The State-owned National Lottories Control Board (NLCB) belatedly stepped in on the weekend to rescue the Trinidad and Tobago national under-20 football team’s two-match series against its Canada national under-20 counterparts. The Trinidad and Tobago team is preparing for November’s Caribbean Football Union (CFU) qualifying competition in Jamaica but was …
Read More »Sport Ministry fiddles as national football teams shut down
Sport Minister Anil Roberts and, by extension, the Trinidad and Tobago government spared little expense in celebrating the finished article as it recently feted Olympic gold medallist Keshorn Walcott and 50 of the country’s top sportsmen. But the feeling within local football circles is that the Sport Ministry is not …
Read More »NE Stars, Corneal support Williams’ fiancée
DirecTV North East Stars and Trinidad and Tobago national football team technical director Anton Corneal expressed support and prayers for W. Connection captain and “Soca Warriors” goalkeeper Jan-Michael Williams, whose fiancée, Candice Worrell, is in critical condition after a brutal robbery. Worrell was relieved of her cellular phone and wallet …
Read More »Gally criticises “hasty” Corneal appointment
Ex-Trinidad and Tobago national football team standout player and coach, Everald “Gally” Cummings, today criticised the Trinidad and Tobago Football Federation (TTFF) for its “haste” in appointing former assistant coach Anton Corneal as technical director. Corneal, who received a four-year contract to oversee the development of the local game, began …
Read More »Corneal named TTFF technical director
Trinidad and Tobago Football Federation (TTFF) Acting President Lennox Watson announced today, via press release, that long-time senior team assistant coach, Anton Corneal, is the new national football team technical director. Corneal was awarded a four-year contract, which suggests that he will bear long-term responsibility for arresting the decline in …
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