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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 …

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, …

The start of the 2018 Secondary Schools Football League (SSFL) Premier Division season is just over a week away and League and school administrators alike will be determined that the 2018 season is not filled with the off-field shenanigans that occurred last year. In the north, the schools will be …

“”…talent alone does not make you the team to beat; it never has, it never will. And although I am very excited to see what Deschamps’ brigade of young attacking talent will do on the world’s biggest stage, when I look at France’s unpredictability at recent World Cups, I simply …

If long-standing Concorde Athletic Club coach Ken Barton were still guiding Commonwealth Games 100m gold medal winner Michelle-Lee Ahye, she would have run in the 4x100m relay. And if he were in charge of the National Association of Athletics Administrations of Trinidad and Tobago (NAAATT), the umbrella body would not …

The two sets of players from the national senior teams of Trinidad and Tobago and Panama will be staking altogether different claims when the countries square off in an international friendly at the Ato Boldon Stadium in Couva from 7:30pm on Tuesday. The game falls outside the official FIFA match …

Queen’s Park Cricket Club (QPCC) got their 2018 Republic Bank National Youth League (RBNYL) season off to a rollicking start yesterday, recording handsome victories in all three age-group categories—Under-12, Under-14 and Under-16—at the Queen’s Park Savannah. The “Parkites” “A” team hammered Harvard 12-0 in the Under-14 Division while the “B” …

“I know English. Goodbye.” Click. That was how an exchange between i95.5’s Andre E. Baptiste’s exchange with a caller on his Saturday Sports programme ended yesterday evening. Trying to get back on, the caller was immediately cut off. My slave name—thank you, Dr Fergus—is a superlative and I am a …

Less than a week after Dexter Skeene announced his intention to leave the TT Pro League post he held for some 14 years, chairman Sam Phillip told Wired868 that he will be following the departing CEO through the exit door. “Yes, I tendered my resignation earlier this week,” Phillip told …

The year is 1999, one year after former Strike Squad baby Dwight Yorke makes a £12.6 million move from Aston Villa to Manchester United. The “Red Devils” complete a memorable treble. The year is now 1989, ten years before Yorke’s Manchester odyssey. The Trinidad and Tobago Senior team is preparing …

He fought the good fight. Those five words sound like the opening for a eulogy but TT Pro League fans are hoping that the departure of outgoing CEO Dexter Skeene will not mean the death of the local professional league. On Friday, the 53-year-old former Trinidad and Tobago forward announced …

With its 2018 season already hanging in the balance, the Trinidad and Tobago Pro League is now without a CEO.  Dexter Skeene, who has held the position for the last 14 years, tendered his resignation to the Board at yesterday meeting of the League and informed them that he proposes …