Defence Force and Play Whe San Juan Jabloteh kept their hopes of qualifying to the 2017/18 CONCACAF Champions League tournament alive with victories in TT Pro League action at the Ato Boldon Stadium in Couva last night. The top two clubs at the end of the 2015/16 Pro League season …
Read More »Sample stops penalty as Central whip 10-man Connection in Caribbean finals
Former Trinidad and Tobago National Under-23 goalkeeper Javon Sample saved his third penalty in two matches on Sunday evening, as Bankers Insurance Central FC retained their Caribbean Club Championship crown with a 3-0 win over DIRECTV W Connection in a repeat of the 2015 final. Last year, Connection had two …
Read More »Central and Connection advance to Caribbean finals; plus Pro Bowl results
Bankers Insurance Central FC will defend their Caribbean Club Championship crown in Sunday’s regional final in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. And, once again, bitter Couva rivals, DIRECTV W Connection, will be their opponent. Both Pro League clubs maintained Trinidad and Tobago’s dominance in the Caribbean competition last night, as they got through …
Read More »Champions! 10-man Cale penalise Connection to lift Lucozade Sport Goal Shield
Morvant Caledonia United were crowned Lucozade Sport Goal Shield champions in front of just under 3,000 at the Hasely Crawford Stadium last night. But boy did they do it the hard way. The “Eastern Stallions” overcame DIRECTV W Connection by a 4-1 margin from the penalty spot following a 2-2 …
Read More »Lights… Camera… Showtime! One on one with Club Sando’s Kevon Woodley
Fishing, family and, of course, football are the most important things to Club Sando forward and Trinidad and Tobago international beach soccer player Kevon Woodley. The 29-year-old Woodley, who goes by the nickname of ‘Showtime’, is on his fourth Pro League club after spells with United Petrotrin, W Connection and Caledonia AIA. But …
Read More »Hughtun stings Central again; Connection to meet Morvant Caledonia in Lucozade final
Bankers Insurance Central FC struck first but, in the end, slumped to their third successive defeat after another decisive contribution from DIRECTV W Connection captain Hughtun Hector. Hector, who scored the lone goal in Connection’s 1-0 midweek Pro League win over Central, managed a double tonight as the “Savonetta Boys” …
Read More »Lucozade Sport: Connection spank Stars, Central squeeze past Rangers
Pro League giants Bankers Insurance Central FC and DIRECTV W Connection advanced to the Lucozade Sport Goal Shield semifinals yesterday but in contrasting styles after victories over St Ann’s Rangers and Japs North East Stars respectively at the Ato Boldon Stadium in Couva. Central, the defending knock out champions and …
Read More »Williams invites 33 players for U-20 squad; but SSFL stars miss out on preliminary list
Trinidad and Tobago National Under-20 Team coach Brian Williams selected a 33-member squad to begin training today but there were startling omissions from the list of invitees. Most notably, Shiva Boys Hindu College midfielder Tyrel “Pappy” Emmanuel, who was among six Caribbean players selected for a Manchester City clinic earlier …
Read More »Skeene: TTFA did not follow ideal procedure in hiring Williams as U-20 coach
The Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) did not follow the ideal procedure in hiring Brian Williams as the National Under-20 Team coach, according to TTFA technical committee chairman, Dexter Skeene. Williams, who last coached a national youth team in 2006, was unveiled yesterday as the TTFA’s second coaching appointment …
Read More »Quintero has operation; Connection vow to welcome back striker after lengthy impasse
DIRECTV W Connection forward and former Trinidad and Tobago national youth team player Dwight Quintero finally underwent surgery on his right ankle yesterday, after a near two-month stand off between the player, his relatives and attorney and a Connection contingent that included Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) president and …
Read More »April Fools: Police and Stars upset Central and Connection, as Pro League resumes
A flawless performance by Police FC custodian Adrian Foncette and clinical finishing by Japs North East Stars striker Gorean “Ratty” Highley left Pro League defending champions Bankers Insurance Central FC and second placed DIRECTV W Connection with red faces on April 1 at the Ato Boldon Stadium in Couva. On …
Read More »Quintero v Connection: the email trail in legal dispute that featured TTFA president
On 5 February 2016, three days after former Trinidad and Tobago national youth team striker Dwight Quintero hobbled out of a W Connection training session following a rough tackle, he received official news of the damage. Dr Sergiy Adonin, a specialist orthopaedic surgeon from the Fracture & Orthopaedic Clinic in St …
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