Local Football

Naparima College and St Anthony’s College got off to triumphant starts in the truncated BG T&T/First Citizens Premier Division Big Four competition this evening with wins over San Juan North Secondary and Speyside Secondary. Naparima, the recently crowned SSFL Premier Division champion team, downed San Juan 2-0 in Bourg Mulattrasse …

Fans ought not to be surprised if next week’s First Citizens Cup final between Central FC and North East Stars is decided from a penalty shootout as both teams progressed via that route last evening. Central overcame Police FC 3-1, after three penalty saves from Trinidad and Tobago and Central …

At the age of 17, young Jabari “Barry” Mitchell is well on his way to becoming a footballing hero.  This young star on the rise hails from the Borough of Point Fortin where his talent was discovered at a young age by his father Sheldon Mitchell, who is a known coach …

Reigning Digicel Pro League champions, DIRECTV W Connection, made a losing start to its title defence yesterday evening as a Tyrone Charles lifted North East Stars to a 1-0 win over the “Savonetta Boys” at the Ato Boldon Stadium in Couva. It was the second successive loss for Connection and, …

Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) president Raymond Tim Kee will hang on to his football portfolio for another seven months at least after FIFA granted the local football body an undemocratic extension without citing any by-law that allowed its decision. The delay, according to correspondence sent by FIFA general …

Police FC and North East Stars both secured narrow victories yesterday evening at the Marvin Lee Stadium in Macoya to book their places in the semi-finals of the 2014 First Citizens Cup. Police got a stoppage time winner from defender Elijah Belgrave to sink Rangers while Stars ousted 10-man Caledonia …

San Juan Jabloteh produced a second giant slaying performance last night to eliminate defending Pro League champion club, DIRECTV W Connection, thanks to a 2-0 triumph at the Ato Boldon Stadium, Couva. New Jamaican recruits, Sterling Newton and Adrian Reid, got the items for the Jabloteh team which now advances …

National Security Minister and ex-Defence Force captain Gary Griffith provoked inter-island tension again this week with an undiplomatic reference to Jamaicans living illegally in Trinidad and Tobago. There might have been revenge of sorts at the Marvin Lee Stadium in Macoya tonight as San Juan Jabloteh, with five Jamaicans in …

Diminutive utility player Kennedy Hinkson opened his account for the 2014/15 Pro League season with a double today as North East Stars shot down Point Fortin Civic at the Mahaica Oval in Point Fortin. Point Fortin, who limped through the pre-season with the threat of financial bankruptcy, scored first through …

Sixteen-year-old Trinidad and Tobago national under-20 attacker and Shiva Boys Hindu School football star, Levi Garcia, is set to leave for Europe next week in a controversial move engineered by Dutch agent Humphry Nijman. Here is what FIFA says about the movement of players under the age of 18: (FIFA …

Veteran goal poachers Kerry Baptiste and Devorn Jorsling were both on the score sheet this evening as San Juan Jabloteh and Defence Force enjoyed narrow victories over St Ann’s Rangers and Police respectively at the Marvin Lee Stadium in Macoya. The 32-year-old Baptiste, who is the Pro League’s all-time record …

Defence Force and Caledonia AIA enjoyed winning starts to their 2014/15 Digicel Pro League campaigns yesterday afternoon with hard-fought victories over North East Stars and Point Fortin Civic respectively. An extra time Richard Roy penalty settled an otherwise barren affair at the Larry Gomes Stadium in Malabar as Defence Force …