Caribbean Stars of Toronto, Canada, will be coming down to Trinidad and Tobago from May 4, to launch its Volume 4 magazine on Trinidad and Tobago Football and its Leagues and Winners.
Stars Soccer Review (SSR) would like to thank you for your support and valuable feedback. In this, our fourth issue of the magazine, we bring to you an in depth look at Trinidad and Tobago Football, and its rich history. This includes its leagues and Winners in Winners Circle.
With the perception that all roads in Trinidad and Tobago football goes through its Special Advisor, we thought it was imperative to Interview Mr. Jack Austin Warner, Special Advisor to the Trinidad and Tobago Football Federation.
At Stars Soccer, we know that in sport for the most part, you get what you put in, and with the Soca Warriors successful 2006 World Cup campaign as the smallest country ever, they were also the oldest team there. So we decided to follow the Warriors 2010 W-C Campaign to spot the changes, if any.
SSR took the time to talk with Everald “Gally” Cummings and Bertille St Clair, two of T&T’s most successful coaches. We also got a brief word with one of T&T all time greats, Leroy “Dilly” De Leon, in which he commented on the Soca Warriors in Germany and their 2010 Campaign.
We interviewed Dexter Skeene, (CEO of the TT-Pro league) about his role and the league’s role as it relates to T&T Football. As the pendulum by which a country sport revolves, we thought it wise to interview the Honourable Gary Hunt, Trinidad and Tobago Minister of Sport and Youth Affairs.
We covered the winners of the Secondary School Football league (SSFL), which reinforces the theory that the breading ground for football talent, is in the School System. We saw raw and exceptional talent in the SSFL, with the National U-17 and U-20 players in both the Boys and Girls Division. There were also diamonds in the rough at the Primary school level.
In Volume 4, you will find all the Trinidad and Tobago teams which participated in World Cups or Youth Championship. What we discovered, was that the Soca Warriors players who lead the team to World Cup Germany, was back and was not a factor in leading the team in the 2010 qualifiers.
Alvin Corneal assessment of Trinidad and Tobago football, in his article in the magazine is pretty close to being on the money. “ONE FOOT FORWARD - -TWO STEPS BACKWARDS”. Corneal is a former T&T national coach and player, and is presently a member of FIFA’s Study Group.
More importantly, Trinidad and Tobago senior men’s football team is at the crossroads and may be forced to expose its younger players. Hence, we asked Kenwyne Jones, the highest profile Soca Warriors player at present, to comment on his thoughts of leading the Soca Warriors forward. (Don’t Back-Back).
Tobago’s football is also on the rise, and we went to Tobago to cover the first International football match in its history, at the Dwight Yorke Stadium. We also covered Tobago’s Digicel Premier League, in which Stokely Vale won, and later qualified to play in the T&T National Super league for the upcoming season.
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McGill highlights TT football in book.
By Walter Alibey (T&T Newsday).
A book depicting the life of Trinidad and Tobago’s football was released last month by author, Trinidadian Aldwyn Mc Gill.
The book provides in-dept details of the sport and the persons involved, from as early as the 1960s to present.
Its highlight has been the qualification of the Trinidad and Tobago Soca Warriors for the 2006 FIFA World Cup in Germany where they played with distinction by producing a series of excellent performances.
The book features on the cover a photo of national and Sunderland striker Kenwyne Jones in action for Trinidad and Tobago during the World Cup qualifiers.
There are also pictures of ex-national players such as Everald “Gally” Cummings, Leroy De Leon, Warren Archibald, Lawrence Rondon and Lincoln Phillips.
The book is the fourth edition by the Morvant-born Mc Gill and is being seen as a huge assistance to the development of the twin-island republic and the sport.
It is to be placed in the nation’s schools and sold to the public at a reasonable price of $60 per copy.
He is also expected to do a magazine with his childhood primary school soon and will later focus on a book with Jamaica sports.
The book was launched on Friday at the VIP Lounge of the Hasely Crawford Stadium, Mucurapo and was embraced by all, including former national coach Anton Corneal and another ex-national standout Victor Mc Gill who is also the brother of Aldwyn.
McGill received the support of Coca Cola. He called on corporate TT to come on board and help to promote the country positively on the international community.
This edition of the book began in 2006 soon after the last World Cup play-off. According to Mc Gill he travelled all over the world with the Trinidad and Tobago football team to conduct interviews and take photographs.
“I have followed the Soca Warriors in Bahrain and then in Germany as well as different parts of the world to ensure that this magazine is possible,” Mc Gill said.
The book traced the sequence of football development from the primary school to the senior national level as well as a possible trial on an international country.
Mc Gill currently resides in Canada.