Tag Archives: Osmond Downer

St Augustine Secondary have lost their second case before the Secondary School Football League (SSFL) Disciplinary Committee—this time, for using a suspended player. The “Green Machine” played left back Aaden Maharaj in their 3-0 win over East Mucurapo Secondary at their Warren Street, St Augustine home ground on Wednesday 9 …

The Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) announced its first major change under the tenure of new president Kieron Edwards, as Kareem Paul was unveiled as the new general secretary. Paul replaces Amiel Mohammed, who was appointed by Fifa-appointed normalisation committee chair Robert Hadad. The TTFA release listed Paul’s start …

Eastern Football Association (EFATT) president Kieron Edwards yesterday became the first candidate for the 2024 Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) presidential election to name his full slate. Edwards, a director at TTPFL team Terminix La Horquetta Rangers, is challenging the post of president at the Saturday 13 April election. …

Members of the Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) are now officially in election mode, after agreeing to constitutional amendments that many feel to be deeply flawed. Today, the membership approved the revised TTFA statutes to complete the tasks of the Fifa-appointed Normalisation Committee. And the Robert Hadad-led committee, according …

“Skinner Park does not have a legal football field for approved senior competitive games, by which I mean games that are above under-15 level,” said Trinidad and Tobago Football Referees Association (TTFRA) president Osmond Downer. “There should be no argument—none whatsoever.” On Friday, Udecott Corporate Communications and Marketing manager Roxanne …

QPCC will continue their campaign for all four Republic Cup National Youth Football League (NYFL) trophies after the Parkites survived a protest by Crown Trace FC against the uniforms worn by the former club’s under-15 team on Tuesday afternoon. The QPCC U-15s, as the away team, wore at least three …

The game was just 17 minutes old when St Vincent and the Grenadines attacker Oalex Anderson darted behind the Nicaragua defence to run on to a lofted pass, in Concacaf Nations League B action in Managua on Friday night. Anderson, a US third division player with North Carolina FC, easily …

Trinidad and Tobago will remain under the direct grip of Fifa for at least another year, as the world governing body today unilaterally declared that it extended the mandate of its normalisation committee on the two-island republic. The decision, made by the Gianni Infantino-led Bureau of the Fifa Council, was …

The Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) membership yesterday voted to annul its motion of 10 December 2022, which gave an 18 March 2023 deadline for the Robert Hadad-led Fifa-appointed Normalisation Committee to end its occupation of the local football body. The new motion—again moved by Trinidad and Tobago Football …

Fifa has threatened further action against the Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) if members use their constitutional right to demand a local football election, which was promised by the world governing body in the first place. The latest missive was issued by Fifa Chief Member Associations officer Kenny Jean-Marie …

Somewhere between 2006 and 2010, as Trinidad and Tobago’s football stock fell on and off the field—and, as always, the decline in one was linked to happenings in the other—a group of influential members allegedly decided that change was necessary. Then Fifa vice-president and Trinidad and Tobago Football Federation (TTFF) …

The Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) must pay off a loan of US$3m (TT$20.1m) over the next 10 years to a mysterious benefactor—a repayment plan of essentially US$300,000 per year. It is a far rosier proposition than the previous scenario of 258 irate creditors and a debt of over …