Trinidad and Tobago football fans endured 140 minutes with no goals and few clear scoring opportunities, as their Girls National Under-15 and High Performance teams kicked off their respective campaigns in League B of the Concacaf Girls Under-15 Championships today at the Hasely Crawford Stadium in Mucurapo. Trinidad and Tobago …
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TTFA appoints King as caretaker coach; ex-assistant will lead Warriors into Nations League
The Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) has appointed Derek King as “caretaker coach” of the Men’s National Senior Team. King, 44, replaces his former boss, Angus Eve, and will have the responsibility of leading the Soca Warriors at the start of their 2024-25 Concacaf Nations League journey. Trinidad and …
Read More »Boyce, Benedict’s and ex-Central coach, gets T&T U-20 post—two years before tournament
St Benedict’s College coach Randolph ‘Balo’ Boyce has been selected as the Trinidad and Tobago Men’s National Under-20 Team head coach, in the second major appointment done by the Kieron Edwards-led Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA). He replaces Brian Haynes, who led the young Soca Warriors to a first …
Read More »Noble: African slavery and us—how maximum greed transforms poor into mere tools
“Questions of silence always raise questions of memory. Who and what has been forgotten? Which peoples and events are downplayed? “[…] Memory is a site of conflict, ‘in which many contrary forces converge and in which the interactions between memory and forgetting are contingent as much as they are systematic…” …
Read More »Dear Editor: Give FIU wider powers to help combat crime wave
“[…] What appears to have escaped the attention of many of our law-abiding citizens is the relationship between many violent crimes and the white-collar variety. “The foot soldiers and their gang leaders do not have the wherewithal to corrupt law-enforcement officials and, indeed, other key state officials and/or to import illegal drugs and illegal firearms. …
Read More »Vaneisa: If yuh iron bad… my adventures in haemoglobin
If I seem to be cantering down the road of health issues these past few weeks, it is because I have been talking to several sufferers who don’t seem to know what’s going on with them. Of course I have no medical training, but I have had such a diverse …
Read More »WI name Warrican and Bryan Charles in Test squad to exploit Trinidad and Guyana pitches
Trinidad and Tobago spinner Bryan Charles, 29, is in line to make his Test debut against South Africa this month, after he was named in a 15-man squad to represent the West Indies today. West Indies face South Africa in the First Test at the Queen’s Park Oval in Trinidad …
Read More »Best: Six-hitting team? Rutherford and Kohli showed how to bat properly in T20
A cricket match, a wise old scribe has written, is played in the minds of the opposing captains. Even in today’s changed world of T20 cricket? Hmmm…. Let’s see… For a full century after Australia’s 45-run victory over England at Melbourne in the first-ever Test match in 1877, the statement …
Read More »Dear Editor: Sacking Angus Eve makes no sense—what has he done to deserve that?
“[…] Coaches who don’t get their team to perform should face the sack. Angus Eve just managed a 7-1 victory against The Bahamas. With that goal difference and a result against Saint Kitts and Nevis, we are practically through to the final round. “[…] Perhaps what Kieron Edwards should’ve focused …
Read More »TTFA sack Eve; Warriors coach fired three months after Kieron vote of confidence
Trinidad and Tobago Men’s National Senior Team head coach Angus Eve has been sacked by the Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA). The decision was relayed to Eve this morning in a meeting chaired by TTFA president and technical committee chairman Kieron Edwards. A TTFA release, which was unsigned, did …
Read More »Decle credits expanding T&T U-15 player pool as teams selected; Gosine omissions explained
The Trinidad and Tobago Girls High Performance programme will split its representative teams in two for the Concacaf Girls’ Under-15 Championship, with each having its own staff, hotel and training days. The tournament starts on Monday 5 August with the two local teams scheduled to play at the Ato Boldon …
Read More »Where T20 cricket is going next; and how Sobers and Viv helped shape its course
At a critical moment in the final Super Eights game, one of the team coaches left the pavilion and came to the boundary’s edge. Bangladesh looked well on course to get the 115 runs they needed to stop Afghanistan in their semifinal-bound tracks. One point is enough to make the …
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