There were some late changes—and there may still be a few more tweaks—as the 2025 Republic Bank National Youth Football League (RBNYFL) nears its opening kickoff on Saturday 8 February at venues across Trinidad and Tobago. The RBNYFL hosted 124 teams in 2024 and was initially forecast to have 133 …
Read More »“The cream came to the top!” Cooper on assembling T&T U17 team, ‘Toka’ return, and a 14-year-old starlet
The Trinidad and Tobago Men’s National Under-17 Team depart tonight for Concacaf qualifying action in Costa Rica, and they will not be going to make up the numbers. The young Soca Warriors are grouped with Guyana, the British Virgin Islands (BVI), Saint Martin and Costa Rica. Only the group winner …
Read More »T&T U-17s advance despite Honduras defeat; crowd disturbance mars affair
Trinidad and Tobago are through to the 2025 Concacaf Women’s Under-17 Championship, but they had to take the back door to get there—in a nerve-wracking and sometimes ugly showdown with Honduras in qualifying action last night at the Ato Boldon Stadium in Couva. At the final whistle, captain Kanika Rodriguez …
Read More »Steely T&T U-17 Women down Belize, set up final qualifying showdown with Honduras
Trinidad and Tobago are just one point away from a place in the 2025 Concacaf Women’s U-17 Championship now, as the young Women Soca Warriors defeated Belize 2-0 last night in Group B action at the Ato Boldon Stadium in Couva. The result meant the hosts remain on top of …
Read More »They remind me of me! Yorke names Zoom Zoom, Sween in T&T squad to face Jamaica
Seventeen-year-old St Benedict’s College student Derrel “Zoom Zoom” Garcia is set to make his national senior international debut away to Jamaica next month, after being included in the Soca Warriors 24-man touring party by Men’s National Senior Team head coach Dwight Yorke. Trinidad and Tobago face Jamaica on 6 February …
Read More »Martin delivers four-star showing, as T&T U-17s thump USVI 5-0 in Concacaf opener
Sixteen-year-old Orielle Martin gave Trinidad and Tobago football fans another glimpse of her rare talent yesterday as the Women’s National Under-17 Team kicked off their Concacaf Women’s U-17 qualifying campaign with a 5-0 win over the United States Virgin Islands at the Ato Boldon Stadium in Couva. Martin led her …
Read More »Nikita Gosine quits T&T Women’s U-17 team; mother demands humane selection process from national coaches
Trinidad and Tobago will be a player short for the 2025 Concacaf Women’s Under-17 Qualifiers, which kicks off tomorrow in Trinidad—with Honduras, Belize and the United States Virgin Islands grouped together at the Ato Boldon Stadium in Couva. All four nations announced 21-member squads to Concacaf roughly a week ago …
Read More »RBNYFL 25: Over 3,000 youths set to play, with more than a dozen new teams
The Republic Bank National Youth Football League (RBNYFL) has announced its participants for the 2025 season, with the number of competing clubs swollen from 124 teams in 2024 to a new high of 133 outfits. Tobago, whose number of participating teams rose from 13 to 22 clubs, is the only …
Read More »Arbitration Committee fingers Quan Kep; St Benedict’s lose third and final appeal
For the first time in the 10-year history of the Secondary Schools Football League (SSFL) Premier Division, the champion school has been effectively stripped of its title. Today, the SSFL executive committee confirmed that its Arbitration Committee ruled against St Benedict’s College and upheld prior sanctions by the school body’s …
Read More »Big Five 24: ‘Caps’ clinch title, ex-Shiva Boys coach leads Scarborough to history—in dramatic finale
Scarborough Secondary are a Secondary Schools Football League (SSFL) Premier Division team for the first time, as they were one of three schools who clinched promotion on the last day of the 2024 SSFL Big Five competition today. Scarborough needed a point at the St Mary’s Recreation Ground in Freeport …
Read More »“Scant courtesy!” Signal Hill criticise SSFL over Intercol protest, while Benedict’s go to arbitration
St Benedict’s College will continue their fight to overturn a 12-point deduction, as they filed for their matter to go before the Secondary Schools Football League (SSFL) Arbitration Panel today. The “La Romaine Lions” were docked 12 points by the SSFL Disciplinary Panel for using captain Derrel Garcia in four …
Read More »SSFL 24: Appeals Committee rules against St Benedict’s; school’s four-point defence fails
The Secondary Schools Football League (SSFL) Appeals Committee reached a unanimous decision regarding St Benedict’s College’s registration of team captain and star forward Derrel “Zoom Zoom” Garcia. And it has found in favour of the Disciplinary Committee. “The Appeals Committee unanimously agrees that St Benedict’s College failed to present sufficient …
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