There were two Pro League football fixtures today but three contests. Defence Force, Point Fortin Civic, Caledonia AIA and San Juan Jabloteh were battling for places within the middle to lower order of Trinidad and Tobago’s domestic top flight competition. The Army/Coast Guard combination cemented their third place with a …
Read More »Injury rules Hector out of Gold Cup; Warrior targets 2018 W/Cup return
Diminutive Trinidad and Tobago playmaker Hughtun Hector has lost the opportunity to play in his first CONCACAF Gold Cup tournament after rupturing his Achilles tendon in a Vietnam league match for Hanoi T&T on April 3. Hanoi lost the fixture 1-0 away to Binh Duong. Hector had a successful operation …
Read More »Mr Confident! One-on-one with Jabloteh’s Shane Mattis
“I’m a very confident person,” San Juan goalkeeper Shane Mattis told Wired868. “I know that anytime I touch the pitch, you have to come good to score against me.” Shane Mattis, Jabloteh’s 34-year-old Jamaica-born goalkeeper, has been playing football since he was seven. He spent much of his adult life in Trinidad where …
Read More »Central go six points clear as Fenwick sent off in fiery Pro League return
Say what you like about Terry Fenwick—and most do—but never let it be said that the Englishman does not know how to make an entrance. Central FC’s new old coach began his second term at the “Couva Sharks” with a 3-0 triumph over his former employer, San Juan Jabloteh that …
Read More »Connection lodge “Ratty” protest against Stars; TTFA offers prize money
The Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) Disciplinary Committee is expected to meet on April 7 to rule on a TTFA FA Trophy protest lodged by 2015 runners-up, DIRECTV W Connection. Connection lost on penalty kicks to North East Stars in the March 29 final at the Ato Boldon Stadium …
Read More »Stars penalise Connection in FA final; WCFC promise protest
After a two and a half year drought, North East Stars returned to winners’ row last night with a 5-4 penalty shootout triumph over defending champions, DIRECTV W Connection, in the 2015 TTFA FA Trophy final at the Ato Boldon Stadium in Couva. There were roughly 1,000 fans at the …
Read More »Panama school Warriors; but Hart savours individual successes
Trinidad and Tobago’s Russia 2018 World Cup charge started off with a baby step at the Ato Boldon Stadium in Couva last night as the “Soca Warriors” fell 1-0 to Panama in an international friendly affair. At the final whistle, Panama goalkeeper Jaime Penedo had not been stretched once. Trinidad …
Read More »Warriors kick off 2018 W/Cup preparations against Panama today
The “Soca Warriors” will officially start preparations for their Russia 2018 World Cup qualifying campaign today when they face the Panama senior international football team from 7 pm at the Ato Boldon Stadium in Couva. The Panamanian outfit, which is the fourth ranked team in CONCACAF, brought a full-strength squad …
Read More »Remembering Alloy Lequay: Cricket’s antidote to Jack Warner
As Austin Jack Warner was to Trinidad and Tobago football so was Alloy Remigus Lequay to Trinidad and Tobago cricket. The two men give the lie to the old adage that insists that politics and sport don’t mix. They do, they did—felicitously in the case of Lequay, who devoted his …
Read More »Fenwick’s back! Feisty Englishman makes shock return to Central FC
Call him the unsinkable Terry Fenwick. The former England World Cup defender left Trinidad and Tobago Pro League club, Central FC, last year for greener pastures with Belgium lower division club, CS Visé, and took three of Couva-based team’s best players with him. The Visé dream turned into a nightmare …
Read More »Shape up! Hart challenges new Warrior recruits to lift standards
Trinidad and Tobago National Senior Team coach Stephen Hart admitted to concern about the physical condition of his current squad and challenged his recruits to improve their conditioning to break into his CONCACAF Gold Cup and World Cup qualifying squads. Hart named 10 uncapped players for the Warriors’ friendly international …
Read More »Akeem Garcia drafted in to Warriors squad; Rundell ruled out
Trinidad and Tobago National Senior Team coach Stephen Hart added his fourth teenager and debutante to the “Soca Warriors” squad as DIRECTV W Connection’s Akeem “Froggy” Garcia was called up as a replacement for Central FC attacker Rundell Winchester. Garcia, a fine dribbler who can operate on either flank, as …
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