Local Football

The world governing football body, FIFA, stands accused of complicity in the rise of an allegedly illegitimately elected football president from Trinidad and Tobago with overarching ambitions. FIFA handed former vice-president, Jack Warner, a life ban for attempting to rig its 2011 presidential elections. And the disgraced ex-football official is now fighting …

Trinidad and Tobago Pro League CEO Dexter Skeene admitted that the local top flight competition is facing the toughest fight of its 14 year existence, as uncertainty over government funding and the poor economic climate are among several factors overshadowing the 2016/17 season. Defending champions Central FC, who won successive …

Promising 23-year-old Pro League football star, Ross Russell Jr, is among two recently discharged soldiers who appeared before Chief Magistrate Marcia Ayers-Caesar in the Port of Spain court this morning for the murder of Diego Martin resident Selwyn Gaff. Russell Jr, who has two children, was charged alongside his cousin …

Fifteen year old Naparima College and W Connection attacker Isaiah Jabari Hudson is the latest off the Santa Flora assembly line, as he joins fellow villagers Levi Garcia (AZ Alkmaar), Nathaniel Garcia (Central FC) and Tyrel “Pappy” Emmanuel (Shiva Boys HC) on a list of Trinidad and Tobago’s hottest young football talent. Hudson, …

Evergreen former Pro League playmaker Marvin Oliver returned to the National Super League (NSL) yesterday—after a 10 year absence—as part of an eye-raising revamp at Real Maracas FC. The 40 year old Oliver, who won Pro League titles with San Juan Jabloteh and Central FC since leaving NSL team Crab …

Call Crown Trace FC: “The Alphabet Boys.” The Chaguanas-based outfit made a memorable debut in the East Zone Under-16 Division yesterday afternoon, as they ‘walked thru’ with a 3-0 win over FC Santa Rosa in Republic Bank National Youth League (NYL) action yesterday at the Constantine Park in Macoya. “There …

Central FC striker Nicholas Dillon stands at a prominent 6’2” and has not hesitated to leave a mark on the football field. The 19-year-old footballer helped his employers to the 2015/16 Digicel Pro League and 2016 Caribbean Club Championship titles and hopes for similar success this year with the Trinidad and Tobago National …

Trinidad and Tobago Pro League clubs Central FC and DirecTV W Connection received their assignments for the 2016/17 Scotiabank CONCACAF Champions League competition at Monday’s draw in Miami, Florida. Central, the current Caribbean champions, were drawn with North American Major League Soccer (MLS) teams Vancouver Whitecaps and Sporting Kansas while …

Marvin Gordon copped his first piece of silverware as Defence Force head coach last night, as his Army/Coast Guard battalion overcame a youthful but depleted DirecTV W Connection team to lift the Digicel Pro Bowl trophy at the Ato Boldon Stadium in Couva. The Pro Bowl finale brought the curtains …

As a young boy, Richard Roy would kick plastic bottles to and from school and dream of becoming a professional footballer. He was still a teenager when he made his first appearance for Defence Force in the TT Pro League. While, at 20, he made his international debut for the Trinidad and …

Is goalkeeping in trouble in Trinidad and Tobago? I think so and I’ll offer a bit of evidence: We no longer have any goalkeepers playing in the top European leagues. This means our goalkeepers are not exposed to top quality strikers, coaching and tactical systems. In the past we had …

Play Whe San Juan Jabloteh secured a spot in the qualification stages of the 2017/18 CONCACAF qualifying stage yesterday evening, after defeating Japs North East Stars 1-0 in a feisty affair at the Mannie Ramjohn Stadium, Marabella. The win took Jabloteh to 54 points and out of reach of Defence …