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Football / World Club Championship.

« on: December 11, 2009, 04:10:36 PM »

I guess no one is interested until the " final between Estudiantes and Barca".

I saw most of the game between Mazembe and Steelers. Very entertaining game. The Koreans were more organzed, but the Africans just lack in their marking. But boy them guys are skillfull. Very good game.

Article taken from BBC
Mazembe lose at Club World Cup

TP Mazembe's Mbenza Bedi opened the scoring at the Club World Cup
Brazilian striker Denilson scored twice as Pohang Steelers of South Korea came from a goal down to beat DR Congo's TP Mazembe 2-1 at the Club World Cup.

The African champions took the lead in Friday's quarter-final in Abu Dhabi through Mbenza Bedi on 28 minutes with a long range effort.

Denilson equalised for the Asian champions on 50 minutes with a header from No Byung-jun's chipped cross.

The Brazilian struck the winner 12 minutes from time.

His second goal came as he beat the offside trap to race through and beat Muteba Kidiaba with a low shot between the keeper's legs.

Pohang Steelers will now play South American counterparts Estudiantes of Argentina in the semi-finals on Tuesday.

Mazembe now face a play-off for fifth place on Wednesday.

They will play the loser of Saturday's other quarter-final between Oceania champions Auckland City from New Zealand and Mexico's Atlante, who are the North and Central American champions.

Football / Brazilian league

« on: December 08, 2009, 05:52:12 PM »

Anybody follow the Brazilian league. I know most people follow the league up north passionately. I look at the Brazilian on GolTV. I know some of the games are not all that pleasant to the eyes but their fans are no less passionate than the Euro fans. Their championship just finished and my favorite team, Flamengo do Rio won it. Andriano was joint top scorer with 17 goals. All yuh think Dunga go pick him or is he finished.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0ly-VuqyzM

Football / Can or would Jack ban this new league

« on: December 01, 2009, 08:47:16 AM »

Article aken from Soccer America.

http://www.socceramerica.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=Articles.showArticle&art_aid=35553

Rochester is latest to join breakaway league
by Paul Kennedy, Tuesday, Dec 1, 2009 7:00 AM ET
[NASL] The Rochester Rhinos, three-time USL-1 champions and U.S. Open Cup winners in 1999, became the latest team to leave the USL First Division when they announced on Monday that they will be joining the new North American Soccer League

"We evaluated the situation very carefully and decided that the best decision for the future of the Rhinos and soccer in Rochester was for us to join the new NASL," said Rhinos CEO Rob Clark. "Soccer is maturing before our very eyes. We are joining a family of team owners who are committed to investing in our league and their teams to further the development of players and support the future growth of the sport in North America. The NASL is a new beginning for soccer in Rochester."

The addition of Rochester brings the NASL to 10 teams, including the Atlanta Silverbacks, Carolina RailHawks, Crystal Palace Baltimore, Miami FC Blues, Minnesota Thunder, Montreal Impact, St. Louis United, Tampa Bay Rowdies and Vancouver Whitecaps.

Rochester's departure leaves only Austin, Cleveland, Puerto Rico and Portland as the only holdovers from 2009 in the 2010 USL-1. New York is committed as a 2010 expansion team. Only Portland, which will be joining MLS in 2011, and Puerto Rico have more than one year in the USL-1.

The NASL has applied for USSF Division II status and expects to start its first season as a Division II professional soccer league in April 2010.

General Discussion / Gaddafi. Is the guy for real????

« on: November 16, 2009, 04:03:58 PM »

Gaddafi newest initiative. Is this guy for real???

From today's BBC
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8362525.stm

A group of party girls got more than they bargained for when they were recruited to attend a posh do in Rome on Sunday night.

Instead of canapés and cocktails, the 200 young women found themselves being encouraged to become Muslims.

It turned out the host was Libya's leader, Col Muammar Gaddafi, in town for the UN food summit.

He spoke of the wonders of Islam and assured his guests it was not anti-women, as some critics argue.

The selection process had been rigorous; the identity of the host, a mystery.

The girls had to be beautiful, between 18 and 35 - and at least 1.70m tall.

The dress code was strict: plunging necklines and short miniskirts were most definitely out.

Two-hundred women passed muster and were bussed to a plush residential corner of the Italian capital.

Security scanned and shown into an imposing reception room, they were then left waiting, as several complained, without so much as a glass of water.

An hour later, their host's identity was finally revealed.

Col Gaddafi proceeded to preach the benefits of Islam, taking particular pains to assure his guests that it was not misogynistic, and encouraging them to convert.

Two hours later, the women left, looking a touch bemused, 50 euros ($75; £45) better off and clutching a copy of the Koran.

General Discussion / Island of the year. Whoopee!!!!

« on: October 20, 2009, 09:32:41 PM »

Take from today's Express.

http://www.trinidadexpress.com/index.pl/article_business_mag?id=161543893

What about Track & Field / It's Rio 2016

« on: October 02, 2009, 06:48:18 PM »

Rio beat Madrid in the final round.

Football / Garth Roach - Former Tranquil GK passed

« on: September 29, 2009, 04:27:41 PM »

Good Evening Forumites,
Garth passed last Thursday. For those in the Va/Dc Metro area and Baltimore area, His viewing will be at the Jenkins Funeral home off route 202 in Landover, PG County. I will get the address later. Time of the viewing is 6 pm to 9 pm.

Garth played with Tranquil under the late Roderick Warner(RIP) when they got promoted. He was a decent keeper. He had a lot of competition from Hashim Khan who eventually went to Fatima. He also played a lot of savannah football. That is where I know him first. He lived in Maryland. Played for Ebony in Baltimore and some other teams in DC. He was very likeable guy. He and his family used to sell food(roti, bake and shark at all the Baltimore and DC football tournament and fetes, etc. May the Higher Bless Him. RIP Garth.

Quizz Time & Facts / First TT female to win an International track medal

« on: September 18, 2009, 07:38:11 PM »

Anybody know who she is? I want to say Thora Best or Sybil

I am not sure

Football / Nigeria Age issues

« on: August 26, 2009, 05:20:30 PM »

Taken from BBC on-line:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/africa/8223125.stm

Nigeria have dropped 15 players from their Under-17 World Cup squad, following tests to determine the ages of team members.

Nigeria are the hosts of the tournament, which kicks off at the end of October.

The move to scan the players came after football's world governing body Fifa announced plans to carry out tests during the tournament itself.

Coach John Obuh now has a squad of 23 players remaining for the event.

Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) spokesman Ademola Olajire told the BBC the move to drop the 15 had been taken after the results of the tests were discovered, and on performance grounds.

"The decision was taken because the NFF was concerned with the preservation of Nigeria's good image," said Olajire.

NFF President Sani Lulu Abdullahi said the decision to drop the players would not prevent Nigeria from the defending the title they won in South Korea two years ago.

"We had 38 players in camp and some of them failed [age tests]," he was quoted as saying.

"[But] that does not mean that we do not have a team that will represent us at the World Cup - we still have a good team."

Nigeria have won the Under-17 World Cup three times, in 1985, 1993 and 2007.

The Golden Eaglets, as Nigeria's under-17 team is known, have been drawn against Germany, Argentina and Honduras in the first round and will be based in Abuja.

Entertainment & Culture Discussion / University of Calypso - Lord Relator and Andy Narell

« on: May 29, 2009, 05:26:19 PM »

Taken from Andy Narell website

http://andynarell.net/calypso/index.html

UNIVERSITY OF CALYPSO

Calypso has been with us for almost 100 years—and during that time the music behind the words has gone through a series of revolutionary reinventions. Backup for the earliest recorded minor-key calypsos was reminiscent of South American dance bands. During the 1930s the music came to sound more like major-key American swing music. And in the 1940s and '50s, thanks to bands like the one led by John "Buddy" Williams, many of the best calypsonians were backed by small, hip bebop combos.

It's no accident that many people consider the 1950s and '60s (with its legendary singer-songwriters like Lord Kitchener, Mighty Sparrow, Mighty Spoiler, Mighty Terror, Lord Melody) to be calypso's Golden Age. Much like what was happening in jazz and popular music in the U.S., calypso was going through a period of radical change. We owe a lot of that to the calypso giant known as Lord Kitchener (real name Aldwyn Roberts; now respectfully nicknamed the Grandmaster). Kitchener, who was born in 1922 and passed away in 2000, was arguably the greatest songwriter in the history of calypso. Largely responsible for calypso's evolution into a melodically and harmonically sophisticated music, he was also a fabulous lyricist, and a great commentator and humorist on a wide array of subjects. However, unlike most calypsonians, who are primarily "lyric men," Kitch, who played bass and guitar, wrote gorgeous music to go along with his words. Half this album is drawn from his songbook, and with good reason: Kitch's forays into jazz are the inspiration for this project.
Kitchener emigrated from Trinidad to London in 1948, where he discovered jazz—and wrote a very hip composition called "Bebop Calypso" praising Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie. Kitchener stayed in London throughout the '50s, playing with jazz musicians and making numerous recordings that revolutionized calypso music. Along with cats like Rupert Nurse (piano, saxophone, bass, arrangements), Fitzroy Coleman (guitar), and Russ Henderson (piano, pan) Kitchener created a new jazz-influenced big band sound that suited calypso perfectly—and when he returned to Trinidad, 17 years later, it was as a hugely successful entertainer with scores of hit records to his credit. Of course, calypso kept changing. Over the last 50 years musical influences have included rock 'n' roll, soul, funk, rock, East-Indian "chutney," reggae dancehall, and europop. And it's been over 50 years since a calypsonian has gone into the studio with a serious jazz band. Way too long! So Andy Narell and Relator have put together a group of world-class Latin-jazz cats who can swing the calypso and blow le jazz hot—and bring new life to this music. The repertoire for this CD is drawn from Relator's originals, and classics from the Golden Age of calypso.
Relator (real name Willard Harris) is one of Trinidad's finest calypsonians. He won the Calypso Monarch competition in 1980, an honor to which every calypsonian aspires, and is still considered one of the masters of the art form today. Born in 1948, his best-loved compositions include "Gavaskar" and "Food Prices" (both performed on this set) along with "Radio Stations" and scores of others. Relator is known for his amazing rhymes, and the dazzling phrasing he employs to sing his way through even the trickiest lyrics. He is also one of Trinidad's finest interpreters of classic calypsos, especially those of Lord Kitchener. Andy and Relator have been playing together for years, and decided to embark on the University of Calypso project in the spirit of the calypso pioneers of the 1950s. The collaboration was a real treat for both musicians. Andy assembled a group of Latin jazz all stars in New York, and invited maestro Paquito D'Rivera to join the ensemble. The resulting fete is documented on this CD.

Quizz Time & Facts / how the the term hat trick originate? Was it from cricket, football,hockey

« on: May 22, 2009, 03:56:09 PM »

I got this from the World Bank daily quizz.

The term hat trick originally referred to a cricket club's presentation of a new hat (or some equivalent) to a bowler taking three wickets successively. This custom originated in the late nineteenth century and the term hat trick has come to mean three successes of the same kind within a limited period. During the 2009 Indian Premiere League tournament, which ends Sunday, May 24, an Indian cricketer scored two hats in separate matches. Several hat tricks, or three goals in one game, have been scored by players during the 2009 National Hockey League Stanley Cup hockey playoffs. During Germany's current Bundesliga championship soccer tournament, a player scored three goals for a hat trick. The term was also used when three scientists from the Carnegie Institution for Science's Department of Global Ecology recently testified at three different U.S. Congressional hearings in one day.

SOURCES: OXFORD REFERENCE ONLINE REUTERS
NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE GUARDIAN CARNEGIE INSTITUTION

Entertainment & Culture Discussion / Life in the 1500s

« on: May 05, 2009, 05:02:03 PM »

* LIFE IN THE 1500s *

The next time you are washing your hands and complain because the water temperature isn't just how you like it, think about how things used to be Here are some facts about the1500s:

Most people got married in June because they took their yearly bath in May, and still smelled pretty good by June. However, they were starting to smell, so brides carried a bouquet of flowers to hide the body odour. Hence the custom today of carrying a bouquet when getting married.

Baths consisted of a big tub filled with hot water.The man of the house had the privilege of the nice clean water, then all the other sons and men, then the women and finally the children. Last of all the babies. By then the water was so dirty you could actually lose someone in it. Hence the saying, Don't throw the baby out with the Bath water.

Houses had thatched roofs-thick straw-piled high, with no wood underneath. It was the only place for animals to get warm, so all the cats and other small animals (mice, bugs) lived in the roof When it rained it became slippery and sometimes the animals would slip and fall off the roof. Hence the saying. It's raining cats and dogs.

There was nothing to stop things from falling into the house.This posed a real problem in the bedroom where bugs and other droppings could mess up your nice clean bed. Hence, a bed with big posts and a sheet hung over the top afforded some protection. That's how canopy beds came into existence.

The floor was dirt. Only the wealthy had something other than dirt. Hence the saying, Dirt poor. The wealthy had slate floors that would get slippery in the winter when wet, so they spread thresh (straw) on floor to help keep their footing. As the winter wore on, they added more thresh until, when you opened the door, it would all start slipping outside. A piece of wood was placed in the entranceway. Hence the saying a thresh hold.

(Getting quite an education, aren't you?)

In those old days, they cooked in the kitchen with a big kettle that always hung over the fire Every day they lit the fire and added things to the pot. They ate mostly vegetables and did not get much meat. They would eat the stew for dinner, leaving leftovers in the pot to get cold overnight and then start over the next day. Sometimes stew had food in it that had been there for quite a while. Hence the rhyme, Peas porridge hot, peas porridge cold, peas porridge in the pot nine days old.

Sometimes they could obtain pork, which made them feel quite special. When visitors came over, they would hang up their bacon to show off. It was a sign of wealth that a man could, bring home the bacon. They would cut off a little to share with guests and would all sit around and chew the fat.

Those with money had plates made of pewter. Food with high acid content caused some of the lead to leach onto the food, causing lead poisoning death. This happened most often with tomatoes, so for the next 400 years or so, tomatoes were considered poisonous.

Bread was divided according to status. Workers got the burnt bottom of the loaf, the family got the middle, and guests got the top, or the upper crust.

Lead cups were used to drink ale or whisky. The combination would sometimes knock the imbibers out for a couple of days. Someone walking along the road would take them for dead and prepare them for burial. They were laid out on the kitchen table for a couple of days and the family would gather around and eat and drink and wait and see if they would wake up. Hence the custom of holding a wake.

England is old and small and the local folks started running out of places to bury people. So they would dig up coffins and would take the bones to a bone-house, and reuse the grave. When reopening these coffins, 1 out of 25 coffins were found to have scratch marks on the inside and they realised they had been burying people alive. So they would tie a string on the wrist of the corpse, lead it through the coffin and up through the ground and tie it to a bell. Someone would have to sit out in the graveyard all night (the graveyard shift.) to listen for the bell; thus, someone could be, saved by the bell or was considered a ...dead ringer.

And that's the truth. Now, whoever said History was boring ! ! !

Educate someone. Share these facts with a friend.

Entertainment & Culture Discussion / Kwaito - 2pac?????

« on: May 04, 2009, 08:41:34 PM »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-Xne9y4QCc&feature=related

Entertainment & Culture Discussion / Asa??????

« on: May 04, 2009, 08:07:44 PM »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BpXhaDXp-c&feature=related

Entertainment & Culture Discussion / Mayra Andrade ????????

« on: May 04, 2009, 08:00:04 PM »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJMWnH14MsU&feature=related

Football / Chivas New Stadium

« on: May 04, 2009, 05:37:18 PM »

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=472500

Football / Like things really ain't change in TT football

« on: April 30, 2009, 08:02:14 PM »

National Under-17 players Reshad Wint, left, and Cordell Cato,
head to the Priority Bus Route for transport home after being
released from quarantine at Le Sportel Inn, Centre of Excellence,
Macoya yesterday.
Author: ROGER JACOB

Football / Do you think this can happen in TT football ?

« on: April 30, 2009, 04:29:29 PM »

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/africa/8026823.stm

Entertainment & Culture Discussion / BelO: Anybody familiar with this guy

« on: April 22, 2009, 09:44:03 PM »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JCMsNeRhXE&feature=related

What about Track & Field / Carifta weekend in St lucia

« on: April 08, 2009, 09:57:48 PM »

http://www.trinidadexpress.com/index.pl/article_sports?id=161462625

Cricket Anyone / Not a word about the WI Women in the WC in Australia

« on: March 09, 2009, 06:45:23 PM »

They beat SA.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/shared/fds/hi/statistics/cricket/scorecards/2009/3/16087/html/scorecard.stm

Football / Stadiums for Brazil WC 2014

« on: February 02, 2009, 06:41:09 PM »

Stadiums for the Brazil WC.

The renditions are awsome. But the stands are a bit far for the field. just like the Oval.

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?p=31553322#post31553322

Football / Jack, Lincoln, Hunt, - Ministers knock Warner's Budget Contribution

« on: October 04, 2008, 12:00:22 AM »

http://www.trinidadexpress.com/index.pl/article_news?id=161383406

Ministers knock Warner's Budget contribution

-Anna Ramdass

Saturday, October 4th 2008

Chaguanas West MP Jack Warner came under fire from Sports Minister Gary Hunt and Minister in the Ministry of National Security Donna Cox, who refuted a number allegations he made during his Budget contribution.

Hunt, in his budget contribution on Thursday at the Red House, dealt with allegations Warner made that the technical director of the national football team, Lincoln Phillips, was not being paid his salary for four months.

"Mr Phillip was contracted by the TTFF to be technical director to the football team. Mr Phillips was abandoned by the Member for Chaguanas West and the TTFF. It was the Sports Company of Trinidad and Tobago who came to the rescue of Mr Phillips," said Hunt.

He said the Sports Company agreed to meet the contractual agreement of Phillips, which has been maintained until today.

Hunt added that Phillips was subsequently removed by Warner to a low-key position and it is not in the hands of Warner to renew that contract with Phillips.

"To put forward to this House that the Ministry is withholding emoluments to Mr Phillips, it's not me, is you, so please don't try that," said Hunt.

Cox also refuted claims by Warner, where he claimed that it took two hours for officers of the West End Police Station to assist a woman whose life was threatened by her ex-husband.

Warner claimed that only two police officers were on duty on the night of September 23 and it took two hours for the woman to receive help.

Cox said, according to the police report, there were 16 officers on duty and three police officials assisted the woman.

Warner rose to his feet, saying he wants to go on record to state that he spoke to a corporal who told him there were only two officers at the station and the officer in charge was out conducting enquiries.

Warner said he was told, "Mr Warner, we are under stress, but I will take her statement and see what I can do."

"Mr Speaker it took two hours before the lady was listened to and taken care of." He added that the woman's case came up for hearing in court on Thursday, but was adjourned because the warrant for the ex-husband was not yet served.

Warner said the woman was now forced to be in hiding with her children.

Cox maintained that the police records showed the officers helped the woman within five minutes. She added that maybe Warner was misled.

Football / All yuh think TT gov't bad!!!

« on: September 04, 2008, 06:50:58 PM »

read this

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/africa/7598998.stm

What about Track & Field / Are we in the 4x400

« on: August 22, 2008, 04:22:26 PM »

Did we have good times to be in the 4x400? Men that is!!!!

Cricket Anyone / Cricket in the Olympics

« on: August 04, 2008, 09:00:25 PM »

Gilchrist wants cricket in the Olympics.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/cricket/7540588.stm

Football / Lilian Thuram

« on: July 30, 2008, 08:14:18 PM »

http://www.guardian.co.tt/SA-9.html

Guadeloupe

Will he help promote gwo ka (the local drums) instead of promoting local football when he will retire?

The 36-year old French professional football defender Lilian Thuram whose contract with Paris St Germain FC is now pending to a cardiac malformation discovered in June, had set his heart on promoting local culture rather than sports when he will retire.

The most capped player in the history of the French national team who was selected 142 times met with the public in the Laura Flessel gymnasium in Petit Bourg, Guadeloupe, French West Indies (FWI) on July 18.

The theme of the meeting was: “Can I make of my sports passion a career?”

The 1998 World Cup champion who was born in Guadeloupe answered the questions about football disclosing advice such as “work at school” and “never forget that football is not all”, clearly applying to him.

“When I was 17 I was in Monaco and I got injured. After one year, a doctor told me I could never be a professional football player because of that. Since that day, each year I play is a year I win,” he said to the assistance.

“But I also realised that football is not my whole life,” he added.

When asked about the opportunity to open formation centres for football players in Guadeloupe, the 1998 World Cup Champion answered by the negative.

“I think there are enough opportunities here when you’re a young talented football player to be detected by a scout. I’m not interested in that. I’m more into culture,” he said.

Thuram also asserted that someone from Fifa had approached him to talk about the Caribbean football saying that there were still things to do.

When questioned about the possibility to work at a Caribbean level, Thuram, as an excellent defender, tackled the Guardian and said it was not yet time to think about that since he was not yet retired.

Alain Parny, President of the Club of Supporters of the French Team in Guadeloupe, expressed his disappointment.

“I would have been happy to see Thuram engaging more in the local football. When you are a young football player here, if you’re not in one of the most mediatic clubs, the ones who have the contacts with the national agents, it’s difficult to be detected,” Parny said.

“It would be a good thing to have a formation centre down here. Most of the talents come back because when they go abroad they are alone and they can’t resist the change,” he said.

The Guadeloupe-born champion made a career out of his culture of sports but doesn’t want to be limited to the latter.

personal info

Full name: Ruddy Lilian Thuram-Ulien

Date of birth: January 1, 1972 (age 36)

Place of birth: Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe, French West Indies

Height: 1.82 m (5 ft, 11 1/2 in)

Playing position: Centre back or Right back

Senior clubs

Years Club App (Gls)

1991–1996 AS Monaco 155 (

1996–2001 Parma 163 (1)

2001–2006 Juventus 145 (1)

2006–2008 FC Barcelona 41 (0)

National team

1994–2008 France 142 (2)