National Senior Team head coach Leo Beenhakker is expected back in
Trinidad around January 15 as he sets off on having a further look at
some of the home-based players before finalizing selection of the Team
for preparation matches leading up to the 2006 World Cup.
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I AM sorry for Selwyn Melville, my good friend, journalistic colleague
and “Brother from Braga” (something of a silent brotherhood of
reporters and footballers who attended the 1991 World Youth
Championship in Portugal. TnT, the first from the Caribbean to play in
this “Youth World Cup” based in Braga).
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T'is the season to play "footie", as the Brits refer to their beloved
past time and the world's most popular sport. The Trinidad Express
Newspaper caught up with members of the Trinidad and Tobago national
football team, at home and abroad, and asked how they planned to spend
their Christmas and what was on their menu. This is what they had to
say:
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Defender Ian Cox is keeping his feet on the ground over Trinidad and
Tobago's World Cup showdown with England - and insists his club form is
important.
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ANOTHER major controversy is brewing following the qualification of the
Trinidad and Tobago football team for the World Cup Finals in Germany
next year.
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The Trinidad and Tobago Football Federation and the Local Organising
Committee 2006 has formed a partnership with Graphix Advantage Limited,
a Chaguanas-based company to produce and sell “Soca Warriors”
paraphernalia from January 2006.
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LINCOLN PHILLIPS, technical director of the T&T Football
Federation, has invited young goalkeepers to make themselves available
for future national selection, by attending the three-day camp at the
Marvin Lee Stadium, Macoya and the Ato Boldon Stadium, Couva.
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Christmas for the Lawrence family in Morvant, the ghetto district of
the Trinidad capital, Port of Spain, will not be unlike the one their
absent son, Dennis, celebrates in Wrexham tomorrow. "It is no different
here to how it is back home," he explains, in a deep Caribbean voice
that contains just the slightest trace of a Welsh accent. "In Trinidad
we have the tree and the traditional dinner with all the family. We
just don't have the snow." Yet even with his wife Gloria, daughter
Celine and a moderate British winter for company, the 31-year-old would
be forgiven if he yearned for the comforts of home more than ever this
year.
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