Former Strike Squad stand-out and Concacaf Club Championship winner Hutson ‘Baba’ Charles, the current Men’s National Senior Team assistant coach, suggests where Trinidad and Tobago repeatedly fall short in developing national youth football teams. Look out for Charles’ full interview on the Burdie and Barney Show on Wednesday 8 September …
Read More »Constitution of the Unified Football Coaches of Trinidad and Tobago (UFCTT)
The Unified Football Coaches of Trinidad and Tobago Constitution was adopted and ratified by an extraordinary general meeting of UFCTT Members on 15 August 2021. It was researched and prepared and drafted by Osmond O Downer for the UFCTT. Article 1 Name and Affiliation: i.This Association shall be called the …
Read More »‘Blatant disrespect!’ Players lift lid on G/Cup feud, which almost saw T&T withdraw before Mexico game
The Trinidad and Tobago Men’s National Senior Team came within a whisker of elimination from the 2021 Concacaf Gold Cup tournament before the competition even started in earnest. But the wily opponent that nearly chopped down the Soca Warriors, according to the players themselves, was not French Guiana or Montserrat …
Read More »UFCTT: How long will normalisation comm use pandemic as excuse for postponing youth development?
“[…] The challenges of today are not unique to Trinidad and Tobago but [are] being experienced in varying degrees by all nations whose players will be participating in this tournament, and any youth tournament worldwide. “Some country’s pandemic experience has been much worse than our current situation. But proper planning …
Read More »Eve and Soca Warriors technical staff still unpaid, TTFA regains HoF and sets AGM date
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 …
Read More »Mars: Women’s staff appointments show why Hadad-led NC urgently needs standing committees!
Unified Football Coaches of Trinidad and Tobago (UFCTT) general secretary Rayshawn Mars has urged the Fifa-appointed normalisation committee to re-appoint technical and finance standing committees to better serve the local game, in the wake of the controversial recent selections to the Women’s National Senior Team technical staff. On Wednesday, the …
Read More »Hood: I was snubbed for foreigner with no first-team experience—whenever TTFA finds money, it goes foreign
“[…] I am certain that there are some with less qualifications [than myself] that have led our Men’s National Senior Team in the past. However, it seems that all of the above does not qualify me to be an assistant to a foreigner with no first team experience. “To what …
Read More »TTFA announces Senior Women’s staff; La Foucade: ‘Everyone was given a fair chance’
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 …
Read More »‘Covid is THE factor!’ CFU president on Caribbean football struggles, racism, and normalisation
“[…] Listen, [Covid-19] is the factor. A lot of the teams in the Caribbean could not even train, further more play competitive football; and that has affected the Caribbean. It is clear! When you look at Central America and North America, they were able to play their tournaments as normal …
Read More »Dear Editor: What’s next for T&T football? Start with dismantling current Pro League structure
“[…] If we put our emotions aside and objectively look at the sustainability of the Pro League without government subvention, we would recognise that the league has failed and failed miserably. “A proper conversation must be had going forward and hard decisions may have to be taken as the current …
Read More »B&B (Trailer): What does TTFA want from Soca Warriors head coach in the first place?
Fatima College technical director and KNVB-licensed coaching instructor Hayden Martin questions whether the Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA)—or, in this case, the normalisation committee—knows what it wants from its national football coaches in the first place. Look out for our full interview with Martin and four-time Olympic medallist, track …
Read More »T&T fail to build on Reon opener, as Eve’s interim spell ends with 1-1 tie against Guatemala
The Trinidad and Tobago Men’s National Senior Team led Guatemala for over an hour last night in 2021 Concacaf Gold Cup group stage action at the Toyota Stadium in Frisco, Texas. But they could not hang on to the win, as the Central American nation equalised in the 77th minute …
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