Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) director of football, Muhammad Isa, is warded at the San Fernando General Hospital’s Intensive Care Unit (ICU), after being admitted to the facility over the weekend. A release from the TTFA Media revealed that Isa suffered from “stomach complications”. Isa’s daughter, Althea Reefer, said …
Read More »Radanfah and Jan-Michael take TTFA ‘C’ licence coaching course; Jabari moves to Albania
Former Trinidad and Tobago National Senior Team players Radanfah Abu Bakr and Jan-Michael Williams were among 23 participants in a TTFA ‘C’ licence coaching, which was conducted last week by technical director Anton Corneal. Abu Bakr and Williams were both involved in Trinidad and Tobago’s ultimately unsuccessful Russia 2018 World …
Read More »Shabazz targets CAC medal as groups announced for U20 men and senior women teams
Trinidad and Tobago Women’s National Senior Team head coach Jamaal Shabazz declared that the Woman Soca Warriors will be hunting for a medal when they head to Colombia next month for the 2018 Central American and Caribbean (CAC) Games. The Women Warriors open their campaign in Group B against Mexico …
Read More »Cliff Bertrand: Going South!? If Neymar doesn’t do it in Russia, then Messi will
“Grouped with Costa Rica, Serbia and Switzerland, the Samba Boys will, I expect, put everybody else on the back-foot by the time the group stage is over. And then go on to beat all comers because they have a little matter of a big 2014 7-1 embarrassment to settle. “… …
Read More »Valentino Singh: Tite’s Seleçao to make all the noise in Russia
“Under former coach Dunga, the team lacked the samba rhythm for which the Brazilians had become known; the players seemed full of skill and ability but cohesion was non-existent. “What a transformation the current head coach has effected. “The man who guided Corinthians to the domestic, continental and world titles …
Read More »Moscow 2018 Countdown: Kings go forth as Champions League exits; Brazil to samba for the tsars
Now that Manchester City have officially sealed the title in England and Real Madrid have put Liverpool in their place and reasserted their dominance in Europe—with more than a little help from Judas Iscariot in the red goal—all eyes turn to Russia. It is time to crown the real kings. …
Read More »Bim at 45 (Pt 3): Melodies from a master craftsman; is Tanker the Derek Walcott of Caribbean music?
Bim Singh’s final fall is the harsh culmination of the metaphor of entrapment that runs through the film. A mesh, inescapable, awaits Bim everywhere, even in his opulent, new haven. It is an element of the past which refuses to go away that jumps out of nowhere on his return …
Read More »T&T book Sept friendly against UAE; Lawrence hopes to get second outing too
The Trinidad and Tobago Men’s National Senior Team will play their next international friendly on 6 September when they travel to Spain to face the United Arab Emirates in Girona. The UAE, whose only World Cup appearance came in 1990, are 81st in the FIFA rankings at present—11 spots higher …
Read More »Bim at 45 (Pt 2): Robertson’s masterful camera work adds to Tanker’s music to make a politician cringe
Andre Tanker orchestrates—there is no better word—perfect harmony between musical movements and plot movements. Key to that harmony is the articulation of a fusion that proved a prophetic precursor to the diversity of musical forms taken for granted in Trinidad today. At a time when ‘Trinidad music’ meant almost exclusively …
Read More »Bim at 45: Production far from perfect but Andre Tanker’s music scores big
“Revisiting Bim four and a half decades later, thanks to the 40th Anniversary Film and Music Pack, I find the film’s imperfections all the more endearing, its shortcomings charming. Perfection in any home-grown Trinidad film product back then would have been out of sync with place and context; it remains …
Read More »Glasgow to head new TTPA; call issued for national dialogue on tourism and Carnival
Randy Glasgow, the well-known production company which bears his name and which put on a slew of shows locally every year, has been elected to head the newly formed Trinidad and Tobago Promoters Association (TTPA). Another four members, including Secretary Colin Miles, were on Tuesday elected to form the Executive …
Read More »John-Paul shines off the bench as T&T U-20s fight back to beat French Guiana to fifth
The Trinidad and Tobago Men’s National Under-20 Team closed off their Guadeloupe Six-Nation Invitational tournament yesterday evening with a 3-1 win over French Guiana to avoid the dreaded wooden spoon. Midfielder John-Paul Rochford came off the bench to score twice and create T&T’s other goal for Shaqkeem Joseph, as the …
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