The 2015 Secondary Schools Football League (SSFL) season wrapped up on Monday evening with Naparima College securing a National double and sweeping all possible titles—Premier Division, South Zone Intercol and National Intercol—for the school season. Several players from coach Angus Eve’s two-time Premier Division winning team caught Wired868’s lens this …
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QRC’s mini-maestro: One-on-one with John-Paul Rochford
Though small in stature, Queen’s Royal College (QRC) student John-Paul Rochford showed that he is a force to be reckoned with on the field during the 2015 Secondary Schools Football League (SSFL) Premier Division season. The fifteen year old midfielder has been playing football since he was two years old and credits his …
Read More »Ask ISIS! Jack Warner’s bodyguards taunt French journalists
France 2 journalist Nicolas Geay met former FIFA vice-president Jack Warner for the first time this morning, outside of the Port of Spain Magistrates Court, and received a provocative and memorable response from the former minister’s bodyguards. “Ask ISIS!” Although Warner never mentioned “ISIS” himself, he never intervened and smiled …
Read More »Sending the wrong signals: Why Raffique is wary of ‘Santa Colm’
If “Santa Colm” assures the populace that their Christmas will be bright, not blue, then we have no reason to doubt the man. After all, Acting Prime Minister Colm Imbert is the substantive Minister of Finance, in which capacity he has access to data and information pertaining to the state …
Read More »Dass deuce gives Naparima 2015 national double and seventh Intercol title
Naparima College clinched their seventh National Intercol title yesterday with a hard earned 2-0 win over fierce Northern rivals St Anthony’s College at the Mannie Ramjohn Stadium in Marabella. Naparima held on to an Intercol grudge inflicted over a decade ago by St Anthony’s and, yesterday, Jarred Dass exacted some …
Read More »Waldrum and “Yaya” return to W/Warriors for US friendly
Trinidad and Tobago Women’s National Senior Team coach Randy Waldrum and star attacker Kennya “Yaya” Cordner have ended their temporary exiles from the “Women Soca Warriors” and will travel to Hawaii tomorrow in preparation for Friday’s international friendly against World Cup champions, the United States. Waldrum, who missed the Caribbean …
Read More »From zero to hero; Connection’s Archibald sets up Toyota final with D/Force
Defence Force and DIREC TV W Connection advanced to next Sunday’s 2015 Toyota Classic Challenge final after defeating defending champions San Juan Jabloteh and Bankers Central FC in their respective semifinals at the Hasely Crawford stadium yesterday. Coach Marvin Gordon’s Army/Coast Guard combination got the better of Jabloteh by a …
Read More »DJW: I won’t be ‘jacket and tie’ president; W/Warriors are TTFA’s first priority
New Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) president David John-Williams vowed to roll up his sleeves and put in the hard work to get the football body humming again and to steer the “Soca Warriors” into a top 50 world ranking. John-Williams, who was voted to the top football post …
Read More »David John-Williams replaces Tim Kee as TTFA president
DIRECTV W Connection president and CEO, David John-Williams, is the new Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) president. John-Williams won after two rounds of voting at the Hasely Crawford Stadium’s VIP room in Port of Spain this evening. In the second ballot, John-Williams, who is also managing director of the …
Read More »Daly: T&T’s denial of reality offset by an evening in Newtown
Essentially, we have been faking it for a long time, that is, gasping with pleasure at Trini life when in reality life is stressful and brutish. A senior citizen having fallen ill in the street across the street from a public hospital and having to wait 45 minutes for assistance …
Read More »Change and foreign exchange: Rowley’s Gov’t must lead economic adjustment
The great howl that goes up with every significant decline in foreign exchange income betrays the country’s dogged refusal to even entertain the option of adjustment until forced by the IMF. Led by some of the most powerful forces of the business community the instinct is invariably to press the …
Read More »TTFA braces for presidential elections, despite constitutional problems
The Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) failed to satisfy Article 27.3 of its constitution as it relates to holding an AGM while many of the voting delegates are in contravention of Article 10.2. But, according to a football insider, the elections are expected to take place regardless from 2 …
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