Tag Archives: Soca Warriors

Former Trinidad and Tobago national youth team stand-outs Aikim Andrews and Isaiah Lee are among five Terminix La Horquetta Rangers players who could resume their international careers during the 2021 Concacaf Gold Cup. The thaw in relations between Rangers and the Trinidad and Tobago Men’s National Senior Team was one …

Sometime during the course of Terry Fenwick’s tenure of Trinidad and Tobago Men’s National Senior Team head coach, the players began an informal game in which they would try to guess when the English coach planned to slip Gary Griffith III into the national squad. Usually, it was whenever silence …

A journalist learns quickly the importance of confidentiality and protecting one’s source. So it is an exceptional circumstance that leads me to now reveal one such informant, in a bid to defend my reputation against a curious onslaught by Commissioner of Police Gary Griffith. In a last-ditch effort to avoid …

“I know not everybody is going to be on my side—and they don’t have to be,” said new Trinidad and Tobago Men’s National Senior Team head coach Angus Eve, “but support the guys… We need to support the team.  “Not every time you will get the result you want, but …

Club Sando FC head coach Angus Eve has replaced Terry Fenwick as head coach of the Trinidad and Tobago Men’s National Senior Team. Eve’s appointment is, at least initially, on a temporary basis, as the Fifa-appointed normalisation committee confirmed his contract will expire on 31 August 2021. Eve emerged top …

“[…] A selection panel led by NC member Nicholas Gomez and comprising Anton Corneal, Anthony Sherwood and Richard Chinapoo will meet to finalise the selection of the interim head coach.  “The interim head coach together with the panel will then establish the supporting team…” The following is a press statement from the …

Former Denmark international Nicklas Bendtner—mockingly tagged ‘Lord Bendtner’—is his country’s most famous footballer of this millennium, only his celebrity has little to do with anything he ever did on the field of play. Bendtner once declared himself to be the best striker in the world, when, in reality, he was …

Unified Football Coaches of Trinidad and Tobago (UFCTT) interim president Jefferson George confirmed that Men’s National Senior Team assistant coaches Derek King and Kelvin Jack both agreed termination packages with the Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) yesterday, within hours of their dismissals. At present, Jack and King are the …

Fifa coaching instructor Anton Corneal, who was a technical staff member for three of Trinidad and Tobago’s four World Cup qualifications, talks to Burdie and Barney about his lessons from Bertille St Clair, Francisco Maturana and Leo Beenhakker, the late Akeem Adams’ gift, how to reprogram Joevin Jones, the role …

The Robert Hadad-led Fifa-appointed normalisation committee appears set to swing the axe through the Trinidad and Tobago Men’s National Senior Team’s technical staff, with head coach Terry Fenwick and assistants Kelvin Jack and Derek King on the brink. The normalisation committee comprises: Hadad, Judy Daniel, Nigel Romano, and Trevor Nicholas …

The Qatar 2022 World Cup qualifying campaign continues on Saturday without any involvement from Trinidad and Tobago—unless you count Canada’s substitute goalkeeper Dayne St Clair, who chose to represent the land of his birth soon after he popped up on the radar of Soca Warriors head coach Terry Fenwick in …

Coach Anton Corneal, who steered Trinidad and Tobago to two World Youth Cups and assisted Leo Beenhakker at the Germany 2006 World Cup, explains why Terry Fenwick’s troops were unable to advance from a World Cup qualifying group that included St Kitts and Nevis, Guyana, Puerto Rico, and The Bahamas. …