The Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) is set for a $4.8 million (US$750,000) cash injection from FIFA after the international football body approved the unprecedented payment to its member associations at last week’s Congress in Sao Paulo. The payment is believed to be due in two tranches and can …
Read More »Corneal strikes back: Tim Kee and Phillips are opportunists
Arnold Corneal, brother of former technical director Anton Corneal, accuses the TTFA of a lack of respect to local coaches: We continue to manage the administrative function of local football in a manner that lends itself to continued scepticism and mistrust. In addition, the stories of local coaching practitioners who …
Read More »Corneal quits Warriors; TTFA confirms technical director’s exit
Local football received another shock yesterday when Anton Corneal, the Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) technical director, quit his post amidst unpaid debts and a perceived lack of respect from within the association. Corneal, who accepted a four-year contract to arrest the decline in the local game in 2012, …
Read More »Ex-TTFA coach ponders youth football return despite ‘sexting’ schoolboy scandal
Terrence Marcelle, a former Pleasantville Secondary and Trinidad and Tobago national youth team football coach, has a passion for developing youths and the qualifications to place him in the top echelons of local coaches in that field. However, Marcelle’s past indiscretion with a schoolboy is threatening to derail his effort …
Read More »T&T U-20 women start W/Cup campaign against Honduras today
The Trinidad and Tobago national under-20 women’s team will hope for a winning start today as it continues its Canada 2014 World Cup qualifying campaign with a CONCACAF Group B contest against Honduras from 6 pm at the Truman Bodden Sports Complex in George Town, Cayman Islands. The “Soca Princesses” …
Read More »Mixed blessings: TTFA senior coaches paid; youth coaches deflated
There were mixed blessings for Trinidad and Tobago’s national coaching community over the Christmas season as the Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) raised enough money to cover roughly half of its arrears for the senior coaches but none for staff from the youth and women’s teams. The Ministry of …
Read More »Hart uncomfortable as financial woes haunt Warriors
Trinidad and Tobago national football team coach Stephen Hart admitted that there is an elephant in the squad’s dressing room. Nine months into 2013, the Trinidad and Tobago Football Association’s (TTFA) technical staff still has not received a salary. And, two months after the CONCACAF Gold Cup, the “Soca Warriors” …
Read More »Late Sport Ministry payment KOs T&T U-15 footballers
Twenty-one year old Trinidad and Tobago track star Jehue Gordon lifted the mood of sport enthusiasts today with a golden run in the 2013 IAAF World Championships in Moscow, Russia. The Trinidad and Tobago national under-15 football players might not have felt like celebrating, though. The young “Soca Warriors” today …
Read More »Hart’s here but Beenhakker absent and assistants in limbo
Former Canada national football team coach Stephen Hart was officially unveiled today as the new Trinidad and Tobago head coach at a media conference at the Hasely Crawford Stadium in Port of Spain and later held his first session with the “Soca Warriors” at the same venue. Hart, a 53-year-old …
Read More »Dear TTFA: David Nakhid’s scathing open letter on coaching changes
Former Trinidad and Tobago national football team captain and Caribbean MVP, David Nakhid, writes an open letter to TTFA/TTFF personnel past and present, Everald “Gally” Cummings, Anton Corneal, Raymond Tim Kee and Sheldon Phillip. Gentlemen, Full disclosure: There is only one member of the former TTFF regime whose hand …
Read More »Hart transplant: TTFA hires ex-Canada coach… locals still unpaid
The Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) appears set to announce another new face on its technical staff on the eve of the July 2013 CONCACAF Gold Cup. Wired868 understands that former Canada national football team coach Stephen Hart has accepted a two-year offer from TTFA president Raymond Tim Kee …
Read More »Warriors lose 1-0 to Estonia; await Beenhakker decision
The Trinidad and Tobago national football team closed its mini-European tour today with a 1-0 friendly loss away to Estonia. Twenty two year old striker Henri Anier grabbed Estonia’s winner in the 13th minute for his fourth goal from eight internationals while neither striker Jamal Gay nor substitutes Shahdon Winchester and …
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