“I know not everybody is going to be on my side—and they don’t have to be,” said new Trinidad and Tobago Men’s National Senior Team head coach Angus Eve, “but support the guys… We need to support the team. “Not every time you will get the result you want, but …
Read More »Eve replaces former boss, Fenwick, as interim Soca Warriors head coach for July Gold Cup
Club Sando FC head coach Angus Eve has replaced Terry Fenwick as head coach of the Trinidad and Tobago Men’s National Senior Team. Eve’s appointment is, at least initially, on a temporary basis, as the Fifa-appointed normalisation committee confirmed his contract will expire on 31 August 2021. Eve emerged top …
Read More »W/Cup corner: Curaçao keep Caribbean hopes alive, although their entire starting XI was born in Europe
Concacaf’s Qatar 2022 World Cup qualifying series began with 23 teams from the Caribbean, along with five from Central America, and one from North America. By this time next week, the only Caribbean team still in with a shot at Qatar might be Jamaica, who were not asked to go …
Read More »De Kock, S/African pacers shine as Proteas make light work of woeful WI
Dean Elgar’s seventh-ranked South Africa needed only seven sessions to coast past Kraigg Brathwaite’s feckless West Indies in the First Test in St Lucia on Saturday. Well-deserved five-fers by the frontline quicks in both innings and a long-awaited, well-paced century by former South Africa skipper Quinton de Kock made the …
Read More »TTFA confirms Fenwick ‘termination’; Corneal, Sherwood and Chinapoo to help pick new coach
“[…] A selection panel led by NC member Nicholas Gomez and comprising Anton Corneal, Anthony Sherwood and Richard Chinapoo will meet to finalise the selection of the interim head coach. “The interim head coach together with the panel will then establish the supporting team…” The following is a press statement from the …
Read More »Jefferson: Axed T&T coaches content with settlement; Eve resigns from UFCTT exec
Unified Football Coaches of Trinidad and Tobago (UFCTT) interim president Jefferson George confirmed that Men’s National Senior Team assistant coaches Derek King and Kelvin Jack both agreed termination packages with the Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) yesterday, within hours of their dismissals. At present, Jack and King are the …
Read More »Fenwick on the brink after World Cup flop; NC set to clear out Soca Warriors coaching staff
The Robert Hadad-led Fifa-appointed normalisation committee appears set to swing the axe through the Trinidad and Tobago Men’s National Senior Team’s technical staff, with head coach Terry Fenwick and assistants Kelvin Jack and Derek King on the brink. The normalisation committee comprises: Hadad, Judy Daniel, Nigel Romano, and Trevor Nicholas …
Read More »The pride, then the fall: from Fenwick’s World Cup champagne dreams to hops and channa
The Qatar 2022 World Cup qualifying campaign continues on Saturday without any involvement from Trinidad and Tobago—unless you count Canada’s substitute goalkeeper Dayne St Clair, who chose to represent the land of his birth soon after he popped up on the radar of Soca Warriors head coach Terry Fenwick in …
Read More »Hyland signs off in style and Muckette opens tab, as Trinidad and Tobago down SKN 2-0
St Kitts and Nevis were the best outfit in Group F of the preliminary Concacaf World Cup qualifying group but Trinidad and Tobago were the better team today, as the Soca Warriors closed off their Qatar 2022 campaign with a 2-0 win over the ‘Sugar Boyz’ at the Félix Sánchez …
Read More »Hope, Powell and Seales get nod for WI’s First Test against S/Africa, Bravo misses out
Teenaged Trinidad and Tobago fast bowler Jayden Seales was among four new inclusions to the West Indies Test team for the first match of the Betway Test Series against South Africa, which bowls off on Thursday from 10am at the Daren Sammy Cricket Ground in St Lucia. Top order batsmen Shai Hope …
Read More »Joevin and Levi sit out practice before final WCQ, as farcical NC travel plans left players without boots
On the eve of the Trinidad and Tobago Men’s National Senior Team’s final World Cup qualifying outing against St Kitts and Nevis, six players were asked to train in sneakers on wet grass, after they were left without football boots—as a result of farcical travel plans arranged by the Fifa-appointed …
Read More »Bateau: Some players don’t value national shirt enough, but Warriors will play for pride against SKN
Trinidad and Tobago defender Sheldon Bateau, who was stand-in captain on Saturday when the Soca Warriors drew goalless with The Bahamas, said that the team’s weekend result and subsequent elimination from the Qatar 2022 World Cup qualifying series affected the older players more than the younger ones. The 30-year-old Bateau, …
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