The following article was first published in the Trinidad Express on 27 October 2005 and written by Lasana Liburd: Otis Seaton was hired by Don Leo Beenhakker as the muscle. The Trinidad and Tobago national football team coach needed a player with the energy and courage to protect his back …
Read More »Flashback: The Little Magician’s final spell; how Latapy’s 2006 W/Cup cameo lit emotional fuse
The following article, written by Lasana Liburd, was first published in the Trinidad Express on Thursday 24 June 2006: Russell Latapy was outnumbered and, it seemed, cornered. It was the mixed zone at the Franz Walter Stadion, Kaiserslautern and the pint-sized Trinidad and Tobago midfielder had to walk past a …
Read More »‘They’re sabotaging Fenwick and Hadad!’ TTFA staff blamed for normalisation committee blunders
Who is doing more damage to Trinidad and Tobago’s 2022 Qatar World Cup qualifying chances? Is it the perceived arrogance and ignorance of the Fifa-appointed normalisation committee, headed by Robert Hadad? The eccentric behaviour and questionable decision-making of Men’s National Senior Team head coach Terry Fenwick? Or the alleged indifference …
Read More »Quarantine or play elsewhere! Wired868 looks at why gov’t blanked TTFA’s late WCQ proposal
The Trinidad and Tobago Men’s National Senior Team will concede home advantage in a World Cup qualifying campaign for the first time in 36 years, after Ministry of Health chief medical officer Dr Roshan Parasram ruled that a proposal by the Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) fell short of …
Read More »The Hadad era: has normalisation committee become a threat to T&T football?
“America won’t have [Christian] Pulisic, so it will be an easy game,” Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) acting general secretary Amiel Mohammed supposedly told a football insider, as he bragged about the Fifa-appointed normalisation committee’s coup in securing a friendly match against Concacaf giants, the United States. Mohammed could …
Read More »SOS to Dr Rowley! CMO accused of ‘sabotage’, as Warriors unable to train or book warm-up games
The Soca Warriors’ Qatar 2022 World Cup dreams are being stymied by the Trinidad and Tobago government’s Covid-19 rules and, according to football insiders, the Ministry of Health’s apparent reluctance to relax them for the Men’s National Senior Team. There have been 107 million cases of infection worldwide since the …
Read More »Fenwick: ‘This is the starting position… we weren’t far away [from USA] with our local-based players’
Trinidad and Tobago Men’s National Senior Team head coach Terry Fenwick today continued to reframe the narrative around his international coaching debut—a joint national record 7-0 loss to the United States in Orlando on Sunday—as he suggested some positives to local football fans, in an interview with the TTFA Media. …
Read More »‘Fenwick is misleading the public!’ Eve knocks T&T coach for supposedly disrespectful, contradictory statements
Club Sando FC head coach and former Soca Warriors stand-out Angus Eve has accused Trinidad and Tobago Men’s National Senior Team head coach Terry Fenwick of misleading local football fans on several issues—not least regarding the Warriors’ supposed 5-0 win over Sando, earlier this month. On 23 January, Fenwick posted …
Read More »Fenwick: ‘We didn’t have the big attitude’, T&T coach says players botched game plan in USA mauling
Soca Warriors head coach Terry Fenwick blamed the Trinidad and Tobago Football Association’s (TTFA) inadequate development programme in general and the poor concentration of his players in particular, as the Men’s National Senior Team slumped to a joint national record 7-0 loss last night in friendly action away to the …
Read More »Fenwick ties record T&T defeat on coaching debut, as Warriors lose 7-0 to USA
Trinidad and Tobago Men’s National Senior Team head coach Terry Fenwick spent the last week discussing starting his era at the helm with a bang. This could not have been what he had in mind. In 113 years as an international football nation, the twin island republic’s largest ever defeat …
Read More »‘Ballpest’, Gonzales, De Silva, Woodley, JP Rochford among National Futsal team invitees
Past and present Men’s National Senior Team players Keron ‘Ballpest’ Cummings, Curtis ‘Boyo’ Gonzales, Sean De Silva, Yohance Marshall, Trevin Caesar and John-Paul Rochford were among a host of familiar names included on a list of 40 invited trainees for the Men’s National Futsal Team, as Trinidad and Tobago resumes …
Read More »Fenwick adds 8 N/American players to T&T squad; no space for Cyrus and ‘Lobo’
Trinidad and Tobago Men’s National Senior Team head coach Terry Fenwick introduced three fresh faces into the player pool today as he selected a 24-man squad to face the United States in an international friendly in Orlando on 31 January. Defenders Michael DeShields and Federico Pena and midfielder Jonathan Jimenez …
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