“America won’t have [Christian] Pulisic, so it will be an easy game,” Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) acting general secretary Amiel Mohammed supposedly told a football insider, as he bragged about the Fifa-appointed normalisation committee’s coup in securing a friendly match against Concacaf giants, the United States. Mohammed could …
Read More »SOS to Dr Rowley! CMO accused of ‘sabotage’, as Warriors unable to train or book warm-up games
The Soca Warriors’ Qatar 2022 World Cup dreams are being stymied by the Trinidad and Tobago government’s Covid-19 rules and, according to football insiders, the Ministry of Health’s apparent reluctance to relax them for the Men’s National Senior Team. There have been 107 million cases of infection worldwide since the …
Read More »B&B Ep 2: Hart on coaching T&T, strained relations with DJW and that USA mauling
You asked for this… So don’t blame us! Burdie and Barney are back with Episode Two, as we speak to HFX Wanderers coach Stephen Hart on his career path in Canada, coaching the Trinidad and Tobago senior team, strained relations with ex-TTFA president David John-Williams, and the Soca Warriors’ recent …
Read More »Deyalsingh: Safety first! Warriors’ WCQ home advantage in balance due to Covid rules
Covid-19 restrictions may not have barred national sports teams from practising, but the pandemic could potentially have an early impact on the Qatar 2022 World Cup qualifying campaign of the Trinidad and Tobago Men’s National Senior Football Team. The Soca Warriors are due to host Guyana in their opening game …
Read More »Fenwick: ‘This is the starting position… we weren’t far away [from USA] with our local-based players’
Trinidad and Tobago Men’s National Senior Team head coach Terry Fenwick today continued to reframe the narrative around his international coaching debut—a joint national record 7-0 loss to the United States in Orlando on Sunday—as he suggested some positives to local football fans, in an interview with the TTFA Media. …
Read More »Dear Editor: Fenwick used the Soca Warriors like a bait dog—it is indefensible!
“[…] In boxing, there’s a term called a ‘bad beating’ in which the victims never quite recover to fight at an equal or better level. It is why some fights are not taken and why some corners throw in the towel. “Where was the initiative to protect these players’ psyche …
Read More »Fenwick: ‘We didn’t have the big attitude’, T&T coach says players botched game plan in USA mauling
Soca Warriors head coach Terry Fenwick blamed the Trinidad and Tobago Football Association’s (TTFA) inadequate development programme in general and the poor concentration of his players in particular, as the Men’s National Senior Team slumped to a joint national record 7-0 loss last night in friendly action away to the …
Read More »Fenwick: ‘I want big focus!’ T&T vs USA to be aired live on WESN, as Warriors return to action
The Soca Warriors’ friendly international match against the United States tomorrow—on Sunday 31 January—will be broadcast live on WESN, within Trinidad and Tobago’s borders, in a welcome fillip for local football fans. Warriors supporters were routinely unable to catch sight of their team during the David John-Williams-led administration as no …
Read More »‘Don’t treat us like a scrape-up side’; Joevin and Hyland discuss wish-list for W/Cup campaign, a tough 2020, and USA challenge
Trinidad and Tobago Men’s National Senior Team head coach Terry Fenwick is expected to name his squad tomorrow to face the United States in a friendly match on 31 January in Orlando. Two names that are sure to be absent from his list are Fenwick’s most high-profiled players at present: …
Read More »TTFA: USA game still on, despite Biden’s executive order; no response to Lawrence debt
The Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) assured stakeholders today that an international friendly between the Soca Warriors and the United States Men’s National Senior Team will go ahead in Orlando on 31 January 2021, despite an executive order by new US president Joe Biden regarding travel into their country. …
Read More »‘Disgrace to a national hero!’ Hadad blasted for allegedly paying Avec before Lawrence’s USA win bonus
“[…] Fifa-appointed normalisation committee chairman Robert Hadad has been notified on numerous occasions [about the unpaid bonus to head coach Dennis Lawrence for Trinidad and Tobago’s World Cup qualifying win over the United States on 11 October 2017] but has done NOTHING about it! “His lack of respect, empathy and …
Read More »B&B Ep 1: Shaka on BLM, turning down Man Utd and the making of Russell Latapy
Wired868 launches its first podcast, The Burdie & Barney Show, with a special guest: ESPN analyst and former England Premier League goalkeeper and Trinidad and Tobago 2006 World Cup star Shaka Hislop! Listen to the extended B&B pilot as Hislop reveals why he turned down Manchester United, players’ rights in …
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