National Football

Trinidad and Tobago and United Petrotrin winger Mariah Shade was an unlikely hero tonight as the “Soca Princesses” overcame a potentially awkward assignment to whip Antigua and Barbuda 3-0 at the Hasely Crawford Stadium in Port of Spain. The result assured the Soca Princesses of their place at October’s CONCACAF …

Trinidad and Tobago national senior women’s team star Kennya “YaYa” Cordner was ruled out of tonight’s Caribbean Cup clash against the Antigua and Barbuda and possibly the remainder of the competition after a heart scare yesterday. The 25-year-old Cordner, who plays professionally for Seattle Reign FC Reserve in the United …

The Trinidad and Tobago national under-17 football team opened its Chile 2015 World Youth Cup qualifying campaign with a handy 2-0 win over Grenada yesterday evening at the Beausejour Stadium in St Lucia. Defender Tekay Hoyce put the young “Soca Warriors” ahead after just four minutes before striker Dereem Daniel …

Trinidad and Tobago could lose its reputation as a tourism destination if the national senior women’s team keep this up. The “Soca Princesses” certainly did not give their St Kitts and Nevis guests much time to enjoy the scenery at the Hasely Crawford Stadium as the host team opened its …

The Trinidad and Tobago national women’s team will start its Canada 2015 World Cup campaign on Wednesday night at the Hasely Crawford Stadium without its 52-year-old American head coach Randy Waldrum. Instead, Waldrum’s 33-year-old son, Ben Waldrum, will run the Trinidad and Tobago squad in his father’s place when the …

The Trinidad and Tobago national under-17 football team was brimming with confidence today, despite the shortcomings of the squad’s preparation, as the young “Soca Warriors” set off for the first qualifying phase of its Chile 2015 Under-17 World Cup. “We’re going there with every intention of topping the group and …

The Trinidad and Tobago national under-17 team is almost certain to be without the services of assistant coach and Defence Force Staff Sargeant Ross Russell for the first rung of its Chile 2015 Under-17 World Cup qualifying campaign next week. Russell remains hospitalized at the West Shore Medical Hospital in …

Trinidad and Tobago national under-17 and Defence Force coach Ross Russell is believed to have suffered a mild stroke at his Diego Martin home yesterday and is awaiting word from doctors today after spending the night at the West Shore Medical Hospital in Port of Spain. National youth team manager …

“Ask me not,” Everald “Gally” Cummings says, “what he did for the game but what the game did for him.” The former Strike Squad coach is responding to a question about disgraced former FIFA vice-president, Austin Jack Warner. Inviting the normally outspoken national player to be “brutally honest,” we had …

The Trinidad and Tobago national women team’s bizarre preparation for the 2014 Caribbean Cup tournament will continue for at least a few days more as the “Soca Princesses” continue training with its squad and staff split between two continents. Fourteen players and team manager Vernetta Flanders are in Houston where …

The Trinidad and Tobago national women’s football team represented the country’s best chance to qualify for a FIFA senior tournament since the men’s Germany 2006 World Cup. Today, it arguably represents something else entirely. Over the past 24 hours, the national women left for Houston in a fashion that is …

The Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) continues to operate at the edge of financial ruin as, despite general secretary Sheldon Phillips’ sunny disposition, the local football body seems clueless about how to pay its bills while it allegedly dodges debtors. In January 2014, TTFA president Raymond Tim Kee agreed …