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East zone powerhouse San Juan North Secondary (13 points) moved up two places to tenth on the 2024 Secondary Schools Football League (SSFL) premier division table on October 22 when they got a commanding 3-0 win over Speyside Secondary at the former school’s ground in Bourg Mulatresse.
PRESENTATION College San Fernando are within striking distance of southern counterparts St Benedict's College following a comfortable 2-0 against San Juan North Secondary while “Benedicts” dropped points with a 1-1 draw against Signal Hill Secondary.
Former T&T international footballer now turn coach Dwight Yorke and Derek King, the current interim coach of the senior men’s Soca Warriors team, have been confirmed in a shortlist of five coaches for the head coach job of the country’s senior national men’s team.
REIGNING T&T Premier Football League (TTPFL) First Citizens Knockout Cup champions Defence Force have appointed former Soca Warriors captain and Fifa 2006 World Cup player Densill Theobald as their new head coach on a one-year deal, with the option of an extension contingent on the team’s performances.
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Former T&T international footballer now turn coach Dwight Yorke and Derek King, the current interim coach of the senior men’s Soca Warriors team, have been confirmed in a shortlist of five coaches for the head coach job of the country’s senior national men’s team.
Soca Warriors caretaker coach Derek King said the hunger and his team's desire to stay in Concacaf Nations League A inspired them to their crucial 3-1 victory over Cuba at the Dwight Yorke Stadium in Bacolet, Tobago on October 14.
Trinidad and Tobago will remain in League A of the Concacaf Nations League after beating Cuba 3-1 in a must-win encounter at the Dwight Yorke Stadium, Bacolet, Tobago, on October 14.
FOR the second time in 19 months, T&T's men's football team will go into the Bacolet Stadium, Dwight Yorke, Tobago needing a victory to secure a spot in Concacaf Nations League A.
SOCA Warriors caretaker coach Derek King would have felt justified when the recalled pair of Sheldon Bateau and Joevin Jones scored in the team's 2024/25 Concacaf Nations League A clash with Cuba on October 10, but the Warriors are still in danger of relegation from the Nations League top flight after a 2-2 draw at the Antonio Maceo Stadium, Santiago.
CUBA will in no way, either on or off the field, make it easy for Trinidad and Tobago to leave with three points from this evening’s 2024-2025 Concacaf Nations League A (CNL) match. The Cubans will host T&T on an artificial turf in Santiago from 4pm.
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.
St Johnstone full-back, Andre Raymond, is loving his new football life in Scotland.
Former Macarthur FC coach Dwight Yorke has won hundreds of thousands of dollars compensation for his sacking after just 13 games, which followed a dressing room spray where he allegedly called his side a “pub team” and criticised the club’s leadership.
East zone powerhouse San Juan North Secondary (13 points) moved up two places to tenth on the 2024 Secondary Schools Football League (SSFL) premier division table on October 22 when they got a commanding 3-0 win over Speyside Secondary at the former school’s ground in Bourg Mulatresse.
PRESENTATION College San Fernando are within striking distance of southern counterparts St Benedict's College following a comfortable 2-0 against San Juan North Secondary while “Benedicts” dropped points with a 1-1 draw against Signal Hill Secondary.
Hillview College (27 points) clinched the Secondary Schools Football League (SSFL) east zone championship division by a two-point margin on October 18 when they earned a 2-0 win over St George's College in Tunapuna in the final round of action.
REIGNING T&T Premier Football League (TTPFL) First Citizens Knockout Cup champions Defence Force have appointed former Soca Warriors captain and Fifa 2006 World Cup player Densill Theobald as their new head coach on a one-year deal, with the option of an extension contingent on the team’s performances.
SECONDARY Schools Football League (SSFL) premier division leaders St Benedict's College (31 points) notched their tenth straight win in the 2024 season on October 16 when they romped to a 6-0 win against St Augustine Secondary (14 points) at Mahaica Oval in Point Fortin to maintain their six-point lead on the 16-team table.
TWO superb second-half strikes from skipper Derrel Garcia ensured that St Benedict's College extended their unbeaten run to ten games following a comfortable 2-0 victory against East Mucurapo Secondary in round ten of the Secondary School Football League on October 12 at the Queen`s Royal College (QRC) Grounds, St Clair.
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.
Premier League Table
| Rank | Teams | Played | Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
 AC Port-of-Spain |
20 | 44 |
| 2 |
 Police FC |
20 | 42 |
| 3 |
 Defence Force |
20 | 40 |
| 4 |
 Club Sando |
20 | 35 |
| 5 |
 La Horquetta Rangers |
20 | 28 |
| 6 |
 1976 FC Phoenix |
20 | 27 |
| 7 |
 Morvant Caledonia United |
20 | 24 |
| 8 |
 Point Fortin Civic FC |
20 | 23 |
| 9 |
 Prison Service FC |
20 | 22 |
| 10 |
 Eagles FC |
20 | 20 |
| 11 |
 Central FC |
20 | 2 |
This Day in History
Saturday, 23 October 1999
Anton Corneal is inducted into Erskine College's Athletic Hall of Fame.
Anton Corneal, from Maracas Valley, Trinidad, was the youngest member of the Trinidad National Team, coached by his father, and he had already honed his skills in World Cup preliminary competition before entering college.
Though opponents would double- and triple-team Corneal, he became the catalyst of the Erskine attack, a role he would hold for four years. As a freshman his ball control also helped an Erskine defense that scored a team record 10 shutouts that season. The Fleet tied South Carolina, 0-0, lost 1-0 to Duke and 2-0 to Clemson, and outscored its first six opponents, 16-1. Although the Fleet lost in the Area finals, Erskine completed the season 11-5-3, won the NAIA District 6 Championship, and held opponents to 15 goals in 19 matches.
That opened an impressive career in which Corneal set a team record for assists (47) and scored 38 goals, while leading Erskine to three district championships and into the NAIA National Tournament in 1982 with a 17-5 record, Erskine's finest ever up to that time. The Flying Fleet defeated South Carolina in overtime in 1983 and captured the first two Erskine Invitational Tournaments in 1982 and 1983 against nationally-ranked NAIA competition. Erskine's record during Corneal's four years was 42-22-5, with 15 of the 22 losses coming against NCAA competition. Corneal was all-district four times and three times won All-South and NAIA All-American honors.
His success helped attract world-class Trinidad soccer players to Erskine, including his future teammates Graeme Rodriquez and Veron Skinner, both also All-Americans. Later, Trinidad players such as Brian Haynes, Garth Pollonais, Peter Lewis, and Crispin St. Louis would help maintain Erskine's winning soccer tradition. The tradition of fine Trinidadian players at Erskine continues until the present time.
Corneal's demeanor, as an athlete and as a student, made him popular on the field and on the campus. His magician-like skills made him a crowd-pleaser without showboating. Pleasant and smiling, he exuded happiness in his game and held his temper despite drawing numerous fouls.
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.
