Tag Archives: Christo Gouveia

“[…] Many times, I didn’t have money to go to training. I used to sell bottles so I could go. My grandmother would help me with money to go training too, but I tried not to ask too much from her. “Also Kaya’s (Micah Lewis) father would drive all the …

Rio Cardines has got his Trinidad and Tobago passport and will join the National Under-17 Team in Guatemala tomorrow, just hours before their opening Concacaf Under-17 Championship match against Canada. Almost certainly, Cardines will not be named in coach Shawn Cooper’s starting team and is unlikely to feature at all. …

After two weeks in Trinidad waiting for the green light to join his soon-to-be international teammates, 17-year-old England-born footballer Rio Cardines thought he finally got the breakthrough to represent the country of his grandfather, Patrick Cardines. All he needed was a signature from Minister of National Security Fitzgerald Hinds that …

Domestic sport in Trinidad and Tobago is on pause at present; and has been for much of the past 13 months, since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic. Arima North Secondary football team technical director and former Trinidad and Tobago Boys’ National Under-15 Team and QPCC FC assistant coach Wayne …

The Trinidad and Tobago national under-17 team is almost certain to be without the services of assistant coach and Defence Force Staff Sargeant Ross Russell for the first rung of its Chile 2015 Under-17 World Cup qualifying campaign next week. Russell remains hospitalized at the West Shore Medical Hospital in …

Trinidad and Tobago national under-17 and Defence Force coach Ross Russell is believed to have suffered a mild stroke at his Diego Martin home yesterday and is awaiting word from doctors today after spending the night at the West Shore Medical Hospital in Port of Spain. National youth team manager …

The Trinidad and Tobago national football team displayed its battling abilities over the last week with gutsy performances in defeats to World Cup-bound teams, Argentina and Iran. But, closer to home, local football remains in near crisis mode with half of the national teams inactive while the Trinidad and Tobago …

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 …

The João Havelange Centre of Excellence, formerly known as the João Havelange CONCACAF Centre of Excellence, has done a U-turn of sorts regarding the Trinidad and Tobago national under-17 team but the result is the same. The young “Soca Warriors” will not have the benefit of preparing on turf for the United …

The Trinidad and Tobago national under-17 football team was dealt a low blow to its United Arab Emirates 2013 Under-17 World Cup chances yesterday when the teenaged “Soca Warriors” were denied any chance of practicing on the Marvin Lee Stadium at the Dr João Havelange Centre of Excellence, which was …