National Football

Club Sando and Naparima College head coach Angus Eve has vowed to take over two dozen young footballers to see Minister of Sport and Youth Affairs, Shamfa Cudjoe, in a last ditch effort to save their dream of participating in the Tokyo 2020 Olympic qualifying series. Yesterday, Trinidad and Tobago …

Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) general secretary Camara David has confirmed that the local football body will not participate in the Tokyo 2020 Men’s Olympic qualifying series. David, via a press statement, said the football body’s decision was due to ‘financial difficulties’ and because the Olympic Games was a ‘difficult …

“I’ll help anyone who is in need or in any type of challenging or non-challenging situation; I would give to the world if I can,” said former Trinidad and Tobago National Under-20 Team defender and St Anthony’s College student Derron John. “Anything to help, I’ll be there once I am …

Trinidad and Tobago Men’s National Senior Team head coach Dennis Lawrence looks like holding faith in his regular core players for the 2019 Concacaf Gold Cup tournament, as he ignored a host of potential wildcard selections for his trip to Japan this weekend. The Soca Warriors leave Trinidad tomorrow in …

Men’s National Under-23 Team head coach-in-waiting, Angus Eve, is urging Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) president David John-Williams and his Board to accept that they are not up to the job of running local football and resign with immediate effect. Eve’s plea came within 24 hours of a press …

The financially beleaguered Trinidad and Tobago Football Association is considering withdrawing both their male and female teams from the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympic Games Qualifiers. The Men’s National Under-23 Team were drawn in Group B of the qualifying series alongside Cuba, US Virgin Islands and Barbados, which is due to …

Trinidad and Tobago National Senior Team coach Dennis Lawrence is likely to lean heavily on overseas-based experience for the 2019 Concacaf Gold Cup, as roughly two-thirds of the players named in his 40-man shortlist earn their living outside the twin island republic. With the domestic leagues inactive for the past …

Trinidad and Tobago will face Canada in an international friendly on 10 June in Los Angeles, just eight days before their Concacaf Gold Cup opener against Panama in Minnesota. Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) president David John-Williams suggested the fixture was a make-up game for the scrapped exhibition match …

“I hope this election coming up we vote that ‘clown’ out and vote in someone who can help uplift our football from this deplorable state it is in right now. “They could say whatever dey want about Mr Jack Warner; he did both bad and good. But under his guidance, …

Trinidad and Tobago’s 2019 Under-17 World Cup dreams ended this afternoon in Florida, as the young Soca Warriors fell 4-1 to Honduras in their Concacaf Championship Round of 16 contest at the IMG Academy. Presentation College (San Fernando) schoolboy Jaiye Sheppard scored with a clever improvised finish in the box …

The Trinidad and Tobago Men’s National Under-17 Team might have mixed feelings this evening as they completed their Group E assignments at the 2019 Concacaf Championship at the IMG Academy in Brentford, Florida. The junior Soca Warriors were already through to the Round of 16 before the opening whistle against …

The Trinidad and Tobago National Under-17 Team will meet Mexico on equal footing on Sunday after the junior Soca Warriors maintained their 100 per cent group record this evening with a battling 3-2 Concacaf Championship win over regional rivals, Jamaica, in Brentford, Florida. Two years ago, the two aforementioned Caribbean …