National Football

On the eve of the Trinidad and Tobago Men’s National Senior Team’s final World Cup qualifying outing against St Kitts and Nevis, six players were asked to train in sneakers on wet grass, after they were left without football boots—as a result of farcical travel plans arranged by the Fifa-appointed …

Trinidad and Tobago defender Sheldon Bateau, who was stand-in captain on Saturday when the Soca Warriors drew goalless with The Bahamas, said that the team’s weekend result and subsequent elimination from the Qatar 2022 World Cup qualifying series affected the older players more than the younger ones. The 30-year-old Bateau, …

The Fifa-appointed normalisation committee has requested a report into a row between Trinidad and Tobago Men’s National Senior Team assistant coach Kelvin Jack and 18-year-old player Gary Griffith III, which occurred just hours before their World Cup qualifying outing against The Bahamas on Saturday 5 June. Jack, the 45-year-old 2006 …

The Trinidad and Tobago Men’s National Senior Team will complete their Qatar 2022 World Cup qualifying campaign with the same pool of 25 players that were available in The Bahamas, after goalkeeper Nicklas Frenderup, midfielder Jomal Williams, and Luke Singh all ruled themselves out of tomorrow’s contest with St Kitts …

“[…] Players also were told that they wouldn’t be paid stipends because it didn’t factor into the TTFA’s budget. So they’re supposed to make it to training at their own expense when they’re not being paid for their profession?  “A number of players had to seek regular jobs as they’re …

“[…] I don’t think many of these player care to understand that many of us are left broken-hearted, kids left with tears in their eyes, and others just feeling like a laughing stock. I think it is time to get back the pride and dignity of playing for your country…” …

Trinidad and Tobago Men’s National Senior Team head coach Terry Fenwick blamed poor finishing for his team’s elimination from the Qatar 2022 World Cup qualifying campaign yesterday evening, after a goalless draw away to The Bahamas at the Thomas Robinson Stadium in Nassau. The draw left the Soca Warriors with …

‘This is the way the world ends,’ wrote TS Eliot, in his immortal poem The Hollow Men. ‘Not with a bang but a whimper…’ In the fading sunlight of Nassau this evening, a generation of Trinidad and Tobago footballers passed noiselessly towards their doom at the Thomas Robinson Stadium. The Soca Warriors were …

‘A team of financial and legal business leaders with impeccable integrity’ tasked with ‘an incredibly complex operation’. That is how the Fifa-appointed normalisation committee, chaired by Robert Hadad, referred to itself tonight, in a public statement ostensibly meant to provide an update on the finances of the Trinidad and Tobago …

Would the Trinidad and Tobago Men’s National Senior Team treat tomorrow’s Qatar 2022 World Cup qualifying fixture against The Bahamas as a warm-up for next Tuesday’s decisive top of the table clash with St Kitts and Nevis? Or will the Soca Warriors simply try to get the best possible result—and …

The Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) and fledgling Miami-based sport apparel company, BOL, unveiled its new kit for the Soca Warriors this morning, which the Men’s National Senior Team will wear tomorrow for their World Cup qualifying assignment against The Bahamas in Nassau. BOL, which also sponsors Montserrat, said …

The Trinidad and Tobago Men’s National Senior Team technical staff must wait a bit longer to receive their first pay cheques for 2021, after the Robert Hadad-led Fifa-appointed normalisation committee again failed to live up to its word. On Friday 7 May, the normalisation committee assured Unified Football Coaches of …