Trinidad and Tobago national football team head coach Stephen Hart has promised to take a “sensible” approach when the “Soca Warriors” face Argentina on 4 June 2014, just two weeks before the two-time World Cup champion team kicks off its Brazil 2014 campaign. At present, Argentina is ranked third in …
Read More »Messi future: Soca Warriors snare glamour Argentina friendly
The Trinidad and Tobago national football team looks set for a glamour international friendly with Argentina just two weeks before the heralded South American football nation kicks off its Brazil 2014 World Cup campaign against Bosnia and Herzegovina in Rio de Janeiro. The Argentina FA revealed the fixture to international …
Read More »Vampire islands: S/Fdo hustler burgles Adams’ memorial
It turns out politicians are not the only ones in Trinidad and Tobago who are happy to exploit a corpse for personal gain. At Presentation College in San Fernando, the past pupils’ association president Steven Samlalsingh set up a memorial, which included a photograph, candles and flowers, for former student …
Read More »New Year’s message from the TTFA
The year that has just ended leaves me as President of the Trinidad and Tobago Football Association with a great amount of optimism as we begin 2014, a World Cup year and in many regards, one that promises to be full of activities and continuing development for football in our …
Read More »Mixed blessings: TTFA senior coaches paid; youth coaches deflated
There were mixed blessings for Trinidad and Tobago’s national coaching community over the Christmas season as the Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) raised enough money to cover roughly half of its arrears for the senior coaches but none for staff from the youth and women’s teams. The Ministry of …
Read More »TTFA bungle denies local starlets of MLS opportunity
Trinidad and Tobago’s top football talent under the age of 23 were denied the chance to showcase their talents before United States Major League Soccer (MLS) scouts due to an administrative bungle by the Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA). Twenty-four young men from 16 different Caribbean nations will meet …
Read More »TTFA confirms cash prizes for top three FA clubs
Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) general secretary Sheldon Phillips confirmed yesterday that the 2013 TTFA FA Trophy tournament will have cash prizes for its top three finishers. The FA Trophy winners will receive $50,000 while the runner-up will bank $30,000 and the second runner-up is due $20,000. It will …
Read More »TTFA FA Trophy gets $100,000 in prize money
Trinidad and Tobago’s oldest football competition, the FA Trophy, looks set to carry a financial prize again for the first time under new Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) president Raymond Tim Kee. After an anxious wait for clubs who have already played in two rounds of competition, TTFA general …
Read More »Happy holidays: Akeem could get a new heart by Christmas
Former two-time Trinidad and Tobago World Youth Cup defender Akeem Adams is praying for the opportunity to celebrate Christmas in his Budapest apartment with his mother, Ancilla Dick, and brother, Akini, and, of course, a new heart and prosthetic leg. The 22-year-old Adams, who is still hospitalised with an artificial, …
Read More »Guerra tactics: Warriors spank Boyz to cap fine 2013
The Trinidad and Tobago national football team made a case for the resumption of corporal punishment last night as two second half strokes from Ataullah Guerra and Kenwyne Jones tamed the rambunctious Jamaican “Reggae Boyz” as the “Soca Warriors” cruised to a comfortable 2-0 friendly international win at the Hasely …
Read More »Soca silences Reggae: Warriors clinch landmark win in Jamaica
On the last occasion that the “Soca Warriors” returned from Jamaica undefeated, after a 2-2 draw in March 2008, then Trinidad and Tobago Football Federation (TTFF) special advisor Jack Warner held a press conference to honour the achievement under then coach Francisco Maturana. Maybe present Warrior coach Stephen Hart might …
Read More »Hart names squad to face Boyz; TTFA to honour Birchall and Carlos
Trinidad and Tobago 2006 World Cup players Chris Birchall and Carlos Edwards will become the first “Soca Warriors” to have a farewell match match in their honour for seven years as the pair were included in coach Stephen Hart’s team to face Jamaica from 8 pm on November 19 at …
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