Domestic sport in Trinidad and Tobago is on pause at present; and has been for much of the past 13 months, since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic. Arima North Secondary football team technical director and former Trinidad and Tobago Boys’ National Under-15 Team and QPCC FC assistant coach Wayne …
Read More »QPCC trained during height of Covid restrictions; Lamb: why national team and not clubs?
On 2 October 2020, the QPCC Football Academy despatched emails to parents from their under-10 age group and older, which invited them to send their children to training from Monday 12 October at the St Joseph’s Convent grounds in St Clair. At the time, Trinidad and Tobago was on a …
Read More »TTFA members call EGM to ‘withdraw’ Fifa case; Look Loy vows to boycott ‘illegal event’
Fifa-appointed normalisation committee chairman Robert Hadad has scheduled an extraordinary general meeting on 15 September for the Trinidad and Tobago Football Association’s (TTFA) 47 member delegates, in the first significant response by local stakeholders to the impasse between the TTFA’s elected officers and Fifa. Fifa secretary general Fatma Samoura vowed, …
Read More »Ascension Rd 10 (Video): UTT stun Giants, Caledonia’s Cunupia calamity and Rangers spank QPCC
Che Benny’s UTT FC aims to spark a Div 2 revolution as they host joint leaders, San Fernando Giants, Radanfah Abu Bakr’s Mv’t Caledonia AIA can wrap up up Div 1 but Cunupia’s ‘Showtime’ Woodley might have other ideas, and Ross Russell Jr is back to help Terminix La Horquetta …
Read More »Play Ascension: Russell Jr returns with a bang as La Horquetta Rangers leave it late against QPCC
Terminix La Horquetta Rangers’ rousing 4-0 triumph over a hardy, well-organised QPCC team at their Phase 2 La Horquetta digs was the perfect response to a sobering 2-0 defeat last weekend to Ascension Invitational Division One leader, Morvant Caledonia AIA. As the smell of victory returned to the ground, the …
Read More »Ascension Rd 8 (Video): Sando thwart Rangers, QPCC frustrate Police and ‘Army’ see off Rosa
Angus Eve’s Club Sando prove too stubborn for Terminix La Horquetta Rangers, QPCC answer back frustrated Police FC and Darius Ollivierra help Defence Force pacify ‘Rosa Nation’ in Round Eight of Play Ascension. Analyst Terry Fenwick and Vidia Ramphal review the action on Wired868. More from Wired868 B&B Ep 16: …
Read More »Play Ascension Rd 4 (Video): Too Easy? Defence Force and Police FC rain goals against QPCC and Matura
Phase Two in La Horquetta will be at the epicentre of domestic football this Saturday as Terminix La Horquetta Rangers belatedly make their debut in the 2019 Ascension Invitational Tournament at their new headquarters, which has undergone a TT$5.3 million renovation. Rangers, who have undergone a makeover themselves with the …
Read More »Play Ascension: ‘Easy’ as Sunday evening, Defence Force hail comfortable win over QPCC
Defence Force held another football pitch under siege in Division One of the Ascension Invitational League, emerging 5-1 victors over a hapless QPCC at St Mary’s College grounds on Sunday. “Today was easy,” Hutson ‘Barber’ Charles, Defence Force assistant coach, chuckled after the match. “I don’t think QPCC offered us …
Read More »RBYL: Jaric, Trendsetter chase doubles, Trincity defend crown and Pro Series’ prayers answered
Jaric Titans and Trendsetter Hawks will both be seeking to land a Republic Bank Youth League (RBYL) double when the 2019 season concludes at the Hasely Crawford Stadium on Saturday 6 July. Jaric, perennial winners in the Tobago zone, will contest the Under-13 and Under-15 finals, while Trendsetter take on …
Read More »RBYL: Trendsetter’s quadruple hopes dashed, Trincity still in hunt, Pro Series purr and Pt Fortin flex
The shot stoppers of the upcoming football generation came to the fore at the quarterfinal stage of the Republic Bank Youth League (RBYL) on Saturday 15 June, as four of the nine matches at Constantine Park, Macoya were decided by the dreaded kicks from the spot. After their comfortable victory …
Read More »RBYL: Pro Series and QPCC advance, Santa Cruz scrape by and Trendsetter displeased
With one match day left to complete the slate of North Zone preliminary fixtures in the 2019 Republic Bank Youth League (RBYL) competition, all but one of the quarterfinal spots have been secured. In the Under-15 category, Trendsetter Hawks ‘A’, RSSR and Santa Cruz United have qualified for the quarters, …
Read More »Inside the YPL: Wired868 finds familiar issues around player registration and club ‘adoptions’
After three shaky rounds with just 27 from 45 scheduled matches taking place, the Youth Pro League (YPL) finally had a full quota of games on the weekend. Once again, TT Pro League CEO Julia Baptiste blamed registration issues for the barrage of defaulted fixtures and forfeited points. “If you …
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