Trinidad and Tobago Men’s National Senior Team head coach Angus Eve applauded his troops’ “achievement”, after the Soca Warriors were awarded a group stage place in the 2023 Concacaf Gold Cup and promotion to the 2023-24 Concacaf Nations League A competition, due to disciplinary sanctions against Nicaragua. The Concacaf Disciplinary …
Read More »Eve: TTFA “looking into” possible Nicaragua protest, coy on Shaw but welcomes Che
Trinidad and Tobago Men’s National Senior Team head coach Angus Eve revealed that the Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) is “looking into” the possibility that Nicaragua fielded an ineligible player against the Soca Warriors during the 2022/23 Concacaf Nations League competition. On 4 June 2022, Uruguay-born midfielder Richard Rodriguez …
Read More »Mascall credits P/Rico but fails to explain decision to bench T&T’s best U-20 women players
Trinidad and Tobago Women’s National Under-20 Team head coach Dernelle Mascall credited Puerto Rico for their strides in the women’s game, after they eliminated the Women Soca Warriors with a thumping 5-0 win yesterday in a 2023 Concacaf Under-20 Championship qualifier in Curaçao. However, Mascall’s post-mortem of the team’s emphatic …
Read More »P/Rico rout Trinidad and Tobago U-20 Women 5-0, as Mascall’s tactical gamble fails
Trinidad and Tobago’s 2024 Women’s World Under-20 Cup campaign ended in Curaçao tonight, after just three matches. The Women Soca Warriors needed a win over Puerto Rico to advance to the Concacaf Championship, but it wasn’t even close—as the ladies in red, white and black slumped to a 5-0 defeat …
Read More »“The biggest game we will ever play!” T&T Beach Soccer enjoys moment in the sun
The Trinidad and Tobago Men’s National Beach Soccer Team will be playing for an inaugural spot at the Bali 2023 World Beach Games tonight when they face the United States from 7.15pm at the Costa del Sol National Stadium in El Salvador. It will be the second of two meetings …
Read More »Eve: Negative Nicaragua employed “nasty, dirty tactics” and T&T fans didn’t help much
Playing on home soil in a must win affair, the Trinidad and Tobago Men’s National Senior Team managed a single shot on target over 90 minutes plus stoppage time against Nicaragua in Bacolet last night. At the final whistle, the two teams remained locked at one goal apiece—and, as a …
Read More »Dear Editor: The Republic Cup NYFL can and should do better than this
“[…] The fields that are being used offer little or no amenities for players, especially females, and supporters—not even water. Shame. “[…] We have players registered with one club appearing for another club, and indeed, I know of at least one professional player who has appeared in the East U20 …
Read More »NYFL 2023: East and South Zones kick off, but North postponed while hiccup in Central
The Republic Cup National Youth Football League (NYFL) kicked off in the East and South Zones today. But the North, Tobago and Girls Divisions will have to wait for at least another week to join the fray, while Central Zone games should start on Sunday 12 March. Gateway Athletic managing …
Read More »Hadad: “You can’t play football with the Vatican and Tobago!” Fifa extends TTFA’s normalisation
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 …
Read More »Najjar: Is it “about attitude”? T&T U-17s did well but lacked ability and application
“[…] That the USA and Canada did not steamroll the young Warriors showed we possessed that fighting for all-the-marbles, attitude… But truly, is it only ‘about attitude’? “We showed the right attitude in all four games but did not win a single game—not even against Barbados whose only goal was …
Read More »“It’s about attitude!” Cooper on T&T football’s shortcomings, facing El Salvador and his players’ special quality
On Thursday evening, Trinidad and Tobago Men’s National Under-17 Team head coach Shawn Cooper and another staff member suffered an attempted “break-in” at their hotel in Antigua City, Guatemala. “I saw someone trying to open my door,” Cooper told Wired868. “They showed me a key with my room number…” A …
Read More »TTFA Members unanimously pass motion on Normalisation Committee to appease Fifa
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 …
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