The QPCC football community was plunged into mourning yesterday after losing two players on the same day in different incidents. Former goalkeeper Raheem ‘Birdie’ Belgrave, 29, drowned yesterday morning while full-back Ackime Prudhomme was gunned down in Arouca. QPCC head coach Shawn Cooper and his former assistant Wayne Sheppard both …
Read More »Moore, Hackshaw and Powder in T&T 21-man squad to face Bolivia, Muckette misses cut
Trinidad and Tobago Men’s National Senior Team head coach Angus Eve selected 12 players and two reserves from his 2021 Concacaf Gold Cup squad in his travelling party, as the Soca Warriors prepare to resume international action away to Bolivia on Friday 21 January. The Warriors leave tomorrow for the …
Read More »Rusty T&T to face Bolivia on 21 Jan; Eve names Hudson, ‘Natty’, JP Rochford in training squad
The Trinidad and Tobago Men’s National Senior Team finally have a practice game, after five months and three international match windows of inactivity. The Soca Warriors travel to Bolivia to face the host nation from 5pm on 21 January at the Estadio Olimpico Patrio in Sucre. Bolivia have two friendlies …
Read More »Aubrey, Cordner, Augustine and Marchan honoured, as TTFA recognises top players despite general inactivity
The Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) today announced its Players of the Year for 2021, against a backdrop of little to no activity in the domestic game. Costa Rica-based central defender Aubrey David was adjudged the Men’s Player of the Year while Kennya ‘Yaya’ Cordner snared the Women’s prize. …
Read More »Hadad: ‘Covid hampered our plans… but our commitment is not diminished’
“[…] Like every other organisation, the work of the normalisation committee was hampered by Covid, and we were unable to implement much of what we had planned. “These setbacks have not diminished our commitment and our resolve to get football back onto a sound and sustainable footing that would enable …
Read More »Dear Editor: Cowed TTFA members got what they deserved from abusive Fifa and hapless Hadad
“[…] Despite occasional mutterings, all those who pilloried and cursed William Wallace and Keith Look Loy to leave forthwith in 2020 have been silent since we left. Not a word from them. “So much for their ‘love for the youths’. They are cowed into subservience to Fifa because they are …
Read More »Fifa admits Hadad’s NC has struggled with mandate; then extends their TTFA control for another year
The Bureau of the Fifa Council, headed by Fifa president Gianni Infantino, has extended the mandate for its normalisation committee in Trinidad and Tobago until 31 March 2023. The move means that the Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA)—and all organised football on the two-island republic—will remain under the thumb of …
Read More »TTFA announces Spence as Women’s U-17 and U-20 coach; Hadad snubs Hood and coaches assoc again
Former St Ann’s Rangers coach Jason Spence is set for a return to the international game after he was announced as the Trinidad and Tobago Football Association’s new head coach of the Women’s National Under-17 and Under-20 Teams. Spence will lead the U-20s into the Concacaf Women’s U-20 Championship from …
Read More »TTFA alter U-20 trial schedule; ‘players with the surname initial A, B, C, D’ invited on Saturday
The Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) has announced an alteration to the arrangements for its Men’s National Under-20 Team trials; players are now being asked to attend on specific days based on, apparently, the first letter of their surnames. On Tuesday, the TTFA invited interested players to register to …
Read More »T&T Men’s U-20 screening starts on Saturday at Ato Boldon Stadium in Couva
The Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) has announced the start of screening sessions for its Men’s National Under-20 Team, the first of which will be held on Saturday 11 December from 8am at the Ato Boldon Stadium in Couva. To be eligible, players must be born on or after …
Read More »Negligent administrators, ‘return to play’, and vaccines: Shamfa Cudjoe talks sport with Wired868
“[…] One option is that we start to play with vaccinated persons only—no audience or spectators… Some sporting disciplines are looking better than others. For instance, based on what has been put to us by cricket, cricket looks good. “[…] In football… the Super League couldn’t tell [how many of …
Read More »TTFA ‘has no affiliation with Mr Jerome Pierre’; local body distances itself from ‘scholarship programme’
The following is a press statement from the Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA): The Trinidad and Tobago Football Association is hereby advising the public and stakeholders that it has no affiliation with the individual Mr Jerome Pierre nor has the organisation endorsed any programme or activity as is being …
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