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“[…] Diego was larger than life and he couldn’t go anywhere and relax. I’m sure it must be like that with Cristiano [Ronaldo] and Messi and Pelé. They have no lives. “You have to see it to believe it… It was unbelievable to think someone has to live like this, …

Trinidad and Tobago Men’s National Senior Team head coach Terry Fenwick extended condolences to iconic Argentina football star Diego Armando Maradona, who passed away today at the age of 60. Maradona, a 1986 World Cup winner who twice broke the world record as the most expensive footballer, died of a …

“[…] If elected as president of the Super League, I would like to address two major issues: club development, compliance and licensing; and coaching. “As a former player and now coach, I see these as key areas in which we remain deficient, while the rest of the world and even …

“[…] These meetings are intended to educate coaches across the country of the association’s purpose and vision as well as the benefits of being a member. “It also allows the steering committee the opportunity to exchange and gather ideas that our membership would like to see implemented…” The following is …

Trinidad and Tobago Men’s National Senior Team head coach Terry Fenwick looks set to benefit from increased powers, as the Soca Warriors start preparation for their Qatar 2022 World Cup qualifying campaign in earnest under the supervision of Fifa-appointed normalisation committee chairman Robert Hadad. The Warriors are drawn in Group …

Guaya FC manager Jameson Rigues and UTT FC head coach Clayton Morris will bid to succeed Keith Look Loy as Trinidad and Tobago Super League (TTSL) president on 29 November, despite protests by the former over the electoral process. Yesterday was the deadline for nominations for the vacant position. Rigues, …

Haitian Football Federation (HFF) president Dr Yves ‘Dadou’ Jean-Bart has been banned for life by Fifa, after being found guilty of ‘systematic sexual abuse against female football players between 2014 and 2020’. The decision was released today by the adjudicatory chamber of Fifa’s Ethics Committee, which also imposed a 1,000,000 …

The Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) is once more a full Fifa member, after the world governing body formally lifted its suspension of the Soca Warriors today. The decision was made by the Bureau of the Fifa Council, which is headed by Fifa president Gianni Infantino, and promptly communicated …

East Mucurapo Secondary football team manager Brinsley Hutson passed away yesterday at the Mt Hope Hospital, where he was warded since suffering a stroke last Friday. Hutson, who worked in sales at Massy Technologies, was one of the first crop of students at the then Mucurapo Senior Comprehensive in the …

This article written by Lasana Liburd was first published in the Trinidad Express and offers a peek into the Soca Warriors’ dressing room on an unforgettable Wednesday night in Bahrain on 16 November 2005:  “We going Ger-many! We going Ger-many!” Trinidad and Tobago goalkeeper Shaka Hislop was in full cry …

The following article, written by Lasana Liburd, was first published in the Trinidad Express on 23 October 2003: Sometimes it is too easy to forget who are the real power-brokers in football. Not the talented and sometimes extravagantly paid players whose careers last as long as a St Ann’s taxi …

“[…] By now, you likely know that Infantino has his own legal woes in Switzerland where he has been criminally indicted by the state over his role in attempting to replicate, in his home country, the criminality that he has endorsed and encouraged in Africa. “[…] In Africa, the Fifa …