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 …
Read More »The pride, then the fall: from Fenwick’s World Cup champagne dreams to hops and channa
The Qatar 2022 World Cup qualifying campaign continues on Saturday without any involvement from Trinidad and Tobago—unless you count Canada’s substitute goalkeeper Dayne St Clair, who chose to represent the land of his birth soon after he popped up on the radar of Soca Warriors head coach Terry Fenwick in …
Read More »B&B (Trailer): Corneal: Synergy, passion, the greed for a result… Where was it, T&T?!
Coach Anton Corneal, who steered Trinidad and Tobago to two World Youth Cups and assisted Leo Beenhakker at the Germany 2006 World Cup, explains why Terry Fenwick’s troops were unable to advance from a World Cup qualifying group that included St Kitts and Nevis, Guyana, Puerto Rico, and The Bahamas. …
Read More »Hyland signs off in style and Muckette opens tab, as Trinidad and Tobago down SKN 2-0
St Kitts and Nevis were the best outfit in Group F of the preliminary Concacaf World Cup qualifying group but Trinidad and Tobago were the better team today, as the Soca Warriors closed off their Qatar 2022 campaign with a 2-0 win over the ‘Sugar Boyz’ at the Félix Sánchez …
Read More »Joevin and Levi sit out practice before final WCQ, as farcical NC travel plans left players without boots
On the eve of the Trinidad and Tobago Men’s National Senior Team’s final World Cup qualifying outing against St Kitts and Nevis, six players were asked to train in sneakers on wet grass, after they were left without football boots—as a result of farcical travel plans arranged by the Fifa-appointed …
Read More »Bateau: Some players don’t value national shirt enough, but Warriors will play for pride against SKN
Trinidad and Tobago defender Sheldon Bateau, who was stand-in captain on Saturday when the Soca Warriors drew goalless with The Bahamas, said that the team’s weekend result and subsequent elimination from the Qatar 2022 World Cup qualifying series affected the older players more than the younger ones. The 30-year-old Bateau, …
Read More »NC investigates ‘row’ between Jack and Griffith III before The Bahamas WCQ (Video included)
The Fifa-appointed normalisation committee has requested a report into a row between Trinidad and Tobago Men’s National Senior Team assistant coach Kelvin Jack and 18-year-old player Gary Griffith III, which occurred just hours before their World Cup qualifying outing against The Bahamas on Saturday 5 June. Jack, the 45-year-old 2006 …
Read More »Frenderup, Jomal, and Singh ruled out of T&T’s final WCQ against St Kitts and Nevis tomorrow
The Trinidad and Tobago Men’s National Senior Team will complete their Qatar 2022 World Cup qualifying campaign with the same pool of 25 players that were available in The Bahamas, after goalkeeper Nicklas Frenderup, midfielder Jomal Williams, and Luke Singh all ruled themselves out of tomorrow’s contest with St Kitts …
Read More »Dear Editor: Don’t just blame the players, blame the normalisation committee too!
“[…] Players also were told that they wouldn’t be paid stipends because it didn’t factor into the TTFA’s budget. So they’re supposed to make it to training at their own expense when they’re not being paid for their profession? “A number of players had to seek regular jobs as they’re …
Read More »Dear Editor: Where’s the pride and passion from the Soca Warriors? And as for Mr Terry…
“[…] I don’t think many of these player care to understand that many of us are left broken-hearted, kids left with tears in their eyes, and others just feeling like a laughing stock. I think it is time to get back the pride and dignity of playing for your country…” …
Read More »Fenwick blames ‘squandered chances’ on W/Cup KO, can still net salary hike to US$25k per month
Trinidad and Tobago Men’s National Senior Team head coach Terry Fenwick blamed poor finishing for his team’s elimination from the Qatar 2022 World Cup qualifying campaign yesterday evening, after a goalless draw away to The Bahamas at the Thomas Robinson Stadium in Nassau. The draw left the Soca Warriors with …
Read More »Nassau nightmare! Trinidad and Tobago eliminated from 2022 W/Cup by 201st ranked The Bahamas
‘This is the way the world ends,’ wrote TS Eliot, in his immortal poem The Hollow Men. ‘Not with a bang but a whimper…’ In the fading sunlight of Nassau this evening, a generation of Trinidad and Tobago footballers passed noiselessly towards their doom at the Thomas Robinson Stadium. The Soca Warriors were …
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