Tag Archives: SSFL 2017

So by now we know the best Secondary Schools Football League (SSFL) teams for 2017—Monday’s Coca Cola National Intercol final notwithstanding—but what about the best players? Once more, Wired868’s SSFL writers take on the thankless task of selecting the best performing players—not necessarily the most talented players, mind you!—in the …

Extra extra… Spoken word poet and Shiva Boys’ Hindu College staff member Romero Gowrie drops another cheeky number on the eve of their 2017 Coca Cola National Intercol final date against San Juan North Secondary: More from Wired868 Intercol 2017: Coronation time! Shiva Boys’ poet has the final word for the …

When they tackle Shiva Boys’ Hindu College at the Ato Boldon Stadium on Monday, 2016 Coca-Cola National Intercol Champions San Juan North Secondary will be bidding to become the first school in five years to cop back-to-back National Intercol titles. St Anthony’s College were the last side to achieve the …

Anfernee Stokes was just four years old when he kicked his first football; he has not stopped kicking them ever since. Now 18, he is the captain of the Queen’s Royal College SSFL Premier Division team although, truth be told, a serious knee injury slashed his season in half. Half …

Signal Hill Secondary midfielder Akiel Holdford is a humble, easy-going young man who aspires to one day be a mechanical engineer or, if he has to settle for less, a motor mechanic. But he is emphatically not the kind of young man who will easily settle for less. Holdford is …

Defending Coca Cola North Zone Intercol champions, Trinity College Moka were dumped out of the knockout competition today in the quarterfinal round, Queen’s Royal College defeating them 2-0 win at the Hasely Crawford Stadium in Port-of-Spain. Throughout the 90 minutes, Trinity Moka largely dominated the Royalians but they were thoroughly …

It is saying something when two teams that conceded 11 goals between them are high in praise of their own performances. La Romaine Secondary and Pleasantville Secondary held nothing back today as they threw themselves at more illustrious opponents in the Coca Cola 2017 South Zone Intercol quarterfinals. But the …

St Mary’s College and Fatima College will renew their northern rivalry in the Coca Cola North Zone Intercol semifinals next Thursday, both schools today advancing from the quarterfinal round with comfortable wins over East Mucurapo Secondary and Malick Secondary respectively. Back in 2014, Mucurapo proved to be ruthless giant-killers, copping …

Former Trinidad and Tobago National Under-17 Team attacker Nickel Orr banged in the first hat-trick of the 2017 Coca Cola Intercol competition today as Trinity College East cruised into the East Zone semi-final round with a convincing 6-0 win over Holy Cross College at the Larry Gomes Stadium in Malabar. …

“I did something different [at halftime],” said Naparima College coach Angus Eve. “I kept them out of the dressing room and in the rain to keep them with that edge and really push them to go forward; because we weren’t playing bad; we just weren’t playing with enough intensity.” Domestic …

St Augustine Secondary maintained their 100% record to start the 2017 Secondary Schools Football League (SSFL) season, defeating St Benedict’s College 4-2 in a thrilling encounter in St Augustine this afternoon. It was a tale of two halves for coach Adrian Romain and his “Green Machine” team, who stormed to …

New Queen’s Royal College (QRC) head coach Nigel “Grovy” Grosvenor enjoyed a triumphant home debut this afternoon as the Royalians downed a sullen Trinity College Moka 3-1 in St Clair. “I’m feeling good for my first win,” Grosvenor told Wired868 in a post-match interview. “Ironically we played better in Tobago …