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“We have to win,” said Guyana Women’s National Senior Team captain and central defender Kayla De Souza, at a virtual pre-match media conference this morning. “A win is something we need to do not just to advance in the tournament but for the legacy of the programme, to move forward.”  …

The team that advances from Group F in the Concacaf W Championship qualifying phase—and only Trinidad and Tobago and Guyana are left in contention—will not just possess the superior bunch of women footballers. They will also be the team that best handles the logistical issues which come along with qualifying …

The Trinidad and Tobago Women’s National Senior Team warmed up for Tuesday’s decisive Concacaf W Championship qualifier against Guyana with a 13-0 mauling of the Turks and Caicos Islands this afternoon at the TCIFA National Academy in Providenciales. It was a feat made all the more remarkable by the fact …

The Trinidad and Tobago Women’s National Senior Team’s chances of advancing to the 2022 Concacaf W Championship received a strong boost earlier this evening as Guyana were held goalless by Nicaragua in tonight’s qualifying fixture in Lenora. The result eliminates Nicaragua as a contender for the sole qualification spot at …

“World Cup isn’t relevant anymore,” a 30-year-old sports editor colleague told me a few years ago. “[Uefa] Champions League is the most important event in football; it’s what everybody wants to see—where all the top players are.” That’s Bobby, pronouncing, now that the Qatar 2022 groups have been more or …

Former Pro League stand-out Akeem ‘Battery’ Benjamin was one of two men shot dead today during an alleged confrontation with police officers at the out-of-commission Flavourite Ice Cream compound at Boundary Road in San Juan. The second deceased man remains unidentified while a TTPS release said North Eastern Division Task …

The Hero Caribbean Premier League (CPL) has announced that its finals will be hosted by Guyana for the next three years, starting in 2022. This year’s tournament culmination will have its first-ever staging in Guyana and the announced three-year long-term agreement will now ensure encore presentations in 2023 and 2024. …

The Trinidad and Tobago Men’s National Senior Team will start their 2022-23 Concacaf Nations League campaign away to Nicaragua on Friday 3 June 2022 and finish it at home on Monday 27 March 2023. The tournament will take place in a round-robin format with each team playing its fellow group …

Trinidad and Tobago Men’s National Senior Team head coach Angus Eve described Group C of the Concacaf Nations League second tier competition as ‘very difficult’, as he prepares to cross swords with Nicaragua, St Vincent and the Grenadines and The Bahamas respectively. The Nations League kicks off in June and …

The Trinidad and Tobago Men’s National Senior Team have been reunited with The Bahamas as both nations were tonight put together in Group C of the second tier of the 2022-23 Concacaf Nations League. The two League B nations are grouped with Nicaragua and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines in …

The Trinbago Knight Riders made a bold statement in the Caribbean Premier League (CPL) pre-draft today as they announced the signatures of wicketkeeper/batsman Nicholas Pooran and allrounder Andre Russell, who represented the Guyana Amazon Warriors and Jamaica Tallawahs respectively last season. The 2022 CPL season bowls off on 30 August …

March 2022. The Apex Second Test in Barbados. Garfield St Aubrun Sobers sat, as he has long sat, beside his queen atop the Kensington pavilion, monarch of all he surveyed. But frail-, fragile-, feeble-looking even. I felt for him. I feared for him. Through my mind flashed an image of …