Lasana Liburd

Lasana Liburd is the managing director and chief editor at Wired868.com and a journalist with over 20 years experience at several Trinidad and Tobago and international publications including Play the Game, World Soccer, UK Guardian and the Trinidad Express.

TTFA names Gosine and Molino as Players of the Year; Orielle, “Zoom Zoom” get Junior picks

The Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) has named 16-year-old Pleasantville Secondary starlet Nikita Gosine as its 2025 Senior Female Player of the Year—for the same calendar year that the attacker ruled herself out of representing her country. Gosine is one of four TTFA picks for the First Citizens 2025 …

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Sancho named as TTFA ‘head of overseas recruitment’; over 20 overseas trialists on National U-17 and U-20 teams

The Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) has revealed a new role for former World Cup 2006 defender Brent Sancho at the centre of its overseas recruitment drive. Sancho, a former Pro League chairman who also served on the TTFA’s technical committee, was announced as the TTFA’s head of overseas …

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St Augustine get partial Appeals win; SSFL under-fire for ‘Naps’ and ‘Gustine’ blunders

St Augustine Secondary won their appeal yesterday against the Secondary Schools Football League (SSFL) Disciplinary Committee’s decision to penalise the school for failing to appear at a rescheduled Premier Division match away to Signal Hill Secondary. On Tuesday 25 November, the Disciplinary Committee, chaired by Essiel Seecharan, declared that Signal …

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Intercol 25: Four penalties, four red cards and a protest; St Anthony’s, Signal Hill advance in thrilling zonal finals

There was crazy, exhilarating chaos at the Hasely Crawford and Dwight Yorke stadia yesterday as the North and Tobago zonal Intercol finals featured everything from goals and comebacks to penalty kicks, red cards and, naturally, controversy. When the dust cleared, Signal Hill Secondary had kept the Tobago Intercol title from …

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SSFL 25: Naparima uploaded Caprietta’s docs in wrong place—would-be champs confident of case

Naparima College winger Jaydon Caprietta was not properly registered to represent his school for the 2025 Secondary Schools Football League (SSFL) season, Wired868 understands. However, Naparima administrators uploaded Caprietta’s paperwork within the SSFL database on 10 September, with all the necessary information. How can both things be true? That is, …

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