National Football

Wired868 is in Quito for the Trinidad and Tobago women’s FIFA Play Off first leg match away to Ecuador: If Ecuador is gripped by women’s football fever, the country certainly has not shown it yet. Tomorrow afternoon from 2 pm in Quito (3 pm TT time), Ecuador and Trinidad and Tobago will …

Trinidad and Tobago will send its largest ever contingent for a Caribbean Cup finals tournament next week when the regional competition kicks off in Montego Bay, Jamaica. The Caribbean Football Union (CFU) allowed “Soca Warriors” head coach Stephen Hart to select a 23-man squad for the 2014 Caribbean Cup after …

The Trinidad and Tobago national senior women’s players are still awaiting outstanding match fees and per diems, which were promised to them for the 2014 CONCACAF Women’s Championship in the United States. A Ministry of Sport official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, told Wired868 that roughly $350,000 of …

The Trinidad and Tobago women’s national senior team’s next international match will be 2,782 metres above sea level in Quito, Ecuador on 8 November 2014 at a venue once deemed medically unsafe for players by world governing body, FIFA. But what else would we expect? A 15 minute flight to …

Trinidad and Tobago national under-17 coach Shawn Cooper expressed disappointment about his squad qualifying for the CONCACAF stage as the best third place team after being eliminated in the group stage of the Caribbean tournament in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The young “Soca Warriors” lost 2-0 to St Lucia in their group …

The Trinidad and Tobago national senior team’s route to the Canada 2015 Women’s World Cup will be a little trickier now. It took 120 minutes and six penalty kicks to separate the “Women Soca Warriors” from an excellent Costa Rica outfit in the 2014 CONCACAF Women’s Championship semifinals this evening …

The suspension of the Trinidad and Tobago Football Association’s (TTFA) elections was, according to FIFA Associations Committee representative Primo Corvaro, an initiative of the world governing body, FIFA, rather than beleaguered local football president Raymond Tim Kee. Corvaro tried to make that point clear at a press conference yesterday afternoon …

The “Soca Warriors” are back. The Trinidad and Tobago national senior team shot up 37 places to 49th in the latest FIFA rankings, which is the country’s highest rank in eight years. At present, the Warriors are the highest ranked Caribbean team and fourth in CONCACAF behind leaders Costa Rica, Mexico …

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 …

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 …

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 …