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Trinidad and Tobago Men’s National Senior Team head coach Derek King will travel to Russia without squad captain Levi Garcia and newly-minted stand-in skipper Kobi Henry, as the issue of player availability for national service continues to rise. The TTFA Media confirmed that nine players requested to be “excused” from …

Nineteen-year-old utility player Rio Cardines became the tenth Trinidad and Tobago international to play in the England Premier League today, when he played for all 90 minutes in a 2-1 home loss to Arsenal in their final league match of the 2025/26 season. Cardines, who has played at right wing …

Trinidad and Tobago twice came from behind to hold Gabon 2-2, in their closing 2026 Fifa Series contest in Uzbekistan, before losing 3-2 in a penalty shootout to the 10-man African outfit—with captain Levi Garcia epitomising a bittersweet outing for the Soca Warriors. Garcia snapped a run of eight games …

The Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) has named 16-year-old Pleasantville Secondary starlet Nikita Gosine as its 2025 Senior Female Player of the Year—for the same calendar year that the attacker ruled herself out of representing her country. Gosine is one of four TTFA picks for the First Citizens 2025 …

“In the 12 months that we have been together, if anyone said we would be in this position—unbeaten at home—despite the draws, you would have said I don’t think that would happen,” said Trinidad and Tobago Men’s National Senior Team head coach Dwight Yorke. “There are lots of positives in …

Trinidad and Tobago’s 2026 World Cup qualifying dreams are on the brink now, after the Soca Warriors were held to a 1-1 draw by Curaçao tonight in Willemstad. On the face of it, a tie away to the Dutch-speaking islanders at a stadium where the home team just defeated Jamaica …

The Trinidad and Tobago Men’s National Senior Team’s front three of Levi Garcia, Tyrese Spicer and Dante Sealy were too hot to handle this evening, as the Soca Warriors cruised to a 3-0 win away to Bermuda in a 2026 World Cup qualifier at the Bermuda National Stadium in Hamilton. …

Trinidad and Tobago’s 2026 World Cup qualifying fate no longer lies in their own hands. A 2-0 defeat away to Jamaica tonight means that even if the Soca Warriors win their remaining four qualifiers, they will not finish top of their group unless the Reggae Boyz drop points in at …

The Trinidad and Tobago Men’s National Senior Team are through to the third and final Concacaf World Cup qualifying round, despite falling 2-1 to Costa Rica last night in a tense affair at the Estadio Nacional in San José. The month of June was always going to reveal much about …

The Trinidad and Tobago Men’s National Senior Team will play for third place in the Unity Cup invitational tournament on Saturday 31 May, after the Soca Warriors fell 3-2 to Jamaica today in a pulsating affair at the GTech Community Stadium in London. Coach Dwight Yorke’s team overturned a two-goal …

Trinidad and Tobago Men’s National Senior Team head coach Dwight Yorke looks set to give 18-year-old flanker Rio Cardines his first senior international cap, as he included the Crystal Palace youth player in his 24-man squad for the Unity Cup invitational tournament. Cardines, who represented Trinidad and Tobago at Concacaf …

Versatile 18-year-old flanker Rio Cardines will aim to end Trinidad and Tobago’s decade-long absence from the England Premier League in the not-so-distant future, after the teenager agreed professional teams with Crystal Palace today. The Premier Division club confirmed that Cardines, who joined the Palace Under-16 team in 2022, is now …