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FIFA chose to involve itself in Trinidad and Tobago’s football business on an obscure premise. Now, the world governing body has no choice but to play referee. Two of the three Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) vice-presidents, Lennox Watson and Rudi Thomas, told Wired868 that they wrote to FIFA …

One more win will do the trick. The Trinidad and Tobago national women’s senior team moved within 90 minutes of a place at the Canada 2015 Women’s World Cup tournament yesterday after another hard-fought triumph at the 2014 CONCACAF Championship. This time, Guatemala was the victim as the “Women Soca …

Why Do Blatter and Havelange need him? Tuesday March 11, 2008, Zug: Here they come, smartly dressed in their businessman suits, pretending it’s an ordinary day at the office, walking quickly past the pack of jackals with their TV cameras and notebooks blocking the glass and brick canyon leading to …

Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) president Raymond Tim Kee will hang on to his football portfolio for another seven months at least after FIFA granted the local football body an undemocratic extension without citing any by-law that allowed its decision. The delay, according to correspondence sent by FIFA general …

Police FC and North East Stars both secured narrow victories yesterday evening at the Marvin Lee Stadium in Macoya to book their places in the semi-finals of the 2014 First Citizens Cup. Police got a stoppage time winner from defender Elijah Belgrave to sink Rangers while Stars ousted 10-man Caledonia …

The West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) could face a US$65 (TT$412) million lawsuit, according to the ESPN CricInfo, for abandoning its tour of India due to internal wrangling with its players. This figure was calculated using India’s home series against the West Indies in the 2013/14 season as a guide …

Trinidad and Tobago national women’s team central defender Arin King said the team was relieved with yesterday’s result after a Kennya “Yaya” Cordner goal gave the “Women Soca Warriors” a 1-0 World Cup qualifying win over Haiti in Chicago. The Warriors are due to land in Washington this afternoon before …

San Juan Jabloteh produced a second giant slaying performance last night to eliminate defending Pro League champion club, DIRECTV W Connection, thanks to a 2-0 triumph at the Ato Boldon Stadium, Couva. New Jamaican recruits, Sterling Newton and Adrian Reid, got the items for the Jabloteh team which now advances …

The Trinidad and Tobago national senior women’s team already has one foot in the knock out stage of the 2014 CONCACAF Championship after United States-based Player of the Year, Kennya “Yaya” Corder struck the decisive goal in a 1-0 win over Haiti in Chicago. Trinidad and Tobago finished the game …

The West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) admitted to cancelling the India series but blamed the West Indies players in general and its One Day International (ODI) captain Dwayne Bravo in particular for the scandal. Earlier today, the WICB stated, in a release carried on its own website, that “contrary to …

In an unprecedented move, the West Indies cricket team has abandoned its tour of India with three Test matches and a One Day International (ODI) and T20 fixture yet to be completed. It is the first time in the history of cricket, according to ESPN CricInfo, that a series has …

Nobody’s laughing anymore. The Trinidad and Tobago national senior women’s team made some unwelcomed headlines last week when head coach Randy Waldrum, an American native, took to Twitter to request financial assistance for his squad. But, as the 2014 CONCACAF Championship kicked off in Missouri, the “Women Soca Warriors” came …