Global Football

Twenty-three year old Caledonia AIA goalkeeper Shemel Louison’s sporting career started behind the stumps as a wicket keeper in Grenada. Devon Dowden, a youth team coach in Mt Moritz, challenged Louison to try football instead and his love for the game blossomed. Louison was just 20-years-old when he made his …

DIRECTV W Connection chairman David John Williams and former 2006 World Cup player Shaka Hislop were today officially unveiled as members of a CONCACAF task force mandated to do a feasibility study on the potential of a Caribbean professional football league. The committee is considered the final step before the …

The promise of fame and fortune has fuelled many a youngster’s dream of becoming a professional footballer. The realisation of such dreams is epitomised by the likes of Real Madrid’s Cristiano Ronaldo, Barcelona’s Lionel Messi and Manchester United’s Wayne Rooney, whose skills have made them household names and landed them …

Things could get flipping awesome at Cardiff City from tomorrow afternoon as Trinidad and Tobago international football captain Kenwyne Jones prepares for life at his fourth England Premier League club. The six-foot-two “Soca Warrior” managed home debut goals in England for Sheffield Wednesday, Sunderland and Stoke City and he intends …

Trinidad and Tobago national senior team coach Stephen Hart believes the “Soca Warriors” have more to gain than lose from international friendlies against Brazil 2014 World Cup-bound nations, Argentina and Iran, as he braces for a challenging trip to South America in June. The Warriors face Argentina in La Plata, …

The Trinidad and Tobago national senior football team will get a taste of the Brazil 2014 World Cup atmosphere after all as the “Soca Warriors” today confirmed a friendly international date against Iran on 8 June 2014 in Sao Paolo, Brazil. Sao Paolo will host the World Cup’s opening match, …

The Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) is trying desperately to preserve its out-of-court settlement with the 2006 World Cup players after failing to fulfil the terms of its pact with the “Soca Warriors.” On Monday 20 May 2013, the TTFA officially buried the hatchet with the Warriors in what …

It has been interesting to watch recent debates sparked by Trinidad and Tobago forward Kenwyne Jones’ rather public dispute with his employer, Stoke City. Jones was fined two weeks’ wages by Stoke manager Mark Hughes for informing him, by text, that he would not attend his club’s recent fixture against …

Twenty one year old Suriname and DIRECTV W Connection winger Stefano Rijssel was selected in the third round of the United States Major League Soccer (MLS) SuperDraft yesterday and will spend the next weeks in pre-season training with the Seattle Sounders. Rijssel caught the attention of the scouts at the …

The only sound in the Trinidad and Tobago national under-20 women team’s dressing room last night was the sound of sobbing. Instead of toasts, there were tears. The “Soca Princesses”, who already set a new high for the women’s program by qualifying for the CONCACAF semi-final round, came within five …

Akeem Adams was 22 years old when his body finally gave up its fight on 30 December 2013, at the Varosmajori Heart Clinic in Budapest, Hungary. Adams had spent three months fighting for his life with a mechanical heart and an amputated leg, the amiable, dreadlocked young Ferencvaros defender from …

First, the good news: the present Trinidad and Tobago national under-20 women’s team is just 90 minutes away from becoming the first local team to ever qualify for a FIFA women’s competition. The “Soca Princesses” meet Costa Rica from 5 pm on Sunday at the Truman Bodden Sports Complex in …