Global Football

One of my most vivid memories of Andrew Jennings came on our second meeting, after a media conference at the Trinidad Hilton in the build-up to the 2001 Fifa Under-17 World Cup in Trinidad and Tobago. It was an elegant event, attended by then Fifa president Sepp Blatter, with every …

Former Trinidad and Tobago Women’s National Senior Team star Ahkeela Mollon has had a mixed start to her new career as an international coach.  Whether Mollon is saint or sinner, villain or victim, depends on whom you speak to in Anguilla, though. And after 14 months on the job as …

And still the Wired868 Fantasy Football leader… Dia Hunte ‘KingPool’ has now enjoyed pole position for three successive months in the Wired868 Lime Kickers group, as he rounded off the Old Year as overall winner and December 2021 champ. A feat made all the more remarkable as the England Premier …

The Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) today announced its Players of the Year for 2021, against a backdrop of little to no activity in the domestic game. Costa Rica-based central defender Aubrey David was adjudged the Men’s Player of the Year while Kennya ‘Yaya’ Cordner snared the Women’s prize. …

“[…] Like every other organisation, the work of the normalisation committee was hampered by Covid, and we were unable to implement much of what we had planned.  “These setbacks have not diminished our commitment and our resolve to get football back onto a sound and sustainable footing that would enable …

“[…] Despite occasional mutterings, all those who pilloried and cursed William Wallace and Keith Look Loy to leave forthwith in 2020 have been silent since we left. Not a word from them.  “So much for their ‘love for the youths’. They are cowed into subservience to Fifa because they are …

The Bureau of the Fifa Council, headed by Fifa president Gianni Infantino, has extended the mandate for its normalisation committee in Trinidad and Tobago until 31 March 2023. The move means that the Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA)—and all organised football on the two-island republic—will remain under the thumb of …

Former St Ann’s Rangers coach Jason Spence is set for a return to the international game after he was announced as the Trinidad and Tobago Football Association’s new head coach of the Women’s National Under-17 and Under-20 Teams. Spence will lead the U-20s into the Concacaf Women’s U-20 Championship from …

The Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) has announced an alteration to the arrangements for its Men’s National Under-20 Team trials; players are now being asked to attend on specific days based on, apparently, the first letter of their surnames. On Tuesday, the TTFA invited interested players to register to …

Jamaica Men’s National Senior Team head coach Theodore ‘Tappa’ Whitmore has paid the price for his team’s sluggish start to the Qatar 2022 World Cup qualifying campaign, as he was fired from his post today. Whitmore, an iconic ex-Jamaica midfielder who starred in the ‘Reggae Boyz’ 1998 World Cup campaign, …

The Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) has announced the start of screening sessions for its Men’s National Under-20 Team, the first of which will be held on Saturday 11 December from 8am at the Ato Boldon Stadium in Couva. To be eligible, players must be born on or after …

“[…] One option is that we start to play with vaccinated persons only—no audience or spectators… Some sporting disciplines are looking better than others. For instance, based on what has been put to us by cricket, cricket looks good.  “[…] In football… the Super League couldn’t tell [how many of …