

Performance poet Roger Bonair-Agard who, as a teenager in the 1980’s, took football to be life, “saw” the November 19 match through a haze sitting in a Flatbush bar and recently sat down in a New York apartment to recreate the entire event for Wired868 in the first installment of our …

Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) president Raymond Tim Kee, according to a letter leaked to Wired868, apparently tried to deceive his own executive committee about the financial health of the football body and its debts to players and staff. On 10 November 2014, Tim Kee, in a letter to …

The Trinidad and Tobago national football team will compete for its first Caribbean Cup title in 13 years on Tuesday after the “Soca Warriors” finished their Group A assignments tonight with a goalless draw against Cuba in Montego Bay. If coach Stephen Hart is looking forward to Tuesday, he might …

The “Soca Warriors” are four days away from the 2014 Caribbean Cup finals in Jamaica after successive group stage wins over Curaçao and French Guiana. But Wired868 can confirm that it is six months since the national senior team players were last paid a match fee and eight months since …

Trinidad and Tobago national senior women’s team captain Maylee Attin-Johnson has publicly criticised ticket prices for the upcoming FIFA Play Off second leg against Ecuador from 6 pm on December 2 at the Hasely Crawford Stadium in Port of Spain. Trinidad and Tobago and Ecuador played to a goalless draw …

The Trinidad and Tobago national senior men’s football team booked its place in the 2015 CONCACAF Gold Cup after just two Caribbean Cup group matches in Jamaica. But it was anything but an easy ride. The “Soca Warriors” struggled to hold on to a three-goal lead this evening against French …

Football fans must pay a record admission fee for a local women’s match to be part of history on 2 December 2014 when the Trinidad and Tobago senior national women’s football team faces Ecuador in the second and final leg of a Canada 2015 Women’s World Cup Play Off from …