Former Trinidad and Tobago National Under-17 Team attacker Nickel Orr banged in the first hat-trick of the 2017 Coca Cola Intercol competition today as Trinity College East cruised into the East Zone semi-final round with a convincing 6-0 win over Holy Cross College at the Larry Gomes Stadium in Malabar. …
Read More »We’re going up! East Mucurapo, Bishop’s HS and Valencia seal Premier Division places
Extraordinary scenes involving high fives and general jubilation among players and supporters of both camps marked the end of today’s SSFL Championship Division play-off at the Larry Gomes Stadium in Arima. You would have sworn that Valencia Secondary had put five or six goals past Bishop’s High School. Or vice-versa. …
Read More »SSFL 17: Speyside: Travel woes won’t set us back; Signal Hill make satisfactory away start
Speyside High School, one of two Tobago schools in the Premier Division of the Secondary Schools Football League this year, has plans to bring at least one national title back to the sister isle. But travelling between the islands is a problem that can potentially put paid to those plans, …
Read More »SSFL 17: Frank display from Signal Hill but Orr gets Trinity Blue Hawks a point
When the final whistle sounded in the hard-fought 1-1 draw at the Trinity College East football ground in Trincity this afternoon, the home fans must have been sick of the sight of Signal Hill Secondary’s Akil Frank. The skipper of the visiting team did not create havoc during the 90 …
Read More »SSFL 2017: Will East Zone snatch the Premier crown? Or will Tobago ferry it over?
Time was when the “Green Machine” and the “Blue Thunder” were forces to be reckoned with in national schools’ football in Trinidad and Tobago. Back in the days of Dwight Yorke, Signal Hill too have had their 15 minutes of glory as have, in a later era, Arima Secondary. Nowadays, …
Read More »RBNYL: Lu Ann’s revenge, Cunupia collar little Lamsee and Sadiki leads Police rout
There was something for everyone at Constantine Park in Macoya on Saturday when the 2017 Republic Bank National Youth League continued East Zone action in dusty, late dry season conditions. The day’s menu included, as hors d’oeuvre, temperamental weather that changed as regularly as the substitutes who came onto the …
Read More »Green light for TTSL as TTFA recognises new league; Look Loy seeking local sponsor
All systems are now go for the new Trinidad and Tobago Super League (TTSL), which is carded to kick off on 11 June 2017. The highest hurdle standing in their way was cleared on Wednesday evening when they finally got the long awaited ratification by the Trinidad and Tobago Football …
Read More »Fathered by his grateful daughter; a professor gives lessons on Olympics and weightlifting
In the Trinidad and Tobago of the 21st Century, parents burying children seems to be the new normal. The reality was different on Wednesday afternoon at Olympic House in Port-of-Spain. There, for almost three interesting but not enthralling hours, a child, Joanne Kilgour-Dowdy, disinterred her late athletic father and presented the …
Read More »Pinto United, D/Force blow away opponents as RBNYL makes windy Macoya entrance
The goals continued to flow on the second weekend of the 2017 Republic Bank National Youth League (RBNYL) at Constantine Park in Tunapuna. The young footballers in the East lit up the Macoya ground, Pinto United SC providing most of the early entertainment. Like last weekend at the Queen’s Park …
Read More »T&T U-15s fight back to win 3-1 on debut; but Republic Bank XI push them close
The Trinidad and Tobago National Under-15 squad made a winning debut at the Ato Boldon Stadium in Balmain, Couva yesterday evening, as they strode to an entertaining 3-1 win against a Republic Bank Invitational XI. But National Under-15 coach Russell Latapy’s charges were pushed close in front of hundreds of supporters on …
Read More »Shabazz offers TTFA National Elite Youth Program update but Eve and Taylor point to flaws
Nine. You can count as many as nine players who are currently in the national senior squad who began their careers at Under-13 level under the watchful eyes of former Trinidad and Tobago World Youth Cup coach, Anton Corneal. And if National Youth Football Coordinator Jamaal Shabazz has his way, Under-13 football …
Read More »UWI to the rescue? Wired868 locates off-the-field, online help for ailing T&T sport
Quick! Identify one sport in Trinidad and Tobago which, in your opinion, is well run. Did I hear you say “Chess?” Negative. “Cycling?” Okay, so you watched the annual First Citizens Sports Foundation Awards function on television last Friday. Or you read the report in the press on the weekend. …
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