Queen’s Park Cricket Club (QPCC) were gifted three points yesterday to help their promotion chase to the CNG National Super League (NSL) Premiership Division, as their opponents Xtra Foods Chaguanas FC failed to show up for the Match Day 16 clash at the Dibe Recreation Ground, Long Circular. Coach Shawn …
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X-rated: the FBI’s sordid tale of FIFA corruption, mental disability and Jack Warner
Predictably, the United States Department of Justice’s latest X-rated exposé of FIFA—picture football administrators and television executives sneaking into deserted boardrooms to aggressively screw football fans and players—was effusive in its awe of the world governing body’s answer to John Holmes, former FIFA VP, CONCACAF president and Trinidad and Tobago …
Read More »Waldrums doubt for Brazil tourney; Maylee confirms temporary return to W/Warriors
The Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) has managed to put together a 13-member squad to face Brazil on December 9 while the “Women Soca Warriors” participate in the “US Victory Tour”, which pits Trinidad and Tobago against the World Cup champions and FIFA’s number one ranked women’s team, the …
Read More »Rebecca saves T&T U-20s’ blushes in 2-0 loss to Canada
Trinidad and Tobago Women’s National Under-20 Team goalkeeper Rebecca Almandoz was a picture of defiance as the two island republic avoided a lopsided score summary in their opening 2015 CONCACAF Championship fixture against Canada yesterday in San Pedro Sula, Honduras. At the final whistle, the North American outfit emerged 2-0 …
Read More »Maylee vs Sharon: a football agent offers solution to W/Warriors crisis
With the absence of a football players’ union in Trinidad and Tobago, the burning issue of the absence of some of our better women’s national players from the “Women Soca Warriors” is destined to be a one-sided affair. As the head of what many consider to be the leading sport …
Read More »Christmas jam: W/Warriors book six internationals in flurry of December fixtures
The “Women Soca Warriors” will have a busy Christmas period, as the Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) has reportedly confirmed the Women’s National Senior Team’s participation at the Natal Female International Football Tournament in Brazil this month. The Trinidad and Tobago ladies, according to informed sources, were offered the …
Read More »Oil In De Coil; Southern students star in Wired868’s 2015 SSFL All Star XI
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 …
Read More »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 …
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