Recent Trinidad and Tobago National Senior Team call-ups Shannon Gomez, Neveal Hackshaw, Jomal Williams and Akeem Garcia were all included in a 39-player shortlist for the National Olympic team, which began training yesterday morning at the Hasely Crawford Stadium, Port of Spain. The team will be coached by Yugoslavia-born Zoran …

 “I am positive at all times,” Neveal Hackshaw told Wired868. “Negativity is not part of my language and I am determined to succeed at football.” Neveal Hackshaw, the 19 year old North East Stars and Trinidad and Tobago central midfielder, exuded two of the most important qualities of character in our …

Former Central FC head coach Zoran Vranes is set to return to the international arena after agreeing to take charge of the Trinidad and Tobago National Under-23 Team for their Rio 2016 Olympics qualifying campaign. Vranes expects to be assisted by former Trinidad and Tobago international Reynold Carrington, who recently …

The first thing I knew as I walk onto the Toyota compound at Barataria is that there is bake and shark to be had; anyone with a nose would know it immediately. It isn’t the famous Maracas variety which scores of families who have opted to spend the day at …

As Jason Holder and Kemar Roach battled manfully to stave off defeat on Friday evening, a friend of mine sent me a sarcastic text. “No chance of West Indies winning,” it read, “but not a soul has left the stadium. My, my! The excitement of playing for a draw.” Almost …

A Trinidad and Tobago Pro League team will contest the 2015 Caribbean Club Championship final. But only one local football team would have that pleasure. On May 24, the Caribbean Club Championship final will be contested at the Ato Boldon Stadium in Couva. But only one from DIRECTV W Connection …

The following correspondence was emailed to the media today by Minister of Food Production Devant Maharaj and former Attorney Generals Ramesh Lawrence Maharaj SC and John Jeremie SC in relation to the $408 million spent on legal fees by recently departed People’s Partnership Attorney General Anand Ramlogan: When the PNM …

Pro League leaders Central FC will need to defeat Alpha United on Sunday at the latter’s home turf to stay alive in the Caribbean Club Championship. The “Couva Sharks” failed to match or better Alpha United’s opening result as a Willis Plaza double steered Central to a 2-0 win over …

PNM treasurer and Port of Spain Mayor Raymond Tim Kee continued his alleged double-life as a “mafia man” today when he figuratively kissed the ring of his professed godfather and FIFA president, Sepp Blatter. Well, that is what Opposition Leader Keith Rowley thinks anyway. “I knew long ago that FIFA …

DIRECTV W Connection started their 2015/16 CONCACAF Champions League campaign yesterday with a comfortable 7-1 win over the Guyana Defence Force in an otherwise chaotic night at the Ato Boldon Stadium, Couva. Jamaican giants, Waterhouse FC, never showed up for their opening match against Antiguan club, SAP FC, for 5.30 …

Pro League frontrunners DIRECTV W Connection and Central FC will aim to get Trinidad and Tobago back into the CONCACAF Champions League when they start their CFU qualifying matches this week. Connection, the reigning Pro League champions, face the Guyana Defence Force, Antigua’s SAP FC and Jamaica’s Waterhouse FC on …

“Nothing good comes easily,” said Caledonia AIA’s Jameel Neptune. “No excuses! Find or make a way!” Twenty-one-year-old Jameel Neptune has his heart set on wearing the “red, white and black.” Neptune is a midfielder for Caledonia AIA where he is affectionately called “Shooter”—a name that stuck to him from his …