The 2023 Secondary Schools Football League (SSFL) season is tentatively scheduled to kick off on Friday 8 September with an exhibition clash between defending Premier Division champions, St Benedict’s College, and Intercol winners, Fatima College. The current rulers of the local schoolboys game have changed, with perennial powerhouses Naparima College …
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Eve proud of G/Cup “achievement”, retains just eight players from T&T’s win over Guatemala
Trinidad and Tobago Men’s National Senior Team head coach Angus Eve applauded his troops’ “achievement”, after the Soca Warriors were awarded a group stage place in the 2023 Concacaf Gold Cup and promotion to the 2023-24 Concacaf Nations League A competition, due to disciplinary sanctions against Nicaragua. The Concacaf Disciplinary …
Read More »T&T get Gold Cup group with USA and Jamaica, as Concacaf punishes Nicaragua
Trinidad and Tobago have qualified for the 2023 Concacaf Gold Cup without kicking a ball in the Qualifying series, after Concacaf ruled against Nicaragua over their use of a naturalized player. As a further consequence, Trinidad and Tobago will also replace Nicaragua in the Concacaf Nations League A for the …
Read More »NLCL 23: Hawks, Ginga advance to U-15 Cup final in contrasting styles
Trendsetter Hawks weren’t even supposed to be in the semifinal of the NLCL Under-15 Community Cup. Now, they will play a familiar opponent in FC Ginga in the grand finale, scheduled for Saturday at the Diego Martin Sporting Complex from 3.45pm. Hawks and Ginga advanced to the title match after …
Read More »Alvin breaks six-year goal drought, as makeshift T&T team edge Guatemala 1-0 in friendly
The Trinidad and Tobago Men’s National Senior Team stretched their unbeaten run to six games last night as they edged Guatemala 1-0 in an international friendly at the Subaru Park in Pennsylvania. Alvin Jones got the lone item from the penalty spot to snap a six-year goal drought for the …
Read More »NYFL 23: Pro Series clinch double, FC Ginga and Defence Force also in winners’ row
Two North Zone teams entered the final day of the 2023 Republic National Youth Football League (NYFL) competition with a double on their mind at the Republic Bank Sports Club in Barataria yesterday. And by the time the sun set over the 8th Avenue facility in Barataria, Pro Series emerged …
Read More »Daly Bread: Contrasts of moonlight and misery; the trouble with Manzanilla-Mayaro
In November 2022, part of the Manzanilla-Mayaro road—the once scenic route along the east coast “through the coconuts”—collapsed. Part of it reportedly collapsed before, in 2014. In that same year, a commentary by Rajiv Jalim, described as a climate change advocate from Trinidad and Tobago, analysed coastal erosion on that …
Read More »Noble: How the Journey began; understanding the lingering impact of slavery
“The history that is accountable to the enslaved cannot fulfil our yearning for romance, our desire to hear the subaltern speak, our search for the subaltern as a heroic actor whose agency triumphs over the forces of oppression…what comes into view instead are the inner workings of power and violence.” …
Read More »Vaneisa: In this land of immigrants, Trinbagonians should show compassion to Venezuelans
Our national boast is a beautiful one. Here in this republic of the new world, we are perhaps one of the earliest examples of a truly cosmopolitan nation. We’ve co-existed relatively peacefully for centuries, and over time, I’d say we have assimilated far more than we’ve rejected. And we are …
Read More »NYFL 23: QPCC finish third at U-13 and U-17, while Cox and Premier also manage Playoff wins
QPCC snagged two third place finishes in the Republic Cup National Youth Football League (NYFL) playoffs yesterday to ensure that they managed top three finishes in all four categories of the Trinidad and Tobago Football Association-sanctioned youth tournament. In the Under-13 category, a second half winner by Mason Joel saw …
Read More »Benny: “I bring quality!” AC POS ace takes aim, as Eve and Levi urge new Warriors to snatch opportunity
He may have been the 61st name on paper last week when Trinidad and Tobago Senior Men’s Team coach Angus Eve announced his provisional squad ahead of the 2023 Concacaf Gold Cup, but AC Port of Spain playmaker Che Benny is intent on making an immediate impact with the Soca …
Read More »Concacaf Cup: AC POS and “Army” get same Caribbean Cup groups; Club Sando could join them
TT Premier Football League clubs AC Port of Spain and Defence Force will face each other in Concacaf Caribbean Cup action later this year, after both were drawn in Group A today. The draw was conducted by Concacaf general secretary Philippe Moggio and former Caribbean players Chris Nurse (Guyana) and …
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