Tag Archives: Kelvin Jack

Dutch coach Leo Beenhakker passed away today at the age of 82. Beenhakker won three titles at the helm of Real Madrid, lifted silverware with arch-rivals Ajax and Feyenoord, led Holland to the 1990 World Cup and steered Poland to their first ever European finals, the UEFA Euro 2008. However, …

Britain-based author Richard Blackett, who, at present, is working on A History of Football in Trinidad and Tobago, 1908-2006, made an interesting challenge to me: Who would I pick on my all-time Trinidad and Tobago XI? Of course, such selections are highly prejudiced by their very nature. But it did …

The historical overview A Short History of Santa Rosa De Arima by Jean Patricia Elie states: “[…] Arima was effectively Indian Territory. For most of the 16th and 17th centuries, the district of Arima was the home of the Nepuyo, whose active resistance to Spanish Rule effectively limited Spanish attempts …

Unified Football Coaches of Trinidad and Tobago (UFCTT) interim president Jefferson George and former Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) technical committee member Ken Elie both suggested that Angus Eve is the right coach to lead the Soca Warriors. However, both expressed misgivings about the manner in which Eve was …

Trinidad and Tobago Men’s National Senior Team interim head coach Angus Eve and his technical staff are among over a dozen Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) employees still awaiting outstanding salaries from the local football body. Eve was hired as Soca Warriors head coach by the Fifa-appointed normalisation committee …

The Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA), guided at present by the Robert Hadad-led Fifa-appointed normalisation committee, has apparently reversed its position on providing an entirely local-based technical staff to assist Women’s National Senior Team head coach James Thomas. A TTFA press release this afternoon confirmed instead that Charlie Mitchell …

The following is a press statement from former Trinidad and Tobago Men’s National Senior Team assistant coach and goalkeeper coach and 2006 World Cup goalkeeper Kelvin Jack CM: I would like to take the time to thank the fans for their incredible support during my short tenure as an assistant …

The designation ‘anonymous source’ has become a talking point this week, in light of Wired868’s two-part series ‘The truth about Griffith’. So I think it might be useful to explain how someone becomes an unnamed source for Wired868. The three main questions asked in each and every case are: Is …

Sometime during the course of Terry Fenwick’s tenure of Trinidad and Tobago Men’s National Senior Team head coach, the players began an informal game in which they would try to guess when the English coach planned to slip Gary Griffith III into the national squad. Usually, it was whenever silence …

“[…] A selection panel led by NC member Nicholas Gomez and comprising Anton Corneal, Anthony Sherwood and Richard Chinapoo will meet to finalise the selection of the interim head coach.  “The interim head coach together with the panel will then establish the supporting team…” The following is a press statement from the …

Unified Football Coaches of Trinidad and Tobago (UFCTT) interim president Jefferson George confirmed that Men’s National Senior Team assistant coaches Derek King and Kelvin Jack both agreed termination packages with the Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) yesterday, within hours of their dismissals. At present, Jack and King are the …

The Robert Hadad-led Fifa-appointed normalisation committee appears set to swing the axe through the Trinidad and Tobago Men’s National Senior Team’s technical staff, with head coach Terry Fenwick and assistants Kelvin Jack and Derek King on the brink. The normalisation committee comprises: Hadad, Judy Daniel, Nigel Romano, and Trevor Nicholas …