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Former Trinidad and Tobago Women’s National Senior Team head coach Jamaal Shabazz will spend the next two years helping to shape the laws of the world’s most popular sport, as the Morvant Caledonia United co-owner revealed his appointment to the International Football Association Board’s (IFAB) football advisory panel. The IFAB, …

Trinidad and Tobago will be one of four host nations for the Concacaf Scotiabank NextPlay Cup, which takes place from 10 November to 8 December. Jamaica, Bahamas and Barbados are the other hosts. Concacaf launched the invitational youth tournament earlier this week at the Spanish Court Hotel in Kingston, Jamaica. …

The efforts of the Trinidad and Tobago Women’s National Under-15 Team players over the past year and a half ended on an anticlimactic note today, as Concacaf withdrew its invitation for the young Women Soca Warriors to participate at the confederation’s 2018 Women’s Under-15 Championship in Florida. Trinidad and Tobago …

The Trinidad and Tobago Football Association’s (TTFA) elite youth teams were thrown into varying levels of disarray this week, as the Boys National Under-14 and Women’s National Under-15 Teams struggled to get to their respective competitions in Curaçao and the United States. On Friday night, the TTFA chartered a Liat …

The Trinidad and Tobago National Senior Team has qualified for the 2019 CONCACAF Gold Cup without kicking a ball owing to the Confederation’s new Nations League format, which was unveiled today. All six nations from the 2018 World Cup Qualifying Hex series were granted automatic berths for the next Gold …

Defending the title they have won in the competition’s last four editions, USA got off to a winning start in the 2018 edition of the CONCACAF Under-20 Women’s Championship. On a cool Friday evening at the Ato Boldon Stadium, they defeated Nicaragua 2-0. On the second evening of tournament action …

When Caribbean rivals Trinidad and Tobago and Haiti meet from 6.30pm today in a CONCACAF Under-20 Women’s encounter, there will be, coach Jamaal Shabazz promises, fireworks. Addressing the media at yesterday’s press briefing at the Ato Boldon Stadium in Couva, Shabazz compared the match-up to what happens in the classic …

When the Trinidad and Tobago Women’s National Under-20 first take the field from 6.30pm tomorrow at the Ato Boldon Stadium in Couva in the CONCACAF Under-20 tournament, it is their Haitian opponents who, coach Jamaal Shabazz says, will be the favourites to walk away victorious. “We don’t mind the underdog …

Sixteen games in 11 days. That is what the Ato Boldon Stadium is set to host once the CONCACAF Under-20 Women’s Championship kicks off on 18 January. And although—according to a top Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) official—the field at the Couva “Home of Football” currently looks in pristine …

A new chapter of Trinidad and Tobago football, according to the Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) and Men’s National Senior Team coach Dennis Lawrence, will commence from next week when the Soca Warriors get into international friendly action against Grenada and Guyana on 11 and 14 November respectively. The …

While Trinidad and Tobago’s “Soca Warriors” will try to avoid a seventh straight defeat when they tackle Mexico in World Cup qualifying action tonight, their bosses at the Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) suffered a loss of their own today when they conceded to former FIFA referee Ramesh Ramdhan …

If FIFA and the Caribbean Football Union (CFU) were practising good governance, including fair and transparent electoral processes, would Mohammed bin Hammam realistically have expected to get away with trying to bribe 25 CFU officials for their votes during his bid for the FIFA presidency in 2012? That rhetorical question …