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I still remember the day Dennis Lawrence headed the Soca Warriors into the World Cup. It was a hectic afternoon in the office and a crazy one outside as the events in Bahrain in 2006, sent this country mad.
THE Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) will receive $2 million over two years (2024-2026) from the Ministry of Sport and Community Development towards their 2026 FIFA World Cup campaign, as the Soca Warriors begin a new era under new coach Dwight Yorke.
THE president of the T&T Football Association (TTFA), Keiron Edwards, has expressed that the finances surrounding newly appointed T&T head coach, Dwight Yorke, is the best deal that the association could have gotten for a person of his calibre.
The appointment of former national striker Dwight Yorke as head coach of the country’s senior national football team, which will spring into World Cup qualifying action next year, was received with thunderous cheers of support from the football fraternity.
“It’s qualifying for the World Cup or nothing.”
The Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) is pleased to announce the appointment of Dwight Yorke as Head Coach of the Trinidad and Tobago Men’s National Team. This exciting development marks a new chapter for T&T football, as Yorke returns to lead the nation’s journey with a primary focus on upcoming World Cup qualification efforts.
Trinidadian Paul Decle has been appointed Technical Director of football in the Virgin Islands. His appointment was first announced by the BVI Football Association (BVIFA) at the launch of the 14th BDO Schools Football League on October 30, 2024, at A. O. Shirley Recreation Grounds.
Three years after returning for his fourth stint as Head Coach of the Golden Jaguars, Jamaal Shabazz has parted ways with the Guyana Football Federation’s flagship national programme.
KF Fjallabyggðar's goalkeeper, Javon Sample, was interviewed shortly after the conclusion of the 2024 season. Javon first came to Iceland in 2019 when his friend in Iceland told him about the possibility of coming to the country. Javon came here without a job or a team to play for, and without an agent. It still worked out, and he got a contract with Einherja in Vopnafjörður and a job at the municipal office in Vopnafjörður. He is from Trinidad and Tobago, and has played for the country's junior national team. Trinidad is an island just off the coast of Venezuela, so he knows island life well. Javon played two seasons with Einherji before going on a short contract to Dalvík/Reynis in 2020. Javon then signed with KF in 2021 and has now played 113 games in this country.
Macarthur FC will be banned from recruiting new players until the middle of 2026 unless the club pays former coach Dwight Yorke the hundreds of thousands of dollars of compensation an international court ruled he was owed after being sacked over a dressing room spray.
Go anywhere around the Concacaf region and the name Stern John draws a reaction of respect and admiration. His 70 international goals with Trinidad & Tobago rank him at the top of Concacaf’s all-time scorers, while at club level he was consistently prolific in Major League Soccer (MLS) and English football.
Portland Thorns FC have announced the addition of Stephen Hart as an assistant coach as part of Head Coach Rob Gale’s technical staff, joining the Club through the end of the season.
A 94th-minute strike from Keymarley Pierre salvaged a precious point for Hillview College as they eked out a 2-2 result against Scarborough when action continued in the Big 5 Championship division at Shaw Park grounds in Tobago.
Fresh off the Secondary Schools Football League (SSFL) Disciplinary and Appeals Committees sanctioning St Augustine Secondary School seven points for using an unregistered player, Shumba Cudjoe, and a suspended player, Aaden Maharaj, the SSFL executive is now contemplating how it will address the Derrel Garcia matter, and how it will affect the reputation of the SSFL and St Benedict's College's credibility.
THE final six Coca-Cola Intercol zonal quarter-finalists delivered statement performances in their final preliminary round matches on November 4.
TRINITY College and Carapichaima East Secondary moved one step closer to earning promotion to the premiership division of the Secondary Schools Football League next season with victories in the Big 5 championship division on November 2.
East Zone champions Five Rivers Secondary secured a 2-1 win over North Zone champion, St Joseph’s Convent (Port-of-Spain) in their Secondary Schools Football League Girls “Big Five” semifinal at St Mary’s College Ground, Serpentine Road, St Clair, Sunday (November 3).
Secondary Schools Football League (SSFL) premiership champions St Benedict’s College completed their 15-match season unbeaten after edging tenth-placed St Mary’s College 1-0 in their final match at Serpentine Road in St Clair on November 1.
Trinidad and Tobago Under-15s thumped Guatemala 3-0 on August 11 to finish third in the Concacaf Girls' Championship League B at the Hasely Crawford Stadium, Mucurapo.
Trinidad and Tobago's under-15 girls' football team narrowly missed out on a spot in the League B final of the Concacaf Girls' Under-15 Championships, when they fell to a 1-0 loss to the Dominican Republic in a tense semifinal at the Hasely Crawford Stadium, Mucurapo on August 9.
The Trinidad and Tobago national Under-15 girls footballers have won their group and will today meet the Dominican Republic in today’s League B semi-final stage of the 2024 CONCACAF Girls Under-15 Championship being held here.
Trinidad and Tobago's girls’ under-15 football teams got their first wins in League B of the 2024 Concacaf Girls’ Under-15 Championships on August 6 when they got respective 1-0 victories over St Kitts and Nevis and Curacao at the Hasely Crawford Stadium in Mucurapo.
NEAT passing and possession were not enough to give Trinidad and Tobago a victory against Antigua and Barbuda in their opening match of the Concacaf Under-15 Girls Championships at the Hasely Crawford Stadium, Mucurapo on August 5.
There was no room for talented young striker Nikita Gosine in Marlon Charles’ 18-man team to contest the coming Concacaf Under-15 Championships to be held here in T&T from August 5–11.
Trinidad and Tobago men`s beach soccer team were defeated 2-0 win to four-time champions Mexico in the quarter-final of the Concacaf Beach Soccer Championships held at Malcolm Park, Bahamas on Friday night.
Trinidad and Tobago's men's futsal team fell to a humiliating 11-1 loss in their final group game at the 2024 Concacaf Futsal Championship in Managua, Nicaragua on April 15, as they were hammered by Dominican Republic to crash out of the group stage.