The Wired868.com online newspaper served up a treat for football fans on 9 January 2013 with the inaugural Wired868 Football Festival at the UWI SPEC ground in St Augustine. An exhibition match between a Wired868 XI and an Earl “Mango” Pierre XI was the highlight of the evening and ended in …
Read More »Referees abandon TTFF FA quarterfinals
An inexplicable no-show from match officials put local football into disrepute once more as Caribbean champions Neal & Massy Caledonia AIA and Super League club Stokely Vale were forced to abandon their TTFF FA Trophy quarterfinal fixture today at the Hasely Crawford Stadium, Port of Spain. On 6 November 2012, …
Read More »Warriors must choose between Gold Cup and lucrative Vietnam offer
Trinidad and Tobago national football players Hughtun Hector, Daneil Cyrus and Willis Plaza have roughly one week to decide between their short-term financial futures and representing the country at the 2013 CONCACAF Gold Cup. The trio, who helped the “Soca Warriors” to second place at last month’s Caribbean Cup finals, …
Read More »Caledonia leads Pro League exodus for overseas trials
Seven Neal & Massy Caledonia AIA players are among more than a dozen Pro League footballers who will head through the Piarco Airport’s departure lounge in the coming days to seek their fortune abroad. Present Trinidad and Tobago internationals Densill Theobald and Ataullah Guerra left last night for trials in …
Read More »Caledonia AIA edges Stars to maintain momentum
Neal & Massy Caledonia AIA maintained its Digicel Pro League hot streak tonight and simultaneously kept leaders Defence Force within striking distance as the “Eastern Stallions” edged North East Stars 1-0 at the Ato Boldon Stadium in Couva. It was a fifth successive Pro League win for Caledonia while the …
Read More »Shahdon tricks Central; Connection spoils Fenwick’s return
The Digicel Pro League’s first Couva derby proved to be a one-sided affair as talented 20-year-old striker Shahdon Winchester scored all three goals for DIRECTV W Connection who steamrolled Central FC 3-0 this evening at the Ato Boldon Stadium in Couva. The fixture marked the top flight return of former …
Read More »Fenwick is back; ex-Jabloteh coach takes over at Central
There will be a familiar English accent and piercing whistle at the Ato Boldon Stadium in Couva this evening as former England World Cup defender and ex-San Juan Jabloteh coach Terry Fenwick takes up the reigns at Trinidad and Tobago Pro League club Central FC. Fenwick, who won three Pro …
Read More »Defence Force routs Rangers to stay top
If tonight’s Digicel Pro League clash between Defence Force and St Ann’s Rangers was a boxing match, referee Neil Brizan would have been obliged to stop the contest after 45 minutes. It was not just that Defence Force was landing its punches but the increasing ease in which the soldiers …
Read More »Dwarika, Fenwick and Faustin lead star-studded exhibition cast
There will be four former Youth World Cup players, two former senior World Cup players, two ex-England Premier League players and a host of past international stars in action on Sunday afternoon as Wired868.com hosts its first Football Festival between 3 and 6 pm at UWI’s SPEC ground on the …
Read More »Leo the Great
There is a small chance that you have never heard of Lionel Messi; a very small chance. For most of the football world, however, he is “Leo the Great”, “the Football Messi-ah” and he currently reigns over a vast kingdom rich with history, fame and fortune. There is no shortage …
Read More »Soca Warriors set for Christmas pay-out
The Trinidad and Tobago national football team’s players and staff are set for a merry holiday season as the Sport Ministry and the Trinidad and Tobago Football Federation (TTFF) are both set to reward the “Soca Warriors” for their efforts in a testing year. National football team manager William Wallace …
Read More »Warriors record highest FIFA place in three years
The Trinidad and Tobago national football team will end 2012 with its highest FIFA ranking in three years after moving up 11 places to 68th in the latest rankings from the global football body. The “Soca Warriors” is now ranked ninth in CONCACAF and third in the Caribbean behind Haiti …
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