Local Football

 “I am positive at all times,” Neveal Hackshaw told Wired868. “Negativity is not part of my language and I am determined to succeed at football.” Neveal Hackshaw, the 19 year old North East Stars and Trinidad and Tobago central midfielder, exuded two of the most important qualities of character in our …

A Trinidad and Tobago Pro League team will contest the 2015 Caribbean Club Championship final. But only one local football team would have that pleasure. On May 24, the Caribbean Club Championship final will be contested at the Ato Boldon Stadium in Couva. But only one from DIRECTV W Connection …

Pro League leaders Central FC will need to defeat Alpha United on Sunday at the latter’s home turf to stay alive in the Caribbean Club Championship. The “Couva Sharks” failed to match or better Alpha United’s opening result as a Willis Plaza double steered Central to a 2-0 win over …

DIRECTV W Connection started their 2015/16 CONCACAF Champions League campaign yesterday with a comfortable 7-1 win over the Guyana Defence Force in an otherwise chaotic night at the Ato Boldon Stadium, Couva. Jamaican giants, Waterhouse FC, never showed up for their opening match against Antiguan club, SAP FC, for 5.30 …

Pro League frontrunners DIRECTV W Connection and Central FC will aim to get Trinidad and Tobago back into the CONCACAF Champions League when they start their CFU qualifying matches this week. Connection, the reigning Pro League champions, face the Guyana Defence Force, Antigua’s SAP FC and Jamaica’s Waterhouse FC on …

“Nothing good comes easily,” said Caledonia AIA’s Jameel Neptune. “No excuses! Find or make a way!” Twenty-one-year-old Jameel Neptune has his heart set on wearing the “red, white and black.” Neptune is a midfielder for Caledonia AIA where he is affectionately called “Shooter”—a name that stuck to him from his …

There were two Pro League football fixtures today but three contests. Defence Force, Point Fortin Civic, Caledonia AIA and San Juan Jabloteh were battling for places within the middle to lower order of Trinidad and Tobago’s domestic top flight competition. The Army/Coast Guard combination cemented their third place with a …

“I’m a very confident person,” San Juan goalkeeper Shane Mattis told Wired868. “I know that anytime I touch the pitch, you have to come good to score against me.” Shane Mattis, Jabloteh’s 34-year-old Jamaica-born goalkeeper, has been playing football since he was seven. He spent much of his adult life in Trinidad where …

Say what you like about Terry Fenwick—and most do—but never let it be said that the Englishman does not know how to make an entrance. Central FC’s new old coach began his second term at the “Couva Sharks” with a 3-0 triumph over his former employer, San Juan Jabloteh that …

The Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) Disciplinary Committee is expected to meet on April 7 to rule on a TTFA FA Trophy protest lodged by 2015 runners-up, DIRECTV W Connection. Connection lost on penalty kicks to North East Stars in the March 29 final at the Ato Boldon Stadium …

After a two and a half year drought, North East Stars returned to winners’ row last night with a 5-4 penalty shootout triumph over defending champions, DIRECTV W Connection, in the 2015 TTFA FA Trophy final at the Ato Boldon Stadium in Couva. There were roughly 1,000 fans at the …

Call him the unsinkable Terry Fenwick. The former England World Cup defender left Trinidad and Tobago Pro League club, Central FC, last year for greener pastures with Belgium lower division club, CS Visé, and took three of Couva-based team’s best players with him. The Visé dream turned into a nightmare …