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The Caribbean Football Union (CFU) officially announced last night that Suriname is out of the 2016 Olympic Games qualifying series. Again. And for the last time. Hopefully. For the fourth time in three days, the CFU’s Group Four has undergone a fixture change. And, for the second time, Suriname has …

Three days and as many decisions. God knows the trauma that Trinidad and Tobago’s National Under-23 football players have endured over the past week. One thing now beyond dispute is that the Caribbean Football Union (CFU) has only made things worse. Today, the “Soca Warriors” were advised that their 2016 …

The Trinidad and Tobago National Under-23 Team breathed a sigh of relief today as their Suriname counterparts withdrew from the Caribbean preliminary round of the 2016 Olympic qualifying campaign, which kicks off on Wednesday June 24 in Puerto Rico. The Caribbean Football Union (CFU) announced that Suriname, who were due to …

Trinidad and Tobago Pro League clubs Central FC and DIRECTV W Connection could now face each other in the 2015 Caribbean Club Championship final after the Caribbean Football Union (CFU) decided, without consultation, to alter the fixtures for its competition. The initial CFU fixtures pitted Group One winners, Central FC, …

For the second year running, there were no Trinidad and Tobago players included among a shortlist of the Caribbean’s top young players for the United States’ Major League Soccer (MLS) Caribbean Combine, which kicked off today in Bayamon, Puerto Rico and serves as a talent search for promising regional players. …

Chapter 8: Sepp buys votes with FIFA’s money JACK STEALS. He is a career thief and it has made him a multi-millionaire. To hide his stealing, he lies. He lies to his colleagues in football, he employs a bookkeeper in his homeland to pose as an auditor and lie for …

DIRECTV W Connection chairman David John Williams and former 2006 World Cup player Shaka Hislop were today officially unveiled as members of a CONCACAF task force mandated to do a feasibility study on the potential of a Caribbean professional football league. The committee is considered the final step before the …

Trinidad and Tobago’s top football talent under the age of 23 were denied the chance to showcase their talents before United States Major League Soccer (MLS) scouts due to an administrative bungle by the Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA). Twenty-four young men from 16 different Caribbean nations will meet …

Defending Caribbean Football Union (CFU) club champions Neal & Massy Caledonia AIA and three-time winners DIRECTV W Connection will kick off Group I of the 2013 Caribbean tournament when the two Digicel Pro League clubs face each other from 6 pm today at the Ato Boldon Stadium in Couva. This …

Mel Brennan, the CONCACAF Head of Special Projects from February 2001 to September 2003, discusses the legacy of ex-FIFA vice president, Jack Warner: Austin “Jack” Warner, in an archived TWI television production: “In all modesty, let me say that that is one of the failures of staying in office too long.  …

There was applause and handshakes all round in midweek at the Boscolo New York Palace Hotel in Budapest, Hungary as Cayman Islands’ Jeffrey Webb and Antigua and Barbuda’s Gordon Derrick officially replaced controversial ex-FIFA Vice President and Works Minister Jack Warner at the helm of the CONCACAF and Caribbean Football …

The Caribbean Football Union (CFU) has broken ranks with its traditional leaders as Antigua and Barbuda Football Association (ABFA) general secretary Gordon Derrick and a new-look cast was elected into governance at its ordinary congress today at the Boscolo Hotel in Budapest, Hungary. Derrick, who heads an event and marketing …