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The Trinidad and Tobago Boys National Under-15 Team will leave the 2019 Concacaf Championship without a win to their names, after they blew a 2-0 goal lead today to finish 4-2 losers to Guatemala in a play off to decide eighth and ninth place. A ninth place finish from 16 …

The Trinidad and Tobago Boys National Under-15 Team closed off their Group D fixtures at the Concacaf Championship this morning with a 3-0 loss to Portugal at the IMG Academy in Bradenton, Florida. Portugal, a European powerhouse, are competing in the Concacaf tournament as a guest team. Today’s result meant the …

The much-vaunted T-League, a FIFA-approved and TTFA-run football league involving Trinidad and Tobago’s two top domestic competitions, appears to be on the verge of collapse before a ball is kicked, with leaked correspondence suggesting an about-turn by Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) president David John-Williams. Today, Commission chairman Lindsay …

“This format is killing the aspirations of small nations. World Cup football is more than just football, but also about allowing millions of citizens from 29 other countries to simply try, hope and believe. “This baseless and biased format intends to destroy just that…” The following Letter to the Editor …

Defence Force held another football pitch under siege in Division One of the Ascension Invitational League, emerging 5-1 victors over a hapless QPCC at St Mary’s College grounds on Sunday. “Today was easy,” Hutson ‘Barber’ Charles, Defence Force assistant coach, chuckled after the match. “I don’t think QPCC offered us …

The Trinidad and Tobago Boys National Under-15 Team missed out on their best chance of a group stage victory at the Concacaf Championship this morning as they were held 1-1 by Barbados at the IMG Academy in Bradenton, Florida. The Under-15s, who are coached by Stuart Charles-Fevrier, need a win …

And they’re off! After consecutive defeats to Guaya United and San Juan Jabloteh, Police FC finally opened their account in the Ascension Invitational Tournament, thumping Matura ReUnited by a 6-nil margin at the Police Academy in St James Saturday evening. Both teams entered yesterday’s encounter winless. And it did not …

The Trinidad and Tobago Boys National Under-15 Team opened their Concacaf Championship campaign this morning with a 3-0 loss to Costa Rica at the IMG Academy in Bradenton, Florida. Costa Rica scored all three goals in the opening 20 minutes and, although the Elite Team was able to subsequently stem …

About a dozen runs and Shivnarine Chanderpaul. In Monday’s Express, Fazeer Mohammed raised the very pertinent question of who is calling the selection shots. Why is the 39-year-old Chris Gayle, he asks—who unretired towards the end of the 2019 World Cup—included in an ODI squad which, according to the coach, …

The Trinidad and Tobago Women’s National Senior Team were grouped today with Guyana, Aruba, Dominican Republic, St Kitts and Nevis and Antigua and Barbuda, as Concacaf revealed its first qualifying phase for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. Only the group winner will advance to the Concacaf Championship while the confederation’s …

Morvant Caledonia AIA maintained their perfect record early in the Ascension Invitational Tournament as they defeated rivals San Juan Jabloteh by a 2-1 margin in Bourg Mulatresse yesterday. Coach Jerry Moe’s Caledonia outfit have now racked up three straight wins in the Ascension top flight and are second only to …

Veteran Footballers Foundation of Trinidad and Tobago (VFFOTT) president Selby Browne has called on the Board of the Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) to hold an urgent review of the ‘the public behaviour and conduct of Board members’, in the wake of legal threats by Men’s National Senior Team …