Say goodbye to the Pro League and hello to the Ascension Premier League. Barely a month after the Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) refused to permit a second round of the Ascension Invitational Tournament, the competition’s founder, Richard Ferguson, got the TT Pro League to rebrand its own 20-year …
Read More »Pro League clubs reject TTFA proposal; DJW falls out with support base with elections looming
TT Pro League clubs have rejected the financial goodies on offer by the Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) and are prepared to enter the 2019 season armed with just TT$450,000 government subventions, in what might be the first tangible sign of a split between TTFA president David John-Williams and …
Read More »TTFA’s T-League ‘tweaks’: More $$ for Pro League, less for TTSL and performance incentives ‘absorbed’
The Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) is set to significantly alter a deal hammered out by UEFA and Concacaf advisors, after discussion with local stakeholders, for a unified domestic elite league in a controversial move that would change the face of the local game. In a media statement yesterday, …
Read More »Proof of payment to players? Check! Pro League clubs pass SporTT vetting process
Maybe TT Pro League clubs are well-run, financially-responsible organisations after all. Despite a stream of horror stories from current and past players and administrators about poor financial practice by top flight local football clubs, Wired868 understands the Pro League’s eight franchises eligible for government subventions have all submitted relevant financial …
Read More »TTFA Committee blanks Ascension extension, votes to wait for gov’t Pro League subvention instead
The Trinidad and Tobago Football Association’s National Football Committee, charged with restarting domestic football, has ruled that the privately-funded Ascension Invitational Tournament be denied an extension while clubs wait on taxpayers’ money to start the 2019 Pro League season instead. The Committee also endorsed the Pro League’s invitation for Trinidad …
Read More »DJW promises plan to fix local football in seven days; dissolves Gillette-led Commission
The Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) has taken it upon itself to rescue the immediate future of the domestic game, after a vote at a board meeting this afternoon at the Ato Boldon Stadium in Couva. The defunct League Commission, chaired by businessman Lindsay Gillette and guided by a …
Read More »Did you pay your players? SporTT awaits payroll info before fresh pay out to Pro League clubs
Can you provide payroll information, salary slips and/or NIS information for your players for the 2018 TT Pro League season? The TT Pro League’s eight clubs which receive government subventions, according to a source at the Sports Company of Trinidad and Tobago (SporTT), have been asked to prove they paid …
Read More »Pro League invites TTSL clubs to form its ‘second division’ but mum on benefits; Look Loy declines
The Trinidad and Tobago Pro League (TTPL) has offered Trinidad and Tobago Super League (TTSL) clubs the chance at a slot in the top flight competition. Sort of. Just days after announcing its intention to start the 2019 TTPL season on 4 October—after growing tired of waiting for the Trinidad …
Read More »Pro League and TTSL go separate ways as T-League hopes fade for 2019; Guardian $3 million claim refuted
The Trinidad and Tobago Pro League has confirmed that their clubs will go it alone this season, after a board meeting this morning. The decision, relayed via a press statement by CEO Julia Baptiste, means curtains for the Trinidad and Tobago Football Association’s proposed T-League, which should have been an …
Read More »T-League on verge of collapse as Gillette accuses DJW and Camara of betrayal
The much-vaunted T-League, a FIFA-approved and TTFA-run football league involving Trinidad and Tobago’s two top domestic competitions, appears to be on the verge of collapse before a ball is kicked, with leaked correspondence suggesting an about-turn by Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) president David John-Williams. Today, Commission chairman Lindsay …
Read More »‘It’s part-time footballers vs professionals!’ Lawrence talks Gold Cup, Pro League… and Peltier
Trinidad and Tobago Men’s National Senior Team head coach Dennis Lawrence pointed to the issues plaguing the Pro League as one possible cause for the Soca Warriors’ woeful form during his tenure. Lawrence, whose team finished bottom of Group D at the 2019 Concacaf Gold Cup between the United States, …
Read More »A top player and a ‘bag of tricks’: T&T football mourns passing of Jason ‘Nelly’ Marcano
“[Jason Marcano] didn’t want to beat a player once, he wanted to beat him two or three times. But he was bright enough to adjust and be able to use his ability within a team structure…” “When you talk about a model professional player, he is one. Most of my …
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