England national youth team coach Michael Johnson and Trinidad and Tobago technical director Anton Corneal talk to TV6’s Fazeer Mohammed on the Morning Edition about youth development in the Caribbean and Wired868’s How to Make a Million Dollar Player Coaching Webinar: Click on the following link to book your seat …
Read More »Johnson: Shining the Caribbean’s “diamond players” (Webinar coaching series)
“[…] In Europe and England, an under-8 right the way through to under-23 player [is developed by] a system [that] is sometimes very prescriptive in terms of: “you must be over there”, “don’t come off the touchline”, “you can only play two-touch”. “[…] Within the Caribbean… you can be as …
Read More »Lawrence: Guyana draw was unfair, we should have settled game in first half
Trinidad and Tobago Men’s National Senior Team head coach Dennis Lawrence said the final scoreline yesterday was unfair to the Soca Warriors, despite having to come from behind to hold Guyana 1-1 in their final 2019 Concacaf Gold Cup fixture. Both teams knew they had no chance of advancing to …
Read More »“I can’t argue with gold!” TTOC president speaks on Ahye, St Louis, elite funding and the Commonwealth Games
“I think what has happened is more and more you are seeing athletes in various sports exercising their right to choose or take decisions that they believe are in their best benefit. It is no longer the athletes are pawns to be used. “[…] People talk about accountability and taxpayers’ …
Read More »The legend of Lightning Bolt: How Jamaican sprinter put flying feet in ex-IOC president’s mouth
If Wayde van Niekirk didn’t exist, Jacques Rogge would have invented him. “We have just witnessed,” the radio commentator calling the 100m final at the Olympic Stadium in Rio on Sunday evening told the listening world, “one of the greatest if not the greatest achievement in the history of sprinting.” …
Read More »Raucous in Rio: Machel motors but Wayde and Bolt leave Rio bazodee
Twenty-year-old Trinidad and Tobago rising star Machel Cedenio broke a national 400 metre record last night that was set, four years before he was born, by Ian Morris at the Barcelona 1992 Olympic Games. But it was not enough to get him on the podium after an extraordinary race in which …
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