Defence Force striker and the Trinidad and Tobago Pro League’s all-time top scorer, Devorn Jorsling, has scored his last goal in the red, white and black strip. Jorsling, who failed to break into the Trinidad and Tobago squad for the 2015 CONCACAF Gold Cup, declared today that he feels his …
Read More »Liverpool legends take the crown: Fiery final to Tobago tournament
Liverpool FC, led by tempestuous the Stan Collymore—an English striker with a Barbadian parent—were crowned the new British Airways Tobago Legends Football Challenge champions this evening in an exciting finale to the six-a-side competition at the Dwight Yorke Stadium in Bacolet. But they had to beat stiff local competition along …
Read More »Legends live: Day one of the Legends Football Challenge
The British Airways Tobago Football Legends tournament kicked off this afternoon at the Dwight Yorke Stadium in Bacolet, Tobago. Wired868 has you covered: Tobago Football Legends (Group A) Tottenham Hotspur 3 (Paul McVeigh, Ruel Fox, Devon Leacock), Manchester United 2 (Ben Thornley, Bojan Djordic) Former Manchester United star and 2006 …
Read More »Legends hit Tobago countryside; Speyside nearly forgot the memo
A Jamaican Gayle hit the Tobago countryside yesterday but his first name was not Chris and so he didn’t exactly take the island by storm. The towering former Jamaica international, whose first name is Marcus, was one of three ex-Premiership players in the sister isle for this weekend’s Tobago Legends …
Read More »The Legends are here! Yorke, Lara, Latapy, Saha and more hit Tobago
Dwight Yorke, Russell Latapy, Louis Saha, Shaka Hislop, Deon Burton, Stern John, Stan Collymore, Pierre Van Hoojidonk, Dennis Lawrence, Patrick Berger and, as a special treat, cricket’s world record holder Brian Lara. It is an all-star week for football fans as the Caribbean’s most famous past players and a host …
Read More »Sport Ministry halts payment to Warrior coaches; Tim Kee explains delay
Despite a prior promise from the Government to pay the salaries of Trinidad and Tobago National Senior Team coaches, Sport Minister Brent Sancho confirmed to Wired868 that his ministry will not give a cent to the Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) or any other sporting body without proof of …
Read More »Remember 19/11: The climb to the brink of history
Recapturing the euphoric mood of the moment, Ashford Jackman previews the final game of the 1990 World Cup qualifiers in which, to take T&T to the Finals in Italy, Everald “Gally” Cummings’ confident Strike Squad needed simply not to lose. Controversy. Adversity. Achievement. The clear signposts along the road travelled …
Read More »Remember 19/11: The 1989 red storm that set us free
Performance poet Roger Bonair-Agard who, as a teenager in the 1980’s, took football to be life, “saw” the November 19 match through a haze sitting in a Flatbush bar and recently sat down in a New York apartment to recreate the entire event for Wired868 in the first installment of our …
Read More »Strike Squad celebrates 25th Anniversary with walk for peace
Twenty five years ago the entire country joined the “Strike Squad” on the Road to Italy in its quest to achieve World Cup glory with a brand of soccer, inspired by myself as coach, coined “Kaisosoca”, which captured the spirit and the rhythm of the people and its indigenous music …
Read More »Ford focus: Nelson St starlet promises to lift T&T U-20s in Caribbean Cup
Seventeen-year-old Trinidad and Tobago defender Maurice Ford hopes to see his Nelson Street friends at the Hasely Crawford Stadium on Friday evening when the national under-20 team kicks off its Caribbean Under-20 Championship campaign against Curacao from 7.15 pm. The CFU competition is the first step on the road to …
Read More »TTFA misses Latapy court payment; unpaid staff goes on rotation
The Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) continues to operate at the edge of financial ruin as, despite general secretary Sheldon Phillips’ sunny disposition, the local football body seems clueless about how to pay its bills while it allegedly dodges debtors. In January 2014, TTFA president Raymond Tim Kee agreed …
Read More »PM pays 2006 World Cup players; independent of the TTFA
The 2006 World Cup players finally received payment for their exploits today, eight years after the fact, by Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar. This afternoon, in a press conference at the Diplomatic Centre in St Ann’s, Persad-Bissessar stole a march on Sport Minister Anil Roberts, National Security Minister Gary Griffith …
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