National Football

The Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) is attempting to step back from open conflict withe the US Embassy, after football president David John-Williams told the Newsday yesterday that Chargé d’Affaires Jim McIntyre told an “outright lie”—in his damning release about John-Williams’ integrity and capability. McIntyre said John-Williams tried to …

Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) president David John-Williams and his vice-presidents, Joanne Salazar and Ewing Davis, have done enough damage to the local game and should pack their bags and leave immediately. This was the verdict of TTFA board member and Trinidad and Tobago Super League (TTSL) president Keith …

“Why we have chosen to respond is because your failure to plan is [affecting] promising football (soccer) players from Trinidad and Tobago, who we would welcome playing in the USA. “[…] I will be blunt. Mr David John-Williams and the TTFA just flat out dropped the ball on the visa …

Trinidad and Tobago Women’s National Senior Team coach Jamaal Shabazz handed in his resignation to the Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) today, just 13 months after he replaced Italian Carolina Morace at the helm of the local women’s programme. Shabazz served as head coach for the Women’s National Under-17, …

Trinidad and Tobago ran riot again in the Caribbean Football Union (CFU) Boys Under-14 National Under-14 this evening, as they whipped Bonaire 11-1 in their second outing of the Caribbean Football Union (CFU) Boys’ Under 14 Challenge Series. On Saturday evening, Abdul-Quddoos Hypolite scored twice as the young Soca Warriors …

The efforts of the Trinidad and Tobago Women’s National Under-15 Team players over the past year and a half ended on an anticlimactic note today, as Concacaf withdrew its invitation for the young Women Soca Warriors to participate at the confederation’s 2018 Women’s Under-15 Championship in Florida. Trinidad and Tobago …

Diminutive attacking midfielder, Abdul-Quddoos Hypolite, had an international debut to remember yesterday evening, as he scored twice for Trinidad and Tobago in a resounding 8-0 win over Guyana in Group C of the Caribbean Football Union (CFU) Boys Under-14 Challenge Series in Curaçao. The fixture represented the first outing for …

The Trinidad and Tobago Football Association’s (TTFA) elite youth teams were thrown into varying levels of disarray this week, as the Boys National Under-14 and Women’s National Under-15 Teams struggled to get to their respective competitions in Curaçao and the United States. On Friday night, the TTFA chartered a Liat …

The Trinidad and Tobago Women’s National Senior Team had a chance to bring home bronze from the Central American and Caribbean (CAC) Games this afternoon. But they did not even come close, as they were thoroughly outplayed by Venezuela in this evening’s third place play off in Barranquilla, Colombia. A fine …

It is the Trinidad and Tobago women versus the señoritas of Venezuela on Tuesday evening, as the two neighbours go head to head for bronze medals in the Central American and Caribbean (CAC) Games women’s football competition in Barranquilla, Colombia. The Women Soca Warriors—who, improbably, made it to the semifinal …

FC Santa Rosa midfielder and QRC student John-Paul Rochford got his second goal of the Central American and Caribbean (CAC) Games tournament tonight; but it was a rare bright moment for the Trinidad and Tobago Men’s National Under-20 Team, as they were overwhelmed 5-1 by hosts Colombia in their final …

The Trinidad and Tobago Women’s National Senior Team must wait to learn if they will appear in the semifinal round of the Central American and Caribbean (CAC) Games, after squandering a two-goal lead tonight against Nicaragua in Barranquilla, Colombia. The surprise withdrawal of Haiti from the women’s tournament meant that …