“We didn’t lose, which is the most important thing—we didn’t lose,” said Trinidad and Tobago Men’s National Senior Team head coach Angus Eve, in last night’s post-match press conference. “When we qualified in 2006, it was the same thing with the Costa Rica game that we had right in the …
Read More »2026WCQ: Shell-shocked Soca Warriors forced to fight back to hold Grenada 2-2 in POS
Trinidad and Tobago’s hoodoo against the Grenada Men’s National Senior Team continued last night, as the Soca Warriors had to settle for a 2-2 draw at the Hasely Crawford Stadium, Port of Spain in their opening 2026 Fifa World Cup qualifying match. Grenada came to the Port of Spain on …
Read More »Spicer’s international debut in limbo; Toronto concerned about T&T call-up
Trinidad and Tobago Men’s National Senior Team head coach Angus Eve will almost certainly have to start his 2026 World Cup qualifying campaign without gifted 23-year-old flanker Tyrese Spicer. Spicer, who was Major League Soccer club Toronto FC’s first round draft pick last year, was included in Eve’s 39-man pool …
Read More »Spicer, Dantaye named in Eve’s 39-man T&T WCQ provisional squad
Trinidad and Tobago Men’s National Senior Team head coach Angus Eve named the uncapped overseas-based trio of Tyrese Spicer, Dantaye Gilbert and Steffen Yeates in a 39-man provisional squad for the country’s first 2026 World Cup qualifier against Grenada on Wednesday 5 June. The Soca Warriors are grouped with Costa …
Read More »New TTFA president will chair technical committee; Sancho tipped for role
New Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) president Kieron “Bo” Edwards is set to be installed as technical and development committee chairman, as the new executive committee prepares to resuscitate the local football body’s standing committees. The technical and development committee, according to the TTFA constitution, advises the executive committee …
Read More »Eve “excited” by World Cup draw, wary of Costa Rica and tips Grenada as dark horse
Trinidad and Tobago Men’s National Senior Team head coach Angus Eve said his players and staff are excited about their chances in the Fifa 2026 World Cup qualifying series, as the draw was made in Zurich, Switzerland yesterday. The Soca Warriors are grouped with Costa Rica, St Kitts and Nevis, …
Read More »T&T coach, Eve, gets two-year contract extension; Hadad: “we’re excited for the future!”
Trinidad and Tobago Men’s National Senior Team head coach Angus Eve will lead the Soca Warriors into the 2026 FIFA World Cup qualifying series, after he was granted a two-year contract extension by the Fifa-appointed Normalisation Committee. The decision is an about-turn on Normalisation Committee chairman Robert Hadad’s initial stance …
Read More »‘Covid is THE factor!’ CFU president on Caribbean football struggles, racism, and normalisation
“[…] Listen, [Covid-19] is the factor. A lot of the teams in the Caribbean could not even train, further more play competitive football; and that has affected the Caribbean. It is clear! When you look at Central America and North America, they were able to play their tournaments as normal …
Read More »Look Loy set to unveil ‘Project 2026’, plan will pool ‘B team’ of players born from 1999
Even as Trinidad and Tobago prepare to grab a late ticket for the 2021 Concacaf Gold Cup and start preparations in earnest for the Qatar 2022 World Cup, technical committee chairman Keith Look Loy is set to unveil an even more ambitious proposal to the Board of the Trinidad and …
Read More »Nakhid: On politics and football; why Manning was irrelevant and Deschamps is a failure
A year or two before former Prime Minister Patrick Manning passed away, I wrote an article stating—among many other things—that Manning no longer held any relevance for politics in Trinidad and Tobago. Of course multiple queries followed from readers. I did not explain myself then as I found the statement …
Read More »Sputnik 2018: T&T’s 2026 W/Cup boost, Messi and Neymar’s obligation to hungry children and Spanish spite
Trinidad and Tobago will have their work cut out for them if they are NOT to qualify for the FIFA 2026 World Cup tournament, after member associations voted this morning to hold the 48-team competition between three Concacaf nations: United States, Mexico and Canada. As host nations qualify automatically and …
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