Arima North Secondary will play Secondary Schools Football League (SSFL) Premier Division football in 2023, after a nine-year hiatus in the lower divisions. This evening, the Dial Dynamos confirmed their promotion to the SSFL’s top-flight competition with a 1-0 win over Siparia West Secondary in National Big 5 action at …
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“[…] How can the SSFL decide that an unavailable ground is reason enough to postpone an already rescheduled game in a tournament that has already started a month late—and when there were grounds available elsewhere? “[…] I object to (SSFL assistant secretary administration and fixtures committee member) Gerald Elliot’s disregard …
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Siparia West Secondary will host Arima North Secondary from 3.30pm on Saturday 29 October in the first confirmed Secondary Schools Football League (SSFL) Big Five fixture. In the other match on the same day, St Mary’s College welcome the Central Zone champions to Serpentine Road from 3.30pm. At present, though, …
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Today’s scheduled top of the table Tobago Boys Championship Division match between Bishop’s High School and Scarborough Secondary is now the second game of the 2022 Secondary Schools Football League (SSFL) season to be postponed due to a Covid-19 scare. A release from the SSFL today revealed that the fixture …
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“You think you got picked already?!” Presentation College (San Fernando) head coach Shawn Cooper recalls his wake-up call to the then 14-year-old Trinidad and Tobago whiz kid Levi Garcia and how the Shiva Boys Hindu College star responded to his setback. Look out for our full interview on Wednesday 17 …
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“The community which I grow up in is just stagnant. Nobody ain’t doing anything to better themselves, they’re just selling drugs. I don’t want to be like that. I want to be better, I want to take myself to the top. And for me the top is playing for a …
Read More »Grand Pappy! Tyrel Emmanuel on Shiva Boys, his football family and Levi Garcia
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Read More »Premier champions: Naparima batters Shiva to lift inaugural SSFL title
At the final whistle yesterday evening, dozens of schoolboys stormed the field throwing anything they could find into the air and hugging their school’s footballers, parents and teachers took turns waving a Naparima College flag while fireworks shot into the sky and exploded with colour and lights over the venue at …
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