as soon as the baby could eat solid food, just make sure he taste ah pelau or a doubles first. no scottish food for he. he need to b healthy and strong fo world cup 2022
take care latas.
bless!!
as he get teeth, cassava , dasheen an yam one time. go b d strongest baby in d nursery:rotfl:
LATAPY JR
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GOD BLESSINGS MAGICO........NOW WE HAVE TO FIGHT OFF THE SCOTLAND FA FOR THE LITTLE LITTLE MAGICIAN...AND FIGHT OFF PORTUGAL FOR "JOAO"
Congrats latas. Anyone knows the baby's Name . Also what are the different nationalities of little Russel ? Trini/Scottish and ?His wife is Scottish,So here,s hoping he can have the skill of his dad :D
Well allyuh bring meh out!
As a man who watching football in oval and stadium since the 80's I have to say I am a child of the Latapy era.
From watching him disect the US defence while being bullied by much bigger players in Torrance California in the 1-1 draw in 1989; to seeing him give a Guatemalan defender a wrong address just before slotting the ball home to equalize just last year in the Stadium, the man has shown that his class on a football field is God-given and no man can take it away.
Watching his interview with Andre Baptiste last night, I am certain that his love of football is the main reason for his being back with us. Let's face it, Russel owes everything to football, and not to Trinidad and Tobago. We, on the other hand, as patriatic football fans, owe quite a bit to Russel Latapy!
God bless and good luck in the future.
I will always be a fan of Russell Latapy the greatest all round footballer Trini has seen. I met Russell a couple of times back in the day through my other buddy Colin Rocke, when they were preparing the under 23 squad back in the 80's.grskywalker ...this one is both a tear jerker and a pores raiser. thanks
That team was so incredibly talented, too bad we did not have a Beenhaker around to guide them. Who can also remember that Sado Tech, Signal Hill clash in the Stadium, wow! that was one exciting game and one of the few times the stadium got close to filled.
Russell has done us proud time and time again for the last 20 yrs and will never be replaced, his service has been invaluable, despite his and Dwight's walk out, they have come back one more time and reached the stars. All good things come to an end and we look forward to June where your genius and knowledge of this game will come full circle and you will stand shoulder to shoulder with the world's best and hold your own.
STANDING OVATION TO YOU RUSSELL :applause: :applause: :applause: :notworthy: :notworthy:
NOW GO OUT THERE AND VIBES IT UP!!!!!!!
retire da shirt yes.....Nice Idea !! Does anyone second it?
LATAPY
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retire da shirt yes.....Nice Idea !! Does anyone second it?
LATAPY
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retire da shirt yes.....Nice Idea !! Does anyone second it?
LATAPY
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SECONDED, THIRDED, AND 1.3 MILLIONED!!!
Boy this was a great and sad article at the same time. Very nice. End of an era.
Still would have liked to see Latas in all three games. Even against Sweden. His offensive skills would have changed the offensive and defensive posture of both teams everytime he came on the field. I personally believe he would have been most effective against England, and perhaps Sven would have been outcoached and not Beenhacker.
Latas mi boy...hope we get another like you.
Boy this was a great and sad article at the same time. Very nice. End of an era.
Still would have liked to see Latas in all three games. Even against Sweden. His offensive skills would have changed the offensive and defensive posture of both teams everytime he came on the field. I personally believe he would have been most effective against England, and perhaps Sven would have been outcoached and not Beenhacker.
Latas mi boy...hope we get another like you.
maybe you should go coach the team
From Soccernet
http://soccernet.espn.go.com/report?id=198886&cc=3888
Falkirk came from behind to claim an opening day 2-1 win at Dundee United in the Bank of Scotland Premier League.
Barry Robson had given the home side a 17th-minute lead but the Bairns hit back courtesy of playmaker Russell Latapy six minutes later.
But, in the 59th minute, Falkirk midfielder Liam Craig capped a fine display with the winner.
However, on the evidence of the first 90 minutes of the season, United player-manager Craig Brewster and his team could be facing a long, hard campaign.
Brewster named himself in the starting line-up along side new arrival Noel Hunt up front and handed competitive debuts to summer signings Steven Robb and Craig Conway.
Falkirk head coach John Hughes gave goalkeeper Scott Higgins a debut ahead of Jeroen Lambers.
Latapy, fresh from his World Cup exploits with Trinidad and Tobago, was a threat throughout and his prompting appeared to have paid off after 10 minutes but Pedro Moutinho was denied the opener by an offside flag.
However, after Hunt earned the game's first booking for a lunge on Kenny Milne, United took a shock lead.
Robson's surge from left-back saw his initial shot blocked by Tom Scobbie, but the winger was first to the loose ball and he curled his effort past Higgins at the second attempt.
Stung by losing the first goal, Falkirk hit back but the offside flag denied Moutinho for a second time after Derek Stillie had fumbled Craig's shot on the turn.
But they were not to be denied a third time as Latapy nonchalantly drove in a 25-yard free-kick after Alan Gow had been fouled just outside the penalty area.
As the pace of the frenetic opening stages dipped, Latapy became an even greater influence on the proceedings.
However, the Bairns could not find a second goal as Craig passed up three half-chances and Latapy's free-kick was deflected wide by United's defensive wall.
Bairns midfielder Craig found himself pressed into action at the wrong end in the 52nd minute as he became the game's second booking after chopping down Conway and Hunt flashed a header wide from the resulting attack.
But still the visitors enjoyed the bulk of possession and they deservedly took the lead in the 59th minute.
Latapy was the instigator with some brilliant intricate play on the edge of the box and, when he got the break of the ball, a superb threaded pass played in Craig.
The former Ipswich youngster made no mistake, driving his shot across Stillie and into the net from an angle.
Former Falkirk striker Collin Samuel made an immediate impact after his second-half introduction, with his pace causing the visitors' rearguard problems.
When Higgins clutched Robson's free-kick to his chest late on and Mark Kerr's drive was blocked by Milne, Falkirk looked to have secured the points.
But they had a diving save by Higgins to thank for the win as he held Samuel's volley before tipping the Trinidad and Tobago international's drive onto the post in injury time.
Long live the KING!
it eh look like I get over this Latapy WC thing nah
but damn i wish i could see dat goal
L A T A P Y
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edit: Carlos also score for Luton, a right footed bullet straight in de V from outside the box
it eh look like I get over this Latapy WC thing nah
but damn i wish i could see dat goal
L A T A P Y
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edit: Carlos also score for Luton, a right footed bullet straight in de V from outside the box
anyone like to see his goal ..... Latapy Free Kick (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iALL-MDcko) ;)
courtesy of 1876Bairn at thefansclips.com (http://thefansclips.com/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=93)
Come On Ye Bairns ;D
anyone like to see his goal ..... Latapy Free Kick (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iALL-MDcko) ;)
courtesy of 1876Bairn at thefansclips.com (http://thefansclips.com/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=93)
Come On Ye Bairns ;D
anyone like to see his goal ..... Latapy Free Kick (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iALL-MDcko) ;)
courtesy of 1876Bairn at thefansclips.com (http://thefansclips.com/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=93)
Come On Ye Bairns ;D
How come nobody eh put up a list of games for today and the scores???
How come nobody eh put up a list of games for today and the scores???
respect for the video
but like that tape on a slinky or pogo stick
JESUS CHRIST
Long live the KING!
steups
..............and to think.......men wanted to seriously argue wit me, and actually defend Leo's decision...........not to give Russell #*@^%$ing Latapy, Arguably (if yuh REALLY FEEL like arguing) Trinidad's greatest player EVER, no more than 24 minutes of playing time in our country's finest moment in football. HAH!!!!!
..............and to think.......men wanted to seriously argue wit me, and actually defend Leo's decision...........not to give Russell #*@^%$ing Latapy, Arguably (if yuh REALLY FEEL like arguing) Trinidad's greatest player EVER, no more than 24 minutes of playing time in our country's finest moment in football. HAH!!!!!
..............and to think.......men wanted to seriously argue wit me, and actually defend Leo's decision...........not to give Russell #*@^%$ing Latapy, Arguably (if yuh REALLY FEEL like arguing) Trinidad's greatest player EVER, no more than 24 minutes of playing time in our country's finest moment in football. HAH!!!!!
..............and to think.......men wanted to seriously argue wit me, and actually defend Leo's decision...........not to give Russell #*@^%$ing Latapy, Arguably (if yuh REALLY FEEL like arguing) Trinidad's greatest player EVER, no more than 24 minutes of playing time in our country's finest moment in football. HAH!!!!!
I really wish Latas had played more in the WC..but I eh jumping on 1 Scottish league performance to bolster that argument. That is one game against an average team in a somewhat decent league. There are a gazillion reasons you could argue for Latas...this eh one of them (in my opinion)
..............and to think.......men wanted to seriously argue wit me, and actually defend Leo's decision...........not to give Russell #*@^%$ing Latapy, Arguably (if yuh REALLY FEEL like arguing) Trinidad's greatest player EVER, no more than 24 minutes of playing time in our country's finest moment in football. HAH!!!!!
I really wish Latas had played more in the WC..but I eh jumping on 1 Scottish league performance to bolster that argument. That is one game against an average team in a somewhat decent league. There are a gazillion reasons you could argue for Latas...this eh one of them (in my opinion)
..............and to think.......men wanted to seriously argue wit me, and actually defend Leo's decision...........not to give Russell #*@^%$ing Latapy, Arguably (if yuh REALLY FEEL like arguing) Trinidad's greatest player EVER, no more than 24 minutes of playing time in our country's finest moment in football. HAH!!!!!
..............and to think.......men wanted to seriously argue wit me, and actually defend Leo's decision...........not to give Russell #*@^%$ing Latapy, Arguably (if yuh REALLY FEEL like arguing) Trinidad's greatest player EVER, no more than 24 minutes of playing time in our country's finest moment in football. HAH!!!!!
why he deserve more
..............and to think.......men wanted to seriously argue wit me, and actually defend Leo's decision...........not to give Russell #*@^%$ing Latapy, Arguably (if yuh REALLY FEEL like arguing) Trinidad's greatest player EVER, no more than 24 minutes of playing time in our country's finest moment in football. HAH!!!!!
why he deserve more
..............and to think.......men wanted to seriously argue wit me, and actually defend Leo's decision...........not to give Russell #*@^%$ing Latapy, Arguably (if yuh REALLY FEEL like arguing) Trinidad's greatest player EVER, no more than 24 minutes of playing time in our country's finest moment in football. HAH!!!!!
why he deserve more
You should compare the little 24 minutes that he did play,match them up against the other 246+ minutes that he didn't play let your own conscience answer that one.
i know I wouda get involved in this at some stage so i might as well jump in now as de topic change ...
Beenie underestimated the potential impact of latapy for T&T in Germany ...plain and simple !
I say that with confidence because ....-Beenie cannot now say to us ...I told you so !
If at the end of latapy´s brief cameo beenie could have said ..that´s why I didnt play him ....then I would concede that he was right ...except he cant can he ?
i know I wouda get involved in this at some stage so i might as well jump in now as de topic change ...
Beenie underestimated the potential impact of latapy for T&T in Germany ...plain and simple !
I say that with confidence because ....-Beenie cannot now say to us ...I told you so !
If at the end of latapy´s brief cameo beenie could have said ..that´s why I didnt play him ....then I would concede that he was right ...except he cant can he ?
Would latapy have played that way against england and sweden yuh think!!
..............and to think.......men wanted to seriously argue wit me, and actually defend Leo's decision...........not to give Russell #*@^%$ing Latapy, Arguably (if yuh REALLY FEEL like arguing) Trinidad's greatest player EVER, no more than 24 minutes of playing time in our country's finest moment in football. HAH!!!!!
why he deserve more
You should compare the little 24 minutes that he did play,match them up against the other 246+ minutes that he didn't play let your own conscience answer that one.
ok yuh know what latapy would ah dazzle lampard beckham bergkamp etc. he would have given MELLBERG LUCIC LINDEROTH thunder :devil: boy would he have run at them ;D
..............and to think.......men wanted to seriously argue wit me, and actually defend Leo's decision...........not to give Russell #*@^%$ing Latapy, Arguably (if yuh REALLY FEEL like arguing) Trinidad's greatest player EVER, no more than 24 minutes of playing time in our country's finest moment in football. HAH!!!!!
why he deserve more
You should compare the little 24 minutes that he did play,match them up against the other 246+ minutes that he didn't play let your own conscience answer that one.
ok yuh know what latapy would ah dazzle lampard beckham bergkamp etc. he would have given MELLBERG LUCIC LINDEROTH thunder :devil: boy would he have run at them ;D
You saying that like yuh eh sure or yuh really never see Latas play, doh fool yuh self dread Latas cud play wid de best ah dem yuh just call.Doh expose yuh self here as ah dunce of de game who else (well besides Stern off course :whistling:) on we team closer in skiller to anyone ah dem players yuh call...I eh hearing yuh dread ...''what yuh say'' LATAS ? Yuh correct if daiz wha ah hear ...call anothe player who have more skill than de magican.I not jumping on Beenie back or criticizing him I dealing wid player for player here and you or nobody cyar tell me Latas at 59 ...oh sh!t ah mean 37 eh better than many of our midfielders, I talking bout pure skill and holding de ball and delivering dah killer pass, dat was so much needed by de big striker...wha ever he name is :whistling: Yeah de football gurus say Beenie did de right thing and I eh 2nd guessing here I just giving my opinion and I really believe that Latas deserve more, he shudda start every single game if he tired or slowing down de game take him off,like he go be dis big liability and we go get 6 right ?I doh agree wid that.I say start yuh best and he's definately one. IMO de most talented player ever to come out ah TnT deserver more than ah cobo sweat in de WC.
Can anone say how many times Latapy found Yorke or vice versa during latapy´s 23 mins ?
Can anyone say how many passes latapy completed and how many chances he created for other players ?
Can anyone say how many times he lost the ball while in possession ? , how many times he went pass a player, how many attempts at goal ...these are the things that will convince the doubters.
I suspect that by the time we compile these facts he would have been on the field for 45 mins :o
I dont have a copy of the game but if someone else does and can supply these fact I will be grateful.
..............and to think.......men wanted to seriously argue wit me, and actually defend Leo's decision...........not to give Russell #*@^%$ing Latapy, Arguably (if yuh REALLY FEEL like arguing) Trinidad's greatest player EVER, no more than 24 minutes of playing time in our country's finest moment in football. HAH!!!!!
why he deserve more
You should compare the little 24 minutes that he did play,match them up against the other 246+ minutes that he didn't play let your own conscience answer that one.
ok yuh know what latapy would ah dazzle lampard beckham bergkamp etc. he would have given MELLBERG LUCIC LINDEROTH thunder :devil: boy would he have run at them ;D
You saying that like yuh eh sure or yuh really never see Latas play, doh fool yuh self dread Latas cud play wid de best ah dem yuh just call.Doh expose yuh self here as ah dunce of de game who else (well besides Stern off course :whistling:) on we team closer in skiller to anyone ah dem players yuh call...I eh hearing yuh dread ...''what yuh say'' LATAS ? Yuh correct if daiz wha ah hear ...call anothe player who have more skill than de magican.I not jumping on Beenie back or criticizing him I dealing wid player for player here and you or nobody cyar tell me Latas at 59 ...oh sh!t ah mean 37 eh better than many of our midfielders, I talking bout pure skill and holding de ball and delivering dah killer pass, dat was so much needed by de big striker...wha ever he name is :whistling: Yeah de football gurus say Beenie did de right thing and I eh 2nd guessing here I just giving my opinion and I really believe that Latas deserve more, he shudda start every single game if he tired or slowing down de game take him off,like he go be dis big liability and we go get 6 right ?I doh agree wid that.I say start yuh best and he's definately one. IMO de most talented player ever to come out ah TnT deserver more than ah cobo sweat in de WC.
steeps
respect for the video
but like that tape on a slinky or pogo stick
JESUS CHRIST
All yuh have tuh do is jump up and down too while yuh watching it and yuh will see it clear!!
ah love it!!
Would latapy have played that way against england and sweden yuh think!!
Falkirk captain Jack Ross was happy to sit back and watch Russell Latapy take centre stage as Falkirk beat Dundee United 2-1 on Saturday.
teamtalk
Call mih Nostraduttmos
Lemme fasten mih seat belts oui and keep mih hands inside de car....
cause dis is de part whey man does come out frothing about de injustice that was done to the greatest T&T player...and direct comparison of a scottish league game to a world cup game...
...and den men go say we is kiss arse colonialists for supportin a foreigner
.. and den it go turn into, well we woulda win de world cup if we had better service from de middle
...which when then morph into who is de better striker to collect de service
...the thread will then fizzle out and die ending with why jack didnt aks to keep de soca warriors bus
real armchair coaches on dis forum pretending like dey know for sure Latas would have had make a difference.....long flicking steups
Falkirk captain Jack Ross was happy to sit back and watch Russell Latapy take centre stage as Falkirk beat Dundee United 2-1 on Saturday.
teamtalk
:rotfl: you people boy
Falkirk captain Jack Ross was happy to sit back and watch Russell Latapy take centre stage as Falkirk beat Dundee United 2-1 on Saturday.
teamtalk
:rotfl: you people boy
triniman leh meh ask yuh dis yuh know who is Latas yuh ever see him play ?
Falkirk captain Jack Ross was happy to sit back and watch Russell Latapy take centre stage as Falkirk beat Dundee United 2-1 on Saturday.
teamtalk
:rotfl: you people boy
triniman leh meh ask yuh dis yuh know who is Latas yuh ever see him play ?
NAH seen latas play ::)
Falkirk captain Jack Ross was happy to sit back and watch Russell Latapy take centre stage as Falkirk beat Dundee United 2-1 on Saturday.
teamtalk
:rotfl: you people boy
triniman leh meh ask yuh dis yuh know who is Latas yuh ever see him play ?
NAH seen latas play ::)
When,where....yuh effen lie,you see Latas play an talkig all dah tata you must be see ah Guyanese version ah Latas nut we Latas, odda wise yuh wuddn't ah be talking all dah FILTH ....
real armchair coaches on dis forum pretending like dey know for sure Latas would have had make a difference.....long flicking steups
In my opinion, Latas makes a difference offensively 90% of the time when playing for T&T. The question is at what cost defensively.
real armchair coaches on dis forum pretending like dey know for sure Latas would have had make a difference.....long flicking steups
In my opinion, Latas makes a difference offensively 90% of the time when playing for T&T. The question is at what cost defensively.
no disrepeck palos...but jes curious...where you get dat stat 90% from...again back tio meh point....we jes speculating....
also I agree in general that latas makes a difference to T&T's offense....but we have never played against the calibre of England and Sweden prior to the world cup....how you know he would ah make any offensive difference knowing we literally defended the majority of both those games....would you value a more defensive midfielder or a more creative midifelder in this instance :beermug:
Is this argument gonna re-emerge everytime Latapy has a good game in the SPL ? I think we should get over it.
I honestly think Latapy was supposed to be our super-sub. I think that is what Beenie orignially had in mind. This is what I speculate, trying to use logic and concrete results over emotion in hindsight:
Against Sweden we went down to ten men, we were being dominated and were holding on for dear life, so a last minute change in tactics had to be employed....and it worked. We held on for the draw against the odds, without Latas, and I believe that must have caused Beenie to reconsider using similar tactics going into the second game against England
Against England, we couldn't really see our way, and got sucked into a defensive shell. With 5 minutes left to go, and the score still 0-0, I think that Beenie was getting flashbacks of the Sweden game, and decided to try and weather the storm in similar fashion. He musta thought why go and upset the pattern when it worked before, and it seemed to be working again....by the time Crouchy took a hair sample from Sancho, it was too late.
Against, Paraguay remember we had a slim chance of qualification, and this is where I think , Latas was most likely going to get the chance to play the quintessential, super sub role. Beenie probably thought that if we could hold Sweden for 90, England for 85, without Latas.....by using similar proven tactics, we should be able to contain Paraguay for at least 60-65, at which point Latas would come in and add some final punch to the attack and hopefully push into the second round.............
Sadly, in the last game we conceded one in the early minutes of the game before he came in....and we conceded one while he was in. We didn't score when he was off the field and we didn't score when he was one the field.....The truth is, the pattern of the game had switched in our favour before Latapy come on. We were chasing the game. That is the natural pattern of a team that is chasing a game. Latapy did add some excitement with his style of football, but in terms of output, there was no real difference. The shots we managed when he was on the field were still off target, and the majority of our plays were still being broken down before we could get a clear shot off, and there were no clear cut chances created by incisive passing. In fact the closest we came to scoring in that game was a header off a free kick in the first half. I think that was the only testing save that the Paraguay keeper had to make in the entire game. We even conceded a goal while Latapy was on the field. What Latapy did bring was a style that excited the crowd and "looked" more dangerous because of his neat football and natural flair......
To add everything up, try to put your self in Beenie's shoes - not in hindsight, but consider T&T's game situations in the heat of the moment and be honest about Latapy's real concrete contribution to the last game.......
In the end, considering EVERYTHING the only thing that Beenie probably deprived us of was a little extra excitement....and given the battles that we were up against, I think it was fully understandable. Latapy is great, and I too would have liked to see him get more of a run but in all honesty, one man was not enough to change our WC successes this Summer.....so in my opinion, we could give the armchair coaching and speculation a rest. (for the entire SPL season ;D)
..............and to think.......men wanted to seriously argue wit me, and actually defend Leo's decision...........not to give Russell #*@^%$ing Latapy, Arguably (if yuh REALLY FEEL like arguing) Trinidad's greatest player EVER, no more than 24 minutes of playing time in our country's finest moment in football. HAH!!!!!
I really wish Latas had played more in the WC..but I eh jumping on 1 Scottish league performance to bolster that argument. That is one game against an average team in a somewhat decent league. There are a gazillion reasons you could argue for Latas...this eh one of them (in my opinion)
Come on, Filho. When I was arguing with men in germany that Latas should have had more playing time, do you think I was basing my argument on what he did this past weekend in the SPL? We all know that Latas is no longer what he used to be but his prescence on the field up to June 20th of this year was still more valuable to T&T than his prescence on the bench, and his little 24 minutes against Paraguay did prove that. I threw it out there that he should have had more playing time, Brother, but I wasn't "jumping on ! Scottish League performance to bolster that argument" We ain't that simple, are we? Sometimes when a man throws out a post, he's throwing it out for more reasons than one, Padna.
no disrepeck palos...but jes curious...where you get dat stat 90% from...
On Fox Sports World Report Bobby McMahon took the time to point out that 37 yr old Russell Latapy absolutely dominated the game and was in complete control for Falkirk when they were going over the SPL.
On Fox Sports World Report Bobby McMahon took the time to point out that 37 yr old Russell Latapy absolutely dominated the game and was in complete control for Falkirk when they were going over the SPL.
On Fox Sports World Report Bobby McMahon took the time to point out that 37 yr old Russell Latapy absolutely dominated the game and was in complete control for Falkirk when they were going over the SPL.
They show highlights??!!!
Oh Gawd ah miss it last night!!
This is my take on Latapy on the field he motivates the players because they all idolize him Leo made a mistake by not playing Latas more yes I said it no one is perfect we can’t play football with 10 defenders and 1 striker and expect to win also the kind of experience Latapy have he would off adjust to the play this guy is world class and to play Thoabld over latapy was a dishonor one in they right mind could explain that to me we need his creativity remember he was the driving forces for us in the qualifiers.
This is my take on Latapy on the field he motivates the players because they all idolize him Leo made a mistake by not playing Latas more yes I said it no one is perfect we can’t play football with 10 defenders and 1 striker and expect to win also the kind of experience Latapy have he would off adjust to the play this guy is world class and to play Thoabld over latapy was a dishonor one in they right mind could explain that to me we need his creativity remember he was the driving forces for us in the qualifiers.
Bally, true dat, ah said de same thing before. Every time someone express their disappointment, in de amount of playing time de GENERAL get, ah does just go back into meh lil shell, and get sad like if someone in meh family died. Now people, dis eh no joke, cuz since ah was youth going tuh school, ah use tuh idolize dat youth, he is real real special talent.
I know exactly where yuh comin' from, Boss, my initial post was meant as a "steups wit a rollin' of the eye kinda" thing, remembering how disappointed I was that he didn't get more playing time. I am no statistician when it comes to football, at least not in the purest sense like some men I see here. The stat that matters most to me when it comes down to it, is shots on goal. Make the 'keeper earn his pay!! The value that Latapy brought to our team CANNOT be measured with any of these statistics that men looking to put out here. This is not friggin' baseball. Football is supposed to be a free-flowing game of offensive improvisation combined with tactical and defensive discipline in front of solid goalkeeping. If men lose their defensive discipline because Latas come on to create more chances for the team's goalscorers (Stern "Lazy" John, Cornell Glen and, when given the opportunity, Dwight, etc!) THAT IS NOT HIS FAULT!! Also, Latapy is no more a defensive liability than any of the other midfielders on our team, and I didn't exactly see Paraguay pin back their ears and start licking their offensive chops when he did come on. If anything, he had their defenders on their heels and he DID elevate the team's energy, (I even saw Stern trying to put in and win tackles in the Paraguay defence. Picture DAT!!!) and I am not saying that we would have all of a sudden scored 1, 2, 3 or ANY goals against England or Paraguay, but you still have to find a way to get your BEST AND MOST CREATIVE player on the field SOMEHOW! We had more than proven ourselves in the Sweden game EVEN if Sweden were unlucky not to score...............and to think.......men wanted to seriously argue wit me, and actually defend Leo's decision...........not to give Russell #*@^%$ing Latapy, Arguably (if yuh REALLY FEEL like arguing) Trinidad's greatest player EVER, no more than 24 minutes of playing time in our country's finest moment in football. HAH!!!!!
I really wish Latas had played more in the WC..but I eh jumping on 1 Scottish league performance to bolster that argument. That is one game against an average team in a somewhat decent league. There are a gazillion reasons you could argue for Latas...this eh one of them (in my opinion)
Come on, Filho. When I was arguing with men in germany that Latas should have had more playing time, do you think I was basing my argument on what he did this past weekend in the SPL? We all know that Latas is no longer what he used to be but his prescence on the field up to June 20th of this year was still more valuable to T&T than his prescence on the bench, and his little 24 minutes against Paraguay did prove that. I threw it out there that he should have had more playing time, Brother, but I wasn't "jumping on ! Scottish League performance to bolster that argument" We ain't that simple, are we? Sometimes when a man throws out a post, he's throwing it out for more reasons than one, Padna.
Hard luck boss...I was not trying to say you were using the SPL performance to make your point. I know you had been calling for Latas way back. I just meant that you should not use it to add to that argument. I don't think a great SPL performance should be the catalyst for bringing up another 'I told you Latas should have played'. The WC and the SPL are very different in terms of the quality of football. To me it sounded like you were using the SPL performnace to say...look, more evidence that Latas should have played. I just saying, I don't think it says anything other than a great player had a great game. Hard luck if I misunderstood where you were coming from...but I hope is clear where I was coming from.
Chow, yuh tork like a boss dey...
The problem is after Sweden, all man could do was praise Beenhakker for bringing on another striker. In the end, Shaka had the biggest game of his life and if not for him, Sweden could have easily beaten us 3-0. Fact is, we were lucky, Sweden throw away big time and Shaka was a brick wall. People forget, Shaka was not even supposed to start that game, I guess Beenhakker got lucky again...
Then we have Colin Samuel, another attacking player, Beenie bench de man against Sweden, I doh undahstand why as anyone with a tape of that game, please watch it and tell me why Beenie bench Colin and never play him after that game?
The fuss Bahrain game, all man agree with Beenie's benching of Latas, yet Latapy was having a better game than some of the other midfielders, again, he should not have been benched. A man post about Latapy being ineffective 11/19/89 even though the entire team was ineffective after a 4 hour bus ride. I will remind you that Latapy was fouled in the box on 11/19/89, it should have been a penalty.
Look, the local haters will find all reasons to defend Beenhakker and mash up Latapy and any other local. When one of them give me a good reason why Theobald pulling stones them 3 games get to play in front of Latas in every game, then I would shut up!
In the end, we would never have won 3 of our last 4 games and qualified if Latapy didn't come out of retirement after being begged by Yorke for those last four games in the Hex.
Latapy's dream was to coach TnT or at least play an assistant role, dais my belief, look who is the new head coach, Beenie's assistant! Go figure!
Chow, yuh tork like a boss dey...
The problem is after Sweden, all man could do was praise Beenhakker for bringing on another striker. In the end, Shaka had the biggest game of his life and if not for him, Sweden could have easily beaten us 3-0. Fact is, we were lucky, Sweden throw away big time and Shaka was a brick wall. People forget, Shaka was not even supposed to start that game, I guess Beenhakker got lucky again...
Then we have Colin Samuel, another attacking player, Beenie bench de man against Sweden, I doh undahstand why as anyone with a tape of that game, please watch it and tell me why Beenie bench Colin and never play him after that game?
The fuss Bahrain game, all man agree with Beenie's benching of Latas, yet Latapy was having a better game than some of the other midfielders, again, he should not have been benched. A man post about Latapy being ineffective 11/19/89 even though the entire team was ineffective after a 4 hour bus ride. I will remind you that Latapy was fouled in the box on 11/19/89, it should have been a penalty.
Look, the local haters will find all reasons to defend Beenhakker and mash up Latapy and any other local. When one of them give me a good reason why Theobald pulling stones them 3 games get to play in front of Latas in every game, then I would shut up!
In the end, we would never have won 3 of our last 4 games and qualified if Latapy didn't come out of retirement after being begged by Yorke for those last four games in the Hex.
Latapy's dream was to coach TnT or at least play an assistant role, dais my belief, look who is the new head coach, Beenie's assistant! Go figure!
I know exactly where yuh comin' from, Boss, my initial post was meant as a "steups wit a rollin' of the eye kinda" thing, remembering how disappointed I was that he didn't get more playing time. I am no statistician when it comes to football, at least not in the purest sense like some men I see here. The stat that matters most to me when it comes down to it, is shots on goal. Make the 'keeper earn his pay!! The value that Latapy brought to our team CANNOT be measured with any of these statistics that men looking to put out here. This is not friggin' baseball. Football is supposed to be a free-flowing game of offensive improvisation combined with tactical and defensive discipline in front of solid goalkeeping. If men lose their defensive discipline because Latas come on to create more chances for the team's goalscorers (Stern "Lazy" John, Cornell Glen and, when given the opportunity, Dwight, etc!) THAT IS NOT HIS FAULT!! Also, Latapy is no more a defensive liability than any of the other midfielders on our team, and I didn't exactly see Paraguay pin back their ears and start licking their offensive chops when he did come on. If anything, he had their defenders on their heels and he DID elevate the team's energy, (I even saw Stern trying to put in and win tackles in the Paraguay defence. Picture DAT!!!) and I am not saying that we would have all of a sudden scored 1, 2, 3 or ANY goals against England or Paraguay, but you still have to find a way to get your BEST AND MOST CREATIVE player on the field SOMEHOW! We had more than proven ourselves in the Sweden game EVEN if Sweden were unlucky not to score...............and to think.......men wanted to seriously argue wit me, and actually defend Leo's decision...........not to give Russell #*@^%$ing Latapy, Arguably (if yuh REALLY FEEL like arguing) Trinidad's greatest player EVER, no more than 24 minutes of playing time in our country's finest moment in football. HAH!!!!!
I really wish Latas had played more in the WC..but I eh jumping on 1 Scottish league performance to bolster that argument. That is one game against an average team in a somewhat decent league. There are a gazillion reasons you could argue for Latas...this eh one of them (in my opinion)
Come on, Filho. When I was arguing with men in germany that Latas should have had more playing time, do you think I was basing my argument on what he did this past weekend in the SPL? We all know that Latas is no longer what he used to be but his prescence on the field up to June 20th of this year was still more valuable to T&T than his prescence on the bench, and his little 24 minutes against Paraguay did prove that. I threw it out there that he should have had more playing time, Brother, but I wasn't "jumping on ! Scottish League performance to bolster that argument" We ain't that simple, are we? Sometimes when a man throws out a post, he's throwing it out for more reasons than one, Padna.
Hard luck boss...I was not trying to say you were using the SPL performance to make your point. I know you had been calling for Latas way back. I just meant that you should not use it to add to that argument. I don't think a great SPL performance should be the catalyst for bringing up another 'I told you Latas should have played'. The WC and the SPL are very different in terms of the quality of football. To me it sounded like you were using the SPL performnace to say...look, more evidence that Latas should have played. I just saying, I don't think it says anything other than a great player had a great game. Hard luck if I misunderstood where you were coming from...but I hope is clear where I was coming from.
How come nobody eh put up a list of games for today and the scores???
Coventry lost 2-1 Stern play 61mins ..did not score ......come on haters do all yuh ting ?
Latas Big Big Player always
nice clip..great quality
de fellas show him real love too...
How come nobody eh put up a list of games for today and the scores???
Coventry lost 2-1 Stern play 61mins ..did not score ......come on haters do all yuh ting ?
Latas Big Big Player always
Stern ent score because he's ah bum!
:rotfl: Berris you never seem to disappoint me! Yuh does reale take bait/shit like ah shit eating maneekue... so tell me who's really mentally challenged! :rotfl:How come nobody eh put up a list of games for today and the scores???
Coventry lost 2-1 Stern play 61mins ..did not score ......come on haters do all yuh ting ?
Latas Big Big Player always
Stern ent score because he's ah bum!
And you is ah jackass becuz yuh born mentally challanged
Chow, yuh tork like a boss dey...
The problem is after Sweden, all man could do was praise Beenhakker for bringing on another striker. In the end, Shaka had the biggest game of his life and if not for him, Sweden could have easily beaten us 3-0. Fact is, we were lucky, Sweden throw away big time and Shaka was a brick wall. People forget, Shaka was not even supposed to start that game, I guess Beenhakker got lucky again...
Then we have Colin Samuel, another attacking player, Beenie bench de man against Sweden, I doh undahstand why as anyone with a tape of that game, please watch it and tell me why Beenie bench Colin and never play him after that game?
The fuss Bahrain game, all man agree with Beenie's benching of Latas, yet Latapy was having a better game than some of the other midfielders, again, he should not have been benched. A man post about Latapy being ineffective 11/19/89 even though the entire team was ineffective after a 4 hour bus ride. I will remind you that Latapy was fouled in the box on 11/19/89, it should have been a penalty.
Look, the local haters will find all reasons to defend Beenhakker and mash up Latapy and any other local. When one of them give me a good reason why Theobald pulling stones them 3 games get to play in front of Latas in every game, then I would shut up!
In the end, we would never have won 3 of our last 4 games and qualified if Latapy didn't come out of retirement after being begged by Yorke for those last four games in the Hex.
Latapy's dream was to coach TnT or at least play an assistant role, dais my belief, look who is the new head coach, Beenie's assistant! Go figure!
:rotfl: Berris you never seem to disappoint me! Yuh does reale take bait/shit like ah shit eating maneekue... so tell me who's really mentally challenged! :rotfl:How come nobody eh put up a list of games for today and the scores???
Coventry lost 2-1 Stern play 61mins ..did not score ......come on haters do all yuh ting ?
Latas Big Big Player always
Stern ent score because he's ah bum!
And you is ah jackass becuz yuh born mentally challanged
Chow, yuh tork like a boss dey...
The problem is after Sweden, all man could do was praise Beenhakker for bringing on another striker. In the end, Shaka had the biggest game of his life and if not for him, Sweden could have easily beaten us 3-0. Fact is, we were lucky, Sweden throw away big time and Shaka was a brick wall. People forget, Shaka was not even supposed to start that game, I guess Beenhakker got lucky again...
Then we have Colin Samuel, another attacking player, Beenie bench de man against Sweden, I doh undahstand why as anyone with a tape of that game, please watch it and tell me why Beenie bench Colin and never play him after that game?
The fuss Bahrain game, all man agree with Beenie's benching of Latas, yet Latapy was having a better game than some of the other midfielders, again, he should not have been benched. A man post about Latapy being ineffective 11/19/89 even though the entire team was ineffective after a 4 hour bus ride. I will remind you that Latapy was fouled in the box on 11/19/89, it should have been a penalty.
Look, the local haters will find all reasons to defend Beenhakker and mash up Latapy and any other local. When one of them give me a good reason why Theobald pulling stones them 3 games get to play in front of Latas in every game, then I would shut up!
In the end, we would never have won 3 of our last 4 games and qualified if Latapy didn't come out of retirement after being begged by Yorke for those last four games in the Hex.
Latapy's dream was to coach TnT or at least play an assistant role, dais my belief, look who is the new head coach, Beenie's assistant! Go figure!
Even latapy say he cannot go fuh 90 min even latapy back leo decision to bench him in the away game lord boy :rotfl: i bet you does dream of latapy floatingthrough yuh bed room window ..
latas was the greatest without a doubt, the true definition of trinidad football, he was by far the greatest dribbler and passer in his time for trinidad and im proud tuh say he is also an east dry river brother :beermug: ;D
latas was the greatest without a doubt, the true definition of trinidad football, he was by far the greatest dribbler and passer in his time for trinidad and im proud tuh say he is also an east dry river brother :beermug: ;D
TI yuh mean bredda, right ;D
Dwight vs Latas...hard debate. Most local adults will pick Latas because they will have more live memories of Latas at his absolute best. Latas seems to have more all-round natural ability on the ball than Yorke. He also has more flair and Trinis love that. More importantly he has tended to outshine Yorkie when they put on the red black and white...especially before this last WC campaign. Even now at 38, his cameo against Paraguay shows he can do things no other Trini can do. Latas jumpstart the campaign with that goal against Guatemala...somehow, if anybody was going to do that..it was Latas. We older Trinis (anyone out of their teens) would consider him our most talented and hence best player..not that younger Trinis would not agree, or older ones disagree...I just think it is more likely that adult Trinis would pick Latas
Yorke is more famous and by most football standards, more successful. He played in a higher profile team, in a higher profile league and did things at club level that Latas never had the chance to prove he could do (Porto and Rangers being just a step below Man U in the global football hierarchy). So to most people outside of T&T, and probably younger Trinis, Yorke would be the man.
I say Latas more talented, Yorke more successful..is a tie ;D
For those who follow NBA is like asking who is better between Kobe Bryant and Allen Iverson, skill vs championship rings.
For those who follow NBA is like asking who is better between Kobe Bryant and Allen Iverson, skill vs championship rings.
Ah hearin yuh but I eh agree wit dah comparison. No disrespeck but Iverson eh want nutting wit Kobe sah. 8)
For those of us who don't have 1001 memories of the guy, imagine our children, what is there to prove that this man was as great as we all think he is?
I think the most important point in this whole post was this and it is very, very valid:QuoteFor those of us who don't have 1001 memories of the guy, imagine our children, what is there to prove that this man was as great as we all think he is?
We older heads know Latas...but will the youths and unborn ever know about this "GREAT" ? There is not that much published about him or as the poster rightly asked media on him when he was at the top flight clubs...the little that we older heads do know is when Latas played in school, in national games but we have not really seen him in club games when he was at his prime.....If anything we were able to catch a game of Yorke..not Latas
I think....No....I know it will be a great loss to us if we don't get some type of archive comomorating his achievments. Men like Latas only come once in a few generations (just like they are still trying to find the next MJ)...we should not let his magic be lost
I think the most important point in this whole post was this and it is very, very valid:QuoteFor those of us who don't have 1001 memories of the guy, imagine our children, what is there to prove that this man was as great as we all think he is?
We older heads know Latas...but will the youths and unborn ever know about this "GREAT" ? There is not that much published about him or as the poster rightly asked media on him when he was at the top flight clubs...the little that we older heads do know is when Latas played in school, in national games but we have not really seen him in club games when he was at his prime.....If anything we were able to catch a game of Yorke..not Latas
I think....No....I know it will be a great loss to us if we don't get some type of archive comomorating his achievments. Men like Latas only come once in a few generations (just like they are still trying to find the next MJ)...we should not let his magic be lost
Here's one who thinks that despite Latapy's superlative technical ability, he wasn't the greatest. Simply because he wasn't adaptable. He is most effective playing in an advanced position which means that he needs a water carrier/indian to free him up to display his chieftain qualities. However, more often than not when I've seen him play, he was not provided that "luxury" resulting in a very enigmatic performance. I've seen him play live on only 3 occasions, and on television in another handful of games. While this only represents a small sample, that observation wasn't lost on me. There were odd moments of brilliance interspaced between loooooooong periods of obscurity in the engine room at that. Unfortunately the engine wasn't on auto-pilot >:(
If this says anything, it's that he wasn't put in a position to really flourish. Which is why I can hold Beenhakker in high regard - deploying him in a very advanced position, except in Bahrain game two where his task was to help keep the ball another of his strengths. Oh how I would have loved to see him given the freedom he deserved, but pragmatism sometimes have a greater sway. ;D
Midknight ill help deal withthe bold part of your text
I canot give you any hard stats however i can tel you at Porto he was the mentor to palyers that are now in teh ranks like quaresma and Deco and all these exciting young portugese players.....he was well respected and i believe that it was madness who pointed out to me that at Porto he had the name Lil magician and Deco so wanted to emulate him that he called himself MAGICO .....to mean the smaller version of little magician (do rember that deco and these guys were prolly on the fringes of the teams back then trying to make a break through as youths.
i believe latas was well respected at porto but he wanted a change of scenery and thus the move to scotland.....your right he isnt recognized as much as dwight and i thik thats cause in all reality Dwight yorke has palyed for at least 4 premiership teams ....and while only manchester united can stand on par with porto ...the EPL is more broadcasted than the Portuguese SUperliga....so therfore more exposure.
Remeber exposure is key ....and while latas has been regarded as a exceptonally talented player by each and every one of his clubs ..these clubs play in leagues where they don't have games broadcasted on major channels that would air throughout our region of the world....There is prolly someone in this world better than Michael Jordan ..Tiger woods hell there could even be a lil fella somewhere in some dark corner of the world with more ball skills and touches than Ronaldinho.....but if they arent being noticed will they ever get anywhere..no
Midknight ill help deal withthe bold part of your text
I canot give you any hard stats however i can tel you at Porto he was the mentor to palyers that are now in teh ranks like quaresma and Deco and all these exciting young portugese players.....he was well respected and i believe that it was madness who pointed out to me that at Porto he had the name Lil magician and Deco so wanted to emulate him that he called himself MAGICO .....to mean the smaller version of little magician (do rember that deco and these guys were prolly on the fringes of the teams back then trying to make a break through as youths.
i believe latas was well respected at porto but he wanted a change of scenery and thus the move to scotland.....your right he isnt recognized as much as dwight and i thik thats cause in all reality Dwight yorke has palyed for at least 4 premiership teams ....and while only manchester united can stand on par with porto ...the EPL is more broadcasted than the Portuguese SUperliga....so therfore more exposure.
Remeber exposure is key ....and while latas has been regarded as a exceptonally talented player by each and every one of his clubs ..these clubs play in leagues where they don't have games broadcasted on major channels that would air throughout our region of the world....There is prolly someone in this world better than Michael Jordan ..Tiger woods hell there could even be a lil fella somewhere in some dark corner of the world with more ball skills and touches than Ronaldinho.....but if they arent being noticed will they ever get anywhere..no
hmmm? doublet..u making up some serious tings dere.
Latas played for Porto between 1994-1996
Deco, didn't arrive in Portugal until 1997...from Brazil. Magico also does not mean little magician in portuguese..and I doubt Latas was even known as the Little Magician in Portugal..That is almost exclusively a Trini thing which has caught on a little in Scotland.
Quaresma was 13 years old when Latas left Porto...and even so, his team was Sporting where he came up as a trainee before going to Barca in 2003 and didn't go to Porto until 2004..and he didn't even want to go there, even though he desperately wanted to leave Barca.
Latas was no mentor to any of these players. He left Porto 10 years ago. I don't think there are any young exciting portuguese players he would have been mentor to. If he influenced anyone, they would probably be well into their mid to late twenties or early 30s by now.
After Porto, he spent another 2 years in Portugal at Boavista. So he didn't leave for Scotland right away for a change of scenery.
Midknight ill help deal withthe bold part of your text
I canot give you any hard stats however i can tel you at Porto he was the mentor to palyers that are now in teh ranks like quaresma and Deco and all these exciting young portugese players.....he was well respected and i believe that it was madness who pointed out to me that at Porto he had the name Lil magician and Deco so wanted to emulate him that he called himself MAGICO .....to mean the smaller version of little magician (do rember that deco and these guys were prolly on the fringes of the teams back then trying to make a break through as youths.
i believe latas was well respected at porto but he wanted a change of scenery and thus the move to scotland.....your right he isnt recognized as much as dwight and i thik thats cause in all reality Dwight yorke has palyed for at least 4 premiership teams ....and while only manchester united can stand on par with porto ...the EPL is more broadcasted than the Portuguese SUperliga....so therfore more exposure.
Remeber exposure is key ....and while latas has been regarded as a exceptonally talented player by each and every one of his clubs ..these clubs play in leagues where they don't have games broadcasted on major channels that would air throughout our region of the world....There is prolly someone in this world better than Michael Jordan ..Tiger woods hell there could even be a lil fella somewhere in some dark corner of the world with more ball skills and touches than Ronaldinho.....but if they arent being noticed will they ever get anywhere..no
hmmm? doublet..u making up some serious tings dere.
Latas played for Porto between 1994-1996
Deco, didn't arrive in Portugal until 1997...from Brazil. Magico also does not mean little magician in portuguese..and I doubt Latas was even known as the Little Magician in Portugal..That is almost exclusively a Trini thing which has caught on a little in Scotland.
Quaresma was 13 years old when Latas left Porto...and even so, his team was Sporting where he came up as a trainee before going to Barca in 2003 and didn't go to Porto until 2004..and he didn't even want to go there, even though he desperately wanted to leave Barca.
Latas was no mentor to any of these players. He left Porto 10 years ago. I don't think there are any young exciting portuguese players he would have been mentor to. If he influenced anyone, they would probably be well into their mid to late twenties or early 30s by now.
After Porto, he spent another 2 years in Portugal at Boavista. So he didn't leave for Scotland right away for a change of scenery.
I din't want the man to look bad so i keep quiet :whistling:
It's AMAZING that a midfielder in his late 30s could still manners top players like that.
Peace,
VB
dont post much, but this is close to me. the first time i saw russel was 1980, i was ten and he was 12. on qrc grounds back when big men was playing collage lleague ttranquillywas playing qrc. the field had alot of current members of the nnationalu19 team including my brother who played for ttranquillyand the buzz around the ground was the 12 year old phenom who was on the tranquill bench, rRusselllatapy every ppossiblevviewingangle was taken. tranquill coach sSgtlamkin was going to play rRussellwas the word. with about 12 mMin'sto go he came on and proceeded to eembarrassthree respect players down by the left side corner flag with his first, second and third ttouchesof the game. his fourth touch he was almost kick out of the grounds. message sent, come back when you can defend yourself, but everybody who saw new the legend had begun. my was a top youth player in tTrinidadand he took me everywhere including to newtown coaching school where jah lillywhite a neighbour and family friend started the school and where latas fine tuned his god blessed talent. i played with rRussellfor two years in tranquill so i also saw it up close. back then because of his size he was played as a forward so that he could use his skills more in and around the box. my most mmemorablemoment he scored with his eye vs cic in an u16 semi to this day still proably the only header he ever scored. guys i could go on and on but rRussellprobelm has always been his size talent wise he has always been the best player on the field. back when Yorke who i also played with on nNat'su14 and u16 teams went to england the game was not as sophisticated as it is today it was more voom kick and run only a few teams played knock and keep it on the carpet most notably liverpool and even the skilled guys roughed it up abit so latas just did not fit in there ,it was not the only reason but it is not my place there. it is also why it took Yorke awhile to establish himself, for those who don't know yorkie could match skill with anybody out there back in the day, he and Russell lived with that ball night and day together because Dwight stay with Russell alot of times when he came over from Tobago he changed his game to adapt to the English game what the youths don't know is that strike squad run was one of the most naturally talented group of players they never got to see in their prime Russell and Dwight was just the best of the lot and not just those who played on the strike squad let me leave you with a name Sean constantine aka yellows or red ants was almost as talented as Russell but even smaller
It's AMAZING that a midfielder in his late 30s could still manners top players like that.
Peace,
VB
Is GENIUS yuh dealin with. Once yuh put it into dat perspective...it eh really all dat amazing. GENIUS IS GENIUS...dat doh dead.
It's AMAZING that a midfielder in his late 30s could still manners top players like that.
Peace,
VB
Is GENIUS yuh dealin with. Once yuh put it into dat perspective...it eh really all dat amazing. GENIUS IS GENIUS...dat doh dead.
Boy Stoichkov and Hagi were "geniuses," and they couldn't last that long.
And I'm pretty sure Beckham won't either.
VB
It's AMAZING that a midfielder in his late 30s could still manners top players like that.
Peace,
VB
Is GENIUS yuh dealin with. Once yuh put it into dat perspective...it eh really all dat amazing. GENIUS IS GENIUS...dat doh dead.
Boy Stoichkov and Hagi were "geniuses," and they couldn't last that long.
And I'm pretty sure Beckham won't either.
VB
Latas WAS Boavista when he was there and that is why Porto bought hime. he was part of the team that went from a small side to a serious title contender.
When he went Porto he suffered from a mix of stepping up to a big club and a change in team management.
dont post much, but this is close to me. the first time i saw russel was 1980, i was ten and he was 12. on qrc grounds back when big men was playing collage lleague ttranquillywas playing qrc. the field had alot of current members of the nnationalu19 team including my brother who played for ttranquillyand the buzz around the ground was the 12 year old phenom who was on the tranquill bench, rRusselllatapy every ppossiblevviewingangle was taken. tranquill coach sSgtlamkin was going to play rRussellwas the word. with about 12 mMin'sto go he came on and proceeded to eembarrassthree respect players down by the left side corner flag with his first, second and third ttouchesof the game. his fourth touch he was almost kick out of the grounds. message sent, come back when you can defend yourself, but everybody who saw new the legend had begun. my was a top youth player in tTrinidadand he took me everywhere including to newtown coaching school where jah lillywhite a neighbour and family friend started the school and where latas fine tuned his god blessed talent. i played with rRussellfor two years in tranquill so i also saw it up close. back then because of his size he was played as a forward so that he could use his skills more in and around the box. my most mmemorablemoment he scored with his eye vs cic in an u16 semi to this day still proably the only header he ever scored. guys i could go on and on but rRussellprobelm has always been his size talent wise he has always been the best player on the field. back when Yorke who i also played with on nNat'su14 and u16 teams went to england the game was not as sophisticated as it is today it was more voom kick and run only a few teams played knock and keep it on the carpet most notably liverpool and even the skilled guys roughed it up abit so latas just did not fit in there ,it was not the only reason but it is not my place there. it is also why it took Yorke awhile to establish himself, for those who don't know yorkie could match skill with anybody out there back in the day, he and Russell lived with that ball night and day together because Dwight stay with Russell alot of times when he came over from Tobago he changed his game to adapt to the English game what the youths don't know is that strike squad run was one of the most naturally talented group of players they never got to see in their prime Russell and Dwight was just the best of the lot and not just those who played on the strike squad let me leave you with a name Sean constantine aka yellows or red ants was almost as talented as Russell but even smaller
Russell Latapy is truly the greatest Player I have ever seen play with my own two eyes!! My memories of him go just a little further back than his U-16 days for T&T. I had the extreme honour of being on a team that played against him in a Secondary Schools' Under-14 match right in front of the pavilion on QRC Grounds and we had all been quaking in our boots in Fear of Russell's arrival for that game, such was the reputation as a footballer that had preceeded him. It was the first time I had heard of him and saw him play and I was COMPLETELY bowled over by his entire game!! As a schoolboy in his Tranquil days, Latas had an opportunity to go play for a team in england: Blackpool (i'm not sure if it's United, FC, or what.) but he did go and try out for the team, and this was at a time when players from the caribbean like him were not getting those kinds of opportunities. I will leave the rest of the memories and postings to the rest of the men on the forum. There will be PLENTY, but as one poster noted earlier, it seemed as though he ALWAYS gave his best effort in a T&T uniform even at times when Dwight didn't. One of (as far as I have seen). Truly a class act.
Russell Latapy is truly the greatest Player I have ever seen play with my own two eyes!! My memories of him go just a little further back than his U-16 days for T&T. I had the extreme honour of being on a team that played against him in a Secondary Schools' Under-14 match right in front of the pavilion on QRC Grounds and we had all been quaking in our boots in Fear of Russell's arrival for that game, such was the reputation as a footballer that had preceeded him. It was the first time I had heard of him and saw him play and I was COMPLETELY bowled over by his entire game!! As a schoolboy in his Tranquil days, Latas had an opportunity to go play for a team in england: Blackpool (i'm not sure if it's United, FC, or what.) but he did go and try out for the team, and this was at a time when players from the caribbean like him were not getting those kinds of opportunities. I will leave the rest of the memories and postings to the rest of the men on the forum. There will be PLENTY, but as one poster noted earlier, it seemed as though he ALWAYS gave his best effort in a T&T uniform even at times when Dwight didn't. One of (as far as I have seen). Truly a class act.
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And if we really serious contact Potuguese and Scottish media to get the videos of him that none of us seem to have.
For those of us who don't have 1001 memories of the guy, imagine our children, what is there to prove that this man was as great as we all think he is? Let me hear alyuh. [/b]
Latas WAS Boavista when he was there and that is why Porto bought hime. he was part of the team that went from a small side to a serious title contender.
When he went Porto he suffered from a mix of stepping up to a big club and a change in team management.
Juma, latas was at Porto first. He suffered at Porto because bobby robson had a rotation policy at the time and never really settled on a starting midfield, due to the number of good players at his disposal.
Latas is the best player that Trinidad and Tobago ever produced. Both he and Yorke and world class, but i would put Yorke as the greatest because he did something that a Trinidadian might never do again.
He topscore in de flicking champions league!!
ah love it!!
....That statement destroys your credibility.
For me...Latas is the best footballer I ever see in a T&T uniform. Make that in any Caribbean football uniform. Make that in any CONCACAF region uniform. Bar NONE. Dwight Yorke is an excellent player....but footballer for footballer....FOR ME....He not in latas' league.
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First of all, any player from the English speaking Caribbean who was not good enough to make it into the EPL cannot be considered to be a great player. He might be considered a good or very good player. We all understand that to be considered great a player must play with the best, and/or against the best, and demonstrate his or her superior ability among those players. Not to offend anyone, ...we have been down this road many times, and as others have also pointed out Latapy’s achievements to date are not significant enough for him to be labeled as a great player.
Many of us appreciate hearing the sentimental stories about Latapy in U16 etc. Nonetheless in many sports, demonstrated brilliance at a young age does not always translate into success as a professional. Recently, there has been a number of stories about the number 1 picks in the NFL draft who dropped out of the league after a few short seasons, or those who simply did not live up to expectations as a professional. A person who achieved the status of number 1 pick in the NFL draft must have been brilliant in University and in all likelihood a star in high school and his hometown.
That statement destroys your credibility.
How many have seen Latapy play as a club professional? Again, like many others I also sense that Latapy is a very good player. That said, everytime this topic comes up, there have not been any independent evidence/criteria for Latapy’s greatness; that is the talk and possible status always hinges (or threads ) on Yorke’s achievements, a sort of parasitic relationship. There are many other very good T&T footballers (for example Leonsen Lewis, Jameson, ) whose professional backgrounds are not dramatically different from Latapy’s, and who also really performed for the country, so how come we don’t hear as much about those fellaz.
....That statement destroys your credibility.
For me...Latas is the best footballer I ever see in a T&T uniform. Make that in any Caribbean football uniform. Make that in any CONCACAF region uniform. Bar NONE. Dwight Yorke is an excellent player....but footballer for footballer....FOR ME....He not in latas' league.
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How many have seen Latapy play as a club professional? Again, like many others I also sense that Latapy is a very good player. That said, everytime this topic comes up, there have not been any independent evidence/criteria for Latapy’s greatness; that is the talk and possible status always hinges (or threads ) on Yorke’s achievements, a sort of parasitic relationship. There are many other very good T&T footballers (for example Leonsen Lewis, Jameson, ) whose professional backgrounds are not dramatically different from Latapy’s, and who also really performed for the country, so how come we don’t hear as much about those fellaz.
First of all, any player from the English speaking Caribbean who was not good enough to make it into the EPL cannot be considered to be a great player.
By de way...Latas have chirren?..ah son even?
Any of his brothers have chirren?.....prodigy skills does genetically jump sometimes yuh know
First of all, any player from the English speaking Caribbean who was not good enough to make it into the EPL cannot be considered to be a great player. He might be considered a good or very good player. We all understand that to be considered great a player must play with the best, and/or against the best, and demonstrate his or her superior ability among those players. Not to offend anyone, ...we have been down this road many times, and as others have also pointed out Latapy’s achievements to date are not significant enough for him to be labeled as a great player.
Many of us appreciate hearing the sentimental stories about Latapy in U16 etc. Nonetheless in many sports, demonstrated brilliance at a young age does not always translate into success as a professional. Recently, there has been a number of stories about the number 1 picks in the NFL draft who dropped out of the league after a few short seasons, or those who simply did not live up to expectations as a professional. A person who achieved the status of number 1 pick in the NFL draft must have been brilliant in University and in all likelihood a star in high school and his hometown.
That statement destroys your credibility.
How many have seen Latapy play as a club professional? Again, like many others I also sense that Latapy is a very good player. That said, everytime this topic comes up, there have not been any independent evidence/criteria for Latapy’s greatness; that is the talk and possible status always hinges (or threads ) on Yorke’s achievements, a sort of parasitic relationship. There are many other very good T&T footballers (for example Leonsen Lewis, Jameson, ) whose professional backgrounds are not dramatically different from Latapy’s, and who also really performed for the country, so how come we don’t hear as much about those fellaz.
With all due respect ah have to alert de formites ....TATA ALERT !! TATA ALERT !! BIG BIG TATA ALERT !! ALL YUH WATCH OUT IT LACED WITH PURE .. :bs: :bs: :bs:
yuh got to be joking ??? ??? ??? :bs: :bs: :bs:
....That statement destroys your credibility.
For me...Latas is the best footballer I ever see in a T&T uniform. Make that in any Caribbean football uniform. Make that in any CONCACAF region uniform. Bar NONE. Dwight Yorke is an excellent player....but footballer for footballer....FOR ME....He not in latas' league.
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How many have seen Latapy play as a club professional? Again, like many others I also sense that Latapy is a very good player. That said, everytime this topic comes up, there have not been any independent evidence/criteria for Latapy’s greatness; that is the talk and possible status always hinges (or threads ) on Yorke’s achievements, a sort of parasitic relationship. There are many other very good T&T footballers (for example Leonsen Lewis, Jameson, ) whose professional backgrounds are not dramatically different from Latapy’s, and who also really performed for the country, so how come we don’t hear as much about those fellaz.
Because I state something you may not happen to agree with, it "destroy my credibility?" Wha part of "FOR ME, and Latas is the best footballer I EVER SEE in a T&T uniform" you doh get? Who is you to determine if my opinion or what I see is credible or not?
Haul yuh sanctimonious, insular ass wit dat shit.
yes it was bradford city and it was not football reasons he did not get the contract, also jorge casagrande the brazillian coach got trails and scholaships for quite a few guys back in those days . to tell how trinidadians taught and still think today one guy who he got a trial with stoke city said he came back because all they did was play two touch football
Your suggestion that because you include ``for me’’ etc, in your statement that that somehow makes it plausible or acceptable is simply not true. Is it possible to turn incredible statements into credible statements by simply putting ``For me’’ or “in my opinion” in the statement? In general the answer is no. If a person makes the statement `` For me 1 + 2 = 5,” then it is easy to reject that. Likewise you might think that your statement is notsimilar because it might involve some judgment. But performance is sport is quantifiable, and in fact with the clock and the numerous measures (assists, goals, touches of the ball), it is easy to see that some statements are of the form `` For me 1 + 2 = 5.” Is it possible to hide one’s bias or preference when talking about the best or great by including ``for me’’ etc. In general the answer is no. And that is also partly because the use and understanding of best and great in some ways contains a negation of ``for me’’ etc. If a golf commentator says that David Duval is the best golfer of this generation because he made the lowest score in a round on the PGA tour. Then whether he adds ``for me’’ or not is irrelevant, his judgment is clearly questionable and his other statementsabout profs golfers could not really be taken as reliable. And that is in spite of the fact that Duval does hold the record for the lowest in a round
The only part of my original post that should be rewritten is the sentence with reference to parasitic ... . But I notice that a recent topic
Which player in world football now reminds you of Latapy??
is addressing the gist of the complaint.
First of all, any player from the English speaking Caribbean who was not good enough to make it into the EPL cannot be considered to be a great player.
storebaylamebrainer.......That statement destroys your credibility.
For me...Latas is the best footballer I ever see in a T&T uniform. Make that in any Caribbean football uniform. Make that in any CONCACAF region uniform. Bar NONE. Dwight Yorke is an excellent player....but footballer for footballer....FOR ME....He not in latas' league.
....
How many have seen Latapy play as a club professional? Again, like many others I also sense that Latapy is a very good player. That said, everytime this topic comes up, there have not been any independent evidence/criteria for Latapy’s greatness; that is the talk and possible status always hinges (or threads ) on Yorke’s achievements, a sort of parasitic relationship. There are many other very good T&T footballers (for example Leonsen Lewis, Jameson, ) whose professional backgrounds are not dramatically different from Latapy’s, and who also really performed for the country, so how come we don’t hear as much about those fellaz.
Because I state something you may not happen to agree with, it "destroy my credibility?" Wha part of "FOR ME, and Latas is the best footballer I EVER SEE in a T&T uniform" you doh get? Who is you to determine if my opinion or what I see is credible or not?
Haul yuh sanctimonious, insular ass wit dat shit.
Your suggestion that because you include ``for me’’ etc, in your statement that that somehow makes it plausible or acceptable is simply not true. Is it possible to turn incredible statements into credible statements by simply putting ``For me’’ or “in my opinion” in the statement? In general the answer is no. If a person makes the statement `` For me 1 + 2 = 5,” then it is easy to reject that. Likewise you might think that your statement is notsimilar because it might involve some judgment. But performance is sport is quantifiable, and in fact with the clock and the numerous measures (assists, goals, touches of the ball), it is easy to see that some statements are of the form `` For me 1 + 2 = 5.” Is it possible to hide one’s bias or preference when talking about the best or great by including ``for me’’ etc. In general the answer is no. And that is also partly because the use and understanding of best and great in some ways contains a negation of ``for me’’ etc. If a golf commentator says that David Duval is the best golfer of this generation because he made the lowest score in a round on the PGA tour. Then whether he adds ``for me’’ or not is irrelevant, his judgment is clearly questionable and his other statementsabout profs golfers could not really be taken as reliable. And that is in spite of the fact that Duval does hold the record for the lowest in a round
The only part of my original post that should be rewritten is the sentence with reference to parasitic ... . But I notice that a recent topic
Which player in world football now reminds you of Latapy??
is addressing the gist of the complaint.
[storebaylamebrainer...
[storebaylamebrainer...
de saying same shit different day doh even apply to this post ...this
tutu yuh post eh de same amount as before is way way much more...Yuh cud add up whatever yuh want,EVERY POST YUH MAKE = SH!T SH!T AND MORE SH!T yuh shud change yuh name tuh latrinelimer ....Quote
AH lorse count...dat is clash number 37 or 38??
Your suggestion that because you include ``for me’’ etc, in your statement that that somehow makes it plausible or acceptable is simply not true. Is it possible to turn incredible statements into credible statements by simply putting ``For me’’ or “in my opinion” in the statement? In general the answer is no. If a person makes the statement `` For me 1 + 2 = 5,” then it is easy to reject that. Likewise you might think that your statement is notsimilar because it might involve some judgment. But performance is sport is quantifiable, and in fact with the clock and the numerous measures (assists, goals, touches of the ball), it is easy to see that some statements are of the form `` For me 1 + 2 = 5.” Is it possible to hide one’s bias or preference when talking about the best or great by including ``for me’’ etc. In general the answer is no. And that is also partly because the use and understanding of best and great in some ways contains a negation of ``for me’’ etc. If a golf commentator says that David Duval is the best golfer of this generation because he made the lowest score in a round on the PGA tour. Then whether he adds ``for me’’ or not is irrelevant, his judgment is clearly questionable and his other statementsabout profs golfers could not really be taken as reliable. And that is in spite of the fact that Duval does hold the record for the lowest in a round
The only part of my original post that should be rewritten is the sentence with reference to parasitic ... . But I notice that a recent topic
Which player in world football now reminds you of Latapy??
is addressing the gist of the complaint.
OK Storebay. You made this statement right?QuoteFirst of all, any player from the English speaking Caribbean who was not good enough to make it into the EPL cannot be considered to be a great player.
Well.....dat statement wuss dan 1 + 2 = 5. In oddah words....with all due respect....yuh talkin shit!
How's dat fuh facts?!!
It would be more useful to point out why that criteria as one of the tests for greatness (in T&T football) is incorrect or irrelevant. Can you do that? It would help your case/cause and likeminded supporters are waiting for an answer. Of course one can think of various hypothetical circumstances involving other leagues, but when one looks at the distribution of T&T players in the various leagues over the last 20 years, it is unlikely that the distribution will change significantly in the next 10 years. Hence again, at this time, one can say that in order to be eligible for consideration of greatness in T&T football, the player must have played in the EPL.
Your suggestion that because you include ``for me’’ etc, in your statement that that somehow makes it plausible or acceptable is simply not true. Is it possible to turn incredible statements into credible statements by simply putting ``For me’’ or “in my opinion” in the statement? In general the answer is no. If a person makes the statement `` For me 1 + 2 = 5,” then it is easy to reject that. Likewise you might think that your statement is notsimilar because it might involve some judgment. But performance is sport is quantifiable, and in fact with the clock and the numerous measures (assists, goals, touches of the ball), it is easy to see that some statements are of the form `` For me 1 + 2 = 5.” Is it possible to hide one’s bias or preference when talking about the best or great by including ``for me’’ etc. In general the answer is no. And that is also partly because the use and understanding of best and great in some ways contains a negation of ``for me’’ etc. If a golf commentator says that David Duval is the best golfer of this generation because he made the lowest score in a round on the PGA tour. Then whether he adds ``for me’’ or not is irrelevant, his judgment is clearly questionable and his other statementsabout profs golfers could not really be taken as reliable. And that is in spite of the fact that Duval does hold the record for the lowest in a round
The only part of my original post that should be rewritten is the sentence with reference to parasitic ... . But I notice that a recent topic
Which player in world football now reminds you of Latapy??
is addressing the gist of the complaint.
OK Storebay. You made this statement right?QuoteFirst of all, any player from the English speaking Caribbean who was not good enough to make it into the EPL cannot be considered to be a great player.
Well.....dat statement wuss dan 1 + 2 = 5. In oddah words....with all due respect....yuh talkin shit!
How's dat fuh facts?!!
It would be more useful to point out why that criteria as one of the tests for greatness (in T&T football) is incorrect or irrelevant. Can you do that? It would help your case/cause and likeminded supporters are waiting for an answer. Of course one can think of various hypothetical circumstances involving other leagues, but when one looks at the distribution of T&T players in the various leagues over the last 20 years, it is unlikely that the distribution will change significantly in the next 10 years. Hence again, at this time, one can say that in order to be eligible for consideration of greatness in T&T football, the player must have played in the EPL.
i don't think this thread is about gauging success based on achievements but its about gauging the best player based on natural ability..
essien plays for the best team in the EPL but most ghanains might tell you abedi pele is the best player they had.. Because mido played for spurs and roma, do you think egyptians rate him as a better player than Hassan?? Who was a better Colombian player Asprilla or Valderrama?? But Valderamma ent play no ball outside...
This could apply to any sports.. Do you really think Lennox Lewis was the best boxer of the last decade???
You're missing the point... Latas is the most gifted player we ever produced, and by extension, the best player we've ever produced... Yorke himself could tell you that.. Yorke is the most successful player we've ever had...
Can anoyone post the list of the 50 players...1. Eric Cantona
74. Shaun Goater??? ??? ???
But one name on this list nearly make me choke on meh cereal:Check out Goater's career (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaun_Goater), and den perform de Heimlich maneuver ;D.Quote74. Shaun Goater??? ??? ???
imagine they have that before man like Kanu, Yeboah, Nakamura and Kewell
Any Jamaicans ??? ;D
dat open my eyes. two boys from T&T. Yorke is not much of a surprise, but to see Latas there is amazing. I never thought he got that kind of recognition. nice nice readA Scottish fella tell me he's a god over there.
Any Jamaicans ??? ;D
Of course Not...Read the topic..Foreign players... They cant make the list as they are already English ;D
I wonder how much higher he would be if he started and stayed in Britain instead of Portugal cause Yorkie at #11. Nice to see that legacy being recognized.Is there similar ratings table out of Portigal
I goin and say it before de Big Man reachAny Jamaicans ??? ;DOf course Not...Read the topic..Foreign players... They cant make the list as they are already English ;D
allyuh would not believe how many people from Scotland I met in Germany 06...they come to see the magician with latas shirts..Hibs, Falkirk..de works...all kinds 60 yr old scot woman and ting...when ah show dem my Latapy 10 tattoo, they freak out...take picture of it and ting..
don leo boy...leh we eh go dey nah....f#ckkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk
allyuh would not believe how many people from Scotland I met in Germany 06...they come to see the magician with latas shirts..Hibs, Falkirk..de works...all kinds 60 yr old scot woman and ting...when ah show dem my Latapy 10 tattoo, they freak out...take picture of it and ting..
don leo boy...leh we eh go dey nah....f#ckkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk
allyuh would not believe how many people from Scotland I met in Germany 06...they come to see the magician with latas shirts..Hibs, Falkirk..de works...all kinds 60 yr old scot woman and ting...when ah show dem my Latapy 10 tattoo, they freak out...take picture of it and ting..
don leo boy...leh we eh go dey nah....f#ckkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk
Where is Yorke name though ?Yorke is there but in or off, Its a magazine, that means who ever works there come up with that list. Doesn;t mean that its true. People magazine come up with the top 100 most beautiful people of world. I dont see my gf on that list
Where is Yorke name though ?People magazine come up with the top 100 most beautiful people of world. I dont see my gf on that list
I wonder how much higher he would be if he started and stayed in Britain instead of Portugal cause Yorkie at #11. Nice to see that legacy being recognized.
I wonder how much higher he would be if he started and stayed in Britain instead of Portugal cause Yorkie at #11. Nice to see that legacy being recognized.
I wonder how much higher he would have gone if Alex Mc hadn't moved to rangers!
Seems like every time Latas got into a top flight club was always a manager that that
ended his potential sucess.
My 2-cents
I saw some men at the bar at the Hilton in Tobago just before the Bahrain game in full kilt and Latapy juzzys....and den ah see dem in de Hilton in Trini too de day ah de game....talk bout full support papa!!....
Any Jamaicans ??? ;D
Of course Not...Read the topic..Foreign players... They cant make the list as they are already English ;D
B&S yuh sig pic make meh buss out laughing hard in de people place. Why allyuh bad so? :rotfl:
B&S yuh sig pic make meh buss out laughing hard in de people place. Why allyuh bad so? :rotfl:Who me?
I wonder how much higher he would be if he started and stayed in Britain instead of Portugal cause Yorkie at #11. Nice to see that legacy being recognized.
I wonder how much higher he would have gone if Alex Mc hadn't moved to rangers!
Seems like every time Latas got into a top flight club was always a manager that that
ended his potential sucess.
My 2-cents
Yuh mean de smoking, drinking and partying didn't have anything tuh do with it?
BnS...How yuh so dread? Doh let reality spoil the overflowing patriotism in the thread nah man...You ent see how nice people feeling basking in the Magician achievement ;D
I wonder how much higher he would be if he started and stayed in Britain instead of Portugal cause Yorkie at #11. Nice to see that legacy being recognized.
I wonder how much higher he would have gone if Alex Mc hadn't moved to rangers!
My 2-cents
Anybody could tell me what is the cover date or cover feature of the issue?
I saw April in stores now but the article isn't featured.
Really want to pick this up.
Anybody could tell me what is the cover date or cover feature of the issue?
I saw April in stores now but the article isn't featured.
Really want to pick this up.
Is the May issue. Cover feature is for the article self...in big and bold there is "50 greatest foreign players" and there are images of a few of them in a collage. Also featured on the cover if I remember correctly is interviews with Platini and Nani
I was real happy and proud to see Latas & Dwight name on that list. But I did not really understand it too well. In the end I shrug meh shoulders and say they talking about their performance in the Premier League & British football, not the quality of the players per say. Because certainly man like Weah & Guillet IMHO were better players than Cantona and most in the top 10 for that matter. However, in the Premier Cantona, Bergkam etc make mass
Is the May issue. Cover feature is for the article self...in big and bold there is "50 greatest foreign players" and there are images of a few of them in a collage. Also featured on the cover if I remember correctly is interviews with Platini and Nani
Is the May issue. Cover feature is for the article self...in big and bold there is "50 greatest foreign players" and there are images of a few of them in a collage. Also featured on the cover if I remember correctly is interviews with Platini and Nani
Right there yuh know dat article is nonsense 'cuz Dwight never went no collage...
Is the May issue. Cover feature is for the article self...in big and bold there is "50 greatest foreign players" and there are images of a few of them in a collage. Also featured on the cover if I remember correctly is interviews with Platini and Nani
Right there yuh know dat article is nonsense 'cuz Dwight never went no collage...
arm....................aaaahhh....................naaah
I cyar bring myself to say it :devil: :devil:
i know you on kicks eh ;D
U.S. players on the list
39. Brad Friedel, USA (Liverpool, Blackburn)
44. Roy Wegerle, USA (Chelsea, Luton, Queens P.R., Blackburn, Coventry)
99. John Harkes, USA (Sheff. W., Derby, W. Ham, Nottingh.)
100. Kasey Keller, USA (Millwall, Leicester, Tottenh., Southampton, Fulham)
Is the May issue. Cover feature is for the article self...in big and bold there is "50 greatest foreign players" and there are images of a few of them in a collage. Also featured on the cover if I remember correctly is interviews with Platini and Nani
Right there yuh know dat article is nonsense 'cuz Dwight never went no collage...
U.S. players on the list
39. Brad Friedel, USA (Liverpool, Blackburn)
44. Roy Wegerle, USA (Chelsea, Luton, Queens P.R., Blackburn, Coventry)
99. John Harkes, USA (Sheff. W., Derby, W. Ham, Nottingh.)
100. Kasey Keller, USA (Millwall, Leicester, Tottenh., Southampton, Fulham)
They're just being polite. None of them belong there!
U.S. players on the list
39. Brad Friedel, USA (Liverpool, Blackburn)
44. Roy Wegerle, USA (Chelsea, Luton, Queens P.R., Blackburn, Coventry)
99. John Harkes, USA (Sheff. W., Derby, W. Ham, Nottingh.)
100. Kasey Keller, USA (Millwall, Leicester, Tottenh., Southampton, Fulham)
U.S. players on the list
39. Brad Friedel, USA (Liverpool, Blackburn)
44. Roy Wegerle, USA (Chelsea, Luton, Queens P.R., Blackburn, Coventry)
99. John Harkes, USA (Sheff. W., Derby, W. Ham, Nottingh.)
100. Kasey Keller, USA (Millwall, Leicester, Tottenh., Southampton, Fulham)
WHO CARES??!!!.....
Zeppo it have ah US Soccer fan site and forum like this one??....If so go back there and stay dey nah....ssssttteeeuuuuppppssss!!!
U.S. players on the list
39. Brad Friedel, USA (Liverpool, Blackburn)
44. Roy Wegerle, USA (Chelsea, Luton, Queens P.R., Blackburn, Coventry)
99. John Harkes, USA (Sheff. W., Derby, W. Ham, Nottingh.)
100. Kasey Keller, USA (Millwall, Leicester, Tottenh., Southampton, Fulham)
WHO CARES??!!!.....
Zeppo it have ah US Soccer fan site and forum like this one??....If so go back there and stay dey nah....ssssttteeeuuuuppppssss!!!
Is the May issue. Cover feature is for the article self...in big and bold there is "50 greatest foreign players" and there are images of a few of them in a collage. Also featured on the cover if I remember correctly is interviews with Platini and Nani
Right there yuh know dat article is nonsense 'cuz Dwight never went no collage...
U.S. players on the listZeppo instead of Congratulating Latapy you listed the four U.S players on the list :-\
39. Brad Friedel, USA (Liverpool, Blackburn)
44. Roy Wegerle, USA (Chelsea, Luton, Queens P.R., Blackburn, Coventry)
99. John Harkes, USA (Sheff. W., Derby, W. Ham, Nottingh.)
100. Kasey Keller, USA (Millwall, Leicester, Tottenh., Southampton, Fulham)
Is the May issue. Cover feature is for the article self...in big and bold there is "50 greatest foreign players" and there are images of a few of them in a collage. Also featured on the cover if I remember correctly is interviews with Platini and Nani
Right there yuh know dat article is nonsense 'cuz Dwight never went no collage...
Is the May issue. Cover feature is for the article self...in big and bold there is "50 greatest foreign players" and there are images of a few of them in a collage. Also featured on the cover if I remember correctly is interviews with Platini and Nani
Right there yuh know dat article is nonsense 'cuz Dwight never went no collage...
Allyuh men in ths states too long.
College and Secondary School hold the same rank in the UK as it does in Trinidad and Tobago. Just cause Signal Hill wasn't a 7 year school doh mean that it cah be interpreted as a ''college'' in the UK.
In fact, as far as I know, Dwight win the COLLEGES league and the InterCOL with Signal Hill in '87 and '88, not the SSFL cause the name didn change yet.
Is the May issue. Cover feature is for the article self...in big and bold there is "50 greatest foreign players" and there are images of a few of them in a collage. Also featured on the cover if I remember correctly is interviews with Platini and Nani
Right there yuh know dat article is nonsense 'cuz Dwight never went no collage...
Allyuh men in ths states too long.
College and Secondary School hold the same rank in the UK as it does in Trinidad and Tobago. Just cause Signal Hill wasn't a 7 year school doh mean that it cah be interpreted as a ''college'' in the UK.
In fact, as far as I know, Dwight win the COLLEGES league and the InterCOL with Signal Hill in '87 and '88, not the SSFL cause the name didn change yet.
Spidey yuh putting yourself up for a DaveJenny award nomination right here...
B & S was making a joke (I believe).
Grande spoke of a collage (a collection of photos put in one frame).....and Bakes was just doing a play on words.
Is the May issue. Cover feature is for the article self...in big and bold there is "50 greatest foreign players" and there are images of a few of them in a collage. Also featured on the cover if I remember correctly is interviews with Platini and Nani
Right there yuh know dat article is nonsense 'cuz Dwight never went no collage...
Allyuh men in ths states too long.
College and Secondary School hold the same rank in the UK as it does in Trinidad and Tobago. Just cause Signal Hill wasn't a 7 year school doh mean that it cah be interpreted as a ''college'' in the UK.
In fact, as far as I know, Dwight win the COLLEGES league and the InterCOL with Signal Hill in '87 and '88, not the SSFL cause the name didn change yet.
Is the May issue. Cover feature is for the article self...in big and bold there is "50 greatest foreign players" and there are images of a few of them in a collage. Also featured on the cover if I remember correctly is interviews with Platini and Nani
Right there yuh know dat article is nonsense 'cuz Dwight never went no collage...
Allyuh men in ths states too long.
College and Secondary School hold the same rank in the UK as it does in Trinidad and Tobago. Just cause Signal Hill wasn't a 7 year school doh mean that it cah be interpreted as a ''college'' in the UK.
In fact, as far as I know, Dwight win the COLLEGES league and the InterCOL with Signal Hill in '87 and '88, not the SSFL cause the name didn change yet.
Oh gorm spidey..how yuh let Bakes ketch yuh so :devil:
Is the May issue. Cover feature is for the article self...in big and bold there is "50 greatest foreign players" and there are images of a few of them in a collage. Also featured on the cover if I remember correctly is interviews with Platini and Nani
Right there yuh know dat article is nonsense 'cuz Dwight never went no collage...
Allyuh men in ths states too long.
College and Secondary School hold the same rank in the UK as it does in Trinidad and Tobago. Just cause Signal Hill wasn't a 7 year school doh mean that it cah be interpreted as a ''college'' in the UK.
In fact, as far as I know, Dwight win the COLLEGES league and the InterCOL with Signal Hill in '87 and '88, not the SSFL cause the name didn change yet.
Oh gorm spidey..how yuh let Bakes ketch yuh so :devil:
U.S. players on the listZeppo instead of Congratulating Latapy you listed the four U.S players on the list :-\
39. Brad Friedel, USA (Liverpool, Blackburn)
44. Roy Wegerle, USA (Chelsea, Luton, Queens P.R., Blackburn, Coventry)
99. John Harkes, USA (Sheff. W., Derby, W. Ham, Nottingh.)
100. Kasey Keller, USA (Millwall, Leicester, Tottenh., Southampton, Fulham)
I was real happy and proud to see Latas & Dwight name on that list. But I did not really understand it too well. In the end I shrug meh shoulders and say they talking about their performance in the Premier League & British football, not the quality of the players per say. Because certainly man like Weah & Guillet IMHO were better players than Cantona and most in the top 10 for that matter. However, in the Premier Cantona, Bergkam etc make mass
yeah. i believe it's based on how well you actually played and for how long you played well, solely in Britain. so a man like Sheva who light it up elsewhere, but look mediocre in Britain would not make it. but a man who was mediocre outside Britain but light it up in Britain would qualify.
Anybody know how many players who only play in Scotland higher than Latas on the list?
Anybody know how many players who only play in Scotland higher than Latas on the list?
Just off the top of my head, don't know if I've missed any.
4. Henrik Larrson
15. Paolo Di Canio - Made his name in Scotland before coming to England
20. Brian Laudrup
24. Andrei Kanchelskis - Made his name in England but mashed up for Rangers when he went there
41. Lubomir Moravcik
Anybody know how many players who only play in Scotland higher than Latas on the list?
Just off the top of my head, don't know if I've missed any.
4. Henrik Larrson
15. Paolo Di Canio - Made his name in Scotland before coming to England
20. Brian Laudrup
24. Andrei Kanchelskis - Made his name in England but mashed up for Rangers when he went there
41. Lubomir Moravcik
...Think he meant played in Scotland only
You sure he ketch anybody or he just get ketch heself.
If you don't qualify those statements with a smiley face of some kind of avtar/quotatioin, you leave yourself wide open.
It can be a rather 'sobering' experience :-)
Peace,
VB
Well since i bias, i will say only Larsson and Lubo cause Laudrup and Kanchelskis were household names before they went to Rangers and Di Canio became big outside of Lazio afterwards.
Well since i bias, i will say only Larsson and Lubo cause Laudrup and Kanchelskis were household names before they went to Rangers and Di Canio became big outside of Lazio afterwards.
Pity Larsson didn't get to shine on a bigger professional stage than Scotland...even in his brief stint with United his impact was palpable.
.....set up 2 goals in the final.....
.....set up 2 goals in the final.....
Yep, on the big stage with Dinho, Deco, Henry and Eto'o Larsson was the man
So any thoughts on de XVI Hagi call in the same 4-4-2 edition?
Fuh men who eh see a copy yet or for those who eh see it in de 'back' after de ads ...
Taffarel
Jorginho
Baresi
Hierro
Maldini
Guardiola
with Figo on his right and Zizou on his left ... Guardiola playing in front of the D to breal up attacks and win balls
Maradona in front of dem three
Van Basten and Gullit up front
On de bench:
Schmeichel
Popescu
Redondo
Romario
and Giggs
Hagi describes Taffarel as technically better than Schmeichel.
Chow yuh have strong feelings on dis? ;D
ALWAYS! ;D
No doubt Taffarel's mention will raise some eyebrows.
Fully understood.
So Hagi did not name Taffarel because they were teammates at Gala, right?
I never saw Taffarel play for Gala. That was the tail end of his career, but when it have men who playin at the top level for years and years, they will have to be considered the best.
Any 1 of the Italy's top 3 for the past 10 years is better than Taffarel.
I never saw Taffarel play for Gala. That was the tail end of his career, but when it have men who playin at the top level for years and years, they will have to be considered the best.
Any 1 of the Italy's top 3 for the past 10 years is better than Taffarel.
boss..doh geh me wrong. Taffarel wasn't making my first 11, 2nd 11 or 3rd 11..if you catch my drift. But i still say he was underrated and I 100% sure he get Hagi vote cuz he had a great spell at Galatasaray and believe it or not, Taffarel was arguably a top 3 goalie in Serie A for some time when he first started at Parma.
I never saw Taffarel play for Gala. That was the tail end of his career, but when it have men who playin at the top level for years and years, they will have to be considered the best.
Any 1 of the Italy's top 3 for the past 10 years is better than Taffarel.
boss..doh geh me wrong. Taffarel wasn't making my first 11, 2nd 11 or 3rd 11..if you catch my drift. But i still say he was underrated and I 100% sure he get Hagi vote cuz he had a great spell at Galatasaray and believe it or not, Taffarel was arguably a top 3 goalie in Serie A for some time when he first started at Parma.
Filho, the word you used is "..underrated.." and I think that word, paired with "underappreciated" really describe Taffarel best. Yes, he was clumsy looking (maybe his mix of German and Italian heritagte have sumting to do wit dat) and gave up the odd jumbie goal (something just about EVERY 'KEEPER, except, maybe G. Buffon, does) but he was solid for just about every club he played for and he was a saviour for Brazil in games and in penalty shootouts on many an occaision as Italy and Holland can attest to.
Also, if what you pointed out is accurate, the mere thought of him being the first foreign 'keeper in Serie A speaks volumes and the volumes loom even larger when you consider that Italy consistently produces some of the very best GK's. Also, Taffarel's tenure came when the big three in the league fielded some world class of their own: Stefano Tacconi, Juventus; Sebastiano Rossi, AC Milan; Walter Zenga, Inter.
Truth is, goalkeeping is alot more complicated than the averege fan, outfield player, or even alot of coaches have an appreciation for and alot of factors go into someone like Hagi, who has played and coached at the top level, deciding who is their 'keeper and who isn't. I'm sure some "nepotism" played a role in his call, but he has rubbed shoulders with some of the finest. Maybe he see someting others don't.
wait nah...i come to read de last page bout the king...and is keepers..???
wait nah...i come to read de last page bout the king...and is keepers..???
tell mih dis ting nah
This was on the BBC gossip (http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/gossip_and_transfers/7393598.stm) section today:Thanks for giving de tires on de thread some allignment. De thread was swerving off de road too much. Good job Omar
Falkirk midfielder Russell Latapy, who turns 40 in August, says he is enjoying his football more than ever and has not entertained thoughts of retiring. (Daily Record)
Can anoyone post the list of the 50 players...1. Eric Cantona
2. Dennis Bergkamp
3. Thierry Henry
4. Henrik Larrson
5. Gianfranco Zola
6. Peter Schmiechel
7. Ossie Ardiles
8. Cristiano Ronaldo
9. Jurgen Klinsmann
10. Patrick Vieira
11. Dwight Yorke
12. Ruud Gullit
13. Jaap Stam
14. Eddie Firmani
15. Paolo Di Canio
16. George Robledo
17. Bruce Grobelaar
18. Ruud Van Nistelrooy
19. Robert Pires
20. Brian Laudrup
21. Didier Drogba
22. Claude Makelele
23. David Ginola
24. Andrei Kanchelskis
25. Marcel Desailly
26. Bert Trautmann
27. Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink
28. Arnold Muhren
29. Frans Thijssen
30. Jan Mlby
31. Juninho
32. Gianluca Vialli
33. Freddie Ljungberg
34. Ole Gunnar Solskjr
35. Michael Essien
36. Clyde Best
37. Nicolas Anelka
38. Georgi Kinkladze
39. Brad Freidel
40. Petr Cech
41. Lubomir Moravcik
42. Anders Limpar
43. Jay Jay Okocha
44. Roy Wegerle
45. Sami Hyypi
46. Cesc Fabregas
47. Youri Djorkaeff
48. Kazimierz Deyna
49. Russell Latapy
50. Arthur Wharton
51. Marc Overmars
52. Alexi Mikhailichenko
53. Roland Nilsson
54. Edwin Van Der Sar
55. Emmanuel Petit
56. Johnny Hubbard
57. Dietmar Hamann
58. Ronny Johnsen
59. Eidur Gudjohnsen
60. Dimitar Berbatov
61. Carlo Cudicini
62. Frank Sauzee
63. Igor Stimac
64. Ricky Villa
65. Mark Viduka
66. Roberto Di Matteo
67. Ivan Golac
68. Carig Johnston
69. Joe Marston
70. Henning Berg
71. Jussi Jskelinen
72. Slaven Bilic
73. Albert Johanssen
74. Shaun Goater
75. Gustavo Poyet
76. Harry Kewell
77. Franck Leboeuf
78. Benito Carbone
79. Claudio Caniggia
80. Uwe Rosler
81. Mark Bosnich
82. Lucas Radebe
83. Aljosa Asanovic
84. Tore Andre Flo
85. Pierre Van Hooijdonk
86. Attilio Lombardo
87. Dan Petrescu
88. Jesper Olsen
89. Antti Niemi
90. Tony Yeboah
91. Nwankwo Kanu
92. Tim Cahill
93. Shunsuke Nakamura
94. Nolberto Solano
95. Paulo Wanchope
96. Aiyegbeni Yakubu
97. Jan Age Fjortoft
98. Phillipe Albert
99. John Harkes
100. Kasey Keller
At this point in time Rusell Latapy should not have an "real" role on the TnT team. He's forty years old and clearly cannot keep up with the play of our regional foes. And he's a player/coach for at best an average scottish team. I have appreciated what he has done for this country over the years and will forever be grateful. But i dont see y his name keeps coming up either as a player or coach at such a crucial stge in our qualifying campaign. Am i the only one that feels this way??????
At this point in time Rusell Latapy should not have an "real" role on the TnT team. He's forty years old and clearly cannot keep up with the play of our regional foes. And he's a player/coach for at best an average scottish team. I have appreciated what he has done for this country over the years and will forever be grateful. But i dont see y his name keeps coming up either as a player or coach at such a crucial stge in our qualifying campaign. Am i the only one that feels this way??????
Lets be honest , you are a serious jackass with zero to little football sense. I dont see why you should be allowed to write as either a pretender playing you know the game or as an idiot who really dont know the game. I know that I am not the only that feels this way.
At this point in time Rusell Latapy should not have an "real" role on the TnT team. He's forty years old and clearly cannot keep up with the play of our regional foes. And he's a player/coach for at best an average scottish team. I have appreciated what he has done for this country over the years and will forever be grateful. But i dont see y his name keeps coming up either as a player or coach at such a crucial stge in our qualifying campaign. Am i the only one that feels this way??????
Lets be honest , you are a serious jackass with zero to little football sense. I dont see why you should be allowed to write as either a pretender playing you know the game or as an idiot who really dont know the game. I know that I am not the only that feels this way.
At this point in time Rusell Latapy should not have an "real" role on the TnT team. He's forty years old and clearly cannot keep up with the play of our regional foes. And he's a player/coach for at best an average scottish team. I have appreciated what he has done for this country over the years and will forever be grateful. But i dont see y his name keeps coming up either as a player or coach at such a crucial stge in our qualifying campaign. Am i the only one that feels this way??????
Lets be honest , you are a serious jackass with zero to little football sense. I dont see why you should be allowed to write as either a pretender playing you know the game or as an idiot who really dont know the game. I know that I am not the only that feels this way.
the man is a jackass for having his own opinion? and just because his opinion not in line with everybody else own, he shouldn't be allowed to write it?
that aside, the team definitely needs him around. Y hire someone from outside when we have we own hero right here. Y not give him a chance.
Why you don't hull your MC,you always f**king up somebody on this website and this shyt has to stop,everybody here entitled to their own opinion,just because they don't agree or not in line with what your say you have problems with them,look f**k YOU and give people a chance to speak their minds.You eh tired talking shyt on the site.At this point in time Rusell Latapy should not have an "real" role on the TnT team. He's forty years old and clearly cannot keep up with the play of our regional foes. And he's a player/coach for at best an average scottish team. I have appreciated what he has done for this country over the years and will forever be grateful. But i dont see y his name keeps coming up either as a player or coach at such a crucial stge in our qualifying campaign. Am i the only one that feels this way??????
Lets be honest , you are a serious jackass with zero to little football sense. I dont see why you should be allowed to write as either a pretender playing you know the game or as an idiot who really dont know the game. I know that I am not the only that feels this way.
Why you don't hull your MC,you always f**king up somebody on this website and this shyt has to stop,everybody here entitled to their own opinion,just because they don't agree or not in line with what your say you have problems with them,look f**k YOU and give people a chance to speak their minds.You eh tired talking shyt on the site.At this point in time Rusell Latapy should not have an "real" role on the TnT team. He's forty years old and clearly cannot keep up with the play of our regional foes. And he's a player/coach for at best an average scottish team. I have appreciated what he has done for this country over the years and will forever be grateful. But i dont see y his name keeps coming up either as a player or coach at such a crucial stge in our qualifying campaign. Am i the only one that feels this way??????
Lets be honest , you are a serious jackass with zero to little football sense. I dont see why you should be allowed to write as either a pretender playing you know the game or as an idiot who really dont know the game. I know that I am not the only that feels this way.
At this point in time Rusell Latapy should not have an "real" role on the TnT team. He's forty years old and clearly cannot keep up with the play of our regional foes. And he's a player/coach for at best an average scottish team. I have appreciated what he has done for this country over the years and will forever be grateful. But i dont see y his name keeps coming up either as a player or coach at such a crucial stge in our qualifying campaign. Am i the only one that feels this way??????
Lets be honest , you are a serious jackass with zero to little football sense. I dont see why you should be allowed to write as either a pretender playing you know the game or as an idiot who really dont know the game. I know that I am not the only that feels this way.
My heart bleeds for you, Latapy
I am sorry for Russell Latapy. I feel sorry for him because everything was going good in Scotland. What with a week of celebrations in his honour, reports of his sons involvement in a Falkirk development programme, etc.
Then out of the blue... wham! Jack Warner needs him here permanently on the technical staff, and he falls for it. Russell is on his way to good ole T&T.
I am sorry, my boy, but even you will soon taste bitter and be spat out, accompanied by headlines (ever eager to appease the czar) of some failing on your part. Any failing! Real or imagined, it does not matter, no questions asked, youre just another plaything.
My heart genuinely bleeds for you. And your son, your poor son.
Davendra Gadranyam
St Augustine
Why you don't hull your MC,you always f**king up somebody on this website and this shyt has to stop,everybody here entitled to their own opinion,just because they don't agree or not in line with what your say you have problems with them,look f**k YOU and give people a chance to speak their minds.You eh tired talking shyt on the site.At this point in time Rusell Latapy should not have an "real" role on the TnT team. He's forty years old and clearly cannot keep up with the play of our regional foes. And he's a player/coach for at best an average scottish team. I have appreciated what he has done for this country over the years and will forever be grateful. But i dont see y his name keeps coming up either as a player or coach at such a crucial stge in our qualifying campaign. Am i the only one that feels this way??????
Lets be honest , you are a serious jackass with zero to little football sense. I dont see why you should be allowed to write as either a pretender playing you know the game or as an idiot who really dont know the game. I know that I am not the only that feels this way.
Lets be honest , you are a serious jackass with zero to little football sense. I dont see why you should be allowed to write as either a pretender playing you know the game or as an idiot who really dont know the game. I know that I am not the only that feels this way.Why you don't hull your MC,you always f**king up somebody on this website and this shyt has to stop,everybody here entitled to their own opinion,just because they don't agree or not in line with what your say you have problems with them,look f**k YOU and give people a chance to speak their minds.You eh tired talking shyt on the site.
"On the fifth day, look to the east, at the rising of first dawn."
Weary why you lamenting when everyone celebrating his return.
Why you don't hull your MC,you always f**king up somebody on this website and this shyt has to stop,everybody here entitled to their own opinion,just because they don't agree or not in line with what your say you have problems with them,look f**k YOU and give people a chance to speak their minds.You eh tired talking shyt on the site.At this point in time Rusell Latapy should not have an "real" role on the TnT team. He's forty years old and clearly cannot keep up with the play of our regional foes. And he's a player/coach for at best an average scottish team. I have appreciated what he has done for this country over the years and will forever be grateful. But i dont see y his name keeps coming up either as a player or coach at such a crucial stge in our qualifying campaign. Am i the only one that feels this way??????
Lets be honest , you are a serious jackass with zero to little football sense. I dont see why you should be allowed to write as either a pretender playing you know the game or as an idiot who really dont know the game. I know that I am not the only that feels this way.
Yah know the funny thing eh Sub 1 ,with all the hoopla ,eh even cuss the man once lol.The poster just make the error of impsing Latapy :oAt this point in time Rusell Latapy should not have an "real" role on the TnT team. He's forty years old and clearly cannot keep up with the play of our regional foes. And he's a player/coach for at best an average scottish team. I have appreciated what he has done for this country over the years and will forever be grateful. But i dont see y his name keeps coming up either as a player or coach at such a crucial stge in our qualifying campaign. Am i the only one that feels this way??????
Lets be honest , you are a serious jackass with zero to little football sense. I dont see why you should be allowed to write as either a pretender playing you know the game or as an idiot who really dont know the game. I know that I am not the only that feels this way.
Why you don't hull your MC,you always f**king up somebody on this website and this shyt has to stop,everybody here entitled to their own opinion,just because they don't agree or not in line with what your say you have problems with them,look f**k YOU and give people a chance to speak their minds.You eh tired talking shyt on the site.At this point in time Rusell Latapy should not have an "real" role on the TnT team. He's forty years old and clearly cannot keep up with the play of our regional foes. And he's a player/coach for at best an average scottish team. I have appreciated what he has done for this country over the years and will forever be grateful. But i dont see y his name keeps coming up either as a player or coach at such a crucial stge in our qualifying campaign. Am i the only one that feels this way??????
Lets be honest , you are a serious jackass with zero to little football sense. I dont see why you should be allowed to write as either a pretender playing you know the game or as an idiot who really dont know the game. I know that I am not the only that feels this way.
Well said. I am glad that you agree that everyone is entittled to his or her own opinion. My opinion is that both you and Prodigy are both asses. You realise that I dont have to cuss to say that. Forgive me but I rarely suffer fools.
talking football
There will be football talk on i95.5 until the Costa Rica game .. hislop will be the guest Thursday
talking football
There will be football talk on i95.5 until the Costa Rica game .. hislop will be the guest Thursday
Hislop as d guess last thursday. Imagine Bleeder sayin Mats was really a goat and a dumbtisttttttttt
talking football
There will be football talk on i95.5 until the Costa Rica game .. hislop will be the guest Thursday
Hislop as d guess last thursday. Imagine Bleeder sayin Mats was really a goat and a dumbtisttttttttt
oh my mistake :beermug:
Ah hate when men does make this post and no link....too late anyway aready
Steups....
Ah hate when men does make this post and no link....
Steups....
so what else was said during the show for those of us who didnt catch it..???
Lawrence on
Lawrence on
Missed it what did he say anybody?
Lawrence on
Missed it what did he say anybody?
reminisced mostly about 2006, spoke briefly about relationship with Mats (fairly good - diplomatic type answer) took a couple caller's questions which I didn't catch.
All I heard was the last question where A.Batiste asked:eh ???
"Russell I spoke to your mom on mother's day and she told me that you can't boil water....Is it true Russell that you can't cook"
Latapy's response was "Mummy is always right"...
Based on the lack of confidence in Latas being communicated on the board in some of the other threads, I'd have to say that that about sums it up.
From what I gathered...nothing was divulged that was not already reported in the articles and video interviews posted here. Except that the final squad will be selected on Monday or Tuesday. And when asked if we should expect an exciting brand of football from the team...he said the brand will be based on the capabilities of the players, but he will try to instill some flair in our game with achieving a positive result being the primary objective.
Thanks...ah missed that.From what I gathered...nothing was divulged that was not already reported in the articles and video interviews posted here. Except that the final squad will be selected on Monday or Tuesday. And when asked if we should expect an exciting brand of football from the team...he said the brand will be based on the capabilities of the players, but he will try to instill some flair in our game with achieving a positive result being the primary objective.
He also said number 14 will not b out 4 a mth and it is now a day to day situation.
Thanks...ah missed that.From what I gathered...nothing was divulged that was not already reported in the articles and video interviews posted here. Except that the final squad will be selected on Monday or Tuesday. And when asked if we should expect an exciting brand of football from the team...he said the brand will be based on the capabilities of the players, but he will try to instill some flair in our game with achieving a positive result being the primary objective.
He also said number 14 will not b out 4 a mth and it is now a day to day situation.
From what I gathered...nothing was divulged that was not already reported in the articles and video interviews posted here. Except that the final squad will be selected on Monday or Tuesday. And when asked if we should expect an exciting brand of football from the team...he said the brand will be based on the capabilities of the players, but he will try to instill some flair in our game with achieving a positive result being the primary objective.
From what I gathered...nothing was divulged that was not already reported in the articles and video interviews posted here. Except that the final squad will be selected on Monday or Tuesday. And when asked if we should expect an exciting brand of football from the team...he said the brand will be based on the capabilities of the players, but he will try to instill some flair in our game with achieving a positive result being the primary objective.
He also said number 14 will not b out 4 a mth and it is now a day to day situation.
All I heard was the last question where A.Batiste asked:eh ???
"Russell I spoke to your mom on mother's day and she told me that you can't boil water....Is it true Russell that you can't cook"
Latapy's response was "Mummy is always right"...
Based on the lack of confidence in Latas being communicated on the board in some of the other threads, I'd have to say that that about sums it up.
Kicker, maybe some elaboration may be in order
ok thankslol ... ;DAll I heard was the last question where A.Batiste asked:eh ???
"Russell I spoke to your mom on mother's day and she told me that you can't boil water....Is it true Russell that you can't cook"
Latapy's response was "Mummy is always right"...
Based on the lack of confidence in Latas being communicated on the board in some of the other threads, I'd have to say that that about sums it up.
Kicker, maybe some elaboration may be in order
I was just on sh*t...meaning doesn't really matter what was discussed- probably won't change people's minds on Latas' approach, player selection etc...
p.s. What I posted was in fact the last question asked in the interview.
Since he have been coach he has not impress and is the only coach who never seems to get or play any warm up games.
With 2 lost (Mexico & Costa Rica), 1 win (St Kitts) and a tie (U-20 team).
Imagine, we have 7 days to go and we dont have a full team in training.
Imagine we have not play a competitive match in months.
Lets not forget his buddy Dwight Yorke who chasing women all over the globe is not even interested anymore. No clubs, he unfit and he is captain, he dont get sub and he is a sure pick.
I believe Jack Warner and the TTFF throw in the towel long time and if this is the case, leave Latapy as coach.
But if we really serious about going South Africa then we in real trouble.
Hayden Tinto in not the answer. We need team work and proper preparation.
Since he have been coach he has not impress
You see the games or u just going based on results?
why ppl dont realize in the case of t&t football it does not matter who or how good our coach is once JACK WARNER is the T.T.F.F "Special Advisor" (CEO, GM, EVERY F---ING THING) we football not goin a damn place.
Latapy is a T&T legend. A national hero.
Same with Maradona and Pele. - :rotfl:
:devil: :devil: :devil: thats jokez...Latapy is a T&T legend. A national hero.
Same with Maradona and Pele. - :rotfl:
A Hero is a Sandwich and a Legend is a Car. .... :devil:
Sam - I see yuh tactics here dread (because you cyar be serious with this).... this is your way of putting some pressure (because there is none at this point ... ::) on the coach for the desired results. You are banking on the fact the coach and players look at the forum, and see this ridiculous post as some kind of motivation.Well said :applause: :applause:
You want to fire de man after 2 games?? - dis coming from a "Hero Warrior"
Are we still accepting Davy Jenny nominations?
Steeeuupps.
why ppl dont realize in the case of t&t football it does not matter who or how good our coach is once JACK WARNER is the T.T.F.F "Special Advisor" (CEO, GM, EVERY F---ING THING) we football not goin a damn place.
This is the worst treatment any T&T coach ever got. Even Najjar and Stuart Charles got more friendly games.
the preparations for this el salvador game are a joke.. men just basically flying in for a sweat and i dont see us winning, we will probably scrape through at best..
but to lay that at the feet of Latas ???
what a blasphemous thread! :shameonyou:
doh ever refer to Latas as "this fool of a coach". That kinda talk will get u hurt in these parts.
If you knew anyting about football you would know that it isn't his responsibility to secure warm up games, that's up to the TTFF. All he can do is request them. If you remember he had a tour lined up in Scotland or someting so.
The brand we have played since he has been in charge is markedly better than before.
But honestly you have to be a fool to really think he can completely turn a program around with no funding and either over-the-hill or highly inexperienced players.
This isn't 4 years ago when Beenie had a viable Yorke, Latapy, Whitley. Stern to add to the team.
You need a dose of reality...and to get a clue
the preparations for this el salvador game are a joke.. men just basically flying in for a sweat and i dont see us winning, we will probably scrape through at best..me eint know what Sam on ,blaming latas for all this mess ,that start sense last year really .like if we dont make it is his fault . But latapy should have enough money from his playing days,to fly the team to Scotland doh.
but to lay that at the feet of Latas ???
what a blasphemous thread! :shameonyou:
Sam if yuh want to knock Latapy fuh he selections and tactics then I go back yuh 100%.
Allyuh 640x480 men wasn't paying attention or what ? Look at the level of shit the team was playing. There was a marked improvement in my view. The fact is a couple of mistakes avoided against CR and we would be on 5 points today. In any case we're not , move on.
Fire Latapy to do what ? Steups, gimme a chance eh ! I feel some people don't understand the pain we went through with the Colombian and Corneal. The team is actually playing better football now. Allyuh getting tie up yes.
Allyuh 640x480 men wasn't paying attention or what ? Look at the level of shit the team was playing. There was a marked improvement in my view. The fact is a couple of mistakes avoided against CR and we would be on 5 points today. In any case we're not , move on.
Fire Latapy to do what ? Steups, gimme a chance eh ! I feel some people don't understand the pain we went through with the Colombian and Corneal. The team is actually playing better football now. Allyuh getting tie up yes.
bredder, uh take d words rite out of my mouth.
everybody on dis board entitled to dey own opinion, but sam dis is a real phoq up thread. u lookin to fire d man after 3 games, and even doh d team has noticebly improved. STEUPS!!
this is a waste of a thread......if we started this campaign with latapy at the helm, i know for sure we would've had more than 2 points right about now. we would've been in gold cup, bermuda would've been a breeze. allyuh too fast.wow @ this post...alyuh win yes...
attacking football is what we do...we dont defend it's just not T&T. they score 1 we scoring 2,they score 2 ,we scoring 3. we have more than enough talent to do it.
Allyuh 640x480 men wasn't paying attention or what ? Look at the level of shit the team was playing. There was a marked improvement in my view. The fact is a couple of mistakes avoided against CR and we would be on 5 points today. In any case we're not , move on.
Fire Latapy to do what ? Steups, gimme a chance eh ! I feel some people don't understand the pain we went through with the Colombian and Corneal. The team is actually playing better football now. Allyuh getting tie up yes.
bredder, uh take d words rite out of my mouth.
everybody on dis board entitled to dey own opinion, but sam dis is a real phoq up thread. u lookin to fire d man after 3 games, and even doh d team has noticebly improved. STEUPS!!
Noticeably improved with ZERO POINTS? ???
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I think whether we make it to SA or not Latapy should be kept as coach so he can start fresh and have time to build a team from scratch.
Allyuh 640x480 men wasn't paying attention or what ? Look at the level of shit the team was playing. There was a marked improvement in my view. The fact is a couple of mistakes avoided against CR and we would be on 5 points today. In any case we're not , move on.
Fire Latapy to do what ? Steups, gimme a chance eh ! I feel some people don't understand the pain we went through with the Colombian and Corneal. The team is actually playing better football now. Allyuh getting tie up yes.
bredder, uh take d words rite out of my mouth.
everybody on dis board entitled to dey own opinion, but sam dis is a real phoq up thread. u lookin to fire d man after 3 games, and even doh d team has noticebly improved. STEUPS!!
Noticeably improved with ZERO POINTS? ???
Sam yuh making real sense, big men on this board like lil gyul. Stayingin the corner and only getting jam, at least yuh coming into the midle of the ring and throwing some punches.
Latapy eh do shyte, he eh change nothing, I even fear that we get worst.
Man talking about if you eh see the game, what is to see? This is not freaking savannah football, all that matters is results.
What we score a gainst CR? They walk past and score more than we, they weren't even ruffled CR.
What we scored against Mexico in Mexico, they hammered us into the ground. We had nothing going forward and we never sort out hem coming down we left side.
Those who saying we playing better, really eh watching and understanding this game.
We have no balance, all our investment is in our attack and our defense (if you want to call it that) is even more woeful than it was.
The game against St. Kitts men bawling good stuff. WTF....the game was pedestrian, even marsupial if you will. This is what we using to say Latapy have the team looking good :bs:
Talking about Latapy can only ask for games he cannot demand. Wat f@#*ries. He take the job and did not have a plan, is this what you all saying. Did he not negiotiate his terms for accepting the job or did he only do this for his Salary? Is Latapy a foreigner? He has been playing for T&T and dealing with the TTFF and JW for a billion years and you will stand there and tell me in my face that he naive about how they do things. Is he fault no warm up is being played who else to blame. Talking about staying to improve your records, such assinine talk. How you will win when you not preparing the team adequately? People on the outside looking in not seeing that the federation making them blunders, is the head Coach they watching for that. Even if the federation telling you we not making available avenues for you to improve the team, then by extension they sabotaging YOUR career. So don't talk about he being patient in building up he record, well then coavh and play for Caledonia.
This is the NATIONAL TEAM where the only thing that matters is results, positive results.
How many times has Holland won the WC?
Latapy doing SHYTE.
doh ever refer to Latas as "this fool of a coach". That kinda talk will get u hurt in these parts.
If you knew anyting about football you would know that it isn't his responsibility to secure warm up games, that's up to the TTFF. All he can do is request them. If you remember he had a tour lined up in Scotland or someting so.
The brand we have played since he has been in charge is markedly better than before.
But honestly you have to be a fool to really think he can completely turn a program around with no funding and either over-the-hill or highly inexperienced players.
This isn't 4 years ago when Beenie had a viable Yorke, Latapy, Whitley. Stern to add to the team.
You need a dose of reality...and to get a clue
Sam if yuh want to knock Latapy fuh he selections and tactics then I go back yuh 100%.
What wrong with the selections and tactics?
Allyuh 640x480 men wasn't paying attention or what ? Look at the level of shit the team was playing. There was a marked improvement in my view. The fact is a couple of mistakes avoided against CR and we would be on 5 points today. In any case we're not , move on.
Fire Latapy to do what ? Steups, gimme a chance eh ! I feel some people don't understand the pain we went through with the Colombian and Corneal. The team is actually playing better football now. Allyuh getting tie up yes.
bredder, uh take d words rite out of my mouth.
everybody on dis board entitled to dey own opinion, but sam dis is a real phoq up thread. u lookin to fire d man after 3 games, and even doh d team has noticebly improved. STEUPS!!
Noticeably improved with ZERO POINTS? ???
watch nah palos, doh come wid dat stupidness like yuh doh know wat i talkin bout. d team has improved in their stlye of play. we are playin attackin football now.
granted we only have 2 points at the moment, the team has improved
latapy cud only work wid wat he have. allyuh gettin on like is some of d hottest ballers we have down here
if any other coach was to come in when latas did, we probably wuda been in d same position or worse off. we cyah blame latas dis rounds.
Allyuh 640x480 men wasn't paying attention or what ? Look at the level of shit the team was playing. There was a marked improvement in my view. The fact is a couple of mistakes avoided against CR and we would be on 5 points today. In any case we're not , move on.
Fire Latapy to do what ? Steups, gimme a chance eh ! I feel some people don't understand the pain we went through with the Colombian and Corneal. The team is actually playing better football now. Allyuh getting tie up yes.
bredder, uh take d words rite out of my mouth.
everybody on dis board entitled to dey own opinion, but sam dis is a real phoq up thread. u lookin to fire d man after 3 games, and even doh d team has noticebly improved. STEUPS!!
Noticeably improved with ZERO POINTS? ???
watch nah palos, doh come wid dat stupidness like yuh doh know wat i talkin bout. d team has improved in their stlye of play. we are playin attackin football now.
granted we only have 2 points at the moment, the team has improved
latapy cud only work wid wat he have. allyuh gettin on like is some of d hottest ballers we have down here
if any other coach was to come in when latas did, we probably wuda been in d same position or worse off. we cyah blame latas dis rounds.
If any other coach was doing what latas was doing, you'd be calling for his head,...see Maturana and even Wim..back in the day he get rel pong on this board..
Having friendlies is not absolutely necessary,as long as the players are playing games and keeping fit,most countries in Europe are playing WC on Wednesday but haven't played friendlies.Friendlies cost money too and we dont have plenty to share around.Check how many countries played friendlies inthe last week.
Sam if yuh want to knock Latapy fuh he selections and tactics then I go back yuh 100%.
What wrong with the selections and tactics?
Selecting Marvin Andrews. Dropping Keyeno Thomas.
Playing three central defenders against Mexico.
Colin Samuel scored against Costa Rica but Latapy did not play him against Mexico. Instead he played Jorsling who gave away every ball that was passed to him. Not bringing on Birchall for ah bun Dwight Yorke in de second half against Costa Rica.
Sam if yuh want to knock Latapy fuh he selections and tactics then I go back yuh 100%.
What wrong with the selections and tactics?
BM HERE
is true.... fire Latapy
Trinidad and Tobago dont deserve Russell Latapy.... but allyuh want Zamora
doh ever refer to Latas as "this fool of a coach". That kinda talk will get u hurt in these parts.
If you knew anyting about football you would know that it isn't his responsibility to secure warm up games, that's up to the TTFF. All he can do is request them. If you remember he had a tour lined up in Scotland or someting so.
The brand we have played since he has been in charge is markedly better than before.
But honestly you have to be a fool to really think he can completely turn a program around with no funding and either over-the-hill or highly inexperienced players.
This isn't 4 years ago when Beenie had a viable Yorke, Latapy, Whitley. Stern to add to the team.
You need a dose of reality...and to get a clue
That is Oral diarrohea you just spew. The Head Coach presents to the the federation his preparation and what he needs to do to get the team ready. You think the USSF telling Bradley to go play the U-20s or one of the region team.They may not agree on all, but so far with Latapy they have not given any. That is Latapy fault. Alyuh talking real mess, and giving Latapy a Bligh. Talk about Waggonism at it's best. Jokers all of alyuh and we will only qualify for WCs by guess as long as there are "supporters" like you all. Calling for change conveniently.
The amount of nonsense we play in that El Salvador game. I am still trying to figure out how we managed to scoretwice in that game. Oh sorry Stern missed a penalty so its his fault we didn't win. And against the US steups. They put a mediocre CB (Hislop) to play RB. I almost laugh when the commentator say "Again, I would continue to attack down that side)doh ever refer to Latas as "this fool of a coach". That kinda talk will get u hurt in these parts.
If you knew anyting about football you would know that it isn't his responsibility to secure warm up games, that's up to the TTFF. All he can do is request them. If you remember he had a tour lined up in Scotland or someting so.
The brand we have played since he has been in charge is markedly better than before.
But honestly you have to be a fool to really think he can completely turn a program around with no funding and either over-the-hill or highly inexperienced players.
This isn't 4 years ago when Beenie had a viable Yorke, Latapy, Whitley. Stern to add to the team.
You need a dose of reality...and to get a clue
That is Oral diarrohea you just spew. The Head Coach presents to the the federation his preparation and what he needs to do to get the team ready. You think the USSF telling Bradley to go play the U-20s or one of the region team.They may not agree on all, but so far with Latapy they have not given any. That is Latapy fault. Alyuh talking real mess, and giving Latapy a Bligh. Talk about Waggonism at it's best. Jokers all of alyuh and we will only qualify for WCs by guess as long as there are "supporters" like you all. Calling for change conveniently.
y'all are really clueless if you think any other coach was getting results against Mexico in Azteca and Costa Rica.
Like y'all forget the level of pure sh*t we play against El Salvador and the US? My you have short memories.
TNT's problem is an infrastructure problem.
But it really doesn't make sense even arguing this point because some of you on here seem to think that having a different coach would have changed our results.
Allyuh 640x480 men wasn't paying attention or what ? Look at the level of shit the team was playing. There was a marked improvement in my view. The fact is a couple of mistakes avoided against CR and we would be on 5 points today. In any case we're not , move on.
Fire Latapy to do what ? Steups, gimme a chance eh ! I feel some people don't understand the pain we went through with the Colombian and Corneal. The team is actually playing better football now. Allyuh getting tie up yes.
bredder, uh take d words rite out of my mouth.
everybody on dis board entitled to dey own opinion, but sam dis is a real phoq up thread. u lookin to fire d man after 3 games, and even doh d team has noticebly improved. STEUPS!!
Noticeably improved with ZERO POINTS? ???
Give him time.
We too shortsighted, but we only criticize it when we're not guilty of it ourselves.
We qualified for one world cup and we feeling entitled to everyone thereafter...it's not realistic especially considering that no improvements have been made to our program since...It's the same show (if not worse) that's has been run every other time we've failed on the International stage (sometimes with better talent than the present)....
Beenie was the anomaly- get over it.
y'all are really clueless if you think any other coach was getting results against Mexico in Azteca and Costa Rica.
Like y'all forget the level of pure sh*t we play against El Salvador and the US? My you have short memories.
TNT's problem is an infrastructure problem.
But it really doesn't make sense even arguing this point because some of you on here seem to think that having a different coach would have changed our results.
Watch that game again.y'all are really clueless if you think any other coach was getting results against Mexico in Azteca and Costa Rica.
Like y'all forget the level of pure sh*t we play against El Salvador and the US? My you have short memories.
TNT's problem is an infrastructure problem.
But it really doesn't make sense even arguing this point because some of you on here seem to think that having a different coach would have changed our results.
Buh ent daiz de argument many used against Maturana? And what shit in ES yuh talking about? The team broke down at around the 70min marker, with almost every player looking lethargic all at once. The defense in the last 10-15 minutes was absolutely horrendous but apart from that the team didn't look nearly half as bad as you making that result seem. Funny how you using that against Maturana but others shouldn't hold the CR game against Latas ent?!
I'd advise you to do the same eh jah gol..the man din lie..we play rel good ball till stern come off that day..Watch that game again.y'all are really clueless if you think any other coach was getting results against Mexico in Azteca and Costa Rica.
Like y'all forget the level of pure sh*t we play against El Salvador and the US? My you have short memories.
TNT's problem is an infrastructure problem.
But it really doesn't make sense even arguing this point because some of you on here seem to think that having a different coach would have changed our results.
Buh ent daiz de argument many used against Maturana? And what shit in ES yuh talking about? The team broke down at around the 70min marker, with almost every player looking lethargic all at once. The defense in the last 10-15 minutes was absolutely horrendous but apart from that the team didn't look nearly half as bad as you making that result seem. Funny how you using that against Maturana but others shouldn't hold the CR game against Latas ent?!
Buh ent daiz de argument many used against Maturana? And what shit in ES yuh talking about? The team broke down at around the 70min marker, with almost every player looking lethargic all at once. The defense in the last 10-15 minutes was absolutely horrendous but apart from that the team didn't look nearly half as bad as you making that result seem. Funny how you using that against Maturana but others shouldn't hold the CR game against Latas ent?!
Allyuh mad yes. The keeper put the ball on the goal and we got a REAL soft penalty. Our best part in the game was in the first 20 minutes of the second half when we had ELS on the counter. True Stern shoulda stay on because none of them men could hold the ball like him but we play real mess that game. The scoreline was really deceptive.I'd advise you to do the same eh jah gol..the man din lie..we play rel good ball till stern come off that day..Watch that game again.y'all are really clueless if you think any other coach was getting results against Mexico in Azteca and Costa Rica.
Like y'all forget the level of pure sh*t we play against El Salvador and the US? My you have short memories.
TNT's problem is an infrastructure problem.
But it really doesn't make sense even arguing this point because some of you on here seem to think that having a different coach would have changed our results.
Buh ent daiz de argument many used against Maturana? And what shit in ES yuh talking about? The team broke down at around the 70min marker, with almost every player looking lethargic all at once. The defense in the last 10-15 minutes was absolutely horrendous but apart from that the team didn't look nearly half as bad as you making that result seem. Funny how you using that against Maturana but others shouldn't hold the CR game against Latas ent?!
Allyuh mad yes. The keeper put the ball on the goal and we got a REAL soft penalty. Our best part in the game was in the first 20 minutes of the second half when we had ELS on the counter. True Stern shoulda stay on because none of them men could hold the ball like him but we play real mess that game. The scoreline was really deceptive.I'd advise you to do the same eh jah gol..the man din lie..we play rel good ball till stern come off that day..Watch that game again.y'all are really clueless if you think any other coach was getting results against Mexico in Azteca and Costa Rica.
Like y'all forget the level of pure sh*t we play against El Salvador and the US? My you have short memories.
TNT's problem is an infrastructure problem.
But it really doesn't make sense even arguing this point because some of you on here seem to think that having a different coach would have changed our results.
Buh ent daiz de argument many used against Maturana? And what shit in ES yuh talking about? The team broke down at around the 70min marker, with almost every player looking lethargic all at once. The defense in the last 10-15 minutes was absolutely horrendous but apart from that the team didn't look nearly half as bad as you making that result seem. Funny how you using that against Maturana but others shouldn't hold the CR game against Latas ent?!
Sam if yuh want to knock Latapy fuh he selections and tactics then I go back yuh 100%. But, the lack of friendlies is the fault of the TTFF and no one else.I totally agree with every solitary word yuh said my yute, yuh preach dey bredder!
I don't think it make sense changing coaches at this point. Who will we replace Latapy with?
If Latapy was to get fired now it would be his own fault. I said many times before he accepted the head coaching job that Latapy should have waited until this qualifying campaign was over to become the head coach. If he had waited there would be less pressure and he could have built his program from scratch.
I think whether we make it to SA or not Latapy should be kept as coach so he can start fresh and have time to build a team from scratch.
Give him time.
We too shortsighted, but we only criticize it when we're not guilty of it ourselves.
We field a squad of average to less than average players some of whom play at a level well below the highest level, many of whom are past their best and we want to have a first class product on the field.
We qualified for one world cup and we feeling entitled to everyone thereafter...it's not realistic especially considering that no improvements have been made to our program since...It's the same show (if not worse) that's has been run every other time we've failed on the International stage (sometimes with better talent than the present)....
Beenie was the anomaly- get over it.
When i first saw the lineup that walked out against Costa Rica, I was scratching my head. A lineup without a left sided midfielder, basically sacrificing that flank for 3 mids in Yorke, Noel and Spann. But at halftime, it was clear that this was a tactical ploy. Latas did his homework and figure out that they posed a serious threat coming down our right side and line us up to neutralize that and it worked like a charm.
Carlos at right back and Tinto on the wing, was for all intent and purposes the masterstroke we've all been calling for a long time.
My point about this whole selection thing is that no coach is infallible. No coach will pick a team that will make us all happy. For all the talk about Beenie, in the midst of all the euphoria we seem to forget that the teams he put out in the World cup games begged many a question. Theobald starting all the games in particular, no Latapy, no start for Whitley.. Evans Wise...
Even the Cornell Glen sub in the 2nd half against Sweden that we lauded as a masterstroke; if one of their goal attempts went in we wouldve called him a madman.
People need to wake up and smell the coffee. We shitty!! We scraped through to the hex. Our defence is some old men, we have no wing backs and the 3 men who hold our only hope, (Yorke, Stern, Latas) were on the brink of being over the hill in 2006... This is 2009..
CONCACAF has progressed and we have remained stagnant. We are not going to South Africa.
Buh ent daiz de argument many used against Maturana? And what shit in ES yuh talking about? The team broke down at around the 70min marker, with almost every player looking lethargic all at once. The defense in the last 10-15 minutes was absolutely horrendous but apart from that the team didn't look nearly half as bad as you making that result seem. Funny how you using that against Maturana but others shouldn't hold the CR game against Latas ent?!
When we were up 2-0 against E.S. the scoreline flattered us.
It was more than just a 20 min breakdown, and 10-15 minutes of horrendous defending...And even if it is what you say, a 20 min breakdown and 15 mins of horrendous defending qualifies as a poor performance, all else being equal.
Considering that the game was on away soil, there wasn't a whole lot of grounds for complaints...because sometimes yuh just have to grind them out, especially on the road...But we played poorly- no sugar coating that one.
That said, nothing I've seen from Latas thus far would indicate a higher level of football under his watch under those conditions...but I also think it's too early to tell what he's capable of....
When i first saw the lineup that walked out against Costa Rica, I was scratching my head. A lineup without a left sided midfielder, basically sacrificing that flank for 3 mids in Yorke, Noel and Spann. But at halftime, it was clear that this was a tactical ploy. Latas did his homework and figure out that they posed a serious threat coming down our right side and line us up to neutralize that and it worked like a charm.
Carlos at right back and Tinto on the wing, was for all intent and purposes the masterstroke we've all been calling for a long time.
My point about this whole selection thing is that no coach is infallible. No coach will pick a team that will make us all happy. For all the talk about Beenie, in the midst of all the euphoria we seem to forget that the teams he put out in the World cup games begged many a question. Theobald starting all the games in particular, no Latapy, no start for Whitley.. Evans Wise...
Even the Cornell Glen sub in the 2nd half against Sweden that we lauded as a masterstroke; if one of their goal attempts went in we wouldve called him a madman.
People need to wake up and smell the coffee. We shitty!! We scraped through to the hex. Our defence is some old men, we have no wing backs and the 3 men who hold our only hope, (Yorke, Stern, Latas) were on the brink of being over the hill in 2006... This is 2009..
CONCACAF has progressed and we have remained stagnant. We are not going to South Africa.
I eh know if I breaking some kinda news here, but SA was a longshot even before Latas took the job.
You didn't truly watch that game boss, you think you watched but you didn't. The team actually played much better than you and others want to give credit for. More importantly we rescued a point, yet that in many eyes was a poor team game. All of that leads up to those arguing about the better brand under latapy that has netted us 0 points thus far and me concluding "Funny how you using that against Maturana but others shouldn't hold the CR game against Latas ent?!"
You didn't truly watch that game boss, you think you watched but you didn't. The team actually played much better than you and others want to give credit for. More importantly we rescued a point, yet that in many eyes was a poor team game. All of that leads up to those arguing about the better brand under latapy that has netted us 0 points thus far and me concluding "Funny how you using that against Maturana but others shouldn't hold the CR game against Latas ent?!"
Glass half empty or glass half full? Did we rescue a point, or did we let 2 points slip away? All based on perspective I suppose. And regardless of the perspective, rescuing a point doesn't qualify a performance as good in my opinion.
I'm not comparing Maturana and Latas in terms of the brand of football. The level of T&T football is and has been for a long time (if not forever) far away from what I would hope it would be....and the brand has always been scrappy and amateurish. I'm not gonna split hairs about whether we strung 3 passes together under Maturana but 4 under Latapy- it's useless.
My point is that the game we played in El Salvador was pretty shabby, and on another day we could have lost as easily as we could have won (or tied)...
As far as Latapy goes, I say give him a fair shot- forget qualifying for SA...If we do, it's a bonus, but in all honesty we haven't shown that we deserve to be there...we're languishing at the bottom of the table of one of the weakest federations in the world. Let's give the coach a fair shot- so far he hasn't had one.
Marcos since 89 our history is littered with assish losses to the US so if you using that then almost every coach before Maturana was just as much shit no?
We eh have no good coach really
we were just unlucky not to get ah point especially in tobago thanx to lawrence and dog, but i think we showed tremendous improvement.
BM HERE
is true.... fire Latapy
Trinidad and Tobago dont deserve Russell Latapy.... but allyuh want Zamora
The last time TnT play some real football was against Paraguay....
When i first saw the lineup that walked out against Costa Rica, I was scratching my head. A lineup without a left sided midfielder, basically sacrificing that flank for 3 mids in Yorke, Noel and Spann. But at halftime, it was clear that this was a tactical ploy. Latas did his homework and figure out that they posed a serious threat coming down our right side and line us up to neutralize that and it worked like a charm.
Carlos at right back and Tinto on the wing, was for all intent and purposes the masterstroke we've all been calling for a long time.
My point about this whole selection thing is that no coach is infallible. No coach will pick a team that will make us all happy. For all the talk about Beenie, in the midst of all the euphoria we seem to forget that the teams he put out in the World cup games begged many a question. Theobald starting all the games in particular, no Latapy, no start for Whitley.. Evans Wise...
Even the Cornell Glen sub in the 2nd half against Sweden that we lauded as a masterstroke; if one of their goal attempts went in we wouldve called him a madman.
People need to wake up and smell the coffee. We shitty!! We scraped through to the hex. Our defence is some old men, we have no wing backs and the 3 men who hold our only hope, (Yorke, Stern, Latas) were on the brink of being over the hill in 2006... This is 2009..
CONCACAF has progressed and we have remained stagnant.We are not going to South Africa.
When i first saw the lineup that walked out against Costa Rica, I was scratching my head. A lineup without a left sided midfielder, basically sacrificing that flank for 3 mids in Yorke, Noel and Spann. But at halftime, it was clear that this was a tactical ploy. Latas did his homework and figure out that they posed a serious threat coming down our right side and line us up to neutralize that and it worked like a charm.
Carlos at right back and Tinto on the wing, was for all intent and purposes the masterstroke we've all been calling for a long time.
My point about this whole selection thing is that no coach is infallible. No coach will pick a team that will make us all happy. For all the talk about Beenie, in the midst of all the euphoria we seem to forget that the teams he put out in the World cup games begged many a question. Theobald starting all the games in particular, no Latapy, no start for Whitley.. Evans Wise...
Even the Cornell Glen sub in the 2nd half against Sweden that we lauded as a masterstroke; if one of their goal attempts went in we wouldve called him a madman.
People need to wake up and smell the coffee. We shitty!! We scraped through to the hex. Our defence is some old men, we have no wing backs and the 3 men who hold our only hope, (Yorke, Stern, Latas) were on the brink of being over the hill in 2006... This is 2009..
CONCACAF has progressed and we have remained stagnant.We are not going to South Africa.
I agree with everything yuh say besides the last sentence as my policy is "Never say yuh dead until yuh dead!"
So until we disappointingly lose or draw the game on Wednesday I singing Machel tune "We Not Giving Up!"
If we win on Wednesday then as far as I am concerned we still have a fighting chance of going South Africa because God is ah Trini! ;)
oh lawd have mercy ,you and your man crush ...what did it for you ,was the afro wasnt it ;DWhen i first saw the lineup that walked out against Costa Rica, I was scratching my head. A lineup without a left sided midfielder, basically sacrificing that flank for 3 mids in Yorke, Noel and Spann. But at halftime, it was clear that this was a tactical ploy. Latas did his homework and figure out that they posed a serious threat coming down our right side and line us up to neutralize that and it worked like a charm.
Carlos at right back and Tinto on the wing, was for all intent and purposes the masterstroke we've all been calling for a long time.
My point about this whole selection thing is that no coach is infallible. No coach will pick a team that will make us all happy. For all the talk about Beenie, in the midst of all the euphoria we seem to forget that the teams he put out in the World cup games begged many a question. Theobald starting all the games in particular, no Latapy, no start for Whitley.. Evans Wise...
Even the Cornell Glen sub in the 2nd half against Sweden that we lauded as a masterstroke; if one of their goal attempts went in we wouldve called him a madman.
People need to wake up and smell the coffee. We shitty!! We scraped through to the hex. Our defence is some old men, we have no wing backs and the 3 men who hold our only hope, (Yorke, Stern, Latas) were on the brink of being over the hill in 2006... This is 2009..
CONCACAF has progressed and we have remained stagnant.We are not going to South Africa.
I agree with everything yuh say besides the last sentence as my policy is "Never say yuh dead until yuh dead!"
So until we disappointingly lose or draw the game on Wednesday I singing Machel tune "We Not Giving Up!"
If we win on Wednesday then as far as I am concerned we still have a fighting chance of going South Africa because God is ah Trini! ;)
Ah hope yuh sayin thank GOD fuh Maturana seein is he de one fdat give yuh yuh ONLY 2 POINTS of dis WCQ campaign thus far! 8)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xlgD6JH2Jg
Somebody will Beat Us
Latapy!................................The Fans had a questiooooooooooon
About yuh performance....................on this campaign
Yorke workin........NO!
Dennis workin.....NO!
Yuh wicked....NO!
Yuh schupid.....NO!
We going to beat... really really bad boy
We going to beat....really really bad boy
You say that ready
We ain't play no friendly
Some ain't wukkin noway
Dem don't have a payday
Yuh think is so......thing does work
You think is so......I wish you LUCK
Next week Wednesday we beat Salvador and start feeling luckkkkkkkkkyyyyy
But take advice without friendless
We won't get lucky twice.
Somebody will beat us, you better believe me
Somebody will beat us, ah hope you could take it pardner.
;D
When i first saw the lineup that walked out against Costa Rica, I was scratching my head. A lineup without a left sided midfielder, basically sacrificing that flank for 3 mids in Yorke, Noel and Spann. But at halftime, it was clear that this was a tactical ploy. Latas did his homework and figure out that they posed a serious threat coming down our right side and line us up to neutralize that and it worked like a charm.
Carlos at right back and Tinto on the wing, was for all intent and purposes the masterstroke we've all been calling for a long time.
My point about this whole selection thing is that no coach is infallible. No coach will pick a team that will make us all happy. For all the talk about Beenie, in the midst of all the euphoria we seem to forget that the teams he put out in the World cup games begged many a question. Theobald starting all the games in particular, no Latapy, no start for Whitley.. Evans Wise...
Even the Cornell Glen sub in the 2nd half against Sweden that we lauded as a masterstroke; if one of their goal attempts went in we wouldve called him a madman.
People need to wake up and smell the coffee. We shitty!! We scraped through to the hex. Our defence is some old men, we have no wing backs and the 3 men who hold our only hope, (Yorke, Stern, Latas) were on the brink of being over the hill in 2006... This is 2009..
CONCACAF has progressed and we have remained stagnant.We are not going to South Africa.
I agree with everything yuh say besides the last sentence as my policy is "Never say yuh dead until yuh dead!"
So until we disappointingly lose or draw the game on Wednesday I singing Machel tune "We Not Giving Up!"
If we win on Wednesday then as far as I am concerned we still have a fighting chance of going South Africa because God is ah Trini! ;)
Ah hope yuh sayin thank GOD fuh Maturana seein is he de one fdat give yuh yuh ONLY 2 POINTS of dis WCQ campaign thus far! 8)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xlgD6JH2Jg
Somebody will Beat Us
Latapy!................................The Fans had a questiooooooooooon
About yuh performance....................on this campaign
Yorke workin........NO!
Dennis workin.....NO!
Yuh wicked....NO!
Yuh schupid.....NO!
We going to beat... really really bad boy
We going to beat....really really bad boy
You say that ready
We ain't play no friendly
Some ain't wukkin noway
Dem don't have a payday
Yuh think is so......thing does work
You think is so......I wish you LUCK
Next week Wednesday we beat Salvador and start feeling luckkkkkkkkkyyyyy
But take advice without friendless
We won't get lucky twice.
Somebody will beat us, you better believe me
Somebody will beat us, ah hope you could take it pardner.
;D
Nice remix dey Preacher! 8)
oh lawd have mercy ,you and your man crush ...what did it for you ,was the afro wasnt it ;DWhen i first saw the lineup that walked out against Costa Rica, I was scratching my head. A lineup without a left sided midfielder, basically sacrificing that flank for 3 mids in Yorke, Noel and Spann. But at halftime, it was clear that this was a tactical ploy. Latas did his homework and figure out that they posed a serious threat coming down our right side and line us up to neutralize that and it worked like a charm.
Carlos at right back and Tinto on the wing, was for all intent and purposes the masterstroke we've all been calling for a long time.
My point about this whole selection thing is that no coach is infallible. No coach will pick a team that will make us all happy. For all the talk about Beenie, in the midst of all the euphoria we seem to forget that the teams he put out in the World cup games begged many a question. Theobald starting all the games in particular, no Latapy, no start for Whitley.. Evans Wise...
Even the Cornell Glen sub in the 2nd half against Sweden that we lauded as a masterstroke; if one of their goal attempts went in we wouldve called him a madman.
People need to wake up and smell the coffee. We shitty!! We scraped through to the hex. Our defence is some old men, we have no wing backs and the 3 men who hold our only hope, (Yorke, Stern, Latas) were on the brink of being over the hill in 2006... This is 2009..
CONCACAF has progressed and we have remained stagnant.We are not going to South Africa.
I agree with everything yuh say besides the last sentence as my policy is "Never say yuh dead until yuh dead!"
So until we disappointingly lose or draw the game on Wednesday I singing Machel tune "We Not Giving Up!"
If we win on Wednesday then as far as I am concerned we still have a fighting chance of going South Africa because God is ah Trini! ;)
Ah hope yuh sayin thank GOD fuh Maturana seein is he de one fdat give yuh yuh ONLY 2 POINTS of dis WCQ campaign thus far! 8)
sheilds up.
oh lawd have mercy ,you and your man crush ...what did it for you ,was the afro wasnt it ;DWhen i first saw the lineup that walked out against Costa Rica, I was scratching my head. A lineup without a left sided midfielder, basically sacrificing that flank for 3 mids in Yorke, Noel and Spann. But at halftime, it was clear that this was a tactical ploy. Latas did his homework and figure out that they posed a serious threat coming down our right side and line us up to neutralize that and it worked like a charm.
Carlos at right back and Tinto on the wing, was for all intent and purposes the masterstroke we've all been calling for a long time.
My point about this whole selection thing is that no coach is infallible. No coach will pick a team that will make us all happy. For all the talk about Beenie, in the midst of all the euphoria we seem to forget that the teams he put out in the World cup games begged many a question. Theobald starting all the games in particular, no Latapy, no start for Whitley.. Evans Wise...
Even the Cornell Glen sub in the 2nd half against Sweden that we lauded as a masterstroke; if one of their goal attempts went in we wouldve called him a madman.
People need to wake up and smell the coffee. We shitty!! We scraped through to the hex. Our defence is some old men, we have no wing backs and the 3 men who hold our only hope, (Yorke, Stern, Latas) were on the brink of being over the hill in 2006... This is 2009..
CONCACAF has progressed and we have remained stagnant.We are not going to South Africa.
I agree with everything yuh say besides the last sentence as my policy is "Never say yuh dead until yuh dead!"
So until we disappointingly lose or draw the game on Wednesday I singing Machel tune "We Not Giving Up!"
If we win on Wednesday then as far as I am concerned we still have a fighting chance of going South Africa because God is ah Trini! ;)
Ah hope yuh sayin thank GOD fuh Maturana seein is he de one fdat give yuh yuh ONLY 2 POINTS of dis WCQ campaign thus far! 8)
sheilds up.
No crush. Certainly not on any man.
I like results more than anything else.
Given de "player strike", de unavailability of our so called best players for long periods, de PFL politics, Jack Warner, Scamps, TTFF, Corneals, players who eh ready fuh International competition etc and more.....IMO Maturana performed the footballing equivalent of walking on water and turning water into wine COMBINED by gettin we to de Hex and earnin 2 points from we fuss 3 matches.
Latas supposed to be we saviour. We allegedly playing "tremendously improved" football that hasn't as yet translated into a result in a results based industry.
We have now strengthened our team with the additons of Bobby Zamora, J Lloyd Samuel, and Lyndon "Chubby" Andrews. With Latas as coach and these new and improved additions, the USA, Mexico, Honduras, Costa Rica and El Salvador are trembling in their collective boots with fear.
SA here were come!
Don't know why this thread even exist. No respect!
With what Latas was given and has at his disposal, Capello, with Ferguson as his assistant and Mourinho as technical advisor would not have achieved anything different.
oh lawd have mercy ,you and your man crush ...what did it for you ,was the afro wasnt it ;DWhen i first saw the lineup that walked out against Costa Rica, I was scratching my head. A lineup without a left sided midfielder, basically sacrificing that flank for 3 mids in Yorke, Noel and Spann. But at halftime, it was clear that this was a tactical ploy. Latas did his homework and figure out that they posed a serious threat coming down our right side and line us up to neutralize that and it worked like a charm.
Carlos at right back and Tinto on the wing, was for all intent and purposes the masterstroke we've all been calling for a long time.
My point about this whole selection thing is that no coach is infallible. No coach will pick a team that will make us all happy. For all the talk about Beenie, in the midst of all the euphoria we seem to forget that the teams he put out in the World cup games begged many a question. Theobald starting all the games in particular, no Latapy, no start for Whitley.. Evans Wise...
Even the Cornell Glen sub in the 2nd half against Sweden that we lauded as a masterstroke; if one of their goal attempts went in we wouldve called him a madman.
People need to wake up and smell the coffee. We shitty!! We scraped through to the hex. Our defence is some old men, we have no wing backs and the 3 men who hold our only hope, (Yorke, Stern, Latas) were on the brink of being over the hill in 2006... This is 2009..
CONCACAF has progressed and we have remained stagnant.We are not going to South Africa.
I agree with everything yuh say besides the last sentence as my policy is "Never say yuh dead until yuh dead!"
So until we disappointingly lose or draw the game on Wednesday I singing Machel tune "We Not Giving Up!"
If we win on Wednesday then as far as I am concerned we still have a fighting chance of going South Africa because God is ah Trini! ;)
Ah hope yuh sayin thank GOD fuh Maturana seein is he de one fdat give yuh yuh ONLY 2 POINTS of dis WCQ campaign thus far! 8)
sheilds up.
What kinda supporters alyuh is, you eh see the game vs St. Kitts las mont or wha.The last time TnT play some real football was against Paraguay....
you ehh see de game against Dominican Republic ?!? ;D
I know man Fack Up on this Board.... but this is one of the most Fack Up Threads ever...I go have to agree on this one
It kinda disrespectful to the Magician. :beermug:
Don't know why this thread even exist. No respect!
With what Latas was given and has at his disposal, Capello, with Ferguson as his assistant and Mourinho as technical advisor would not have achieved anything different.
Latapy could pick "anyone" he wanted, Wim and Maturana could not.
Don't know why this thread even exist. No respect!
With what Latas was given and has at his disposal, Capello, with Ferguson as his assistant and Mourinho as technical advisor would not have achieved anything different.
Latapy could pick "anyone" he wanted, Wim and Maturana could not.
U believe dat
oh lawd have mercy ,you and your man crush ...what did it for you ,was the afro wasnt it ;DWhen i first saw the lineup that walked out against Costa Rica, I was scratching my head. A lineup without a left sided midfielder, basically sacrificing that flank for 3 mids in Yorke, Noel and Spann. But at halftime, it was clear that this was a tactical ploy. Latas did his homework and figure out that they posed a serious threat coming down our right side and line us up to neutralize that and it worked like a charm.
Carlos at right back and Tinto on the wing, was for all intent and purposes the masterstroke we've all been calling for a long time.
My point about this whole selection thing is that no coach is infallible. No coach will pick a team that will make us all happy. For all the talk about Beenie, in the midst of all the euphoria we seem to forget that the teams he put out in the World cup games begged many a question. Theobald starting all the games in particular, no Latapy, no start for Whitley.. Evans Wise...
Even the Cornell Glen sub in the 2nd half against Sweden that we lauded as a masterstroke; if one of their goal attempts went in we wouldve called him a madman.
People need to wake up and smell the coffee. We shitty!! We scraped through to the hex. Our defence is some old men, we have no wing backs and the 3 men who hold our only hope, (Yorke, Stern, Latas) were on the brink of being over the hill in 2006... This is 2009..
CONCACAF has progressed and we have remained stagnant.We are not going to South Africa.
I agree with everything yuh say besides the last sentence as my policy is "Never say yuh dead until yuh dead!"
So until we disappointingly lose or draw the game on Wednesday I singing Machel tune "We Not Giving Up!"
If we win on Wednesday then as far as I am concerned we still have a fighting chance of going South Africa because God is ah Trini! ;)
Ah hope yuh sayin thank GOD fuh Maturana seein is he de one fdat give yuh yuh ONLY 2 POINTS of dis WCQ campaign thus far! 8)
sheilds up.
No crush. Certainly not on any man.
I like results more than anything else.
Given de "player strike", de unavailability of our so called best players for long periods, de PFL politics, Jack Warner, Scamps, TTFF, Corneals, players who eh ready fuh International competition etc and more.....IMO Maturana performed the footballing equivalent of walking on water and turning water into wine COMBINED by gettin we to de Hex and earnin 2 points from we fuss 3 matches.
Latas supposed to be we saviour. We allegedly playing "tremendously improved" football that hasn't as yet translated into a result in a results based industry.
We have now strengthened our team with the additons of Bobby Zamora, J Lloyd Samuel, and Lyndon "Chubby" Andrews. With Latas as coach and these new and improved additions, the USA, Mexico, Honduras, Costa Rica and El Salvador are trembling in their collective boots with fear.
SA here were come!
No crush. Certainly not on any man.
I like results more than anything else.
Given de "player strike", de unavailability of our so called best players for long periods, de PFL politics, Jack Warner, Scamps, TTFF, Corneals, players who eh ready fuh International competition etc and more.....IMO Maturana performed the footballing equivalent of walking on water and turning water into wine COMBINED by gettin we to de Hex and earnin 2 points from we fuss 3 matches.
Latas supposed to be we saviour. We allegedly playing "tremendously improved" football that hasn't as yet translated into a result in a results based industry.
We have now strengthened our team with the additons of Bobby Zamora, J Lloyd Samuel, and Lyndon "Chubby" Andrews. With Latas as coach and these new and improved additions, the USA, Mexico, Honduras, Costa Rica and El Salvador are trembling in their collective boots with fear.
SA here were come!
gIVE THE JOB TO mR bOBBY zAMORA...
Don't know why this thread even exist. No respect!
With what Latas was given and has at his disposal, Capello, with Ferguson as his assistant and Mourinho as technical advisor would not have achieved anything different.
Latapy could pick "anyone" he wanted, Wim and Maturana could not.
U believe dat
elan, where u get dat information? apparently u does move wid latas 24/7
Since he have been coach he has not impress and is the only coach who never seems to get or play any warm up games.
With 2 lost (Mexico & Costa Rica), 1 win (St Kitts) and a tie (U-20 team).
Imagine, we have 7 days to go and we dont have a full team in training.
Imagine we have not play a competitive match in months.
Lets not forget his buddy Dwight Yorke who chasing women all over the globe is not even interested anymore. No clubs, he unfit and he is captain, he dont get sub and he is a sure pick.
I believe Jack Warner and the TTFF throw in the towel long time and if this is the case, leave Latapy as coach.
But if we really serious about going South Africa then we in real trouble.
Hayden Tinto in not the answer. We need team work and proper preparation.
SAM, needs to get a RED CARD for a long time suspension for hateful posting.
I know man Fack Up on this Board.... but this is one of the most Fack Up Threads ever...
It kinda disrespectful to the Magician. :beermug:
We should start a thread on how to come up with ways to "Get RID of AJW" and then implement them...
I know man Fack Up on this Board.... but this is one of the most Fack Up Threads ever...
It kinda disrespectful to the Magician. :beermug:
We should start a thread on how to come up with ways to "Get RID of AJW" and then implement them...
You and the others who say the thread disrespectful, how so?
Latapy gain he respect through playing - as a player. Here on this thread people questioning his COACHING ability and decisions to perform at the highest level. How is that disrespectful Latapy do not have a reputation as a coach, so how peole being disrespectful.
get real.
6 days before a WCQ and this is the kinda thread ah reading....
We is Warriors?
Ah with BM on one thing ...we dont deserve Latas as a coach.
It take strange white men in far away countries to recognize and celebrate what we
here take for granted :(.
IMHO, taking into consideration our progression thru the hex and all the goings on with the TTFF etc, to call for this coach to be fired is totally and utterly ridiculous....
Everyone entitled to dey own onion but damn!!... lord, put ah hand. :praying:
I know man Fack Up on this Board.... but this is one of the most Fack Up Threads ever...
It kinda disrespectful to the Magician. :beermug:
We should start a thread on how to come up with ways to "Get RID of AJW" and then implement them...
You and the others who say the thread disrespectful, how so?
Latapy gain he respect through playing - as a player. Here on this thread people questioning his COACHING ability and decisions to perform at the highest level. How is that disrespectful Latapy do not have a reputation as a coach, so how peole being disrespectful.
get real.
D last fella wit d fro had real rep where dat get we?
I know man Fack Up on this Board.... but this is one of the most Fack Up Threads ever...
It kinda disrespectful to the Magician. :beermug:
We should start a thread on how to come up with ways to "Get RID of AJW" and then implement them...
You and the others who say the thread disrespectful, how so?
Latapy gain he respect through playing - as a player. Here on this thread people questioning his COACHING ability and decisions to perform at the highest level. How is that disrespectful Latapy do not have a reputation as a coach, so how peole being disrespectful.
get real.
D last fella wit d fro had real rep where dat get we?
Into the Hex and the only two points we have. Let's see on Wednesday if Latas could get the players to finish off ES.
This is not about comparing Latapy to Maturana perse, but in how Latapy going about doing things and the level of professionalism in operations and decision making.
I know man Fack Up on this Board.... but this is one of the most Fack Up Threads ever...
It kinda disrespectful to the Magician. :beermug:
We should start a thread on how to come up with ways to "Get RID of AJW" and then implement them...
You and the others who say the thread disrespectful, how so?
Latapy gain he respect through playing - as a player. Here on this thread people questioning his COACHING ability and decisions to perform at the highest level. How is that disrespectful Latapy do not have a reputation as a coach, so how peole being disrespectful.
get real.
D last fella wit d fro had real rep where dat get we?
Into the Hex and the only two points we have. Let's see on Wednesday if Latas could get the players to finish off ES.
This is not about comparing Latapy to Maturana perse, but in how Latapy going about doing things and the level of professionalism in operations and decision making.
Beside d Dutch guy who took we 2 d big dance anybody else could b professional and make decisions dat could be beneficial. As 4 usin we utter rubbish. if he did remain wit Falkirk he would have been in a betta position 2 learn his trade as a coach.
I know man Fack Up on this Board.... but this is one of the most Fack Up Threads ever...
It kinda disrespectful to the Magician. :beermug:
We should start a thread on how to come up with ways to "Get RID of AJW" and then implement them...
You and the others who say the thread disrespectful, how so?
Latapy gain he respect through playing - as a player. Here on this thread people questioning his COACHING ability and decisions to perform at the highest level. How is that disrespectful Latapy do not have a reputation as a coach, so how peole being disrespectful.
get real.
D last fella wit d fro had real rep where dat get we?
Into the Hex and the only two points we have. Let's see on Wednesday if Latas could get the players to finish off ES.
This is not about comparing Latapy to Maturana perse, but in how Latapy going about doing things and the level of professionalism in operations and decision making.
Beside d Dutch guy who took we 2 d big dance anybody else could b professional and make decisions dat could be beneficial. As 4 usin we utter rubbish. if he did remain wit Falkirk he would have been in a betta position 2 learn his trade as a coach.
I thin he would have been better at Falkirk learning he trade. Nuff people to guide him as the network is much stronger and capable there. Here he is on his own and would have to learn from trial and error. Patience is a virtue.
Fellas go at it when men say something against latapy wowz... :devil: not even Yorkie woulda get men trippin so bad... i seen fellas dissed God on this board when talking bout Marvin Andrews with his faith and men eh even react like this, yo this thread is just crazy...
Fellas go at it when men say something against latapy wowz... :devil: not even Yorkie woulda get men trippin so bad... i seen fellas dissed God on this board when talking bout Marvin Andrews with his faith and men eh even react like this, yo this thread is just crazy...
The title may be in appropriate, but the gist of the thread not crazy, it is asking questions of the coach. We do it to every coach around the world, but because is some we like, the therad is shyte and crazy.
Men or Boys.
Fellas go at it when men say something against latapy wowz... :devil: not even Yorkie woulda get men trippin so bad... i seen fellas dissed God on this board when talking bout Marvin Andrews with his faith and men eh even react like this, yo this thread is just crazy...
The title may be in appropriate, but the gist of the thread not crazy, it is asking questions of the coach. We do it to every coach around the world, but because is some we like, the therad is shyte and crazy.
Men or Boys.
Nah am saying the thread is crazy because the way people reacting not because its a fire latapy thread...
I know man Fack Up on this Board.... but this is one of the most Fack Up Threads ever...
It kinda disrespectful to the Magician. :beermug:
We should start a thread on how to come up with ways to "Get RID of AJW" and then implement them...
You and the others who say the thread disrespectful, how so?
Latapy gain he respect through playing - as a player. Here on this thread people questioning his COACHING ability and decisions to perform at the highest level. How is that disrespectful Latapy do not have a reputation as a coach, so how peole being disrespectful.
get real.
D last fella wit d fro had real rep where dat get we?
Into the Hex and the only two points we have. Let's see on Wednesday if Latas could get the players to finish off ES.
This is not about comparing Latapy to Maturana perse, but in how Latapy going about doing things and the level of professionalism in operations and decision making.
Beside d Dutch guy who took we 2 d big dance anybody else could b professional and make decisions dat could be beneficial. As 4 usin we utter rubbish. if he did remain wit Falkirk he would have been in a betta position 2 learn his trade as a coach.
Fellas go at it when men say something against latapy wowz... :devil: not even Yorkie woulda get men trippin so bad... i seen fellas dissed God on this board when talking bout Marvin Andrews with his faith and men eh even react like this, yo this thread is just crazy...
The title may be in appropriate, but the gist of the thread not crazy, it is asking questions of the coach. We do it to every coach around the world, but because is some we like, the therad is shyte and crazy.
Men or Boys.
I know man Fack Up on this Board.... but this is one of the most Fack Up Threads ever...
It kinda disrespectful to the Magician. :beermug:
We should start a thread on how to come up with ways to "Get RID of AJW" and then implement them...
You and the others who say the thread disrespectful, how so?
Latapy gain he respect through playing - as a player. Here on this thread people questioning his COACHING ability and decisions to perform at the highest level. How is that disrespectful Latapy do not have a reputation as a coach, so how peole being disrespectful.
get real.
D last fella wit d fro had real rep where dat get we?
Into the Hex and the only two points we have. Let's see on Wednesday if Latas could get the players to finish off ES.
This is not about comparing Latapy to Maturana perse, but in how Latapy going about doing things and the level of professionalism in operations and decision making.
Beside d Dutch guy who took we 2 d big dance anybody else could b professional and make decisions dat could be beneficial. As 4 usin we utter rubbish. if he did remain wit Falkirk he would have been in a betta position 2 learn his trade as a coach.
...you think coach of falkirk rates higher than coach of your national team which in 2006 WC became the smallest nation to qualify for the WC ? I wudda take de wuk too ....I can go on from here with a good enough showing ....the ting is I would feel at least a good showing was important if not some points ...
Suely you cant believe that Latapy himself is happy with the situation as it is ? What wrong wid smebody suggesting that until Latapy proves imself as a coach we cant see him as that ? he proved himself as a player before he got his hero status right ? ting is it eh transferable to his being a coach ...and he should get the same treatment as , gally, corneal Sr and Jr, Fervier all of whom were players of exceptional abilities...n'est pas ?
Ok...let me try a thing here:
When last we score 2 on Costa Rica?
When last we score in the Azteca?
Any other coach ever do that for us?
I see both games and this is the best Trinidad playing since we beat Mexico 'C' team in October 2005. Better than the 3 World Cup games even. Costa Rica is the best side in the region and Mexico in Mexico is the hardest game ANY side have to play in the hex.
I know men just want attention with this thread, but if you really using your head and claim to be a football fan, you will know u talking assness to judge Latas on two games.
Elan, how you feel so qualified to comment on Latapy decision making and plans? Not fighting yuh down eh....I just want to know if you have more info than all de rest of we bout de dealings with TTFF and what Latapy trying to do or ask TTFF to do. Besides de couple substitutions in de games or de lineup or strategies employed in various parts of de games, how allyuh could find something else to analyze and blame Latas? Is not de same TTFF that giving trouble all these years? Granted Beenie is a big time coach, yuh ent see that when Jack decide he had to make de money at de last world cup yuh ent see how many things got put in place that were never there before? Yuh think Jack listen to Beenie outta respect? Jack wanted he money and put faith in Beenie to get him his money. Beenie coulda drop Jack mudder from de team, Jack wasn't going to say nutten. No other coach has ever gotten that support financially and backing for any managerial decisions. How under all these different scenarios we could judge Latas so fast and hold him accountable for things that TTFF been doing for years? It kinda looking like some people want Latas to fail, because all of we could see de problems but only some rushing to put all de blame where dey ent even sure it belong
Ok...let me try a thing here:
When last we score 2 on Costa Rica?
When last we score in the Azteca?
Any other coach ever do that for us?
I see both games and this is the best Trinidad playing since we beat Mexico 'C' team in October 2005. Better than the 3 World Cup games even. Costa Rica is the best side in the region and Mexico in Mexico is the hardest game ANY side have to play in the hex.
I know men just want attention with this thread, but if you really using your head and claim to be a football fan, you will know u talking assness to judge Latas on two games.
Fellas go at it when men say something against latapy wowz... :devil: not even Yorkie woulda get men trippin so bad... i seen fellas dissed God on this board when talking bout Marvin Andrews with his faith and men eh even react like this, yo this thread is just crazy...
The title may be in appropriate, but the gist of the thread not crazy, it is asking questions of the coach. We do it to every coach around the world, but because is some we like, the therad is shyte and crazy.
Men or Boys.
"may be inappropriate" ???...
the thread title downright outta timing and isn't that what the whole uproar was about in the first case?
in asking questions about the coach allyuh men have some solid points.
but dont come now and pretend like people reactions is based upon analysing Latas as a coach.. People get riled up because of the premature, nonsensical suggestion to fire Latas, and especially because alot of it is based on factors outside his realm of control.
Fellas go at it when men say something against latapy wowz... :devil: not even Yorkie woulda get men trippin so bad... i seen fellas dissed God on this board when talking bout Marvin Andrews with his faith and men eh even react like this, yo this thread is just crazy...
The title may be in appropriate, but the gist of the thread not crazy, it is asking questions of the coach. We do it to every coach around the world, but because is some we like, the therad is shyte and crazy.
Men or Boys.
"may be inappropriate" ???...
the thread title downright outta timing and isn't that what the whole uproar was about in the first case?
in asking questions about the coach allyuh men have some solid points.
but dont come now and pretend like people reactions is based upon analysing Latas as a coach.. People get riled up because of the premature, nonsensical suggestion to fire Latas, and especially because alot of it is based on factors outside his realm of control.
Can you or do you care to explain how it out of his control if he is the head coach?
Elan, how you feel so qualified to comment on Latapy decision making and plans? Not fighting yuh down eh....I just want to know if you have more info than all de rest of we bout de dealings with TTFF and what Latapy trying to do or ask TTFF to do. Besides de couple substitutions in de games or de lineup or strategies employed in various parts of de games, how allyuh could find something else to analyze and blame Latas? Is not de same TTFF that giving trouble all these years? Granted Beenie is a big time coach, yuh ent see that when Jack decide he had to make de money at de last world cup yuh ent see how many things got put in place that were never there before? Yuh think Jack listen to Beenie outta respect? Jack wanted he money and put faith in Beenie to get him his money. Beenie coulda drop Jack mudder from de team, Jack wasn't going to say nutten. No other coach has ever gotten that support financially and backing for any managerial decisions. How under all these different scenarios we could judge Latas so fast and hold him accountable for things that TTFF been doing for years? It kinda looking like some people want Latas to fail, because all of we could see de problems but only some rushing to put all de blame where dey ent even sure it belong
Ok...let me try a thing here:
When last we score 2 on Costa Rica?
When last we score in the Azteca?
Any other coach ever do that for us?
I see both games and this is the best Trinidad playing since we beat Mexico 'C' team in October 2005. Better than the 3 World Cup games even. Costa Rica is the best side in the region and Mexico in Mexico is the hardest game ANY side have to play in the hex.
I know men just want attention with this thread, but if you really using your head and claim to be a football fan, you will know u talking assness to judge Latas on two games.
..REVOLUTION COMING SOON
" CAN'T STAND IT... I KNOW YOU PLANNED IT .. IT'S A SABOTAGE"" (The Beastie Boys)I love that song jed ,just rocks in every aspect .viva la revolution.
..REVOLUTION COMING SOON
6 days before a WCQ and this is the kinda thread ah reading....
We is Warriors?
Ah with BM on one thing ...we dont deserve Latas as a coach.
It take strange white men in far away countries to recognize and celebrate what we
here take for granted :(.
IMHO, taking into consideration our progression thru the hex and all the goings on with the TTFF etc, to call for this coach to be fired is totally and utterly ridiculous....
Everyone entitled to dey own onion but damn!!... lord, put ah hand. :praying:
Another pack ah shyte post, how come we don't deserve Latas as a coach. He is ah big coach or what?
How many teams has he taken to the WC?
How about the Euro?
Uefa?
Copa?
Gold Cup?
TT PFL?
Super League?
Intercol?
Latapy using we to gain he experience, so is nothing about we deserving he.
Question: Should Russell Latapy get fired.
No - 30 (36.6%)
Yes - 5 (6.1%)
Give him time - 40 (48.8%)
Assistant only - 7 (8.5%)
Total Voters: 82
5 agree out of 82 votes ,i KNOW 3 of the 5 Sam ,Palos and Elan ,them other 2 vote today .
Like allyuh eh realize elan iz ah troll!! :shameonyou:And you is the Zit on the Troll azz. :bringiton:
well 2 other three eint bad.Question: Should Russell Latapy get fired.
No - 30 (36.6%)
Yes - 5 (6.1%)
Give him time - 40 (48.8%)
Assistant only - 7 (8.5%)
Total Voters: 82
5 agree out of 82 votes ,i KNOW 3 of the 5 Sam ,Palos and Elan ,them other 2 vote today .
Don't talk shyte I is ah big man, I vote give him time. Because I seeing now that he in over he head does not mean I don't support him.
Don't talk shyte I is ah big man, I vote give him time. Because I seeing now that he in over he head does not mean I don't support him.
It was my greatest Honour to see the magician in Action against Rangers a few years ago. Every time he touch the ball the Falkirk fans was buzzing in anticipation for magic. In their training sessions... you could see the glee that the players have in their eyes when this man talk. It was like you was in the presence of football royalty. They just love that short dread lock fella. Every turn he made was bigger than the Falkirk Wheel.... :beermug: He's just that large.
Here it comes that he get a job in his homeland, to inspire, to lead and to display HIS magic and we calling for this throat. 2 games 2 losses... he has not ironed out the kinks. How could we play friendlies when men playing with their clubs in tourneys, men looking for contracts, men holding down Messi and Dinho etc?
(we players have ability, but given the factors they have to deal with how could they give 100% or why?)
With fans like we who needs enemies?
Question: Should Russell Latapy get fired.
No - 30 (36.6%)
Yes - 5 (6.1%)
Give him time - 40 (48.8%)
Assistant only - 7 (8.5%)
Total Voters: 82
5 agree out of 82 votes ,i KNOW 3 of the 5 Sam ,Palos and Elan ,them other 2 vote today .
Don't talk shyte I is ah big man, I vote give him time. Because I seeing now that he in over he head does not mean I don't support him.
Don't talk shyte I is ah big man, I vote give him time. Because I seeing now that he in over he head does not mean I don't support him.
Kill you dead you is some big time coach... 'bout you could see Latapy in over he head after only three games.
More offensive than the title is that this shit thread reach six pages and counting.
Oh yeah you ,I forgot about you.Question: Should Russell Latapy get fired.
No - 30 (36.6%)
Yes - 5 (6.1%)
Give him time - 40 (48.8%)
Assistant only - 7 (8.5%)
Total Voters: 82
5 agree out of 82 votes ,i KNOW 3 of the 5 Sam ,Palos and Elan ,them other 2 vote today .
Don't talk shyte I is ah big man, I vote give him time. Because I seeing now that he in over he head does not mean I don't support him.
Well I din/don't see the need for the give him time option ... in my view dahis ah inherent given, all things considered ... so ah kinda surprised at the number of voters that took that route ... fuh me is a clear case of 'NO' ... right now, iz Latas or bust. Plus, leh de TTFF be accountable fuh its decisions.
If yuh doh have confidence in him as head coach, yuh probably shouldn't want him around as an assistant to an entering HC as well ... at least definitely not in this rounds b/c it would like be compromising to credibility.
Well we know what the good book says- A prophet has no honour in his own country. Can anything good come out of Nazareth/. I guess some are saying can anything good come out of Laventille.
Come August the 12th we would want to make Latapy our new PM.
I know Big MAG would not like to hear this - Zamora is the new Messiah.
All I have to say is Mats get over a year to do he shit so we should afford Latas the same.
Oh yeah you ,I forgot about you.Question: Should Russell Latapy get fired.
No - 30 (36.6%)
Yes - 5 (6.1%)
Give him time - 40 (48.8%)
Assistant only - 7 (8.5%)
Total Voters: 82
5 agree out of 82 votes ,i KNOW 3 of the 5 Sam ,Palos and Elan ,them other 2 vote today .
Don't talk shyte I is ah big man, I vote give him time. Because I seeing now that he in over he head does not mean I don't support him.
Well I din/don't see the need for the give him time option ... in my view dahis ah inherent given, all things considered ... so ah kinda surprised at the number of voters that took that route ... fuh me is a clear case of 'NO' ... right now, iz Latas or bust. Plus, leh de TTFF be accountable fuh its decisions.
If yuh doh have confidence in him as head coach, yuh probably shouldn't want him around as an assistant to an entering HC as well ... at least definitely not in this rounds b/c it would like be compromising to credibility.
Latapy should pick our better players ,Roberts,Sancho is good enough for me .Hes dropping the ball here ,and not even Sancho so much ,heard hes playing very aggressive these days anyway.
As it is with our squad we really should win next week ,if he doesnt something wrong really .that last sentence hurt to say ........huh.
FIRE BUN DIS THREAD
there is n hope in trinidad soccer. none, sorry to say but that is ah reality. who are we going to beat to feel good, barbados and grenada, haha. come on, the basics lacking badd.
oh yes, latapy not ready as a coach, i hope you fellas who wanted latapy as coach feel good now. we have regressed. now yorke on board, the two fellas who had no discipline when they were playing is the authority and the example now, wow. who r u kidding. is ah big joke that country trinidad, everything is ah joke for real, jokey badd.
best he start saying T&T lolthere is n hope in trinidad soccer. none, sorry to say but that is ah reality. who are we going to beat to feel good, barbados and grenada, haha. come on, the basics lacking badd.
oh yes, latapy not ready as a coach, i hope you fellas who wanted latapy as coach feel good now. we have regressed. now yorke on board, the two fellas who had no discipline when they were playing is the authority and the example now, wow. who r u kidding. is ah big joke that country trinidad, everything is ah joke for real, jokey badd.
AYE, AYE.....TTHE COUNTRY'S NAME IS TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO and doh make mih have to correct yuh again for the night!!!....
4 in tnt craw, wow. embarassing is not even the word. fire latapy and yorke and revamp the whole soccer system in trini, sorry tobago too. just pathetic, is a good thing the link not working, could not watch that crap
trinidad and tobago, who cares, the country makes me sick.
trinidad and tobago, who cares, the country makes me sick.
Men like you who proud to sh*t all over the country and team while waving yuh american passport when times hard and playing freshwater does make me sick.
trinidad and tobago, who cares, the country makes me sick.
:beermug: :beermug: :beermug:FIRE BUN DIS THREAD
:devil:
is amazin de ASSHOLERY that does spew from some people eh
ya read the posts in question?is amazin de ASSHOLERY that does spew from some people eh
well what is your take
KEEP LATAPY RITE WHEY HE IS!!!!!!!!yah think he go learn anything ,it so simple pick the best players available not the once who do good in practise ,THIS ENT FALKIRK
is amazin de ASSHOLERY that does spew from some people eh
well what is your take
trinidad and tobago, who cares, the country makes me sick.well KICK ROCKS then UNCLE TOM :devil:
fire bun ATB!
Big Up!
KEEP LATAPY RITE WHEY HE IS!!!!!!!!yah think he go learn anything ,it so simple pick the best players available not the once who do good in practise ,THIS ENT FALKIRK
I feel we had bad tactics tonight but latas is we boy...give him a chance
Hon he had ample time to change his ways ,and he stuck to his game plan .He at any moment would could drop the top scorer without rhyme or reason .Hes kinda nuts.KEEP LATAPY RITE WHEY HE IS!!!!!!!!yah think he go learn anything ,it so simple pick the best players available not the once who do good in practise ,THIS ENT FALKIRK
i really tink so. i agree to an extent that he not pickin d best players, but i givin him d benefit of d doubt. we shouldnt throw him away widout givin him a fair chance. i really believe he cud develop d players an d team too.
every year is the same thing with our fans, fire d coach fire d coach. 10yrs from now we will be saying fire the coach. anyone ever stop to think that maybe our players arent that good? or maybe we have some good ones but the rest not that good? or maybe the other CONCACAF countries have excellent players? Doesnt matter which coach we have, it still doesnt change the fact that out players are of lesser talent compared to other top teams in the region.
KEEP LATAPY RITE WHEY HE IS!!!!!!!!Why!! he bummin!! so if he's ah darling leff he, but if he's ah foreigner(columbain) run him!
KEEP LATAPY RITE WHEY HE IS!!!!!!!!Why!! he bummin!! so if he's ah darling leff he, but if he's ah foreigner(columbain) run him!
allyuh really eh derseve nutten good, that's BC allyuh love mediocrity! leave him even though he's clueless! and allyuh say allyuh love TNT football. look how dem argentinians go call for maradona head tommorrow, iz dem who love they football.
I feel we had bad tactics tonight but latas is we boy...give him a chance
KEEP LATAPY RITE WHEY HE IS!!!!!!!!Why!! he bummin!! so if he's ah darling leff he, but if he's ah foreigner(columbain) run him!
allyuh really eh derseve nutten good, that's BC allyuh love mediocrity! leave him even though he's clueless! and allyuh say allyuh love TNT football. look how dem argentinians go call for maradona head tommorrow, iz dem who love they football.
just cool argentina have world class talent and farting up...we have decent talent and farting up..i not saying that latas is not blameless but the solution for we football is not just a coach...we have to set up a system to groom the players...we players just not good compared to the rest of concacaf period. (lil damo hit the nail on the head)
wen will people realize is not a new coach we need, if u coaching a side and a man dictating everything u do wat u expect. STEUPSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!latas could of picked a better squad outta thousands of player eligible to play for TnT. Marvin Andrews and Theobald should not even been there, and Silvio Spann in midfield is a dunce move against those big Hondurans.
KEEP LATAPY RITE WHEY HE IS!!!!!!!!Why!! he bummin!! so if he's ah darling leff he, but if he's ah foreigner(columbain) run him!
allyuh really eh derseve nutten good, that's BC allyuh love mediocrity! leave him even though he's clueless! and allyuh say allyuh love TNT football. look how dem argentinians go call for maradona head tommorrow, iz dem who love they football.
wen will people realize is not a new coach we need, if u coaching a side and a man dictating everything u do wat u expect. STEUPSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!
KEEP LATAPY RITE WHEY HE IS!!!!!!!!Why!! he bummin!! so if he's ah darling leff he, but if he's ah foreigner(columbain) run him!
allyuh really eh derseve nutten good, that's BC allyuh love mediocrity! leave him even though he's clueless! and allyuh say allyuh love TNT football. look how dem argentinians go call for maradona head tommorrow, iz dem who love they football.
dat is not wat i sayin JC. i jus want ppl to give latas a chance to show wat he cud do. as weary say, maturana got 14 months to coach we team an all he really did was leave us in a big pile of s**t.
allyuh cah expect latas to clean up maturana mess in d space of three months. i agree wid u where his team selection leavin much to be desired but dat eh warrant me callin 4 he head yet.
I feel like I on a mutiny ship and I have to protect Latas. All yuh fellas butting allyuh head against the wall ...we lorse and we lorse bad .... men go blame latas
because he is the coach even tho he wasn't on the field ... men go blame ince because he was the goalie he come off he line all kinda shit......as much as I tired of seeing this team play like that sometimes I even more tired ah hearing allyuh boy rant .... This is yuh f**king team wether yuh like it or not support or get the f**k out.
Fact vs fiction!
I think we have things in place Latas and Yorke is we head and assistant coach ...These two is the best TT has ever had and we damn well owe it to them to support them at least early in this stage...they didn't inherit no bomb squad so who vex vex (I wish it had lil smiley symbols for middle fingers)!
Latas ain't afraid to chop and change and he has to because men haven't stepped up and claimed their spots if we had won none of you muf**kas woulda said a damn thing. Let's face it we have been riding on yorke and latas shirt tails for years we even had to bring them out of retirement for us to qualify for the 2006 world cup so lets not get this shit twisted we had to let them go at some point.
Where does blame lie? This isn't a blame game it solves nothing ...... but here are a few firm things to assess .... to play at this level requires character above all ... you don't have to play at Yorke level to play at concacaf level and Latas cyah make you go out there and put in extraordinary effort ... you as the player have to make the choice as to wether you gonna chase the man after the ball go over your head (with conviction) or wait to see if Ince go save yuh again .... Fellas Honduras just hit Costa Rica 4 that nation extremely passionate about their team ...all yuh really feel they was gonna let we walk in their and take three points? They plan from start to finish was to go at us and come away with what was left of us after they were done it was up to the players on the field to decide wether they were gonna take a whipping and lie down or fight them like (men should) and make this a game.
I remember a concacaf gold cup game we lose to mexico 4-0 in the us and we run mexico to the ground believe it or not i wasn't mad a scoreline never did such injustice the fellas never gave up .... I remember Ronnie Mauge broke his leg playing for us and he played either div 2 or 3 in england he was not even born in Trini ..... I doh have to say a thing about Birchie.
We goh blame marvin and them (and lord knows he does bother meh eye at times) but the truth is he is a bit past his prime and in his prime he gave 150 % but the alternatives are not there. Men go watch the league a few times and see Peltier score a double against some and all of a sudden men doh understand why he not starting or this that and the other none of alyuh there in the training to see what men capable of.
Every coach is gonna have a favorite so doh use that line capello , beenie , latas all of them for what ever reason so please take that shit elsewhere. This team have to take the responsibility of this loss collectively but we have to continue supporting this our team they are showing that they are not good enough as players they are losing individual battles the midfield have the other midfield walking through the middle effectively changing out system to a 4-0-1. What allyuh want latas to do run out on the field, fall on he knees and beg a man to get up after the man beat yuh and track him down and not stand around and hope for another man to stop him. HE CYAH DO THAT MEN HAVE TO STEP ON THEY OWN WTF YOUR MOTHER DOES STILL HOLD YUH HAND WHEN YUH CROSSING THE STREET?
I know men on the team does read these rants and believe meh I doh wah hurt men feelings but as it stand this team is not good ... not good and its not because of talent (or lack there of) its because of desire ...you aren't showing that you want it and nobody can make you want it.
Who to blame? Poor wording ....... who is to resolve the issue ... the eleven players who strut out onto that pitch at any given time have to figure it out collectively don't point fingers step up and do your shift if yuh cyah do it step off !
All who think Darryl Roberts or Julius woulda make a difference allyuh dreaming this is a collective mentality and this is built over time and Latas need time because we don't have the kinda talent we used to.
I feel like I on a mutiny ship and I have to protect Latas. All yuh fellas butting allyuh head against the wall ...we lorse and we lorse bad .... men go blame latas
because he is the coach even tho he wasn't on the field ... men go blame ince because he was the goalie he come off he line all kinda shit......as much as I tired of seeing this team play like that sometimes I even more tired ah hearing allyuh boy rant .... This is yuh f**king team wether yuh like it or not support or get the f**k out.
Fact vs fiction!
I think we have things in place Latas and Yorke is we head and assistant coach ...These two is the best TT has ever had and we damn well owe it to them to support them at least early in this stage...they didn't inherit no bomb squad so who vex vex (I wish it had lil smiley symbols for middle fingers)!
Latas ain't afraid to chop and change and he has to because men haven't stepped up and claimed their spots if we had won none of you muf**kas woulda said a damn thing. Let's face it we have been riding on yorke and latas shirt tails for years we even had to bring them out of retirement for us to qualify for the 2006 world cup so lets not get this shit twisted we had to let them go at some point.
Where does blame lie? This isn't a blame game it solves nothing ...... but here are a few firm things to assess .... to play at this level requires character above all ... you don't have to play at Yorke level to play at concacaf level and Latas cyah make you go out there and put in extraordinary effort ... you as the player have to make the choice as to wether you gonna chase the man after the ball go over your head (with conviction) or wait to see if Ince go save yuh again .... Fellas Honduras just hit Costa Rica 4 that nation extremely passionate about their team ...all yuh really feel they was gonna let we walk in their and take three points? They plan from start to finish was to go at us and come away with what was left of us after they were done it was up to the players on the field to decide wether they were gonna take a whipping and lie down or fight them like (men should) and make this a game.
I remember a concacaf gold cup game we lose to mexico 4-0 in the us and we run mexico to the ground believe it or not i wasn't mad a scoreline never did such injustice the fellas never gave up .... I remember Ronnie Mauge broke his leg playing for us and he played either div 2 or 3 in england he was not even born in Trini ..... I doh have to say a thing about Birchie.
We goh blame marvin and them (and lord knows he does bother meh eye at times) but the truth is he is a bit past his prime and in his prime he gave 150 % but the alternatives are not there. Men go watch the league a few times and see Peltier score a double against some and all of a sudden men doh understand why he not starting or this that and the other none of alyuh there in the training to see what men capable of.
Every coach is gonna have a favorite so doh use that line capello , beenie , latas all of them for what ever reason so please take that shit elsewhere. This team have to take the responsibility of this loss collectively but we have to continue supporting this our team they are showing that they are not good enough as players they are losing individual battles the midfield have the other midfield walking through the middle effectively changing out system to a 4-0-1. What allyuh want latas to do run out on the field, fall on he knees and beg a man to get up after the man beat yuh and track him down and not stand around and hope for another man to stop him. HE CYAH DO THAT MEN HAVE TO STEP ON THEY OWN WTF YOUR MOTHER DOES STILL HOLD YUH HAND WHEN YUH CROSSING THE STREET?
I know men on the team does read these rants and believe meh I doh wah hurt men feelings but as it stand this team is not good ... not good and its not because of talent (or lack there of) its because of desire ...you aren't showing that you want it and nobody can make you want it.
Who to blame? Poor wording ....... who is to resolve the issue ... the eleven players who strut out onto that pitch at any given time have to figure it out collectively don't point fingers step up and do your shift if yuh cyah do it step off !
All who think Darryl Roberts or Julius woulda make a difference allyuh dreaming this is a collective mentality and this is built over time and Latas need time because we don't have the kinda talent we used to.
when we lorse with wim yuh blame wim with maturana yuh blame him but with latapy nah he is we boy!!! a big hippo
with maturana yuh blame him but with latapy nah he is we boy!!! a big hippo
Young players who names are splashed across headlines ,are to easy to pick he prefers players nobody ever heard off.
KEEP LATAPY RITE WHEY HE IS!!!!!!!!
KEEP LATAPY RITE WHEY HE IS!!!!!!!!
In Honduras? 8)
Anybody here seriously expects Russell to be on the sideline for 2014 qualification?
A hippo? Wim inherit a team that just went to the world cup but in fairness to him and due to blacklists he was out of his depth
Maturana get the team and the team went to an all time low where he had to call back a 41 yr old latas
who has now become the coach .... in the middle of this failing campaign and I'm a hippo for supporting him
Boy ... boy ... lolI feel like I on a mutiny ship and I have to protect Latas. All yuh fellas butting allyuh head against the wall ...we lorse and we lorse bad .... men go blame latas
because he is the coach even tho he wasn't on the field ... men go blame ince because he was the goalie he come off he line all kinda shit......as much as I tired of seeing this team play like that sometimes I even more tired ah hearing allyuh boy rant .... This is yuh f**king team wether yuh like it or not support or get the f**k out.
Fact vs fiction!
I think we have things in place Latas and Yorke is we head and assistant coach ...These two is the best TT has ever had and we damn well owe it to them to support them at least early in this stage...they didn't inherit no bomb squad so who vex vex (I wish it had lil smiley symbols for middle fingers)!
Latas ain't afraid to chop and change and he has to because men haven't stepped up and claimed their spots if we had won none of you muf**kas woulda said a damn thing. Let's face it we have been riding on yorke and latas shirt tails for years we even had to bring them out of retirement for us to qualify for the 2006 world cup so lets not get this shit twisted we had to let them go at some point.
Where does blame lie? This isn't a blame game it solves nothing ...... but here are a few firm things to assess .... to play at this level requires character above all ... you don't have to play at Yorke level to play at concacaf level and Latas cyah make you go out there and put in extraordinary effort ... you as the player have to make the choice as to wether you gonna chase the man after the ball go over your head (with conviction) or wait to see if Ince go save yuh again .... Fellas Honduras just hit Costa Rica 4 that nation extremely passionate about their team ...all yuh really feel they was gonna let we walk in their and take three points? They plan from start to finish was to go at us and come away with what was left of us after they were done it was up to the players on the field to decide wether they were gonna take a whipping and lie down or fight them like (men should) and make this a game.
I remember a concacaf gold cup game we lose to mexico 4-0 in the us and we run mexico to the ground believe it or not i wasn't mad a scoreline never did such injustice the fellas never gave up .... I remember Ronnie Mauge broke his leg playing for us and he played either div 2 or 3 in england he was not even born in Trini ..... I doh have to say a thing about Birchie.
We goh blame marvin and them (and lord knows he does bother meh eye at times) but the truth is he is a bit past his prime and in his prime he gave 150 % but the alternatives are not there. Men go watch the league a few times and see Peltier score a double against some and all of a sudden men doh understand why he not starting or this that and the other none of alyuh there in the training to see what men capable of.
Every coach is gonna have a favorite so doh use that line capello , beenie , latas all of them for what ever reason so please take that shit elsewhere. This team have to take the responsibility of this loss collectively but we have to continue supporting this our team they are showing that they are not good enough as players they are losing individual battles the midfield have the other midfield walking through the middle effectively changing out system to a 4-0-1. What allyuh want latas to do run out on the field, fall on he knees and beg a man to get up after the man beat yuh and track him down and not stand around and hope for another man to stop him. HE CYAH DO THAT MEN HAVE TO STEP ON THEY OWN WTF YOUR MOTHER DOES STILL HOLD YUH HAND WHEN YUH CROSSING THE STREET?
I know men on the team does read these rants and believe meh I doh wah hurt men feelings but as it stand this team is not good ... not good and its not because of talent (or lack there of) its because of desire ...you aren't showing that you want it and nobody can make you want it.
Who to blame? Poor wording ....... who is to resolve the issue ... the eleven players who strut out onto that pitch at any given time have to figure it out collectively don't point fingers step up and do your shift if yuh cyah do it step off !
All who think Darryl Roberts or Julius woulda make a difference allyuh dreaming this is a collective mentality and this is built over time and Latas need time because we don't have the kinda talent we used to.
when we lorse with wim yuh blame wim with maturana yuh blame him but with latapy nah he is we boy!!! a big hippo
KEEP LATAPY RITE WHEY HE IS!!!!!!!!Why!! he bummin!! so if he's ah darling leff he, but if he's ah foreigner(columbain) run him!
allyuh really eh derseve nutten good, that's BC allyuh love mediocrity! leave him even though he's clueless! and allyuh say allyuh love TNT football. look how dem argentinians go call for maradona head tommorrow, iz dem who love they football.
So tell me something, who clean up sven goran errikson's BIG pile ah sh!t, not javier agguirre??KEEP LATAPY RITE WHEY HE IS!!!!!!!!Why!! he bummin!! so if he's ah darling leff he, but if he's ah foreigner(columbain) run him!
allyuh really eh derseve nutten good, that's BC allyuh love mediocrity! leave him even though he's clueless! and allyuh say allyuh love TNT football. look how dem argentinians go call for maradona head tommorrow, iz dem who love they football.
dat is not wat i sayin JC. i jus want ppl to give latas a chance to show wat he cud do. as weary say, maturana got 14 months to coach we team an all he really did was leave us in a big pile of s**t.
allyuh cah expect latas to clean up maturana mess in d space of three months. i agree wid u where his team selection leavin much to be desired but dat eh warrant me callin 4 he head yet.
at d end of d day JC, u have your opinion on dis latas situation and i have mine. :beermug:
I not sure if anybody noticin...
but we defence lookin worse dan ever.
It was done shaky to begin with... but now...it frankomeh disgusting.
We cannot continue to rely on miracle performances from an aging Clayton Ince which is precisely what has been happening since Latas took over.
Our team has little organization, defensive discipline & shape. Now that may very well be players' fault but modern football is such that once you consistenly give away possession, you're going to pay sooner or later.
Latas has said that we should play in our "traditional style" which might be all well and good for romatics but I tell you this....unless you can be certain that you have the firepower to outscore your opposition....you're going to LOSE.
Look at the games thus far.
Costa Rica in Tobago. We scored...they scored more. Everytime they got the ball, they looked ikely to score against us.
Mexico in Mexico. A miracle performance by Ince combined with toilet bowl finishing from the Mexicans prevented us losing by more than the 1 goal. We had one chance in that game. We scored it.
El Salvador in T&T. Another miracle performance from Ince prevented the El Salvadoreans from earning at least a point. The team did play decently but defensively, we were still VERY SUSPECT
Honduras in Honduras. This time no miracles from Ince. Result? 4 in we pweffen. Our defence looking hapless. And by defence...I mean TEAM defence...not just the back 4.
We have regressed defensively under Latas. For a team that has several weaknesses, that's destructive. For those who care to remember, cast your minds back to Germany 2006. THIS is how we would have played if Latas was on the field from the start and these are the kind of results we would have gotten and worse.
Yuh want a "brand" to go forward and say yuh "lookin good" without having the foundation and discipline to handle tings when yuh lose the ball....yuh going to lose BADLY 9 times out of 10.
Until Latas learns how to coach DEFENCE, he and T&T won't be successful.
I not sure if anybody noticin...
but we defence lookin worse dan ever.
It was done shaky to begin with... but now...it frankomeh disgusting.
We cannot continue to rely on miracle performances from an aging Clayton Ince which is precisely what has been happening since Latas took over.
Our team has little organization, defensive discipline & shape. Now that may very well be players' fault but modern football is such that once you consistenly give away possession, you're going to pay sooner or later.
Latas has said that we should play in our "traditional style" which might be all well and good for romatics but I tell you this....unless you can be certain that you have the firepower to outscore your opposition....you're going to LOSE.
Look at the games thus far.
Costa Rica in Tobago. We scored...they scored more. Everytime they got the ball, they looked ikely to score against us.
Mexico in Mexico. A miracle performance by Ince combined with toilet bowl finishing from the Mexicans prevented us losing by more than the 1 goal. We had one chance in that game. We scored it.
El Salvador in T&T. Another miracle performance from Ince prevented the El Salvadoreans from earning at least a point. The team did play decently but defensively, we were still VERY SUSPECT
Honduras in Honduras. This time no miracles from Ince. Result? 4 in we pweffen. Our defence looking hapless. And by defence...I mean TEAM defence...not just the back 4.
We have regressed defensively under Latas. For a team that has several weaknesses, that's destructive. For those who care to remember, cast your minds back to Germany 2006. THIS is how we would have played if Latas was on the field from the start and these are the kind of results we would have gotten and worse.
Yuh want a "brand" to go forward and say yuh "lookin good" without having the foundation and discipline to handle tings when yuh lose the ball....yuh going to lose BADLY 9 times out of 10.
Until Latas learns how to coach DEFENCE, he and T&T won't be successful.
A hippo? Wim inherit a team that just went to the world cup but in fairness to him and due to blacklists he was out of his depth
Maturana get the team and the team went to an all time low where he had to call back a 41 yr old latas
who has now become the coach .... in the middle of this failing campaign and I'm a hippo for supporting him
Boy ... boy ... lolI feel like I on a mutiny ship and I have to protect Latas. All yuh fellas butting allyuh head against the wall ...we lorse and we lorse bad .... men go blame latas
because he is the coach even tho he wasn't on the field ... men go blame ince because he was the goalie he come off he line all kinda shit......as much as I tired of seeing this team play like that sometimes I even more tired ah hearing allyuh boy rant .... This is yuh f**king team wether yuh like it or not support or get the f**k out.
Fact vs fiction!
I think we have things in place Latas and Yorke is we head and assistant coach ...These two is the best TT has ever had and we damn well owe it to them to support them at least early in this stage...they didn't inherit no bomb squad so who vex vex (I wish it had lil smiley symbols for middle fingers)!
Latas ain't afraid to chop and change and he has to because men haven't stepped up and claimed their spots if we had won none of you muf**kas woulda said a damn thing. Let's face it we have been riding on yorke and latas shirt tails for years we even had to bring them out of retirement for us to qualify for the 2006 world cup so lets not get this shit twisted we had to let them go at some point.
Where does blame lie? This isn't a blame game it solves nothing ...... but here are a few firm things to assess .... to play at this level requires character above all ... you don't have to play at Yorke level to play at concacaf level and Latas cyah make you go out there and put in extraordinary effort ... you as the player have to make the choice as to wether you gonna chase the man after the ball go over your head (with conviction) or wait to see if Ince go save yuh again .... Fellas Honduras just hit Costa Rica 4 that nation extremely passionate about their team ...all yuh really feel they was gonna let we walk in their and take three points? They plan from start to finish was to go at us and come away with what was left of us after they were done it was up to the players on the field to decide wether they were gonna take a whipping and lie down or fight them like (men should) and make this a game.
I remember a concacaf gold cup game we lose to mexico 4-0 in the us and we run mexico to the ground believe it or not i wasn't mad a scoreline never did such injustice the fellas never gave up .... I remember Ronnie Mauge broke his leg playing for us and he played either div 2 or 3 in england he was not even born in Trini ..... I doh have to say a thing about Birchie.
We goh blame marvin and them (and lord knows he does bother meh eye at times) but the truth is he is a bit past his prime and in his prime he gave 150 % but the alternatives are not there. Men go watch the league a few times and see Peltier score a double against some and all of a sudden men doh understand why he not starting or this that and the other none of alyuh there in the training to see what men capable of.
Every coach is gonna have a favorite so doh use that line capello , beenie , latas all of them for what ever reason so please take that shit elsewhere. This team have to take the responsibility of this loss collectively but we have to continue supporting this our team they are showing that they are not good enough as players they are losing individual battles the midfield have the other midfield walking through the middle effectively changing out system to a 4-0-1. What allyuh want latas to do run out on the field, fall on he knees and beg a man to get up after the man beat yuh and track him down and not stand around and hope for another man to stop him. HE CYAH DO THAT MEN HAVE TO STEP ON THEY OWN WTF YOUR MOTHER DOES STILL HOLD YUH HAND WHEN YUH CROSSING THE STREET?
I know men on the team does read these rants and believe meh I doh wah hurt men feelings but as it stand this team is not good ... not good and its not because of talent (or lack there of) its because of desire ...you aren't showing that you want it and nobody can make you want it.
Who to blame? Poor wording ....... who is to resolve the issue ... the eleven players who strut out onto that pitch at any given time have to figure it out collectively don't point fingers step up and do your shift if yuh cyah do it step off !
All who think Darryl Roberts or Julius woulda make a difference allyuh dreaming this is a collective mentality and this is built over time and Latas need time because we don't have the kinda talent we used to.
when we lorse with wim yuh blame wim with maturana yuh blame him but with latapy nah he is we boy!!! a big hippo
did whim have the world cup players ?? eh well !!! latapy has them ent now what he do ???? oh shhhhh turn a blind eye to yuh boy
I not sure if anybody noticin...
but we defence lookin worse dan ever.
It was done shaky to begin with... but now...it frankomeh disgusting.
We cannot continue to rely on miracle performances from an aging Clayton Ince which is precisely what has been happening since Latas took over.
Our team has little organization, defensive discipline & shape. Now that may very well be players' fault but modern football is such that once you consistenly give away possession, you're going to pay sooner or later.
Latas has said that we should play in our "traditional style" which might be all well and good for romatics but I tell you this....unless you can be certain that you have the firepower to outscore your opposition....you're going to LOSE.
Look at the games thus far.
Costa Rica in Tobago. We scored...they scored more. Everytime they got the ball, they looked ikely to score against us.
Mexico in Mexico. A miracle performance by Ince combined with toilet bowl finishing from the Mexicans prevented us losing by more than the 1 goal. We had one chance in that game. We scored it.
El Salvador in T&T. Another miracle performance from Ince prevented the El Salvadoreans from earning at least a point. The team did play decently but defensively, we were still VERY SUSPECT
Honduras in Honduras. This time no miracles from Ince. Result? 4 in we pweffen. Our defence looking hapless. And by defence...I mean TEAM defence...not just the back 4.
We have regressed defensively under Latas. For a team that has several weaknesses, that's destructive. For those who care to remember, cast your minds back to Germany 2006. THIS is how we would have played if Latas was on the field from the start and these are the kind of results we would have gotten and worse.
Yuh want a "brand" to go forward and say yuh "lookin good" without having the foundation and discipline to handle tings when yuh lose the ball....yuh going to lose BADLY 9 times out of 10.
Until Latas learns how to coach DEFENCE, he and T&T won't be successful.
I said some really mean things and I feel terrible about it now ,I didnt mean all of it.I was just so upset ahhhh sorry buds.Do yah thing .
Palos, I am in agreement with respect to comments on the defensive posture of the team. However, as to the part in bold, ah charging yuh with elasticity dey ... at least until yuh bring support to defend that assertion. Please explain how Latas being on the field (under a different coaching philosophy) would have stretched to a thorough compromise of our defensive integrity. In responding, please assume I understand his liabilities as a two-way player.
I said some really mean things and I feel terrible about it now ,I didnt mean all of it.I was just so upset ahhhh sorry buds.Do yah thing .Sorry iz ah county in england yes!! you could sorry , but i eh sorry ah MDRCNT! latas sabotage the team wid his mad selections, and his wait till last minuite tuh make it known too!
I eh go lie palos, this is ah first, i knew yuh had it in yuh by the way yuh was always goofing off, now this is the kinda feed back that i luv tuh hear, real nice read bro , ah sh! t yuh not!Palos, I am in agreement with respect to comments on the defensive posture of the team. However, as to the part in bold, ah charging yuh with elasticity dey ... at least until yuh bring support to defend that assertion. Please explain how Latas being on the field (under a different coaching philosophy) would have stretched to a thorough compromise of our defensive integrity. In responding, please assume I understand his liabilities as a two-way player.
I believe Latas' coaching philosophy is closely aligned to his philosophy as a player. Attacking, creative football. Not to regurgitate this for the umpteenth time, but you asked so I'll respond. I believe the reason why Beenie did not play Latas all that much in WC 2006 is because by him being on the team, he MAY have compromised the defensive integrity of the team.
Make no mistake about it. Our team was structured in such a manner to try and prevent the opposition from scoring. To do so, an emphasis on defensive discipline AT ALL TIMES had to be maintained throughout the 90 minutes. Whatever goalscoring opportunities that would come our way would more than likely come off of a set piece or counter attack. It wasn't likely to come from any creative source that we had. To do so would be to expose an already fragile defensive mindset and given the results in our warm up matches against decent european opposition (comprehensive losses to Slovakia and Czech Republic) it was clear our only chance of relative success was to play "anti football" as Arsene Wenger puts it.
When Latas came on against paraguay, we immediately looked a better team going forward. We were already behind it's true but in so doing, we were increasingly vulnerable to the counter and at that level, you're going to get punished SEVERELY. The team responds to Latas' presence on the field. They lift their level of play....but not in the defensive part of the game and our discipline breaks down because men caught up in feeding off of Latas.
This mindset on creative attacking football neglecting the very important aspect of what needs to be done when playing without the ball is what I'm referring to. We all marvel at Barca and rave about their attacking football. But watch them when the opposition has the ball and see the discipline.
I had the pleasure & privilege to sit with some coaches this past weekend watching the Spain vs Belgium game and they pointed out how Spain had 3 men around the ball everytime the opposition had possession. They said every player buys into the philosophy and the philosophy is simple. They rather run short hard sprints for 5 - 10 yards than run back 50 yards to catch a player in possession. And EVERYBODY does it. From striker to defender. From Torres to Puyol. The training is anaerobic. Short wind sprints. Sharp, Fast. Of course, this is harder to do in very hot climates but it's the way the game is played now. Dem men say Spain play football from a different planet. Their movement was incredible. Belgium had NO CHANCE. And to their credit, they said so before the kickoff.
We don't have anywhere near that level of discipline.
Question ??? Can a fan also be on a power trip? Probably wanting things their way? Pissed off and upset when what they expected didn't occur? Accusations without knowledge? Nah..Probably not.I said some really mean things and I feel terrible about it now ,I didnt mean all of it.I was just so upset ahhhh sorry buds.Do yah thing .Sorry iz ah county in england yes!! you could sorry , but i eh sorry ah MDRCNT! latas sabotage the team wid his mad selections, and his wait till last minuite tuh make it known too!
he was on ah power trip, so now, let him eat cake! he had better players than what he picked tuh choose from , and he blatantly refused to use them, so i eh sorry about nutten i said, BC he hurt my feeling , so fork that, i not sorry. he danced to the music, so let him pay the piper now! and ah hope he get fired right after the hex.
I believe Latas' coaching philosophy is closely aligned to his philosophy as a player. Attacking, creative football. Not to regurgitate this for the umpteenth time, but you asked so I'll respond. I believe the reason why Beenie did not play Latas all that much in WC 2006 is because by him being on the team, he MAY have compromised the defensive integrity of the team.
Make no mistake about it. Our team was structured in such a manner to try and prevent the opposition from scoring. To do so, an emphasis on defensive discipline AT ALL TIMES had to be maintained throughout the 90 minutes. Whatever goalscoring opportunities that would come our way would more than likely come off of a set piece or counter attack. It wasn't likely to come from any creative source that we had. To do so would be to expose an already fragile defensive mindset and given the results in our warm up matches against decent european opposition (comprehensive losses to Slovakia and Czech Republic) it was clear our only chance of relative success was to play "anti football" as Arsene Wenger puts it.
When Latas came on against paraguay, we immediately looked a better team going forward. We were already behind it's true but in so doing, we were increasingly vulnerable to the counter and at that level, you're going to get punished SEVERELY. The team responds to Latas' presence on the field. They lift their level of play....but not in the defensive part of the game and our discipline breaks down because men caught up in feeding off of Latas.
This mindset on creative attacking football neglecting the very important aspect of what needs to be done when playing without the ball is what I'm referring to. We all marvel at Barca and rave about their attacking football. But watch them when the opposition has the ball and see the discipline.
I had the pleasure & privilege to sit with some coaches this past weekend watching the Spain vs Belgium game and they pointed out how Spain had 3 men around the ball everytime the opposition had possession. They said every player buys into the philosophy and the philosophy is simple. They rather run short hard sprints for 5 - 10 yards than run back 50 yards to catch a player in possession. And EVERYBODY does it. From striker to defender. From Torres to Puyol. The training is anaerobic. Short wind sprints. Sharp, Fast. Of course, this is harder to do in very hot climates but it's the way the game is played now. Dem men say Spain play football from a different planet. Their movement was incredible. Belgium had NO CHANCE. And to their credit, they said so before the kickoff.
We don't have anywhere near that level of discipline.
Partnah look at the world cup players latas have.... Dog ..obviously past his prime ..... tallest past his prime but still decent ....whitley arguably our best midfielder from the 2006 squad injured out and now start back playing with petrotrin ... Yorke retired frm ball period .... birchy is there but he has injuries and the list goes on ... latas has shadows of what whim had and the younger ones are not stepping up ...imagine our main source of attack relegated to play right back because after all this time we don't have anyone capable of playing it well consistently ... I ask meh boy today who could we really put in the middle and besides birchy we have no one there who could match birchy work rate defensively far less be an organiser and distributor ... Trent isnt good enough and in fairness to him 33 is a bit old to come in as a rookie and lead this team from the middle when your previous merits is being player of the year in pro league ... trent is a hard working role player he is no play maker ... our team simply as it is now is not good enough our players are unable to handle it at this level!A hippo? Wim inherit a team that just went to the world cup but in fairness to him and due to blacklists he was out of his depth
Maturana get the team and the team went to an all time low where he had to call back a 41 yr old latas
who has now become the coach .... in the middle of this failing campaign and I'm a hippo for supporting him
Boy ... boy ... lolI feel like I on a mutiny ship and I have to protect Latas. All yuh fellas butting allyuh head against the wall ...we lorse and we lorse bad .... men go blame latas
because he is the coach even tho he wasn't on the field ... men go blame ince because he was the goalie he come off he line all kinda shit......as much as I tired of seeing this team play like that sometimes I even more tired ah hearing allyuh boy rant .... This is yuh f**king team wether yuh like it or not support or get the f**k out.
Fact vs fiction!
I think we have things in place Latas and Yorke is we head and assistant coach ...These two is the best TT has ever had and we damn well owe it to them to support them at least early in this stage...they didn't inherit no bomb squad so who vex vex (I wish it had lil smiley symbols for middle fingers)!
Latas ain't afraid to chop and change and he has to because men haven't stepped up and claimed their spots if we had won none of you muf**kas woulda said a damn thing. Let's face it we have been riding on yorke and latas shirt tails for years we even had to bring them out of retirement for us to qualify for the 2006 world cup so lets not get this shit twisted we had to let them go at some point.
Where does blame lie? This isn't a blame game it solves nothing ...... but here are a few firm things to assess .... to play at this level requires character above all ... you don't have to play at Yorke level to play at concacaf level and Latas cyah make you go out there and put in extraordinary effort ... you as the player have to make the choice as to wether you gonna chase the man after the ball go over your head (with conviction) or wait to see if Ince go save yuh again .... Fellas Honduras just hit Costa Rica 4 that nation extremely passionate about their team ...all yuh really feel they was gonna let we walk in their and take three points? They plan from start to finish was to go at us and come away with what was left of us after they were done it was up to the players on the field to decide wether they were gonna take a whipping and lie down or fight them like (men should) and make this a game.
I remember a concacaf gold cup game we lose to mexico 4-0 in the us and we run mexico to the ground believe it or not i wasn't mad a scoreline never did such injustice the fellas never gave up .... I remember Ronnie Mauge broke his leg playing for us and he played either div 2 or 3 in england he was not even born in Trini ..... I doh have to say a thing about Birchie.
We goh blame marvin and them (and lord knows he does bother meh eye at times) but the truth is he is a bit past his prime and in his prime he gave 150 % but the alternatives are not there. Men go watch the league a few times and see Peltier score a double against some and all of a sudden men doh understand why he not starting or this that and the other none of alyuh there in the training to see what men capable of.
Every coach is gonna have a favorite so doh use that line capello , beenie , latas all of them for what ever reason so please take that shit elsewhere. This team have to take the responsibility of this loss collectively but we have to continue supporting this our team they are showing that they are not good enough as players they are losing individual battles the midfield have the other midfield walking through the middle effectively changing out system to a 4-0-1. What allyuh want latas to do run out on the field, fall on he knees and beg a man to get up after the man beat yuh and track him down and not stand around and hope for another man to stop him. HE CYAH DO THAT MEN HAVE TO STEP ON THEY OWN WTF YOUR MOTHER DOES STILL HOLD YUH HAND WHEN YUH CROSSING THE STREET?
I know men on the team does read these rants and believe meh I doh wah hurt men feelings but as it stand this team is not good ... not good and its not because of talent (or lack there of) its because of desire ...you aren't showing that you want it and nobody can make you want it.
Who to blame? Poor wording ....... who is to resolve the issue ... the eleven players who strut out onto that pitch at any given time have to figure it out collectively don't point fingers step up and do your shift if yuh cyah do it step off !
All who think Darryl Roberts or Julius woulda make a difference allyuh dreaming this is a collective mentality and this is built over time and Latas need time because we don't have the kinda talent we used to.
when we lorse with wim yuh blame wim with maturana yuh blame him but with latapy nah he is we boy!!! a big hippo
did whim have the world cup players ?? eh well !!! latapy has them ent now what he do ???? oh shhhhh turn a blind eye to yuh boy
Palos, I am in agreement with respect to comments on the defensive posture of the team. However, as to the part in bold, ah charging yuh with elasticity dey ... at least until yuh bring support to defend that assertion. Please explain how Latas being on the field (under a different coaching philosophy) would have stretched to a thorough compromise of our defensive integrity. In responding, please assume I understand his liabilities as a two-way player.
I believe Latas' coaching philosophy is closely aligned to his philosophy as a player. Attacking, creative football. Not to regurgitate this for the umpteenth time, but you asked so I'll respond. I believe the reason why Beenie did not play Latas all that much in WC 2006 is because by him being on the team, he MAY have compromised the defensive integrity of the team.
Make no mistake about it. Our team was structured in such a manner to try and prevent the opposition from scoring. To do so, an emphasis on defensive discipline AT ALL TIMES had to be maintained throughout the 90 minutes. Whatever goalscoring opportunities that would come our way would more than likely come off of a set piece or counter attack. It wasn't likely to come from any creative source that we had. To do so would be to expose an already fragile defensive mindset and given the results in our warm up matches against decent european opposition (comprehensive losses to Slovakia and Czech Republic) it was clear our only chance of relative success was to play "anti football" as Arsene Wenger puts it.
When Latas came on against paraguay, we immediately looked a better team going forward. We were already behind it's true but in so doing, we were increasingly vulnerable to the counter and at that level, you're going to get punished SEVERELY. The team responds to Latas' presence on the field. They lift their level of play....but not in the defensive part of the game and our discipline breaks down because men caught up in feeding off of Latas.
This mindset on creative attacking football neglecting the very important aspect of what needs to be done when playing without the ball is what I'm referring to. We all marvel at Barca and rave about their attacking football. But watch them when the opposition has the ball and see the discipline.
I had the pleasure & privilege to sit with some coaches this past weekend watching the Spain vs Belgium game and they pointed out how Spain had 3 men around the ball everytime the opposition had possession. They said every player buys into the philosophy and the philosophy is simple. They rather run short hard sprints for 5 - 10 yards than run back 50 yards to catch a player in possession. And EVERYBODY does it. From striker to defender. From Torres to Puyol. The training is anaerobic. Short wind sprints. Sharp, Fast. Of course, this is harder to do in very hot climates but it's the way the game is played now. Dem men say Spain play football from a different planet. Their movement was incredible. Belgium had NO CHANCE. And to their credit, they said so before the kickoff.
We don't have anywhere near that level of discipline.
Palos, I am in agreement with respect to comments on the defensive posture of the team. However, as to the part in bold, ah charging yuh with elasticity dey ... at least until yuh bring support to defend that assertion. Please explain how Latas being on the field (under a different coaching philosophy) would have stretched to a thorough compromise of our defensive integrity. In responding, please assume I understand his liabilities as a two-way player.
I believe Latas' coaching philosophy is closely aligned to his philosophy as a player. Attacking, creative football. Not to regurgitate this for the umpteenth time, but you asked so I'll respond. I believe the reason why Beenie did not play Latas all that much in WC 2006 is because by him being on the team, he MAY have compromised the defensive integrity of the team.
Make no mistake about it. Our team was structured in such a manner to try and prevent the opposition from scoring. To do so, an emphasis on defensive discipline AT ALL TIMES had to be maintained throughout the 90 minutes. Whatever goalscoring opportunities that would come our way would more than likely come off of a set piece or counter attack. It wasn't likely to come from any creative source that we had. To do so would be to expose an already fragile defensive mindset and given the results in our warm up matches against decent european opposition (comprehensive losses to Slovakia and Czech Republic) it was clear our only chance of relative success was to play "anti football" as Arsene Wenger puts it.
When Latas came on against paraguay, we immediately looked a better team going forward. We were already behind it's true but in so doing, we were increasingly vulnerable to the counter and at that level, you're going to get punished SEVERELY. The team responds to Latas' presence on the field. They lift their level of play....but not in the defensive part of the game and our discipline breaks down because men caught up in feeding off of Latas.
This mindset on creative attacking football neglecting the very important aspect of what needs to be done when playing without the ball is what I'm referring to. We all marvel at Barca and rave about their attacking football. But watch them when the opposition has the ball and see the discipline.
I had the pleasure & privilege to sit with some coaches this past weekend watching the Spain vs Belgium game and they pointed out how Spain had 3 men around the ball everytime the opposition had possession. They said every player buys into the philosophy and the philosophy is simple. They rather run short hard sprints for 5 - 10 yards than run back 50 yards to catch a player in possession. And EVERYBODY does it. From striker to defender. From Torres to Puyol. The training is anaerobic. Short wind sprints. Sharp, Fast. Of course, this is harder to do in very hot climates but it's the way the game is played now. Dem men say Spain play football from a different planet. Their movement was incredible. Belgium had NO CHANCE. And to their credit, they said so before the kickoff.
We don't have anywhere near that level of discipline.
Palos, I am in agreement with respect to comments on the defensive posture of the team. However, as to the part in bold, ah charging yuh with elasticity dey ... at least until yuh bring support to defend that assertion. Please explain how Latas being on the field (under a different coaching philosophy) would have stretched to a thorough compromise of our defensive integrity. In responding, please assume I understand his liabilities as a two-way player.
I believe Latas' coaching philosophy is closely aligned to his philosophy as a player. Attacking, creative football. Not to regurgitate this for the umpteenth time, but you asked so I'll respond. I believe the reason why Beenie did not play Latas all that much in WC 2006 is because by him being on the team, he MAY have compromised the defensive integrity of the team.
Make no mistake about it. Our team was structured in such a manner to try and prevent the opposition from scoring. To do so, an emphasis on defensive discipline AT ALL TIMES had to be maintained throughout the 90 minutes. Whatever goalscoring opportunities that would come our way would more than likely come off of a set piece or counter attack. It wasn't likely to come from any creative source that we had. To do so would be to expose an already fragile defensive mindset and given the results in our warm up matches against decent european opposition (comprehensive losses to Slovakia and Czech Republic) it was clear our only chance of relative success was to play "anti football" as Arsene Wenger puts it.
When Latas came on against paraguay, we immediately looked a better team going forward. We were already behind it's true but in so doing, we were increasingly vulnerable to the counter and at that level, you're going to get punished SEVERELY. The team responds to Latas' presence on the field. They lift their level of play....but not in the defensive part of the game and our discipline breaks down because men caught up in feeding off of Latas.
This mindset on creative attacking football neglecting the very important aspect of what needs to be done when playing without the ball is what I'm referring to. We all marvel at Barca and rave about their attacking football. But watch them when the opposition has the ball and see the discipline.
I had the pleasure & privilege to sit with some coaches this past weekend watching the Spain vs Belgium game and they pointed out how Spain had 3 men around the ball everytime the opposition had possession. They said every player buys into the philosophy and the philosophy is simple. They rather run short hard sprints for 5 - 10 yards than run back 50 yards to catch a player in possession. And EVERYBODY does it. From striker to defender. From Torres to Puyol. The training is anaerobic. Short wind sprints. Sharp, Fast. Of course, this is harder to do in very hot climates but it's the way the game is played now. Dem men say Spain play football from a different planet. Their movement was incredible. Belgium had NO CHANCE. And to their credit, they said so before the kickoff.
We don't have anywhere near that level of discipline.
Firing Latapy like all de other coaches is just band aid treatment.The next coach unless Beenie like will be fired too.You'll realise de only man who couldn't careless about Jack or any player but went by his PERSONAL judgement and assessments is the only one to succeed? So tell me who's de real man to fire.
Palos, I am in agreement with respect to comments on the defensive posture of the team. However, as to the part in bold, ah charging yuh with elasticity dey ... at least until yuh bring support to defend that assertion. Please explain how Latas being on the field (under a different coaching philosophy) would have stretched to a thorough compromise of our defensive integrity. In responding, please assume I understand his liabilities as a two-way player.
I believe Latas' coaching philosophy is closely aligned to his philosophy as a player. Attacking, creative football. Not to regurgitate this for the umpteenth time, but you asked so I'll respond. I believe the reason why Beenie did not play Latas all that much in WC 2006 is because by him being on the team, he MAY have compromised the defensive integrity of the team.
Make no mistake about it. Our team was structured in such a manner to try and prevent the opposition from scoring. To do so, an emphasis on defensive discipline AT ALL TIMES had to be maintained throughout the 90 minutes. Whatever goalscoring opportunities that would come our way would more than likely come off of a set piece or counter attack. It wasn't likely to come from any creative source that we had. To do so would be to expose an already fragile defensive mindset and given the results in our warm up matches against decent european opposition (comprehensive losses to Slovakia and Czech Republic) it was clear our only chance of relative success was to play "anti football" as Arsene Wenger puts it.
When Latas came on against paraguay, we immediately looked a better team going forward. We were already behind it's true but in so doing, we were increasingly vulnerable to the counter and at that level, you're going to get punished SEVERELY. The team responds to Latas' presence on the field. They lift their level of play....but not in the defensive part of the game and our discipline breaks down because men caught up in feeding off of Latas.
This mindset on creative attacking football neglecting the very important aspect of what needs to be done when playing without the ball is what I'm referring to. We all marvel at Barca and rave about their attacking football. But watch them when the opposition has the ball and see the discipline.
I had the pleasure & privilege to sit with some coaches this past weekend watching the Spain vs Belgium game and they pointed out how Spain had 3 men around the ball everytime the opposition had possession. They said every player buys into the philosophy and the philosophy is simple. They rather run short hard sprints for 5 - 10 yards than run back 50 yards to catch a player in possession. And EVERYBODY does it. From striker to defender. From Torres to Puyol. The training is anaerobic. Short wind sprints. Sharp, Fast. Of course, this is harder to do in very hot climates but it's the way the game is played now. Dem men say Spain play football from a different planet. Their movement was incredible. Belgium had NO CHANCE. And to their credit, they said so before the kickoff.
We don't have anywhere near that level of discipline.
Very good insight Palos. Tried to explain Beenie's defensive approach/philosophy to our game to ah padnah. The man was soo pissed, complaining that is not we style and was disappointed the world did see that we can play attacking style football.
Firing Latapy like all de other coaches is just band aid treatment.The next coach unless Beenie like will be fired too.You'll realise de only man who couldn't careless about Jack or any player but went by his PERSONAL judgement and assessments is the only one to succeed? So tell me who's de real man to fire.
Palos, I am in agreement with respect to comments on the defensive posture of the team. However, as to the part in bold, ah charging yuh with elasticity dey ... at least until yuh bring support to defend that assertion. Please explain how Latas being on the field (under a different coaching philosophy) would have stretched to a thorough compromise of our defensive integrity. In responding, please assume I understand his liabilities as a two-way player.
I believe Latas' coaching philosophy is closely aligned to his philosophy as a player. Attacking, creative football. Not to regurgitate this for the umpteenth time, but you asked so I'll respond. I believe the reason why Beenie did not play Latas all that much in WC 2006 is because by him being on the team, he MAY have compromised the defensive integrity of the team.
Make no mistake about it. Our team was structured in such a manner to try and prevent the opposition from scoring. To do so, an emphasis on defensive discipline AT ALL TIMES had to be maintained throughout the 90 minutes. Whatever goalscoring opportunities that would come our way would more than likely come off of a set piece or counter attack. It wasn't likely to come from any creative source that we had. To do so would be to expose an already fragile defensive mindset and given the results in our warm up matches against decent european opposition (comprehensive losses to Slovakia and Czech Republic) it was clear our only chance of relative success was to play "anti football" as Arsene Wenger puts it.
When Latas came on against paraguay, we immediately looked a better team going forward. We were already behind it's true but in so doing, we were increasingly vulnerable to the counter and at that level, you're going to get punished SEVERELY. The team responds to Latas' presence on the field. They lift their level of play....but not in the defensive part of the game and our discipline breaks down because men caught up in feeding off of Latas.
This mindset on creative attacking football neglecting the very important aspect of what needs to be done when playing without the ball is what I'm referring to. We all marvel at Barca and rave about their attacking football. But watch them when the opposition has the ball and see the discipline.
I had the pleasure & privilege to sit with some coaches this past weekend watching the Spain vs Belgium game and they pointed out how Spain had 3 men around the ball everytime the opposition had possession. They said every player buys into the philosophy and the philosophy is simple. They rather run short hard sprints for 5 - 10 yards than run back 50 yards to catch a player in possession. And EVERYBODY does it. From striker to defender. From Torres to Puyol. The training is anaerobic. Short wind sprints. Sharp, Fast. Of course, this is harder to do in very hot climates but it's the way the game is played now. Dem men say Spain play football from a different planet. Their movement was incredible. Belgium had NO CHANCE. And to their credit, they said so before the kickoff.
We don't have anywhere near that level of discipline.
paging Beenie to groom the 2014 team from today
Like many of you I too agree with palos, but here's the thing. I think the problem goes beyong Latapy. His approach mirrors the way we view the game. At the U-21 Pan American Male Hockey tournament played here in T&T I listened to a parent of one of the parents cheer on T&T against Argentina to continue to attack with reckless abandon with no concern as to the rising scoreline (eventually ended 8-1). He was happy to see them attack and didn't care that the 8th goal conceded (on a counterattack from one of the open forays forward) put the team in a must win situation against the US team.
We have a mindset here that is slow to change, fiercely protected and encouraged (even when clearly wrong) and far too often is struggling to reinvent the wheel. "Dem cyah tell we how to play football" or "We have plenty talented players" is often the mantra here while we continue to perform poorly.
Why is it our attackers (from schools football right up to the national team) do not put in any defensive work? We still have the mindset that forwards only job is to score goals despite numerous examples of the best attacking players in the world putting in solid defensive shifts. Rooney, Ronaldo, Messi, Henry and Drogba come to mind easily as guys who either defend well or are typically involved defensively in the game.
As long as we continue to live in the dream world that we have cornered the market on talented players and ignore the game and what the good players and teams do we will continue to have unreasonably high expectatins disappointed time after time.
Maybe, but I have a recommendation for Russell Latapy. If you want to be the best you have to learn from the best forget trying to beat the best, for now.
Latapy, I am shouting from the mountain top. Can you hear me me me me me me. If you don't know what you are doing then you better ask somebody. Call Dunga of Brazil, call Pat Guardiola of Barcelona, call Jose Maurinho of Inter Milan, call Sir Alex Ferguson of Manchester United, call Franz Beckenbauer of Germany fame, call the current head coach of Spain, call Johan Cruff of Holland fame. Ask somebody, plese pick their brain, but by all means don't call Francisco Maturana, don't call Wim Rijsbergen, don't call Oliver Camps, he is clueless and brain dead, don't call Zoran Vranes, don't call Lincoln Phillips, don't call Jack Warner and by all means don't consult yourself. You may have a clue but the players you have selected so far for your team cannot read clues.
I feel like I on a mutiny ship and I have to protect Latas. All yuh fellas butting allyuh head against the wall ...we lorse and we lorse bad .... men go blame latas
because he is the coach even tho he wasn't on the field ... men go blame ince because he was the goalie he come off he line all kinda shit......as much as I tired of seeing this team play like that sometimes I even more tired ah hearing allyuh boy rant .... This is yuh f**king team wether yuh like it or not support or get the f**k out.
Fact vs fiction!
I think we have things in place Latas and Yorke is we head and assistant coach ...These two is the best TT has ever had and we damn well owe it to them to support them at least early in this stage...they didn't inherit no bomb squad so who vex vex (I wish it had lil smiley symbols for middle fingers)!
Latas ain't afraid to chop and change and he has to because men haven't stepped up and claimed their spots if we had won none of you muf**kas woulda said a damn thing. Let's face it we have been riding on yorke and latas shirt tails for years we even had to bring them out of retirement for us to qualify for the 2006 world cup so lets not get this shit twisted we had to let them go at some point.
Where does blame lie? This isn't a blame game it solves nothing ...... but here are a few firm things to assess .... to play at this level requires character above all ... you don't have to play at Yorke level to play at concacaf level and Latas cyah make you go out there and put in extraordinary effort ... you as the player have to make the choice as to wether you gonna chase the man after the ball go over your head (with conviction) or wait to see if Ince go save yuh again .... Fellas Honduras just hit Costa Rica 4 that nation extremely passionate about their team ...all yuh really feel they was gonna let we walk in their and take three points? They plan from start to finish was to go at us and come away with what was left of us after they were done it was up to the players on the field to decide wether they were gonna take a whipping and lie down or fight them like (men should) and make this a game.
I remember a concacaf gold cup game we lose to mexico 4-0 in the us and we run mexico to the ground believe it or not i wasn't mad a scoreline never did such injustice the fellas never gave up .... I remember Ronnie Mauge broke his leg playing for us and he played either div 2 or 3 in england he was not even born in Trini ..... I doh have to say a thing about Birchie.
We goh blame marvin and them (and lord knows he does bother meh eye at times) but the truth is he is a bit past his prime and in his prime he gave 150 % but the alternatives are not there. Men go watch the league a few times and see Peltier score a double against some and all of a sudden men doh understand why he not starting or this that and the other none of alyuh there in the training to see what men capable of.
Every coach is gonna have a favorite so doh use that line capello , beenie , latas all of them for what ever reason so please take that shit elsewhere. This team have to take the responsibility of this loss collectively but we have to continue supporting this our team they are showing that they are not good enough as players they are losing individual battles the midfield have the other midfield walking through the middle effectively changing out system to a 4-0-1. What allyuh want latas to do run out on the field, fall on he knees and beg a man to get up after the man beat yuh and track him down and not stand around and hope for another man to stop him. HE CYAH DO THAT MEN HAVE TO STEP ON THEY OWN WTF YOUR MOTHER DOES STILL HOLD YUH HAND WHEN YUH CROSSING THE STREET?
I know men on the team does read these rants and believe meh I doh wah hurt men feelings but as it stand this team is not good ... not good and its not because of talent (or lack there of) its because of desire ...you aren't showing that you want it and nobody can make you want it.
Who to blame? Poor wording ....... who is to resolve the issue ... the eleven players who strut out onto that pitch at any given time have to figure it out collectively don't point fingers step up and do your shift if yuh cyah do it step off !
All who think Darryl Roberts or Julius woulda make a difference allyuh dreaming this is a collective mentality and this is built over time and Latas need time because we don't have the kinda talent we used to.
So tell me something, who clean up sven goran errikson's BIG pile ah sh!t, not javier agguirre??KEEP LATAPY RITE WHEY HE IS!!!!!!!!Why!! he bummin!! so if he's ah darling leff he, but if he's ah foreigner(columbain) run him!
allyuh really eh derseve nutten good, that's BC allyuh love mediocrity! leave him even though he's clueless! and allyuh say allyuh love TNT football. look how dem argentinians go call for maradona head tommorrow, iz dem who love they football.
dat is not wat i sayin JC. i jus want ppl to give latas a chance to show wat he cud do. as weary say, maturana got 14 months to coach we team an all he really did was leave us in a big pile of s**t.
allyuh cah expect latas to clean up maturana mess in d space of three months. i agree wid u where his team selection leavin much to be desired but dat eh warrant me callin 4 he head yet.
at d end of d day JC, u have your opinion on dis latas situation and i have mine. :beermug:
the man on the job just as long as latas , and he's 3 and i, plus he won the GC against the U.S on U.S. soil by ah huge margin.
that's ah cop out! latas was indeed ah good player , but as the cliche goes, good players seldom make good coaches. i say give him ah GOLD ROLEX and GET RID!
So wha we still keeping latapy ...he cheap. JW dont have to pay him alot to coach
Palos, I am in agreement with respect to comments on the defensive posture of the team. However, as to the part in bold, ah charging yuh with elasticity dey ... at least until yuh bring support to defend that assertion. Please explain how Latas being on the field (under a different coaching philosophy) would have stretched to a thorough compromise of our defensive integrity. In responding, please assume I understand his liabilities as a two-way player.
I believe Latas' coaching philosophy is closely aligned to his philosophy as a player. Attacking, creative football. Not to regurgitate this for the umpteenth time, but you asked so I'll respond. I believe the reason why Beenie did not play Latas all that much in WC 2006 is because by him being on the team, he MAY have compromised the defensive integrity of the team.
Make no mistake about it. Our team was structured in such a manner to try and prevent the opposition from scoring. To do so, an emphasis on defensive discipline AT ALL TIMES had to be maintained throughout the 90 minutes. Whatever goalscoring opportunities that would come our way would more than likely come off of a set piece or counter attack. It wasn't likely to come from any creative source that we had. To do so would be to expose an already fragile defensive mindset and given the results in our warm up matches against decent european opposition (comprehensive losses to Slovakia and Czech Republic) it was clear our only chance of relative success was to play "anti football" as Arsene Wenger puts it.
When Latas came on against paraguay, we immediately looked a better team going forward. We were already behind it's true but in so doing, we were increasingly vulnerable to the counter and at that level, you're going to get punished SEVERELY. The team responds to Latas' presence on the field. They lift their level of play....but not in the defensive part of the game and our discipline breaks down because men caught up in feeding off of Latas.
This mindset on creative attacking football neglecting the very important aspect of what needs to be done when playing without the ball is what I'm referring to. We all marvel at Barca and rave about their attacking football. But watch them when the opposition has the ball and see the discipline.
I had the pleasure & privilege to sit with some coaches this past weekend watching the Spain vs Belgium game and they pointed out how Spain had 3 men around the ball everytime the opposition had possession. They said every player buys into the philosophy and the philosophy is simple. They rather run short hard sprints for 5 - 10 yards than run back 50 yards to catch a player in possession. And EVERYBODY does it. From striker to defender. From Torres to Puyol. The training is anaerobic. Short wind sprints. Sharp, Fast. Of course, this is harder to do in very hot climates but it's the way the game is played now. Dem men say Spain play football from a different planet. Their movement was incredible. Belgium had NO CHANCE. And to their credit, they said so before the kickoff.
We don't have anywhere near that level of discipline.
Also, it was pure bullsh!t that Brent Sancho was not on this team, even though he is de only player to score a goal for TnT in a world cup.
Also, it was pure bullsh!t that Brent Sancho was not on this team, even though he is de only player to score a goal for TnT in a world cup.:devil:
Also, it was pure bullsh!t that Brent Sancho was not on this team, even though he is de only player to score a goal for TnT in a world cup.:devil:
hear nuh...is orrite ;D
Palos,
Padnah, I hear what yuh sayin but de bottom line is as much as you want to agree with Beenie for benching Latas at the 2006 WC, I say that was BS! Yuh know why, we wouldah nevah win against Guatemala, and the three games when Latas reach for we to qualify, is because ah he, LATAS, phu*ue Beenie, that we reach 2006. After Beenie and Yorke was there, we were still losing and our way out of 2006 qualification, it is only aftah de Magician reach, we start tuh win and we were given a chance to qualify in 2006.
Same in this campaign, after Latas start tuh play, he scored that goal to put we in the final 6. Now, I agree, from my German way of believing the way football should be coached and played, Latas, I agree with you is ah shithound coach, but please realize that without Latas, we wouldah NEVAH touch de ground in Germany, and without Latas at 40 on de field for 2010 quals, we had no chance after he became coach, he is de greatest footballer we have had and it is only because when Latas arrive for 2006 qualifications, that we start tuh win and he stole Beenie thundah that Beenie start tuh bench him. Doh give meh no tork about weed and thing, without Latas, Germany would not have happenned, end of story.
I do agree that he is too caught up in his way of play and want to put his magic into the rest of the team, impossible, yuh born with that, the minute he start benching Birchall, I had my doubts about him as coach.Palos, I am in agreement with respect to comments on the defensive posture of the team. However, as to the part in bold, ah charging yuh with elasticity dey ... at least until yuh bring support to defend that assertion. Please explain how Latas being on the field (under a different coaching philosophy) would have stretched to a thorough compromise of our defensive integrity. In responding, please assume I understand his liabilities as a two-way player.
I believe Latas' coaching philosophy is closely aligned to his philosophy as a player. Attacking, creative football. Not to regurgitate this for the umpteenth time, but you asked so I'll respond. I believe the reason why Beenie did not play Latas all that much in WC 2006 is because by him being on the team, he MAY have compromised the defensive integrity of the team.
Make no mistake about it. Our team was structured in such a manner to try and prevent the opposition from scoring. To do so, an emphasis on defensive discipline AT ALL TIMES had to be maintained throughout the 90 minutes. Whatever goalscoring opportunities that would come our way would more than likely come off of a set piece or counter attack. It wasn't likely to come from any creative source that we had. To do so would be to expose an already fragile defensive mindset and given the results in our warm up matches against decent european opposition (comprehensive losses to Slovakia and Czech Republic) it was clear our only chance of relative success was to play "anti football" as Arsene Wenger puts it.
When Latas came on against paraguay, we immediately looked a better team going forward. We were already behind it's true but in so doing, we were increasingly vulnerable to the counter and at that level, you're going to get punished SEVERELY. The team responds to Latas' presence on the field. They lift their level of play....but not in the defensive part of the game and our discipline breaks down because men caught up in feeding off of Latas.
This mindset on creative attacking football neglecting the very important aspect of what needs to be done when playing without the ball is what I'm referring to. We all marvel at Barca and rave about their attacking football. But watch them when the opposition has the ball and see the discipline.
I had the pleasure & privilege to sit with some coaches this past weekend watching the Spain vs Belgium game and they pointed out how Spain had 3 men around the ball everytime the opposition had possession. They said every player buys into the philosophy and the philosophy is simple. They rather run short hard sprints for 5 - 10 yards than run back 50 yards to catch a player in possession. And EVERYBODY does it. From striker to defender. From Torres to Puyol. The training is anaerobic. Short wind sprints. Sharp, Fast. Of course, this is harder to do in very hot climates but it's the way the game is played now. Dem men say Spain play football from a different planet. Their movement was incredible. Belgium had NO CHANCE. And to their credit, they said so before the kickoff.
We don't have anywhere near that level of discipline.
Palos, I am in agreement with respect to comments on the defensive posture of the team. However, as to the part in bold, ah charging yuh with elasticity dey ... at least until yuh bring support to defend that assertion. Please explain how Latas being on the field (under a different coaching philosophy) would have stretched to a thorough compromise of our defensive integrity. In responding, please assume I understand his liabilities as a two-way player.
I believe Latas' coaching philosophy is closely aligned to his philosophy as a player. Attacking, creative football. Not to regurgitate this for the umpteenth time, but you asked so I'll respond. I believe the reason why Beenie did not play Latas all that much in WC 2006 is because by him being on the team, he MAY have compromised the defensive integrity of the team.
Make no mistake about it. Our team was structured in such a manner to try and prevent the opposition from scoring. To do so, an emphasis on defensive discipline AT ALL TIMES had to be maintained throughout the 90 minutes. Whatever goalscoring opportunities that would come our way would more than likely come off of a set piece or counter attack. It wasn't likely to come from any creative source that we had. To do so would be to expose an already fragile defensive mindset and given the results in our warm up matches against decent european opposition (comprehensive losses to Slovakia and Czech Republic) it was clear our only chance of relative success was to play "anti football" as Arsene Wenger puts it.
When Latas came on against paraguay, we immediately looked a better team going forward. We were already behind it's true but in so doing, we were increasingly vulnerable to the counter and at that level, you're going to get punished SEVERELY. The team responds to Latas' presence on the field. They lift their level of play....but not in the defensive part of the game and our discipline breaks down because men caught up in feeding off of Latas.
This mindset on creative attacking football neglecting the very important aspect of what needs to be done when playing without the ball is what I'm referring to. We all marvel at Barca and rave about their attacking football. But watch them when the opposition has the ball and see the discipline.
I had the pleasure & privilege to sit with some coaches this past weekend watching the Spain vs Belgium game and they pointed out how Spain had 3 men around the ball everytime the opposition had possession. They said every player buys into the philosophy and the philosophy is simple. They rather run short hard sprints for 5 - 10 yards than run back 50 yards to catch a player in possession. And EVERYBODY does it. From striker to defender. From Torres to Puyol. The training is anaerobic. Short wind sprints. Sharp, Fast. Of course, this is harder to do in very hot climates but it's the way the game is played now. Dem men say Spain play football from a different planet. Their movement was incredible. Belgium had NO CHANCE. And to their credit, they said so before the kickoff.
We don't have anywhere near that level of discipline.
Palos,
Padnah, I hear what yuh sayin but de bottom line is as much as you want to agree with Beenie for benching Latas at the 2006 WC, I say that was BS! Yuh know why, we wouldah nevah win against Guatemala, and the three games when Latas reach for we to qualify, is because ah he, LATAS, phu*ue Beenie, that we reach 2006. After Beenie and Yorke was there, we were still losing and our way out of 2006 qualification, it is only aftah de Magician reach, we start tuh win and we were given a chance to qualify in 2006.
Same in this campaign, after Latas start tuh play, he scored that goal to put we in the final 6. Now, I agree, from my German way of believing the way football should be coached and played, Latas, I agree with you is ah shithound coach, but please realize that without Latas, we wouldah NEVAH touch de ground in Germany, and without Latas at 40 on de field for 2010 quals, we had no chance after he became coach, he is de greatest footballer we have had and it is only because when Latas arrive for 2006 qualifications, that we start tuh win and he stole Beenie thundah that Beenie start tuh bench him. Doh give meh no tork about weed and thing, without Latas, Germany would not have happenned, end of story.
I do agree that he is too caught up in his way of play and want to put his magic into the rest of the team, impossible, yuh born with that, the minute he start benching Birchall, I had my doubts about him as coach.
Palos,
Padnah, I hear what yuh sayin but de bottom line is as much as you want to agree with Beenie for benching Latas at the 2006 WC, I say that was BS! Yuh know why, we wouldah nevah win against Guatemala, and the three games when Latas reach for we to qualify, is because ah he, LATAS, phu*ue Beenie, that we reach 2006. After Beenie and Yorke was there, we were still losing and our way out of 2006 qualification, it is only aftah de Magician reach, we start tuh win and we were given a chance to qualify in 2006.
Same in this campaign, after Latas start tuh play, he scored that goal to put we in the final 6. Now, I agree, from my German way of believing the way football should be coached and played, Latas, I agree with you is ah shithound coach, but please realize that without Latas, we wouldah NEVAH touch de ground in Germany, and without Latas at 40 on de field for 2010 quals, we had no chance after he became coach, he is de greatest footballer we have had and it is only because when Latas arrive for 2006 qualifications, that we start tuh win and he stole Beenie thundah that Beenie start tuh bench him. Doh give meh no tork about weed and thing, without Latas, Germany would not have happenned, end of story.
I do agree that he is too caught up in his way of play and want to put his magic into the rest of the team, impossible, yuh born with that, the minute he start benching Birchall, I had my doubts about him as coach.
Rubbish!!! why would a coach bench a player who can help the team win games thus making him(the coach ) look good ?
Palos,
Padnah, I hear what yuh sayin but de bottom line is as much as you want to agree with Beenie for benching Latas at the 2006 WC, I say that was BS! Yuh know why, we wouldah nevah win against Guatemala, and the three games when Latas reach for we to qualify, is because ah he, LATAS, phu*ue Beenie, that we reach 2006. After Beenie and Yorke was there, we were still losing and our way out of 2006 qualification, it is only aftah de Magician reach, we start tuh win and we were given a chance to qualify in 2006.
Same in this campaign, after Latas start tuh play, he scored that goal to put we in the final 6. Now, I agree, from my German way of believing the way football should be coached and played, Latas, I agree with you is ah shithound coach, but please realize that without Latas, we wouldah NEVAH touch de ground in Germany, and without Latas at 40 on de field for 2010 quals, we had no chance after he became coach, he is de greatest footballer we have had and it is only because when Latas arrive for 2006 qualifications, that we start tuh win and he stole Beenie thundah that Beenie start tuh bench him. Doh give meh no tork about weed and thing, without Latas, Germany would not have happenned, end of story.
I do agree that he is too caught up in his way of play and want to put his magic into the rest of the team, impossible, yuh born with that, the minute he start benching Birchall, I had my doubts about him as coach.
Rubbish!!! why would a coach bench a player who can help the team win games thus making him(the coach ) look good ?
Anybody know what Latapy up to these days ?
international break and not one game arranged !!!1
Anybody know what Latapy up to these days ?about 1.7m
Anybody know what Latapy up to these days ?about 1.7m
Anybody know what Latapy up to these days ?about 1.7m
He diving....?
Man getting paid to play Golf and Dive.
And then Jack Warner will beg the government for money to pay Latapy's salary come January 2010.
Palos,
Padnah, I hear what yuh sayin but de bottom line is as much as you want to agree with Beenie for benching Latas at the 2006 WC, I say that was BS! Yuh know why, we wouldah nevah win against Guatemala, and the three games when Latas reach for we to qualify, is because ah he, LATAS, phu*ue Beenie, that we reach 2006. After Beenie and Yorke was there, we were still losing and our way out of 2006 qualification, it is only aftah de Magician reach, we start tuh win and we were given a chance to qualify in 2006.
Same in this campaign, after Latas start tuh play, he scored that goal to put we in the final 6. Now, I agree, from my German way of believing the way football should be coached and played, Latas, I agree with you is ah shithound coach, but please realize that without Latas, we wouldah NEVAH touch de ground in Germany, and without Latas at 40 on de field for 2010 quals, we had no chance after he became coach, he is de greatest footballer we have had and it is only because when Latas arrive for 2006 qualifications, that we start tuh win and he stole Beenie thundah that Beenie start tuh bench him. Doh give meh no tork about weed and thing, without Latas, Germany would not have happenned, end of story.
I do agree that he is too caught up in his way of play and want to put his magic into the rest of the team, impossible, yuh born with that, the minute he start benching Birchall, I had my doubts about him as coach.Palos, I am in agreement with respect to comments on the defensive posture of the team. However, as to the part in bold, ah charging yuh with elasticity dey ... at least until yuh bring support to defend that assertion. Please explain how Latas being on the field (under a different coaching philosophy) would have stretched to a thorough compromise of our defensive integrity. In responding, please assume I understand his liabilities as a two-way player.
I believe Latas' coaching philosophy is closely aligned to his philosophy as a player. Attacking, creative football. Not to regurgitate this for the umpteenth time, but you asked so I'll respond. I believe the reason why Beenie did not play Latas all that much in WC 2006 is because by him being on the team, he MAY have compromised the defensive integrity of the team.
Make no mistake about it. Our team was structured in such a manner to try and prevent the opposition from scoring. To do so, an emphasis on defensive discipline AT ALL TIMES had to be maintained throughout the 90 minutes. Whatever goalscoring opportunities that would come our way would more than likely come off of a set piece or counter attack. It wasn't likely to come from any creative source that we had. To do so would be to expose an already fragile defensive mindset and given the results in our warm up matches against decent european opposition (comprehensive losses to Slovakia and Czech Republic) it was clear our only chance of relative success was to play "anti football" as Arsene Wenger puts it.
When Latas came on against paraguay, we immediately looked a better team going forward. We were already behind it's true but in so doing, we were increasingly vulnerable to the counter and at that level, you're going to get punished SEVERELY. The team responds to Latas' presence on the field. They lift their level of play....but not in the defensive part of the game and our discipline breaks down because men caught up in feeding off of Latas.
This mindset on creative attacking football neglecting the very important aspect of what needs to be done when playing without the ball is what I'm referring to. We all marvel at Barca and rave about their attacking football. But watch them when the opposition has the ball and see the discipline.
I had the pleasure & privilege to sit with some coaches this past weekend watching the Spain vs Belgium game and they pointed out how Spain had 3 men around the ball everytime the opposition had possession. They said every player buys into the philosophy and the philosophy is simple. They rather run short hard sprints for 5 - 10 yards than run back 50 yards to catch a player in possession. And EVERYBODY does it. From striker to defender. From Torres to Puyol. The training is anaerobic. Short wind sprints. Sharp, Fast. Of course, this is harder to do in very hot climates but it's the way the game is played now. Dem men say Spain play football from a different planet. Their movement was incredible. Belgium had NO CHANCE. And to their credit, they said so before the kickoff.
We don't have anywhere near that level of discipline.
Anybody know what Latapy up to these days ?last time is see him wining up on a girl with dreads
What a waste of a coach.
Anybody know what Latapy up to these days ?last time is see him wining up on a girl with dreads
What a waste of a coach.
Anybody know what Latapy up to these days ?Why don't you set up another interview with him and ask yourself? ;D
Anybody know what Latapy up to these days ?Why don't you set up another interview with him and ask yourself? ;D
tripple cosign!1 :beermug: :DAnybody know what Latapy up to these days ?Why don't you set up another interview with him and ask yourself? ;D
:rotfl: :rotfl:
Yes Sam, please give we another "interview"....
Samtripple cosign!1 :beermug: :DAnybody know what Latapy up to these days ?Why don't you set up another interview with him and ask yourself? ;D
:rotfl: :rotfl:
Yes Sam, please give we another "interview"....
Anybody know where Latapy gone !!! 3 months now, no training or playing any games. The TT proleague is over and shouldn't we take advantage of this. ?
Ah feel ah go ring him and see if I can get another interview for real..
Just goes to show you good players don't always make good coaches.
You have to have Brian, Belly and Balls (BBB).....
Anybody know where Latapy gone !!! 3 months now, no training or playing any games. The TT proleague is over and shouldn't we take advantage of this. ?
Ah feel ah go ring him and see if I can get another interview for real..
Just goes to show you good players don't always make good coaches.
You have to have Brian, Belly and Balls (BBB).....
Williams....?
Anybody know what Latapy up to these days ?
Even Grenada playing friendlies.....
It has been almost 6 months we senior team inactive for.
AH feel we go make history this year in de Caribbean cup again, hopefully we group with Grenada again.
so any games yet people we eh play a game since November... I guess warner to busy with this election ...
so any games yet people we eh play a game since November... I guess warner to busy with this election ...
Be patient when d man cyah multi task. He wukin on winnin d election once he in power d cries of no money 4 football will b over. We go b qualifyin for 2014 easy. We go have friendly comin out ah we ears.
this is the most silly thread ever. we never give latas a chance to prove himself.
this is the most silly thread ever. we never give latas a chance to prove himself.
I promise never to watch a tnt game if bleeder aka theobald in the squad.
wikipedia shithound and you'll see whyI promise never to watch a tnt game if bleeder aka theobald in the squad.
Why?
eh??wikipedia shithound and you'll see whyI promise never to watch a tnt game if bleeder aka theobald in the squad.
Why?
alyuh sure the man geting paid??
Latas have no credentials as a coach. Most great players do not make good coaches. Dunga and Maradonna are recent prime examples. Sadly, Latas tenure as coach is likely to end in heartbreak. Willing to be proven otherwise.
Latas have no credentials as a coach. Most great players do not make good coaches. Dunga and Maradonna are recent prime examples. Sadly, Latas tenure as coach is likely to end in heartbreak. Willing to be proven otherwise.
what makes dunga or maradonna a bad coaches
BTW Capello is also an ex-Italian international. Point proven!
Disagree. Capello won league titles with teams that many other managers has also won with. AC Millan and who Real Madrid (steups). Like winning titles with those teams is the hardest thing in the world. Now if he had won the world cup with a 'bunch of shit hounds', then he would get a big up.BTW Capello is also an ex-Italian international. Point proven!
Check out Capello C.V., wheel and come again.
England full ah hounds, end of story.
Latas have no credentials as a coach. Most great players do not make good coaches. Dunga and Maradonna are recent prime examples. Sadly, Latas tenure as coach is likely to end in heartbreak. Willing to be proven otherwise.
what makes dunga or maradonna a bad coaches
Maradonna clueless. He just happened to have good players to work with. But he failed to have any meaningful strategy. When Germany was kicking their butt, what was Maradonna strategy to nullify the germans counteracting strategy? What subs did he make that had an impact? Millito remained on de bench.
Dunga in de same boat. They are one dimentional. That is fine when yuh team winning, but when you down and need to change strategy, both are clueless. Sorry to say, but that is how most former top players coach. Take look, the coaches of Spain, Holland, Germany, Ghana and Uruguay did not reaches the top of their sport, but are doing a fine job as coaches.
BTW Capello is also an ex-Italian international. Point proven!
Latas have no credentials as a coach. Most great players do not make good coaches. Dunga and Maradonna are recent prime examples. Sadly, Latas tenure as coach is likely to end in heartbreak. Willing to be proven otherwise.
what makes dunga or maradonna a bad coaches
Maradonna clueless. He just happened to have good players to work with. But he failed to have any meaningful strategy. When Germany was kicking their butt, what was Maradonna strategy to nullify the germans counteracting strategy? What subs did he make that had an impact? Millito remained on de bench.
Dunga in de same boat. They are one dimentional. That is fine when yuh team winning, but when you down and need to change strategy, both are clueless. Sorry to say, but that is how most former top players coach. Take look, the coaches of Spain, Holland, Germany, Ghana and Uruguay did not reaches the top of their sport, but are doing a fine job as coaches.
BTW Capello is also an ex-Italian international. Point proven!
Bro,
There is some validity to the theory that not all super stars make good coaches. But to say that they are clueless is crazy. Look, Brazil and Germany has had WC winning players win WC as coaches. Alf Ramsey played for England. Although not a WC winner as a player he coached the 1966 WC team. This is Diego and Dunga first time as coaches. Spain and Ghana coaches have been coaching far longer than them. I don't know much about Uraguay, Holland, Germany coaches. But the verdict still out on them
Latas have no credentials as a coach. Most great players do not make good coaches. Dunga and Maradonna are recent prime examples. Sadly, Latas tenure as coach is likely to end in heartbreak. Willing to be proven otherwise.
what makes dunga or maradonna a bad coaches
Maradonna clueless. He just happened to have good players to work with. But he failed to have any meaningful strategy. When Germany was kicking their butt, what was Maradonna strategy to nullify the germans counteracting strategy? What subs did he make that had an impact? Millito remained on de bench.
Dunga in de same boat. They are one dimentional. That is fine when yuh team winning, but when you down and need to change strategy, both are clueless. Sorry to say, but that is how most former top players coach. Take look, the coaches of Spain, Holland, Germany, Ghana and Uruguay did not reaches the top of their sport, but are doing a fine job as coaches.
BTW Capello is also an ex-Italian international. Point proven!
Bro,
There is some validity to the theory that not all super stars make good coaches. But to say that they are clueless is crazy. Look, Brazil and Germany has had WC winning players win WC as coaches. Alf Ramsey played for England. Although not a WC winner as a player he coached the 1966 WC team. This is Diego and Dunga first time as coaches. Spain and Ghana coaches have been coaching far longer than them. I don't know much about Uraguay, Holland, Germany coaches. But the verdict still out on them
I am not saying that no top players will ever make a good coach, as I know Rikaard and Beckenbauer has also done OK. But it is usually the exception than the rule. I maintain that Dunga and Maradonna are clueless as coaches. Let's see where their careers go from here.
so JW is prime minister and yet still Latas cyah get a friendly game?
latapy had these guys training 3 time per week and working on basics ... so now wha
I was supporting Latas as the coach but it seems that he doesn't get it. We are not so great offensively that we can win without playing defense. It seems that he doesn't get it. Thus far he hasn't called Birchall or Julius James and they can both help us defensively. I also saw Primus and he is probably already our best defender. He is big, strong, good on the ball and he reads the game well. Plus he has more international experience than these fools he has playing. I say go to the defenders from the U-23 team. The played well, dare I say on an international level at the U-20 WC.
Latas said before the game that he wanted to see if we progressed tactically but it seems that we have regressed. He has a lot to answer for, and in fact I would have no qualms if he lost his job as a result of this performance.
Latas have no credentials as a coach. Most great players do not make good coaches. Dunga and Maradonna are recent prime examples. Sadly, Latas tenure as coach is likely to end in heartbreak. Willing to be proven otherwise.
what makes dunga or maradonna a bad coaches
Maradonna clueless. He just happened to have good players to work with. But he failed to have any meaningful strategy. When Germany was kicking their butt, what was Maradonna strategy to nullify the germans counteracting strategy? What subs did he make that had an impact? Millito remained on de bench.
Dunga in de same boat. They are one dimentional. That is fine when yuh team winning, but when you down and need to change strategy, both are clueless. Sorry to say, but that is how most former top players coach. Take look, the coaches of Spain, Holland, Germany, Ghana and Uruguay did not reaches the top of their sport, but are doing a fine job as coaches.
BTW Capello is also an ex-Italian international. Point proven!
Bro,
There is some validity to the theory that not all super stars make good coaches. But to say that they are clueless is crazy. Look, Brazil and Germany has had WC winning players win WC as coaches. Alf Ramsey played for England. Although not a WC winner as a player he coached the 1966 WC team. This is Diego and Dunga first time as coaches. Spain and Ghana coaches have been coaching far longer than them. I don't know much about Uraguay, Holland, Germany coaches. But the verdict still out on them
I am not saying that no top players will ever make a good coach, as I know Rikaard and Beckenbauer has also done OK. But it is usually the exception than the rule. I maintain that Dunga and Maradonna are clueless as coaches. Let's see where their careers go from here.
Latas have no credentials as a coach. Most great players do not make good coaches. Dunga and Maradonna are recent prime examples. Sadly, Latas tenure as coach is likely to end in heartbreak. Willing to be proven otherwise.
what makes dunga or maradonna a bad coaches
Maradonna clueless. He just happened to have good players to work with. But he failed to have any meaningful strategy. When Germany was kicking their butt, what was Maradonna strategy to nullify the germans counteracting strategy? What subs did he make that had an impact? Millito remained on de bench.
Dunga in de same boat. They are one dimentional. That is fine when yuh team winning, but when you down and need to change strategy, both are clueless. Sorry to say, but that is how most former top players coach. Take look, the coaches of Spain, Holland, Germany, Ghana and Uruguay did not reaches the top of their sport, but are doing a fine job as coaches.
BTW Capello is also an ex-Italian international. Point proven!
Bro,
There is some validity to the theory that not all super stars make good coaches. But to say that they are clueless is crazy. Look, Brazil and Germany has had WC winning players win WC as coaches. Alf Ramsey played for England. Although not a WC winner as a player he coached the 1966 WC team. This is Diego and Dunga first time as coaches. Spain and Ghana coaches have been coaching far longer than them. I don't know much about Uraguay, Holland, Germany coaches. But the verdict still out on them
I am not saying that no top players will ever make a good coach, as I know Rikaard and Beckenbauer has also done OK. But it is usually the exception than the rule. I maintain that Dunga and Maradonna are clueless as coaches. Let's see where their careers go from here.
Dunga had success to say he is clueless because of the WC is ridiculous, he won the Copa America, and the Confederations Cup. If you simply judging by WC then 31 coaches were useless. Many Excellent players did well as coaches and many failed as well. There is no formula! Some coaches are successful in club football where there is more time and you can purchase the quality players you need. International football is different, you work with what you have and learn to make do. Look at Rjkaard when he coached Fortuna they got relegated under his command. He goes to Barca and is hailed as genius. Its the same with teh coach of Uruguay in this WC, he flopped so many times only to rise this WC.
Latapy needs experience and he will learn with each outing. Would you rather he has success now in an exhibition game and then fail on the true test? I think not!
Dunga had success to say he is clueless because of the WC is ridiculous, he won the Copa America, and the Confederations Cup. If you simply judging by WC then 31 coaches were useless. Many Excellent players did well as coaches and many failed as well. There is no formula! Some coaches are successful in club football where there is more time and you can purchase the quality players you need. International football is different, you work with what you have and learn to make do. Look at Rjkaard when he coached Fortuna they got relegated under his command. He goes to Barca and is hailed as genius. Its the same with teh coach of Uruguay in this WC, he flopped so many times only to rise this WC.
Latapy needs experience and he will learn with each outing. Would you rather he has success now in an exhibition game and then fail on the true test? I think not!
we will fire russell, probably around 2012 and launch a WCQ campaign wid some coach...destined for failure once the mistakes of the past are repeated
I was supporting Latas as the coach but it seems that he doesn't get it. We are not so great offensively that we can win without playing defense. It seems that he doesn't get it. Thus far he hasn't called Birchall or Julius James and they can both help us defensively. I also saw Primus and he is probably already our best defender. He is big, strong, good on the ball and he reads the game well. Plus he has more international experience than these fools he has playing. I say go to the defenders from the U-23 team. The played well, dare I say on an international level at the U-20 WC.The man never even consider yohance marshall once, he don't know talented players ah dun tell allyuh dat ahready. ssttuueeppsss
Latas said before the game that he wanted to see if we progressed tactically but it seems that we have regressed. He has a lot to answer for, and in fact I would have no qualms if he lost his job as a result of this performance.
I was supporting Latas as the coach but it seems that he doesn't get it. We are not so great offensively that we can win without playing defense. It seems that he doesn't get it. Thus far he hasn't called Birchall or Julius James and they can both help us defensively. I also saw Primus and he is probably already our best defender. He is big, strong, good on the ball and he reads the game well. Plus he has more international experience than these fools he has playing. I say go to the defenders from the U-23 team. The played well, dare I say on an international level at the U-20 WC.The man never even consider yohance marshall once, he don't know talented players ah dun tell allyuh dat ahready. ssttuueeppsss
Latas said before the game that he wanted to see if we progressed tactically but it seems that we have regressed. He has a lot to answer for, and in fact I would have no qualms if he lost his job as a result of this performance.
latapy had these guys training 3 time per week and working on basics ... so now wha
I was supporting Latas as the coach but it seems that he doesn't get it. We are not so great offensively that we can win without playing defense. It seems that he doesn't get it. Thus far he hasn't called Birchall or Julius James and they can both help us defensively. I also saw Primus and he is probably already our best defender. He is big, strong, good on the ball and he reads the game well. Plus he has more international experience than these fools he has playing. I say go to the defenders from the U-23 team. The played well, dare I say on an international level at the U-20 WC.
Latas said before the game that he wanted to see if we progressed tactically but it seems that we have regressed. He has a lot to answer for, and in fact I would have no qualms if he lost his job as a result of this performance.
first of all, Beenie, Wim ain't coming back here at all. So put that out allyuh mind. I have to watch the game but I don't know what to say about Latas. We need a couple more games. I no improvement, the magician had to go. But I still giving him the benefit of the doubt. I know when Jack ready he will fire Latas and bring a foreign coach.
I missed the game but Touches and Andre advice is good enough. I used read about the 4-2-4 formation in the 60s or something. And no change to the system during the game, just players. Sounds like a man who is very inflexible and who's vision for the team is not connected to the resources available to him.
I agree with you on this SM... In the 5 or 6 games that I have seen Makan Hislop play, I have no idea, none, nada, zilch, why he on the national team. He must be a real good practice player or does a tremendous job for his club. The dude is slow, flat flooted and has a football IQ of 10. I know that's a bit harsh but come on man!!
most of the footballers footballing IQ are Intercol level...Makan and Akeil should be beaten in a big yard by every fan that attended that game...
If you stay Latapy(odds are you will)..... please stop f**king around with the team selection and consider the IQ thing....Makan Hislop is a f**king joke....Not even an U14 defender would head a non threatening ball into the middle on top the box for a player to latch on and score
Akiel Edwards....jesus christ..... might as well bring through Akeem Adams and any other left footed defender in Trinidad and Tobago...because that man will haunt my dreams...the name sends a chill
.......aaaaarrrmmmm ah could arsk a question?? We have money to pay a better coach?? Oh right, right the treasury is Jack own now.....so yup, fire Latapy now!!!
.......aaaaarrrmmmm ah could arsk a question?? We have money to pay a better coach?? Oh right, right the treasury is Jack own now.....so yup, fire Latapy now!!!
remember the treasury empty ;)
Latapy was a great player...
Maybe Maturana is a good dentist...
BUT NEITHER OF THEM ARE COACHES...
FIRE LATAPY NOW!!!
I must agree with the general consensus...RL has to go. I went and take in that game yesterday and it literally gave me nightmares. I dreaming i chopping up a setta yardies fuss ah flippin' vex. Any loss against Jam does real hurt and the manner in which we lose yesterday feel worse than a dread horn. i figure is level boycott i boycotting future games until the powers at be get serious. How it is that us common folk seem to be more knowledgeable than the technical staff? I don't mind too much if even after we select our best XI, we still lost but it would show that we played to the best of our ability but were just outplayed. Ah effin' vex when after spending my hard earn $40 and giving it to Jackula plus having to stand up in muddy grass looking over a fence, i hadda watch a spineless shit side just cock back and take rape from d yardies. Worse yet, imagine JA get reduced to 10 men, we trailing and Latas eh even change the formation to try and exploit the one man advantage. Worse yet, i cyah remember once seeing Latas on the side line. I doh want to believe Latas is such a goat so i want to believe that it have things going on in the background that beyond his control. If that is the case then is best he step away from the game fuh real. i definitely eh going anymore games if certain men continue to make the side. Everyone here knows that Keon Daniel eh no winger. Put the man to play as a creative midfielder. I could go on and on bout who supposed to play where. My point is, i cannot continue to support this mess we calling T&T football until drastic changes are made. Latas cyah be so brain dead dread...
Russel steadily tarnishing his reputation as a player with his poor performances coaching so far...
Yes it was a friendly, but against Jamaica.... come on more urgency and endeavor needed man :-\
Latapy was a great player...
Maybe Maturana is a good dentist...
BUT NEITHER OF THEM ARE COACHES...
FIRE LATAPY NOW!!!
All those of you sick of Latapy ruining our reputation and disgracing this fine country with his inexperience and blatant stupidity please comment and leave your feed back here.
Question: Should Latapy continue as our head coach? And WHY?
Sounds like shittalking because Latapy track record is just that terrible. Just stating the facts makes me look like an ass because it is just that bad. When have we celebrated anything of worth?
Latapy as head coach all we can wish for is luck because we know he is a proven failure and unless he goes to coaching school and win a cup he shouldn't be allowed to lead a nation.
Mark my word, we not winning anything, the only thing Latapy will bring us is more shame and disgrace. It is his guarantee that we will continue to be the laughing stock of the world.
How does Latapy's record as a coach destroy his status as a player?It is the responsiblity of the coach to prepare his players, mentally, physically. Once he took the job as head coach like Maradonna risked ruining his reputation via poor results. As a player you can sit back in a game or two and not be noticed but as a coach it is very different. The coach is the only one you can question after a teams defeat, especially at home. Coming to Trinidad now seems like a sure win than in the past.
Why do you persist in saying Latapy hate tread?Fixed.
Is it so easy to callously discard our most celebrated mid field player?I have no respect for people that don't identify their own abilities. This national team is not rebuilding, it is a experiement for an inexperienced wannabe coach.
Maybe we are not winning anything becasue of the Federation that hired Latapy, continues to stymie our foootball growth and development, or maybe it is becasue our local crop is just NOT good enough?]So you want to change our players instead of the brain? Leave it up to you and players would be to blame for poor tactics and not the head coach. Question? Who is responsible for selecting the "crop" of players??
I think the last creditable result we got against them was a draw in the office in '96.
I think the last creditable result we got against them was a draw in the office in '96.
Nah, it was March 2008 when we came back from 2 goals down to draw 2-2 at de Office.
I will defend Latas a bit.
The national senior team has been on a downward spiral since 2007, yes 2007.
Something nasty has affected the performance of the team regardless of who in it.
Latapy young in the business but still has a great football brain and I suspect the players too limited to understand what he wants.
No coach coming in now will have an easy time of it.
Jamaica has owned TT for a long time now , take yuh head out of the sand and realise that. I think the last creditable result we got against them was a draw in the office in '96.
So doh judge from this game as yet, lets see what happens in the Caribbean cup and I bet if the girls have a good run in the world cup that coach will get the job.
Do you feel if he wanted the pros to play in this game he would of got them .
Prince matterz not even if he wanted the he would not have got them anyway and he know that.
Palos I really respect your conduct in this. Also would like to thank you for posting it makes me feel better to know there is level headed people out there with so much tolerance, devotion and sincerity to this board and possibly the national team.
There is only hate here left, I have no love for Latapy anymore and why should I? He is single handedly destroying not only his reputation as a legend but our brand of football. Lets face it, the national team has never been in this poor state in my lifetime, this is below our average low of lows.
There is only two outcome with Latapy as head coach and that is losing and failure.
He never gave Trinidad anything to cheer about since been apointed as head coach, beating El Salvador and Antigua at home is his only wins thus far unless there was something I'm missing.
Can someone look up his stats as coach, it has to be the worse in history not only in Trinidad but the world.
This title needs to change. The suck part needs to come out. Please, lets in our dis-satisfaction still be respectful.
This title needs to change. The suck part needs to come out. Please, lets in our dis-satisfaction still be respectful.
it was hate at first so suck can be vuewed as an improvement. ~~~~sigh
Watch the play - The under 17 coach with a good performance will be elevated to the senior coach position.
Then again if big men playing like school boys in defence- what the coach can do.
Breads if Latapy serious about coaching, let him start in the pro league or something..Let him become consistent and at least demonstrate that he can win something...So much proven coaches we have in the Pro league who win titles and such and they still don't get a look at the national team...Why do we feel that we owe Russel a job or even a chance to do this job..??
fire latas mi rass. dem f**kin man we have representing TNT jes aint good enough. I go say this once and allyuh wajang gwan counteract if allyuh want to , but dem shithounds we have representing the red black and white will be lucky to get a tie in any one of the game comming up in d digicel cup or whatever dey call it now. I predict full blown licks dey guh collect. I am a warrior for life but I say it as I see it. I dont live in denial we jes aint good enough anymore...:notlistening: And who it is that pickin the sh!thounds dem?? mind you, latas have real good quality players tuh chose from and he opted for the least talented, just look @ his record in the hex. he went wid daniel over collin samuels, he went wid spann over tinto against honduras, against elsalvador and tico's in CR.
war
We have won the Caribbean Cup with predominantly locally based players before, 1989, 1994 & 1997. In 1992 we had 4 overseas players Yorke latapy Nakhid & Lewis. 1994 we had Nakhid alone. 1995 Leonson Lewis & Nakhid. In 1997 Nakhid was the only foreign based player (Imagine Marvin Andrews was playing super League football and was on the national team). In 1989 the strike squad (all local) took over for the shell B team as it was called then, look at that, the country had so much talent we had 2 national teams!!. We also must not forget with the blacklist our national C team were runners up in the Caribbean cup in 2007 and gave a creditable performance in the Gold Cup with all their limitations.
The point is not to blame the players, when Beenie took over he said he saw 11 players running on a pitch but not a team. Proper coaching and selection of the right players is what's required. Frankly, Latapy as great a player he was, is simply out of his league. He should admit it and resign before he does more damage. He should in my humble opinion, do like his other Strike Squad colleagues and get experience coaching Pro League & Intercol teams and see how it goes from there. The National Team is too important to be learning on the job.
Amazing that we don't have 1000 threads on FIRE, TTFF. But poor Latas, like every other coach under fire for one dam exhibition game. steups
Amazing that we don't have 1000 threads on FIRE, TTFF. But poor Latas, like every other coach under fire for one dam exhibition game. steups
Fella you does make some good posts, I feel you used to coah or sumting. Dese clowns here always on de coaches asshole..yet de TTFF facking players over all de time.
I remember a post yuh ,make when we did qualify fuh de world cup when PLENTY here used to sing praises to Jack.
Yuh did remind we dat even a broken clock is right twice in a day!
Yuh know we eh really do as badly as people feel with de shit team we have.
For instance we lost 3-2 to Costa Rica Bacolet Tobago
lose 2-1 to mexico in Mexico Azteca
beat Antigua and den El Slavador
lost 4-1 to Honduras (dem always we cutting we arse, especially in Honduras)
lose 1-0 to the USA in POS
Den collect 4 from CR in CR (No real surprise at all)
Draw with Mexico 2-2 in POS
lose 2-0 in Chile to a World Cup team dat lit up South Africa (we took a local team again)
We den beat Antiugua 4-1 and den lose to Jamaica
That is with mostky local players from de Por league.
The truth is the standard of our play is very weak compared to past teams.
With the foreign players I expect a better showing.
Jesus could come and coach this team...they not going to improve overnight
steups...Jesus is generally considered as God dummy.Damn :banginghead:, and here i always thought you was god's dummy.
Yuh know we eh really do as badly as people feel with de shit team we have.
For instance we lost 3-2 to Costa Rica Bacolet Tobago
lose 2-1 to mexico in Mexico Azteca
beat Antigua and den El Slavador
lost 4-1 to Honduras (dem always we cutting we arse, especially in Honduras)
lose 1-0 to the USA in POS
Den collect 4 from CR in CR (No real surprise at all)
Draw with Mexico 2-2 in POS
lose 2-0 in Chile to a World Cup team dat lit up South Africa (we took a local team again)
We den beat Antiugua 4-1 and den lose to Jamaica
That is with mostky local players from de Por league.
The truth is the standard of our play is very weak compared to past teams.
With the foreign players I expect a better showing.
Jesus could come and coach this team...they not going to improve overnight
Again though, yuh missing the point... is not just about the fact that we losing, but HOW we losing, and the fact that the team has seemingly regressed under Latapy. For crissakes, somebody has to play defense. If we want to play with a more attacking flair then fine, but put players on the field who can play defense, and if they can't then get somebody else. He keeps playing the same players and getting similar results but doesn't seem inclined to make changes.
Has Birchall even been given a chance under Latas watch? Is there any real debate that he's our best defensive midfielder? A blacklist by any other name is just that. I never was in the business of campaigning for man job but something needs to be done to improve the team and it can't all be about the players.
Amazing that we don't have 1000 threads on FIRE, TTFF. But poor Latas, like every other coach under fire for one dam exhibition game. steups
Yuh know we eh really do as badly as people feel with de shit team we have.
For instance we lost 3-2 to Costa Rica Bacolet Tobago
lose 2-1 to mexico in Mexico Azteca
beat Antigua and den El Slavador
lost 4-1 to Honduras (dem always we cutting we arse, especially in Honduras)
lose 1-0 to the USA in POS
Den collect 4 from CR in CR (No real surprise at all)
Draw with Mexico 2-2 in POS
lose 2-0 in Chile to a World Cup team dat lit up South Africa (we took a local team again)
We den beat Antiugua 4-1 and den lose to Jamaica
That is with mostky local players from de Por league.
The truth is the standard of our play is very weak compared to past teams.
With the foreign players I expect a better showing.
Jesus could come and coach this team...they not going to improve overnight
Again though, yuh missing the point... is not just about the fact that we losing, but HOW we losing, and the fact that the team has seemingly regressed under Latapy. For crissakes, somebody has to play defense. If we want to play with a more attacking flair then fine, but put players on the field who can play defense, and if they can't then get somebody else. He keeps playing the same players and getting similar results but doesn't seem inclined to make changes.
Has Birchall even been given a chance under Latas watch? Is there any real debate that he's our best defensive midfielder? A blacklist by any other name is just that. I never was in the business of campaigning for man job but something needs to be done to improve the team and it can't all be about the players.
Well said. There is another dimension as well, something that most of here may not see, and that is a lack of leadership and CLEAR DIRECTION by the TTFF. Terry Fenwick, whether yuh love him or hate him, pointed this out as far back as March.
(From TTproleague.com.) "We have to understand that the TTFF deliberated very long before announcing "No Change!" and Russell (Latapy) continued as head coach. Most will see National football since 2006 WC qualification as a huge failure, and yet we see the same old people in their comfortable positions calling the shots all over again. The TTFF will reduce their argument to lack of funding but we see the same inexperienced back room management continuing where they have failed before.
"The TTFF is not doing their bit in providing professional and competent support for Russell as National coach. So we are not giving him a chance. We recently saw Marvin Faustin, nice guy, recruited as assistant coach but now we have not one, but two very inexperienced coaches with no real program going forward.
"My comments are not meant to offend but merely extend an opinion on a professional basis. When it all turns sour for Russell, the TTFF will undoubtedly turn to Dwight as the next step. Only when these two National hero's have ruined their coaching careers will the TTFF look further than the end of their noses. I think it is very unfair on both Russell and Dwight to be exposed in this way. I believe Russell is doing the job for all the right reasons but is ill equipped to succeed."
"I think we should be doing much better than we are at every level...unfortunately inexperience and lack of competence at management level will have us fall short in meaningful competitions." ended the Jabloteh coach.
So we not only have to contend with Latapys personal shortcomings as a coach, but the TTFF incompetence, which is likely adding fuel to the fire. Which worse only God knows.
The only realistic way out of this is if TTFF hires a top flight, tough minded coach who is not beholden to the federation. We need another Beenhakker to get results from the player pool and stand up to the JW at the same time.
even if all the talk about Latas being clueless, he did NOT appoint himself.
Clearly the man has ambitions and is a patriot. He used to come to play all kinda useless games for T&T back in de day...many here jes come so dey eh know this.
Latas eh wore dan most ah we former coaches.
The players eh up to it it is his job to get them there...he cannot do it over night!
even if all the talk about Latas being clueless, he did NOT appoint himself.
Clearly the man has ambitions and is a patriot. He used to come to play all kinda useless games for T&T back in de day...many here jes come so dey eh know this.
Latas eh wore dan most ah we former coaches.
The players eh up to it it is his job to get them there...he cannot do it over night!
True, but he's had OVER A YEAR. What improvement have you seen?
even if all the talk about Latas being clueless, he did NOT appoint himself.
Clearly the man has ambitions and is a patriot. He used to come to play all kinda useless games for T&T back in de day...many here jes come so dey eh know this.
Latas eh wore dan most ah we former coaches.
The players eh up to it it is his job to get them there...he cannot do it over night!
True, but he's had OVER A YEAR. What improvement have you seen?
I will wait to see the locals and the foreign based together to make that judgement.
http://www.bigsoccer.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1513617 -Yuh know we eh really do as badly as people feel with de shit team we have.
For instance we lost 3-2 to Costa Rica Bacolet Tobago
lose 2-1 to mexico in Mexico Azteca
beat Antigua and den El Slavador
lost 4-1 to Honduras (dem always we cutting we arse, especially in Honduras)
lose 1-0 to the USA in POS
Den collect 4 from CR in CR (No real surprise at all)
Draw with Mexico 2-2 in POS
lose 2-0 in Chile to a World Cup team dat lit up South Africa (we took a local team again)
We den beat Antiugua 4-1 and den lose to Jamaica
That is with mostky local players from de Por league.
The truth is the standard of our play is very weak compared to past teams.
With the foreign players I expect a better showing.
Jesus could come and coach this team...they not going to improve overnight
Again though, yuh missing the point... is not just about the fact that we losing, but HOW we losing, and the fact that the team has seemingly regressed under Latapy. For crissakes, somebody has to play defense. If we want to play with a more attacking flair then fine, but put players on the field who can play defense, and if they can't then get somebody else. He keeps playing the same players and getting similar results but doesn't seem inclined to make changes.
Has Birchall even been given a chance under Latas watch? Is there any real debate that he's our best defensive midfielder? A blacklist by any other name is just that. I never was in the business of campaigning for man job but something needs to be done to improve the team and it can't all be about the players.
Round three of cutarse coming up ; what did we learn from cutarse number one...now two next powerhouse Brazil ...oops Belize... same team same 4king crap coming up at a venue near you.
Why is the obvious so hard to see for this coach...... yuh don't have players to perform at this caliber....why embarrass yuhself? yuh legend yuh name just gone through.....
Be a 4king man and demand the best players come home and represent the country. STOP the BLEEDING.
No boy!!!!! we doh want no mo locals around we senior team, BC them men will influence the coach tuh pick their favorite players. the TTFF need tuh implement a ban on local coaches and assistant coaches for we tuh progress. them fellas too fackin bias.Round three of cutarse coming up ; what did we learn from cutarse number one...now two next powerhouse Brazil ...oops Belize... same team same 4king crap coming up at a venue near you.
Why is the obvious so hard to see for this coach...... yuh don't have players to perform at this caliber....why embarrass yuhself? yuh legend yuh name just gone through.....
Be a 4king man and demand the best players come home and represent the country. STOP the BLEEDING.
Stop talking to a brick wall!
Change will only happen when Latas steps aside as head coach!
I don't mind him being an assistant to a proper coach but this time he must not try to undermine the head coach while cunningly pretending to be there to assist him!
Latas please do the right thing, yuh not ready yet, just be a man and own up! :-[
from Hero to Goat......
How did Maturana do with ah local squad compare to Latapy? Remember that game against Cuba...that local team played some real boss football in that game.
from Hero to Goat......
How did Maturana do with ah local squad compare to Latapy? Remember that game against Cuba...that local team played some real boss football in that game.
Wim, like or hate him, was the best I've seen in a while where the local players are concerned. We were playing a decent brand under him....
from Hero to Goat......
How did Maturana do with ah local squad compare to Latapy? Remember that game against Cuba...that local team played some real boss football in that game.
Wim, like or hate him, was the best I've seen in a while where the local players are concerned. We were playing a decent brand under him....
Wim had a good left hook too! :devil:
No boy!!!!! we doh want no mo locals around we senior team, BC them men will influence the coach tuh pick their favorite players. the TTFF need tuh implement a ban on local coaches and assistant coaches for we tuh progress. them fellas too fackin bias.Round three of cutarse coming up ; what did we learn from cutarse number one...now two next powerhouse Brazil ...oops Belize... same team same 4king crap coming up at a venue near you.
Why is the obvious so hard to see for this coach...... yuh don't have players to perform at this caliber....why embarrass yuhself? yuh legend yuh name just gone through.....
Be a 4king man and demand the best players come home and represent the country. STOP the BLEEDING.
Stop talking to a brick wall!
Change will only happen when Latas steps aside as head coach!
I don't mind him being an assistant to a proper coach but this time he must not try to undermine the head coach while cunningly pretending to be there to assist him!
Latas please do the right thing, yuh not ready yet, just be a man and own up! :-[
No boy!!!!! we doh want no mo locals around we senior team, BC them men will influence the coach tuh pick their favorite players. the TTFF need tuh implement a ban on local coaches and assistant coaches for we tuh progress. them fellas too fackin bias.Round three of cutarse coming up ; what did we learn from cutarse number one...now two next powerhouse Brazil ...oops Belize... same team same 4king crap coming up at a venue near you.
Why is the obvious so hard to see for this coach...... yuh don't have players to perform at this caliber....why embarrass yuhself? yuh legend yuh name just gone through.....
Be a 4king man and demand the best players come home and represent the country. STOP the BLEEDING.
Stop talking to a brick wall!
Change will only happen when Latas steps aside as head coach!
I don't mind him being an assistant to a proper coach but this time he must not try to undermine the head coach while cunningly pretending to be there to assist him!
Latas please do the right thing, yuh not ready yet, just be a man and own up! :-[
This is where I don't agree with you!
We cannot eternally rely on expensive foreign coaches and need to start grooming the best of our local coaches for the top job at some point by them working with foreign coaches as assistants once we bring them in so that our local coaches can learn and improve in their coaching expertise.
Don't forget no team has ever won a World Cup at the highest level of football with a foreign coach!
If the foreign coach is like a Maturana and not strong enough to call all the shots then that coach is clearly not the man for the job and is only in T&T to collect a salary!
No boy!!!!! we doh want no mo locals around we senior team, BC them men will influence the coach tuh pick their favorite players. the TTFF need tuh implement a ban on local coaches and assistant coaches for we tuh progress. them fellas too fackin bias.Round three of cutarse coming up ; what did we learn from cutarse number one...now two next powerhouse Brazil ...oops Belize... same team same 4king crap coming up at a venue near you.
Why is the obvious so hard to see for this coach...... yuh don't have players to perform at this caliber....why embarrass yuhself? yuh legend yuh name just gone through.....
Be a 4king man and demand the best players come home and represent the country. STOP the BLEEDING.
Stop talking to a brick wall!
Change will only happen when Latas steps aside as head coach!
I don't mind him being an assistant to a proper coach but this time he must not try to undermine the head coach while cunningly pretending to be there to assist him!
Latas please do the right thing, yuh not ready yet, just be a man and own up! :-[
This is where I don't agree with you!
We cannot eternally rely on expensive foreign coaches and need to start grooming the best of our local coaches for the top job at some point by them working with foreign coaches as assistants once we bring them in so that our local coaches can learn and improve in their coaching expertise.
Don't forget no team has ever won a World Cup at the highest level of football with a foreign coach!
If the foreign coach is like a Maturana and not strong enough to call all the shots then that coach is clearly not the man for the job and is only in T&T to collect a salary!
Problem with our local coaches is that theya re convinced they are on the same level as any foreign coach we bring in, when the results of our local clubs in regional and international competition, and the state of our local players under their tutelage speaks otherwise. I have a problem with that, becasue our local coaches are VERY behind the game. This game is now a science, and I don't think any of our local coaches are really in sync with the direction that the game has taken over the last 15-20 years.
I have no problem with him using the locals in preperation for the Digicel cup... but what I have a problem with is the absolute joke of local players he continuously uses.
Cupid, Makan, Akeile ?? how many chances do you get? they have to be the luckiest players in the world...men racking up caps
Keston Williams,Mitchell and Cyrus are raw but have potential...I could understand their place in the squad. We have no CB's in the pro league that better than Makan to push him out the squad? We have no RB and LB ? you serious?
I would go for Akeem Adams at LB as the local selection... boy played in U17 and U20 World Cups and is now of age.. has the quality and youth on his side...time to reward him and get that shitsnake holding the role down out
Primus should be a CB... groom him now because he's going to be important in the campaign....eventually the 3 main CB'S will be Primus, James and Marshall
Curtis Gonsalves(Boyo) can play RB and CB and he is another from the U20 that I have been impressed with
My other problems with Latapy:
1) He seems to be caught up with only attacking and nice knocking etc but what he has failed to do is keep a structure on the field...no shape... we are a mess off the ball.. no high pressure no position so we are opened up easily... on the ball, some good passing but generally we eventually give the ball away because we do not have quality like Barca Arsenal to play pretty football... We need to have " a house" .. which is the style Leo had where we had a foundation (defense) and the rest of the house to keep a structure throughout 90 minutes.... The only way this team can improve under Latapy is if we acquire a defensive coach who can bring that structure to the team...
2) Lac of Motivation : Lets face it he is a zombie...a sleeper.... a trinidad version of Maturana but with gifted feet...only time he up for anything is in bed with a bombshell... but motivator for a team and as a coach? no way in hell.... I think the players have massive respect for him but they treat him like any other local coach because we come across more as a joke and a friendly set up rather than the reactive respect Beenhakker or a foreign coach would receive from a team
3) I dont know why he refuses to change up the squad until he finds what he's looking for from the local players... Shitload of B internationals and consistently picking the same squad...
I dont think he's the right man for the job...my stance has always been a foreign coach with a Beenhakker mentality..one that can inspire confidence, discipline and the ability to play football with a plan
UNC/COP in power...Jack you have no excuses... Fund the f**king thing... bring in a Coach actually bring in a Staff... get some big friendlies...get this ball rolling
FOR f**k SAKE
UNC/COP in power...Jack you have no excuses... Fund the f**king thing... bring in a Coach actually bring in a Staff... get some big friendlies...get this ball rolling
UNC/COP in power...Jack you have no excuses... Fund the f**king thing... bring in a Coach actually bring in a Staff... get some big friendlies...get this ball rolling
Nah, nah......not that it will happen but let him first tell we where the $80+ million that they get in 2006 gone.....
Tell me again why this shithong is we national coach, please remind me?Cool it nah boy!! since last night yuh singing the same ole song, give it ah rest now nah! we got it, yuh upset and latas is ah sh!t snake, now cool nah bro.
No boy!!!!! we doh want no mo locals around we senior team, BC them men will influence the coach tuh pick their favorite players. the TTFF need tuh implement a ban on local coaches and assistant coaches for we tuh progress. them fellas too fackin bias.Round three of cutarse coming up ; what did we learn from cutarse number one...now two next powerhouse Brazil ...oops Belize... same team same 4king crap coming up at a venue near you.
Why is the obvious so hard to see for this coach...... yuh don't have players to perform at this caliber....why embarrass yuhself? yuh legend yuh name just gone through.....
Be a 4king man and demand the best players come home and represent the country. STOP the BLEEDING.
Stop talking to a brick wall!
Change will only happen when Latas steps aside as head coach!
I don't mind him being an assistant to a proper coach but this time he must not try to undermine the head coach while cunningly pretending to be there to assist him!
Latas please do the right thing, yuh not ready yet, just be a man and own up! :-[
This is where I don't agree with you!
We cannot eternally rely on expensive foreign coaches and need to start grooming the best of our local coaches for the top job at some point by them working with foreign coaches as assistants once we bring them in so that our local coaches can learn and improve in their coaching expertise.
Don't forget no team has ever won a World Cup at the highest level of football with a foreign coach!
If the foreign coach is like a Maturana and not strong enough to call all the shots then that coach is clearly not the man for the job and is only in T&T to collect a salary!
Problem with our local coaches is that theya re convinced they are on the same level as any foreign coach we bring in, when the results of our local clubs in regional and international competition, and the state of our local players under their tutelage speaks otherwise. I have a problem with that, becasue our local coaches are VERY behind the game. This game is now a science, and I don't think any of our local coaches are really in sync with the direction that the game has taken over the last 15-20 years.
Apart from relevant coaching courses, my sugestion of our local coaches assisting the foreign head coaches (without trying to undermine them) is the best & quickest way to get our local coaches in sync with the direction that the game has taken over the last 15-20 years, don't you think?
My other problems with Latapy:
2) Lac of Motivation : Lets face it he is a zombie...a sleeper.... a trinidad version of Maturana but with gifted feet...only time he up for anything is in bed with a bombshell... but motivator for a team and as a coach? no way in hell.... I think the players have massive respect for him but they treat him like any other local coach because we come across more as a joke and a friendly set up rather than the reactive respect Beenhakker or a foreign coach would receive from a team
I have no problem with him using the locals in preperation for the Digicel cup... but what I have a problem with is the absolute joke of local players he continuously uses.
Cupid, Makan, Akeile ?? how many chances do you get? they have to be the luckiest players in the world...men racking up caps
Keston Williams,Mitchell and Cyrus are raw but have potential...I could understand their place in the squad. We have no CB's in the pro league that better than Makan to push him out the squad? We have no RB and LB ? you serious?
I would go for Akeem Adams at LB as the local selection... boy played in U17 and U20 World Cups and is now of age.. has the quality and youth on his side...time to reward him and get that shitsnake holding the role down out
Primus should be a CB... groom him now because he's going to be important in the campaign....eventually the 3 main CB'S will be Primus, James and Marshall
Curtis Gonsalves(Boyo) can play RB and CB and he is another from the U20 that I have been impressed with
My other problems with Latapy:
1) He seems to be caught up with only attacking and nice knocking etc but what he has failed to do is keep a structure on the field...no shape... we are a mess off the ball.. no high pressure no position so we are opened up easily... on the ball, some good passing but generally we eventually give the ball away because we do not have quality like Barca Arsenal to play pretty football... We need to have " a house" .. which is the style Leo had where we had a foundation (defense) and the rest of the house to keep a structure throughout 90 minutes.... The only way this team can improve under Latapy is if we acquire a defensive coach who can bring that structure to the team...
2) Lac of Motivation : Lets face it he is a zombie...a sleeper.... a trinidad version of Maturana but with gifted feet...only time he up for anything is in bed with a bombshell... but motivator for a team and as a coach? no way in hell.... I think the players have massive respect for him but they treat him like any other local coach because we come across more as a joke and a friendly set up rather than the reactive respect Beenhakker or a foreign coach would receive from a team
3) I dont know why he refuses to change up the squad until he finds what he's looking for from the local players... Shitload of B internationals and consistently picking the same squad...
I dont think he's the right man for the job...my stance has always been a foreign coach with a Beenhakker mentality..one that can inspire confidence, discipline and the ability to play football with a plan
UNC/COP in power...Jack you have no excuses... Fund the f**king thing... bring in a Coach actually bring in a Staff... get some big friendlies...get this ball rolling
FOR f**k SAKE
Okay, Okay, Lehwee use some psychology dey.
Rename the thread, Save Our Hero Latapy's Reputation" Is the same thing as fire Latapy. Because that's how his rep will be rescued befor it gets worse.
Jack Warner and Oliver Camps. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!fixed ;D
You are killing our football......
Jack Warner and Oliver Camps. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!fixed ;D
You are killing our football......
De man have until digicel cup. I rather we lose battles and we win wars.
On a side note..i now talking with my brethrin in Jamrock who went the game. He say Latas tell de players after the game to go and thank the 50 Trini fans that were there for their support and the noise they made.
De man care at least a lil bit.
De man have until digicel cup. I rather we lose battles and we win wars.
On a side note..i now talking with my brethrin in Jamrock who went the game. He say Latas tell de players after the game to go and thank the 50 Trini fans that were there for their support and the noise they made.
De man care at least a lil bit.
De man have until digicel cup. I rather we lose battles and we win wars.
On a side note..i now talking with my brethrin in Jamrock who went the game. He say Latas tell de players after the game to go and thank the 50 Trini fans that were there for their support and the noise they made.
De man care at least a lil bit.
you have to win these battles ... cause we rankings going down
So will latapy be fired when he touch down ... :praying: :praying: :praying: :praying:
So will latapy be fired when he touch down ... :praying: :praying: :praying: :praying:
So will latapy be fired when he touch down ... :praying: :praying: :praying: :praying:
Unless we had a terrible showing yesterday and had lost 6-0 or something like that to Ja, I think Latas has been graced with carrying on with his job at least until he succeeds or fails to get us to the finals in the Caribbean Cup and to qualify or fail to qualify us for the Gold Cup!
Hopefully by that time Latas could have our team playing some football we can be proud of and winning games handsomely against fellow Caribbean teams including against the better teams in the region like Haiti, Cuba and Jamaica.
d only ting dat perplexing me is dat we seem to truly "come on" offensively when d "bench" comes on i.e. some of subs seem to lift d tempo of d team lil bit...............kinda makes you tink dat some possible starters not gettin d chance to start :-\ ...................dunno jus noticed dat over d lass few games
bye the time they fire latapy it will be too late
Oh so i see, gamble on our confederation's biggest tourney (gold cup) to know if we should up grade or not?? that's what you suggest touches? when would we learn to aim high and stop playing the guessin game with the yutes future?
i remember we made this very same mistake wid the dentist and he didn't disappoint, BC he did just what he was capable of, losing!
don't you guys see that latas is going down the same road! maturana said that he was going to the digicel cup with an all local team, including man who didn't play for us in yrs like dwarika. we played soft and got trumped by lesser competition.
ah hope latapy taking notes with the mad team selections he seem tuh love, BC pancho did the same thing! bring in the proven men and stop gambling with the gold cup MR LATAPY!!
Not true. latapy was given carteblanche by jackular, he said , and i quote "i will give him all the support he needs, any and all players would be available to him". latapy coulda call up even kelvin jack and it would've been granted! not to bust your bubble, but birchall was in the hex all the way through so don't blame the black list. what would you say about darryl roberts, he is not one of the WC blacklisted players, so what sayest thou now?Oh so i see, gamble on our confederation's biggest tourney (gold cup) to know if we should up grade or not?? that's what you suggest touches? when would we learn to aim high and stop playing the guessin game with the yutes future?
i remember we made this very same mistake wid the dentist and he didn't disappoint, BC he did just what he was capable of, losing!
don't you guys see that latas is going down the same road! maturana said that he was going to the digicel cup with an all local team, including man who didn't play for us in yrs like dwarika. we played soft and got trumped by lesser competition.
ah hope latapy taking notes with the mad team selections he seem tuh love, BC pancho did the same thing! bring in the proven men and stop gambling with the gold cup MR LATAPY!!
Maybe Pancho's hands were tied by the Blacklist? :thinking:
And maybe Latas hands is currently also tied by the same blacklist which will explain why Birchall hasn't been called! :devil:
Not true. latapy was given carteblanche by jackular, he said , and i quote "i will give him all the support he needs, any and all players would be available to him". latapy coulda call up even kelvin jack and it would've been granted! not to bust your bubble, but birchall was in the hex all the way through so don't blame the black list. what would you say about darryl roberts, he is not one of the WC blacklisted players, so what sayest thou now?Oh so i see, gamble on our confederation's biggest tourney (gold cup) to know if we should up grade or not?? that's what you suggest touches? when would we learn to aim high and stop playing the guessin game with the yutes future?
i remember we made this very same mistake wid the dentist and he didn't disappoint, BC he did just what he was capable of, losing!
don't you guys see that latas is going down the same road! maturana said that he was going to the digicel cup with an all local team, including man who didn't play for us in yrs like dwarika. we played soft and got trumped by lesser competition.
ah hope latapy taking notes with the mad team selections he seem tuh love, BC pancho did the same thing! bring in the proven men and stop gambling with the gold cup MR LATAPY!!
Maybe Pancho's hands were tied by the Blacklist? :thinking:
And maybe Latas hands is currently also tied by the same blacklist which will explain why Birchall hasn't been called! :devil:
Not true. latapy was given carteblanche by jackular, he said , and i quote "i will give him all the support he needs, any and all players would be available to him". latapy coulda call up even kelvin jack and it would've been granted! not to bust your bubble, but birchall was in the hex all the way through so don't blame the black list. what would you say about darryl roberts, he is not one of the WC blacklisted players, so what sayest thou now?Oh so i see, gamble on our confederation's biggest tourney (gold cup) to know if we should up grade or not?? that's what you suggest touches? when would we learn to aim high and stop playing the guessin game with the yutes future?
i remember we made this very same mistake wid the dentist and he didn't disappoint, BC he did just what he was capable of, losing!
don't you guys see that latas is going down the same road! maturana said that he was going to the digicel cup with an all local team, including man who didn't play for us in yrs like dwarika. we played soft and got trumped by lesser competition.
ah hope latapy taking notes with the mad team selections he seem tuh love, BC pancho did the same thing! bring in the proven men and stop gambling with the gold cup MR LATAPY!!
Maybe Pancho's hands were tied by the Blacklist? :thinking:
And maybe Latas hands is currently also tied by the same blacklist which will explain why Birchall hasn't been called! :devil:
The Fearless One just stated on I95.5fm that a little birdie whispered to him that talks have been held with a dutch coach and an English coach just about 2 days ago....
hhhhmmmm :thinking:......ah bess coach maybe coming after all....Brazil here we come!!!....
The Fearless One just stated on I95.5fm that a little birdie whispered to him that talks have been held with a dutch coach and an English coach just about 2 days ago....
hhhhmmmm :thinking:......ah bess coach maybe coming after all....Brazil here we come!!!....
on standby :devil:
Right so...de goal was to qualify for the Gold cup....or win Digicel cup?
Right so...de goal was to qualify for the Gold cup....or win Digicel cup?
Both! 8)
Playing pretty football is a bonus!! :beermug:
Right so...de goal was to qualify for the Gold cup....or win Digicel cup?
Both! 8)
Playing pretty football is a bonus!! :beermug:
Well.....he qualify for Gold cup. He go get fired if he doh win Digi Cup?
Right so...de goal was to qualify for the Gold cup....or win Digicel cup?
Both! 8)
Playing pretty football is a bonus!! :beermug:
Well.....he qualify for Gold cup. He go get fired if he doh win Digi Cup?
Yuh starting to understand the situation now!
In fact rummour has it that he has already been fired and the task is now to get Jacukula to change his mind about drinking his blood!! :devil:
Right so...de goal was to qualify for the Gold cup....or win Digicel cup?
Both! 8)
Playing pretty football is a bonus!! :beermug:
Well.....he qualify for Gold cup. He go get fired if he doh win Digi Cup?
Right so...de goal was to qualify for the Gold cup....or win Digicel cup?
Both! 8)
Playing pretty football is a bonus!! :beermug:
Well.....he qualify for Gold cup. He go get fired if he doh win Digi Cup?
when de team qualify for de Gold CUp..like you is Pena family..seers?
Supa, jump high, jump low, yuh boy going as coach after this tournament. And dat eh goh have nutten to do with this thread. I hope he goes out with his head held high.
Right so...de goal was to qualify for the Gold cup....or win Digicel cup?
Both! 8)
Playing pretty football is a bonus!! :beermug:
Well.....he qualify for Gold cup. He go get fired if he doh win Digi Cup?
when de team qualify for de Gold CUp..like you is Pena family..seers?
Anil fires national coach. doh get your hopes high ;DI wonder what are the legal ramifications of this move by Spalk.
http://www.trinidadexpress.com/sports/Cycling_coach_axed_-106739543.html
Anil cannot fire Latapy.
so yuh revive dis thread wit d score at 1-0 and no idea of how d game actually goin ???........how f**ked up is u steups.......and no dis ent no fan boy rant, dis jus me wonderin where good sense gone
so yuh revive dis thread wit d score at 1-0 and no idea of how d game actually goin ???........how f**ked up is u steups.......and no dis ent no fan boy rant, dis jus me wonderin where good sense gone
Well d game finish now...so I guess this is a better time?
We have 2 games to play still!!!! Waggonistas!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
When I came home to check d scores...I see dis thread high up...before seeing the score...I done kno we do loss... :'( :'(
Yes latas did some real bull sh!t in the earlies, but i don't think it's latas fault that we bummin! right now he picked ah good squad, but we loss to a better squad. that's football , shyte happens, now lets see if he has what it takes to mek ah good coach, after all good coaches know how tuh bounce backtighten up win win the remaining matches.
i don't think they come better than chelsea and anchelotti, and chelsea just got hung by brum, so sometimes good coaches does get out coached , so who is latas. have patients ppl.
Allyuh too jumpy! ah taking bets, that we would be in the 2nd round of the degicel and qualify for the gold cup!
end of the road, spectacular crash
I concede :( :'(
Big Up!
I concede :( :'(
Big Up!
Latapy is dead to me...I dont know if I can ever hear his name and have a positive thought... that was always the danger
I hope he does well in the future...just never with TnT again... he's too laid back and clueless for coaching
If only it had more room on dat flight.... :(
name the candidates for TT new coach please bc latas riding the midnight cc flight to scotland
name the candidates for TT new coach please bc latas riding the midnight cc flight to scotland
Jack and Camps!!!!!
I concede :( :'(
Big Up!
at least yuh win a jersey in de fantasy league... yuh pass meh clean by de gate this morning :'(
I never thought ill see the day when i didnt care about Trini football. way things running since the blacklist me eh care for a game. Watch American football all day instead. from the posts about i assumed they lost again?
I never thought ill see the day when i didnt care about Trini football. way things running since the blacklist me eh care for a game. Watch American football all day instead. from the posts about i assumed they lost again?
It does creep up on yuh me eh even crawl out of bed 2 put on d tv. Meh peeps was callin dey all thought I was watching. Dey was wrong like an o.
I never thought ill see the day when i didnt care about Trini football. way things running since the blacklist me eh care for a game. Watch American football all day instead. from the posts about i assumed they lost again?
It does creep up on yuh me eh even crawl out of bed 2 put on d tv. Meh peeps was callin dey all thought I was watching. Dey was wrong like an o.
i just watch the highlights. BAD DAY IN TNT FOOTBALL HISTORY. next is Anil going to bump he gums again.
So if you eh care, then why the MDCNT yuh staying on the board so long fuh?? yuh on the board for about three hours now saying the same ole fackin thing, we get it, yuh eh care, now leff we who care nah!I never thought ill see the day when i didnt care about Trini football. way things running since the blacklist me eh care for a game. Watch American football all day instead. from the posts about i assumed they lost again?
It does creep up on yuh me eh even crawl out of bed 2 put on d tv. Meh peeps was callin dey all thought I was watching. Dey was wrong like an o.
i just watch the highlights. BAD DAY IN TNT FOOTBALL HISTORY. next is Anil going to bump he gums again.
U still care me eh even watch d highlights.
So if you eh care, then why the MDCNT yuh staying on the board so long fuh?? yuh on the board for about three hours now saying the same ole fackin thing, we get it, yuh eh care, now leff we who care nah!I never thought ill see the day when i didnt care about Trini football. way things running since the blacklist me eh care for a game. Watch American football all day instead. from the posts about i assumed they lost again?
It does creep up on yuh me eh even crawl out of bed 2 put on d tv. Meh peeps was callin dey all thought I was watching. Dey was wrong like an o.
i just watch the highlights. BAD DAY IN TNT FOOTBALL HISTORY. next is Anil going to bump he gums again.
U still care me eh even watch d highlights.
You late!! every body and they mama know iz ah buffon, ah clown, ah moron, an a$$ and anything else yuh could think of. but do you know what you are?So if you eh care, then why the MDCNT yuh staying on the board so long fuh?? yuh on the board for about three hours now saying the same ole fackin thing, we get it, yuh eh care, now leff we who care nah!I never thought ill see the day when i didnt care about Trini football. way things running since the blacklist me eh care for a game. Watch American football all day instead. from the posts about i assumed they lost again?
It does creep up on yuh me eh even crawl out of bed 2 put on d tv. Meh peeps was callin dey all thought I was watching. Dey was wrong like an o.
i just watch the highlights. BAD DAY IN TNT FOOTBALL HISTORY. next is Anil going to bump he gums again.
U still care me eh even watch d highlights.
U know how long I on d board what else yuh know. I know u are a buffon dat I am sure about.
Latapy is dead to me...I dont know if I can ever hear his name and have a positive thought... that was always the danger
I hope he does well in the future...just never with TnT again... he's too laid back and clueless for coaching
I am fed up and disgusted.
I am embarrassed to be a soca warrior fan today. I stood by the team time and time again, despite the poor results in recent years. Am I supposed to stand by them again? Frankly speaking, I will not until I see a change. Change in player selection, change in coach, change in team organization, change something! The National Team looked like wild madmen on the field.
Latapy has damaged his reputation, I loved him as a player, but I am not too far to say I loathe him as a coach. The countrys arguably most exciting player may be arguably its worst coach. Dont send a boy to do a mans job. I never see a more confused coach on the sidelines. No disrespect to Cuba or Grenada but TnT has the best players in Caribbean and should NEVER have lost; TnT didnt even score. Other than Jamaica, there really should be no competition in the DCCwith our B Team.
It is not an insurmountable task. On behalf of national, regional and international pride, we need a change, and it starts with removing Latapy.
Latapy is dead to me...I dont know if I can ever hear his name and have a positive thought... that was always the danger"Latapy is dead to me...I dont know if I can ever hear his name and have a positive thought..."
I hope he does well in the future...just never with TnT again... he's too laid back and clueless for coaching
To lose to Grenada and Cuba in the same week and hope to go Brazil? We have just proved that we are at least the 5th or 6th best team in the Caribbean and with all the talent w have, that is a shame. Without a drastic change in coaching and administration, there is not a chance in hell that we would make the hex in CONCACAF.
He fired yet? He resign yet?
Latapy was never going to be the solution as the head coach. Most of the die hard football fans on this site knew that. It is truly a Sad ending to a great Trinbago football career.
I constantly read man posting about the coaching and the administration and quite rightfully. What continues to get under my skin, which I am tired of hearing about "is all this great football talent in Trinbago" that makes it a travesty to loose to the likes of Grenada and Cuba. No one questions the players ability in a loss. Plain talk bad manners (and I have been saying this since World Cup 2006): The players are not as talented as most of you would like to believe, and forget it when it comes to "having heart" or playing with pride.
Having seen the game versus Jamaica in the Marvin Lee stadium before the Girsl World Cup, I was surprised as to how piss poor we were technically, not to mention lacking creativity. This is not a recent development under Latapy. Latapy inability to mould this group into unit made these deficiencies that more glaring (to the point of blinding). Although many might talk down the MLS, has anyone asked the question why more of our players are not playing in the MLS (geographically closer and a level below the European leagues)?
I hear men clamouring for a new coach but without the infusion of the foreign base players, the simple fact is that the local players (Trinbago B team) is no longer a force in the caribbean.
Blessing
You late!! every body and they mama know iz ah buffon, ah clown, ah moron, an a$$ and anything else yuh could think of. but do you know what you are?So if you eh care, then why the MDCNT yuh staying on the board so long fuh?? yuh on the board for about three hours now saying the same ole fackin thing, we get it, yuh eh care, now leff we who care nah!I never thought ill see the day when i didnt care about Trini football. way things running since the blacklist me eh care for a game. Watch American football all day instead. from the posts about i assumed they lost again?
It does creep up on yuh me eh even crawl out of bed 2 put on d tv. Meh peeps was callin dey all thought I was watching. Dey was wrong like an o.
i just watch the highlights. BAD DAY IN TNT FOOTBALL HISTORY. next is Anil going to bump he gums again.
U still care me eh even watch d highlights.
U know how long I on d board what else yuh know. I know u are a buffon dat I am sure about.
Latapy is dead to me...I dont know if I can ever hear his name and have a positive thought... that was always the danger"Latapy is dead to me...I dont know if I can ever hear his name and have a positive thought..."
I hope he does well in the future...just never with TnT again... he's too laid back and clueless for coaching
Execessive and Ridiculous!
Latas has always been a great player and he wanted to extend it to coaching the national team ... nothing wrong with that .. initially we all supported him!
Unfortunately, we have now all concluded he is not good enough and obviously he has to leave.
He gave it a shot and didn't succeed ... fair enough thats how it is.. aint the first and sadly won't be the last .. he didn't come here to try and bring we ball down ( or tief we like Jack) he came to try and lift it up but he didn't succeed sooo let it go and wish him well.
Men confusing frustration at his inability to lead the team to higher heights to actually hating on the man.
That is bullshit!!!!
I hear men clamouring for a new coach but without the infusion of the foreign base players, the simple fact is that the local players (Trinbago B team) is no longer a force in the caribbean.
I have a question,,,
What will happen when the current crop of foreign playes get older and no longer in their prime ?..who will replace them ?.definitley not this current crop of young local players....
Do we blame the pro league clubs for not developing local talent to a standard where players can do the job for their country ?..
I have a question,,,
What will happen when the current crop of foreign playes get older and no longer in their prime ?..who will replace them ?.definitley not this current crop of young local players....
Do we blame the pro league clubs for not developing local talent to a standard where players can do the job for their country ?..
Those who say the local based players eh up to scratch need to reassess. The team that Whim took to the Gold Cup in 2007 was a 3rd string National Team and totally local based. Men like Tinto and Roberts, players some of allyuh clamouring to be on the NT was fringe players before that. Despite losing their first 2 matches (full strength El Salvador 2-1 and second string USA 2-0) they managed a respectable draw against Guatemala. I distinctly remember one of the Yankee commentators praising our football by stating that this is Trinidad's 3rd choice team imagine if their first team was here that speaks volumes for their football. My point is even players with so called lesser skills, can rise when properly coached and managed. In 1989 we had 2 National Teams, The Strike squad and the Shell B team all totally local. Yes Whim say the local based players not up to scratch but he was more attacking the system than the players. The guys have potential they just need proper guidance, motivation and discipline in short, proper coaching. Russel Latapy failed miserably in all departments, he clearly was not ready that's why he has to go. What we need is another Beenhakker or the man himself.
Despite the "alleged" fight, the man had those so called 3rd rate players playing as a team and he only had a limited time to organise them. We have to remember Beenie chose Whim as his assistant which means he had his confidence. However the point I'm making is a good coach will have this same team that Latas coaching playing way better. For example in 1997 Bertille St. Clair had only 6 weeks to prepare a local team for the Caribbean Cup. History will show that we won that tournament even knocking out the World Cup bound Jamaicans in the process and he did that with an almost (save for David Nakhid) all local side. We have good players they just need to be guided properly.
We lost the digicel cup but we lost with a whole heap of pro league and young players ,i like it, we cant depend on our overseas based players , them fellas clubs not letting them go and most of them 'dont want to come back as they dont want to risk they bread and butter ,so you can't blame them. Everybody jumping on russell back but which other coach have 18 and 19 year olds playing on the senior team russell doing that,i think we need to find our identity in football so i support russell and if not he any other local coach i not even worrying about brazil 2014 i watching 2018 i rather we as a country find ourselves rather than have a foreigner come in and take a whole heap ah money and leave us no better off than they met us what i would ask for is that the local football fraternity rally around russell or if not him another local coach but i beleive we could get this thing done right here, brand trinidad and tobago we could do it by ourselves. Go easy on the abuse, i know real men go find i talking stupidness but say what ,this is just my opinion.
Everybody jumping on russell back but which other coach have 18 and 19 year olds playing on the senior team russell doing that...
We lost the digicel cup but we lost with a whole heap of pro league and young players ,i like it, we cant depend on our overseas based players , them fellas clubs not letting them go and most of them 'dont want to come back as they dont want to risk they bread and butter ,so you can't blame them. Everybody jumping on russell back but which other coach have 18 and 19 year olds playing on the senior team russell doing that,i think we need to find our identity in football so i support russell and if not he any other local coach i not even worrying about brazil 2014 i watching 2018 i rather we as a country find ourselves rather than have a foreigner come in and take a whole heap ah money and leave us no better off than they met us what i would ask for is that the local football fraternity rally around russell or if not him another local coach but i beleive we could get this thing done right here, brand trinidad and tobago we could do it by ourselves. Go easy on the abuse, i know real men go find i talking stupidness but say what ,this is just my opinion.Wow thats one hell of a gamble ,it could work I guess,Kaiser.
We lost the digicel cup but we lost with a whole heap of pro league and young players ,i like it, we cant depend on our overseas based players , them fellas clubs not letting them go and most of them 'dont want to come back as they dont want to risk they bread and butter ,so you can't blame them. Everybody jumping on russell back but which other coach have 18 and 19 year olds playing on the senior team russell doing that,i think we need to find our identity in football so i support russell and if not he any other local coach i not even worrying about brazil 2014 i watching 2018 i rather we as a country find ourselves rather than have a foreigner come in and take a whole heap ah money and leave us no better off than they met us what i would ask for is that the local football fraternity rally around russell or if not him another local coach but i beleive we could get this thing done right here, brand trinidad and tobago we could do it by ourselves. Go easy on the abuse, i know real men go find i talking stupidness but say what ,this is just my opinion.WE supported him long enough, it's time for latas tuh ride. yes i agree wid yuh on the 2018 vision, but what about all the little regional tourneys that we should be particpating in that we missed out on thanks to latas and CO.
Maturana gave ah number of yutes ah bleigh. keon daniels was 19, khallem hyland was 18, kern cupid was 19, other yutes who got ah bleigh under pancho = steve david, kareem smith, jamal gay, so what does yute development have tuh do wid the senior team ?Everybody jumping on russell back but which other coach have 18 and 19 year olds playing on the senior team russell doing that...
Is really only Joevin Jones. Cyrus go be 20 dis month, Molino is already 20, and Winchester eh even play 90 mins for de senior team yet.
(http://butikofer.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Wind-tumbleweed.jpg)8) Thank you Bakes!
Well I will come out in support of Russell on the fact that he seems to have chosen the developmental route, rebuilding and all that
Mods, delete this thread
they fire him yet >:( >:( >:(
In most countries where football is taken seriously Latas would done be fired !Stop preachin breds, yuh might wake up the ded. this country is ah waste, poor from top to bottom!
Like the Guardian under new management? Actually asking questions of the TTFF?? What goin on here??
I jus glad to see d over inflated view of football getting bus, an man startin to see dat is time for real serious development (building from d back)...............gone are d days when you could jus put 11 man on d field an say "here alyuh go an play".................d WI team seein it and now we seein it our player need plenty remedial work and Latas should be made a youth skills coach that's where I feel he will be most useful to T&T football.
Firing Latapy is not the COMPLETE answer. Lehwe put it like that.
Firing Latapy is not the COMPLETE answer. Lehwe put it like that.Firing Latapy is part of the solution!
How many coaches have been hired and fired under this current crop of idiots led by the Special Adviser and to date we cannot get it right,so you fire the magician, the root of the demise of our football still exists,how long again would we have to wait before another crisis arises
The management failed and they should do the honarable thing and step down,their ideas are antiquated we need fresh thinking of which they have shown they are incapable of...... :devil:
jus had a tlk wit a national player who came in my office to handle some biz and i popped the question.Not surprised
What is d problem?? (wit regards to the team proformances)
His respose - "it was set up fuh latas to fail, no support from the start, jack waner and dem good yes hmmm, trinidad football boy"
jus had a tlk wit a national player who came in my office to handle some biz and i popped the question.
What is d problem?? (wit regards to the team proformances)
His respose - "it was set up fuh latas to fail, no support from the start, jack waner and dem good yes hmmm, trinidad football boy"
jus had a tlk wit a national player who came in my office to handle some biz and i popped the question.
What is d problem?? (wit regards to the team proformances)
His respose - "it was set up fuh latas to fail, no support from the start, jack waner and dem good yes hmmm, trinidad football boy"
jus had a tlk wit a national player who came in my office to handle some biz and i popped the question.
What is d problem?? (wit regards to the team proformances)
His respose - "it was set up fuh latas to fail, no support from the start, jack waner and dem good yes hmmm, trinidad football boy"
If TT had qualified for the Gold Cup, JW warner would have made some extra $$. No set up for Latas to fail.
Man... we lost to Cuba and Grenada!!Yes TT lost to Grenada...How much support does a TT coach needs to beat Grenada??? The bottom line is that Latas is not ready to coach at this level!
jus had a tlk wit a national player who came in my office to handle some biz and i popped the question.Iv'e been sayin that for a while...the writing was all over the wall when i see no friendlies b4 the last group stage and to boot they schedule the FA tourney same time
What is d problem?? (wit regards to the team proformances)
His respose - "it was set up fuh latas to fail, no support from the start, jack waner and dem good yes hmmm, trinidad football boy"
jus had a tlk wit a national player who came in my office to handle some biz and i popped the question.Iv'e been sayin that for a while...the writing was all over the wall when i see no friendlies b4 the last group stage and to boot they schedule the FA tourney same time
What is d problem?? (wit regards to the team proformances)
His respose - "it was set up fuh latas to fail, no support from the start, jack waner and dem good yes hmmm, trinidad football boy"
jus had a tlk wit a national player who came in my office to handle some biz and i popped the question.
What is d problem?? (wit regards to the team proformances)
His respose - "it was set up fuh latas to fail, no support from the start, jack waner and dem good yes hmmm, trinidad football boy"
Sugar & Weary what allyuh say to this?
That Latas should have known better and he make his bed so he must lie in it?!
Just wondering what allyuh response to this revelation from one of the national players is!!
so how u explain men dat playing ball fuh d national team and "aint get pay fuh d yr" including d coach who wasnt getting pay all d time, it not easy working fuh thanks yuh kno
I jus glad to see d over inflated view of football getting bus, an man startin to see dat is time for real serious development (building from d back)...............gone are d days when you could jus put 11 man on d field an say "here alyuh go an play".................d WI team seein it and now we seein it our player need plenty remedial work and Latas should be made a youth skills coach that's where I feel he will be most useful to T&T football.
Well said! :beermug:
Come on fellas allyuh know Latas ain't taking no small wuk in T&T.
the entire ttff needs to be replacevery soonseveral years ago
Hope they replaced the texting Manager also.
How do you rate his ability to impart that technical ability to others?Firing Latapy is not the COMPLETE answer. Lehwe put it like that.Firing Latapy is part of the solution!
I agree with him being a youth team skills coach though .. technical ability is his strong point!
How do you rate his ability to impart that technical ability to others?Firing Latapy is not the COMPLETE answer. Lehwe put it like that.Firing Latapy is part of the solution!
I agree with him being a youth team skills coach though .. technical ability is his strong point!
How do you rate his ability to impart that technical ability to others?Firing Latapy is not the COMPLETE answer. Lehwe put it like that.Firing Latapy is part of the solution!
I agree with him being a youth team skills coach though .. technical ability is his strong point!
considering what I've heard of his youngest son I'd say good ............not the best barometer...........but I think he'd have an easier time with young minds that have not yet developed bad habits or who can still be made to break said bad habits.
How do you rate his ability to impart that technical ability to others?Firing Latapy is not the COMPLETE answer. Lehwe put it like that.Firing Latapy is part of the solution!
I agree with him being a youth team skills coach though .. technical ability is his strong point!
considering what I've heard of his youngest son I'd say good ............not the best barometer...........but I think he'd have an easier time with young minds that have not yet developed bad habits or who can still be made to break said bad habits.
Coaching your kids and coaching other kids is a massive difference.
See the same thing I saying. How LP is part of that if he is not really part of them and cannot influence true programs and actions from the TTFF? How now they could include him as part of the technical staff to report on the mess?Ever heard about a consultant? Maybe his role is so defined?
See the same thing I saying. How LP is part of that if he is not really part of them and cannot influence true programs and actions from the TTFF? How now they could include him as part of the technical staff to report on the mess?Ever heard about a consultant? Maybe his role is so defined?
Firing Latapy not the answerI see this and thinking you might have something there ,Ive never seen it done but I guess if latapy start taking his coaching courses and go to seminars and such .And if we could see him getting better ,I guess the rest of your article might work ,but latapy in your scenario has to improve his work ethic .
T&T Guardian Editorial
The failure of the national football team in the Digicel Caribbean Cup finals in Martinique was a clear indication that all is not right with the sport here in T&T.
From being the number one team in the Caribbean and one that was feared by all the other countries, T&T has now been reduced to just another team against which any of the others could compete favourably.
A 1-0 victory over Martinique in their final game and two losses to Cuba (2-0) and Grenada (1-0) effectively stymied the aspirations of coach Russell Latapys Soca Warriors, who will now miss the Gold Cup, the premier competition in the region.
It must be ironic that even before the team kicked a ball, Latapy was talking about playing against Jamaica in the final. The Little Magician, as Latapy was referred in his playing days, was overly confident of not only advancing to the semi-finals, which guaranteed a place in the Gold Cup, but of meeting the Reggae Boyz in the Caribbean Cup final.
As it turned out, he was partly rightJamaica was in the final, which it eventually won, while T&T failed to get to the semi-final.
As usual, the daggers have been taken out and pointed at Latapy and it would seem that the reason for the pathetic display lies in his exclusive domain. Already there are reports he is to be fired and the federation is negotiating with Jean Tigana, the former French player and Dutchman Ruud Gullitt as possible replacements.
It is a knee-jerk response that is destined to fail. The truth is T&T football has been in the doldrums for a long time, some would say blighted by the failure of the federation to professionally deal with the players who represented the country with so much passion and commitment at the Germany World Cup finals in 2006. Several of the players who were heroes on that team were lost to our football simply because they opted to challenge the federations financial dealings with them.
It therefore came as no surprise, as revealed by this newspapers exclusive story in yesterdays edition, that once again the federation has failed to pay the players salaries for the past 13 matches.
The stark reality is that the days when players ran on to the field simply for the love of representing their country is far gone. Money remains a potent motivational tool, but more importantly for many of the players it is essential for taking care of their families. Even before they get to the point of representing the country, there is the whole question of the role of the administrators. Have they done everything possibly to help develop an environment for the success of players?
Was Latapy exposed to the cutting edge of teaching/coaching technology so that he could develop the knowledge base to better prepare the team? Administrators must understand they are there for the sole purpose of working for the success of the coaches and players, and by extension the team.[/b
If we look hard we will find that in the Martinique failure, there are lessons. Will we learn from them? Someone must tell the nation why it is the pendulum has swung so swiftly. It is folly to ignore this pathetic display and hope that it will repair itself. Football is not magic. The answer lies in the planning and intelligent work by the backroom staff.
If we continuously use the firing of coaches to treat a cancerous problem, we will soon be the doormat of regional football. Firing Latapy is not the answer. The TTFF must dig deeper and come up with real solutions.
He ain't fired yet? scheeeupss. How come we does rush for everything else but doing the right thing?Breds, there's no way latapy remainin as coach, even if he had won the digicel cup! jack warner knows that latas eh ready and was only using him for the time being until he fixed his business.
Allyuh bad mind trinis let the man play nah ... allyuh stop playing yet?classic line , i love it .
Why should he?
Hey i was having a discussion with some friends about latapy in his prime. Do you think if latas was playing football in this era he would have made it against the likes of messi and ronaldo? he kinda remind me of david silva
Ah doh like de song, but ah like de video.
Is this a 2012 soca ?
Song awright. Nice video clips.
oral agreement with him
Latas, like he eh learn from the first game in Germany or what. You still believe in oral agreements for Jack!!!!!!
drive it eenAh thought yuh wudda say "sue de fitball"
What exactly are his grounds for wrongful dismissal? His win/loss record was not exactly outstanding.
According to Latapys claim, in March 2010, TTFF special adviser Jack Warner and the federations general secretary Richard Groden entered into an oral agreement with him that he would serve as national coach of the Soca Warriors for two years.
The sacked coach said term of the oral agreement was that he would continue to be paid the same salary and there was no provision for termination of the agreement, by either party, by the provision of notice or otherwise.
According to Latapy’s claim, in March 2010, TTFF special adviser Jack Warner and the federation’s general secretary Richard Groden entered into an oral agreement with him that he would serve as national coach of the Soca Warriors for two years.
The sacked coach said term of the oral agreement was that he would continue to be paid the same salary and there was no provision for termination of the agreement, by either party, by the provision of notice or otherwise.
So yuh abandon yuh teammates over one oral agreement, but now yuh going tuh court for de alleged breach of another oral agreement wit de same man. Ah wonder why? ::)
When will T&T ballers learn. Get your contract in writing, signed by the both parties, executed, with a notary public stamp and date. If some of these steps are not done, it is not a contract that you can trust, and you can become a victim of skullduggery and could left hangin' high and dry like an imps. Wake up people.
??? a decade later, dey lookinto put de man on blast?....wheys da one!!?
Once Latas geh tru wid de job, he go be callin' fuh Molino. Watch an' see. :beermug:Ah was thinking it, will be nice
I heard lincoln phillips say he never got paid from the TTFF for all his years of being technical director...maybe he should sue too!
What about Wim, Simoes & staff, Fevrier, Otto...while we at it..what about the people of Trinidad & Tobago ? Wait TTFF not answerable to we, the goverment don't care to recoup nothing..we (thru our government) does just donate blindly, build stadia, and other facilities, so we can pay a higher price to see our National & professional athletes perform, until they leave our shores, to the benefit of our the individual & local professional teams, who can't seem to get enough for them to barely keep afloat. Hey, look how many of our boys gain scholarships, get out, and nohing to return to.Maybe if they had some measure of encouragement...like another stadium...I just kicksin eh..I heard lincoln phillips say he never got paid from the TTFF for all his years of being technical director...maybe he should sue too!
As far as I remember Sport company paid LP. There was a time d TTFF did not put up the paperwork in time. So it had a time he was wukin 4 free. Just like Barber and co right now.
What about Wim, Simoes & staff, Fevrier, Otto...while we at it..what about the people of Trinidad & Tobago ? Wait TTFF not answerable to we, the goverment don't care to recoup nothing..we (thru our government) does just donate blindly, build stadia, and other facilities, so we can pay a higher price to see our National & professional athletes perform, until they leave our shores, to the benefit of our the individual & local professional teams, who can't seem to get enough for them to barely keep afloat. Hey, look how many of our boys gain scholarships, get out, and nohing to return to.Maybe if they had some measure of encouragement...like another stadium...I just kicksin eh..I heard lincoln phillips say he never got paid from the TTFF for all his years of being technical director...maybe he should sue too!
As far as I remember Sport company paid LP. There was a time d TTFF did not put up the paperwork in time. So it had a time he was wukin 4 free. Just like Barber and co right now.
What happen was he went and party late and never show up for practice the next morning.
The club decide to take the hard line on this disciplinary issue and told him that was the final straw, better he find a next club.
It just so happen the finals was coming up and the management would not budge on the decision and so allow him to play the final.
Spoke to a friend who played cricket with Lara and football with Latas.
This is what he had t say about his Trintoc days with Latas.
"Players like Leonson Lewis, M. Faustin and Hutson Charles were great players, they could pass a ball to your feet no matter where you stood on the field. This is what great players do. But Latas used to pass a ball for your stride. You running and he would pass it perfectly for your stride. If he passed a ball for you, it was a good pass that came to you. Some men pass a ball and you swear is the opposition they passing it for, the amount of running you have to do.
When Russel was on the field, you always thought you could win. There were times I was playing and I would want to stop just to watch him play although I was a player on the field.
.......I saw the interview with Yorke and he is so true. Latapy is an absolute genius. He makes football simple. When you play with him its like he could read your mind. He would deliver the ball to you better than how you would expect it. He would find you anywhere you are on the field.
My best football experiences were the years I played with him. Great and unforgetable memories. He had a great personality as well. I remember it had a time we got picked to play with a sort of all star team, I was living in St James and he told me to meet him at his home in Laventille, so I went and met his mother and family and then we got picked up to go to south. Faustin was there as well. Russel was cracking jokes all the way to south lol.
We won the match. Then when we came back to town we went to lime. They came home by me for me to bathe and change. Russel was one of the coolest guys you would ever meet. I remember he had an old car he used to call Betsy but it never used to work lol"
When Russel was on the field, you always thought you could win. There were times I was playing and I would want to stop just to watch him play although I was a player on the field.
The greatess player I have ever step foot on a pitch with, but in many ways - the single most destructive influence on a generation of local players ever...that said, to see him in training was a revelation!
One of T&T's dunces players ever, hope the lawyer don't fool him too.I am now convinced that you were defecated from your father's ass when u was born...........because there have got to be some logical explanation for the level of shit dat permeates your primitive or addled cerebrum
HAPPY BORN DAY
I stumbled across this article translated from Portuguese, can anyone confirm if Russell is an assistant coach at Boavista?Yep. Official site say so.
http://www.futebol365.pt/noticias/artigo.asp?id=89636&cat=Regi%C3%B5es#.UgBxkZK0JFA
Look ting :oI stumbled across this article translated from Portuguese, can anyone confirm if Russell is an assistant coach at Boavista?Yep. Official site say so.
http://www.futebol365.pt/noticias/artigo.asp?id=89636&cat=Regi%C3%B5es#.UgBxkZK0JFA
http://www.boavistafc.pt/public/tecteam#article
"FOOTBALL STAFF
ARMANDO TEIXEIRA - HEAD COACH
RUSSELL Latapy - ASSISTANT COACH"
I stumbled across this article translated from Portuguese, can anyone confirm if Russell is an assistant coach at Boavista?
http://www.futebol365.pt/noticias/artigo.asp?id=89636&cat=Regi%C3%B5es#.UgBxkZK0JFA
He can work with the so-called technical players at the club and pass on wee bits and pieces, individually and collectively. If any kid here doesnt take the chance to grasp it and learn from Russell then hes a fool. I can remember the young lads at Falkirk really taking to him and he has this great trick on him which Scott Arfield picked up and made part of his own game.
I still vex I ain't see the best of Latas oui. I want to see that DVD Hughes talk bout oui.
One of the worst coach to coach T&T, hope he improve now. And if he coach de way he does talk, de team might drop asleep in de locker room at half time.
Cant forget he was offered two friendly games before we play Costa Rica and he say no, hell no, he prefer just pay for de team to go to Tobago to jog around Shaun Park and get fit for a World Cup match, then when de real game start, after 65 mins we was bun and Costa Rica came back and buss we ass.
Former Soca Warriors coach hoping for payment
T&T Express Reports.
Part of the process of rebuilding for our football is paying off debts and moving on, and allowing this new coach (Hart), who has been doing a fantastic job, to move on with a clean slate. Without things hanging over his head, Latapy said.
I am not the only coach owed by the Federation. Obviously, we have worked for that money and we need to get paid. And that is the same for all the coaches who are in my situation, he ended
Is the TTFA recognizing the debts of the TTFF or hiding behind company registrations when convenient?
They owe Wim $2M and who else are they going to recognise? They have set a precedent with this payment.
If there was transparency as part of this "new" approach with new constitution supported by FIFA and CONCACAF a full list of debts to be cleared should be produced particularly if sponsorship is being sought and government assistance is being provided.
Is the TTFA recognizing the debts of the TTFF or hiding behind company registrations when convenient?
They owe Wim $2M and who else are they going to recognise? They have set a precedent with this payment.
If there was transparency as part of this "new" approach with new constitution supported by FIFA and CONCACAF a full list of debts to be cleared should be produced particularly if sponsorship is being sought and government assistance is being provided.
If the TTFA was "hiding behind company registrations when convenient" then they wouldn't have honored the debt owed to the 2006 World Cup players. Wim breached his contract when he attacked/got into a physical altercation with Lincoln Phillips... according to the previous regime. In other words, that 'debt' is disputed, unlike the debt owed to Latapy, Charles et al.
I guess Wim attorneys would look at Latapy's team legal submissions and initiate same if TTFA saying they disputing the debt.
Clearly Mendes team got it right because they at least get the TTFA to try and pay.
Look like some kinda court action against "TTFA" is the only way anybody getting paid.
Latapy says Europe has market for T&T players.
Well done Latas!
Little Magician stars at Flow clinic.is that harry potter on the right of the screen with his foot on the ball standing next to the blond kid?
By Sean Taylor (Express).
Long-time local football legend Russell Latapy was the feature attraction at the St Marys Grounds, St Clair, yesterday, as the Flow Legends Community Outreach Programme continued their mandate to give back to the children through football.
The company hosted yet another football clinic in the buildup to the British Airways Legends Tobago Football Challenge, after having former English football stars tour several primary schools in Tobago. Fabrice Muamba formerly of Bolton Wanderers, and Rachel Yankey ex-Arsenal Ladies player, were also in Trinidad and Tobago to conduct clinics. Yankey paid the St Augustine Girls team a special visit a month ago.
Yesterday, feature the Little Magician, Clayton Ince, as well as ex-Liverpool player Stan Collymore. They were all on hand to run separate drills with the children, who were all members of the Queens Park Cricket Clubs (QPCC) football youth development programme.
Deryck Murray, who played in 62 Test matches for the West Indies said that the QPCC are making a concerted attempt to mirror their efforts in cricket, in football. He said that with a 125-year pedigree of fostering cricket legends, it was time to expand their influence to football.
The Little Magician was enthusiastic about what Outreach Programme was doing. Its playgrounds like this where we all started, he told the Express. I think its a fantastic initiative, whatever is being provided to help the improvement of the young football players is always welcome as a good initiative.
The clinic itself was a success, despite being cut short by fading light. The youngsters were drilled in many facets of the game, including shooting, passing, close control, goal keeping and even a small scrimmage near the end.
Latapy, Ince and Collymore will all be at the Legends Challenge this weekend. Stern John, the all-time top scorer for the Soca Warriors, will also be in Tobago but did not attend the clinic.
All 64 legends will arrive in Tobago and visit the communities for extended clinics. The legends will be playing for Arsenal, Aston Villa, Manchester United, Liverpool, Chelsea, Tottenham and there will be a team of Caribbean All Stars and Professional Footballers Associations (PFA) All Stars.The BA Legends will conclude in a six-a-side tournament which will take place at the Dwight Yorke Stadium on Saturday and Sunday.
(http://www.trinidadexpress.com/storyimage/TT/20150618/SPORTS/150619492/AR/0/AR-150619492.jpg&MaxW=730&imageversion=Article)
STILL GOT IT: Russell Latapy, otherwise known as the Little Magician manipulates the ball while explaining fundamentals of the game for the young players of the Queens Park Cricket Club. The former Soca Warriors captain partnered with ex-national custodian Clayton Ince and ex-Liverpool player Stan Collymore in the Flow Legends Outreach Programme Football Clinic at the St Marys Grounds, Serpentine Road, yesterday. Photo: Stephen Doobay
Football Legends Russell Latapy, Clayton Ince and Former Liverpool striker Stan Collymore were busy passing on their skills yesterday to the youth as part of the Flow Legends Community Outreach Programme
Celebrating 53 years of Independence, CTV salutes soca warrior Russell Latapy
Russell Latapy wants to come back home , I truthfully gave up and forgot about him , but he didnt gave up on us I guess .Fans are so fickle they've said , I suppose , one bad outting and we write them off , even if the greatest of all time , the Supreme Magician Russell Latapy.
LONG LAST*
Latapy to finally receive payment
http://www.trinidadexpress.com/20151120/sports/long-last
The long awaited process to pay remaining money owed to local football icon Russell Latapy began yesterday with Sport Minister Darryl Smith committing to 50 per cent of the US$1 million owed to the former national football captain, for his services as Trinidad and Tobago's senior men's national team coach between 2009-2011.
Payment will be made in quarterly instalments, beginning with a first payment of US$200,000, and will be made through the Trinidad and Tobago Football Association's annual subvention from the Ministry of Sport (MOS).
Glad that he is finally getting some of what was owed to him, I'm sure that must have been some stress.
What's the difference with Latapy getting $500K under this government compared to the WC players getting their payment from the previous government?
Glad that he is finally getting some of what was owed to him, I'm sure that must have been some stress.
What's the difference with Latapy getting $500K under this government compared to the WC players getting their payment from the previous government?
ah glad someone else asked.
How about Marvin Faustin an Hutson Charles?
Have they been paid?
Haven't they been waiting as long as Latas?
VB
Glad that he is finally getting some of what was owed to him, I'm sure that must have been some stress.
What's the difference with Latapy getting $500K under this government compared to the WC players getting their payment from the previous government?
How about Marvin Faustin an Hutson Charles?
Have they been paid?
Haven't they been waiting as long as Latas?
VB
Glad that he is finally getting some of what was owed to him, I'm sure that must have been some stress.
What's the difference with Latapy getting $500K under this government compared to the WC players getting their payment from the previous government?
ah glad someone else asked.
The difference is structural. The Latapy payment is twinned to the TTFA's subvention. On the other hand, the 2006 Warriors payment was a direct government payout. The Latas payment holds the TTFA to deductions from its subvention and thus maintains the TTFA's fiscal responsibility for the debt owed to RL ...with the government merely acting as a facilitating vehicle rather than absolving the TTFA of the debt. In the 2006 Warriors arrangement, reimbursement to the government is speculative.
How about Marvin Faustin an Hutson Charles?
Have they been paid?
Haven't they been waiting as long as Latas?
VB
Why yuh don't chip in to help pay them? Yuh acting as though the TTFA can't start paying off all creditors one by one, that they must pay everybody all at once.
WATCH: Latapy optimistic about the progress of Trinidad and Tobago football
https://www.youtube.com/v/wOEgjxmxu0g
Russell Latapy feels playing field is not level for black managersR Latapy have to stop trying to get a job in the SPL and look for a job in the lower leagues bring a couple TRINI'S to the club like M W Ling and get the club promoted until they get to the SPL that's how you prove yourself do not move back to Trinidad try and get a coaching job in the lower leagues in Scotland or Portugal.
By Alan Pattullo (scotsman.com)
Despite concern the secondary school bearing his name in Trinidad is being neglected and fears his own bid to return to work is being hampered by racial prejudice, it’s heartening to find Russell Latapy still smiling.
An impish grin has spread across his face as he contemplates his relationship with the Scottish Cup. “I have always had – how should I put it? – an up and down affair with it,” he says, on a visit to Scotland from Portugal to promote today’s William Hill Scottish Cup quarter-final between Hibs and Inverness Caledonian Thistle, two of his former clubs. “I had some wonderful times with Hibs and then I missed the final for well-documented reasons. Then I was able to come back with Inverness a few years later and was able to lift it.”
These “well documented reasons” involve a night out with Dwight Yorke in the run-up to the final in 2001, when Latapy-less Hibs were beaten 3-0 by Celtic. He enjoyed some delayed redemption last season when he and John Hughes guided Inverness Caledonian Thistle to the final, where they defeated Falkirk 1-0. “It got a bit crazy on the way back up, it was way past my standards,” he says, with reference to the subsequent celebrations on the team bus’s return journey to the Highlands.
The mood turns slightly more serious when he contemplates his current situation, which could be described as being between jobs. He walked away from Inverness before the beginning of this season, explaining to Hughes that he wished to manage in his own right, rather than be an assistant.
He planned to be back in work by the end of the year. “I do miss Scottish football and football in general, but it was a decision I made at the time and you have to stick by them,” he says. “I left Inverness at a peculiar time, when it was the beginning of the season and everyone pretty much had their teams. I was hoping that maybe by December I would be back in the game.
“I know I will be back in the game by the beginning of next season. I’ve already had a few offers that have not been right for me, although not in Scotland. These have been in Portugal and the Caribbean. But next season I will definitely be back.”
He believes his ambitions are being frustrated through no fault of his own. There is a persistent suspicion black managers are not being given the chance to show what they can do in British football – and Latapy subscribes to this view. In Scottish football, where Latapy would most like to manage, the absence of black managers is as stark as anywhere, perhaps starker.
Since John Barnes’ ill-fated period in charge at Celtic, the only black or mixed race manager to work in the top flight was Marcio Maximo, who had a short time in charge of Livingston in 2003-4. Dave Smith, who managed Montrose for a short spell in the 1990s, was the last to operate in the lower tiers, where Latapy says he is happy to start being a manager in his own right. He was interviewed by Falkirk after Steven Pressley left in 2013, while there were rumours he was in line to take over at Alloa Athletic in January, before Jack Ross was appointed.
“Do I think there is still a block for black managers?” he ponders. “Yes, I do. I know it can be dangerous to compare situations but you see a lot of managers getting opportunities who have not proved themselves and then you see a lot of black managers who have done a lot as players and in coaching who do not get that opportunity. I think there is still, unfortunately, the situation that black managers are not getting a fair chance compared to young, white managers.”
He is not necessarily in favour of the implementation of a Rooney Rule-type measure, as applied in American football, whereby clubs are forced to interview a certain number of black and minority ethnic candidates.
“I would have to think more about that [the Rooney Rule],” he says. “But what I would say is that I – and every other black manager in football – want to get an opportunity based on merit, not based on a governing body saying they have to do it. I would suppose maybe that would be an opportunity for us to show what we could do, but I would much prefer to get a chance through a chairman of a club saying ‘he is the right man for our club’.
“I’ve had a few interviews and they thought that someone else was the right man for the job.”
For the time being he is based in Porto, where he watches one of his former clubs play each home game. He realises he has to keep watching football to keep himself updated in coaching techniques. But he is also travelling back and forth to his Trinidad homeland, where as well as having discussions about a club managerial vacancy – he is deliberating whether to take the post or not – he is involved in efforts to ensure the Russell Latapy secondary school can survive a recent downturn in investment.
“It is in a very difficult area where I grew up,” he explains, with reference to Laventille, a suburb in Port of Spain. “The school has been a bit neglected. So I had a couple of meetings with the ministry of education to try and upgrade the school.”
He has, then, perhaps more important things to worry about. But he accepts the Scottish Cup is a serious business, particularly when it comes to Hibs. What does he think the Hibs fans would prefer – success in the Scottish Cup, or promotion? “Both!” he says. “The fans want to play in the Premiership but they also want to win the Scottish Cup.”
“It’s been more than 100 years!” he adds. “But I think if they could do either one the fans will be delighted this season.”
A youthman calls for a Laventille-grounded Pro League squad.
Give Magician Latapy a wand for youth football
By Andre Baptiste, T&T Guardian
T&Ts football is at a critical stage and unless we take some important steps, there will be severe consequences. As is normal, everyone is concentrating on the national senior teams efforts in the final round qualifiers for Russia 2018. Therefore, focus is on the next two matches against Guatemala at home on September 2, and the USA four days later in the United States.
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Latapy has a number of positives going for him, not least the fact that the population feel a tremendous debt of gratitude towards him for his outstanding achievements and performances over the last 35 years, from a teenager to his days as coach.
Lets face it, T&Ts development plan is non-existent. The Football Association will say differently but the harsh reality is that there are no cognitive signs in any of the programmes in football, whether at the youth or any level for that matter.
I believe the David John Williams team can win some positive attention amidst a number of questionable scenarios. I am urging him to appoint Latapy to oversee a programme for our youth, which could include some oversight on coaching standards, something that is badly needed in T&T.
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Appointing Latapy would be a great step in the right direction.
http://www.guardian.co.tt/sport/2016-05-18/give-%E2%80%98magician%E2%80%99-latapy-wand-youth-football
I only hope Latas do a better job with the U-17 team than our recent coaches at this post
Latapy is a very very brave man to walk into this situation with 20 odd days to prepare the boys for Haiti, Bermuda and Jamaica. He must really think he is a magician.
The last coach got their boys through CFU group and finals stages to Concacaf in 2013 and 2015. Fortunately, as host we automatically qualify for CFU finals so he has 3 games to prove himself...seems risky or something else going on.
Our U17 team Coach has a UEFA Pro License..Really? Is this the new standard for youth coaches
Latapy is a very very brave man to walk into this situation with 20 odd days to prepare the boys for Haiti, Bermuda and Jamaica. He must really think he is a magician.
The last coach got their boys through CFU group and finals stages to Concacaf in 2013 and 2015. Fortunately, as host we automatically qualify for CFU finals so he has 3 games to prove himself...seems risky or something else going on.
Our U17 team Coach has a UEFA Pro License..Really? Is this the new standard for youth coaches
There are youth coaches all over Europe (and elsewhere) with said licence. Of course one need not possess a pro licence to deliver value at this level, but what's the harm?
WATCH: Coach Russell Latapy maintains a training Programme with the National Mens U-17 Team twice a week.
https://www.youtube.com/v/zoXawySmBX4
Latapy: Let your football do the talking
TTFA Media.
Former National Football Captain Russell Latapy has issued an appeal to players to let their football do the talking.
The current national Under 17 and Under 15 Head Coach, directed his statements at current day players on the National Team, professional players and aspiring national players, saying that as athletes their primary focus should be delivering on the field of play.
For a long time Ive stood by and listened to some of the younger players voice their opinions regarding the game of football. I would like to share my thoughts, especially, at this time when a player, namely, Jan Michael Williams, in his lack of wisdom and understanding can boldly make statements about the Honourable Minister of Sport and the Sport Ministry.
Firstly, Acknowledgement comes with Achievement! The type of achievement required to be successful in football is playing at a high level, motivating other players, and building team spirit and comradery for your team and country while working tirelessly to be at the top of the CFU and Concacaf. It is also taking responsibility for your actions and not blaming others.
Secondly, If you want acknowledgement you do not need to ask for it. Acknowledgement involves playing professionally for an extended period in a league that is considered a top professional league and not just for a few months.
So kid, my advice to you is: talk less, defend more and I look forward to you being part of a successful National Team.
Yo my head does done be spinning on a daily basis with the madness that is taking place here in the US...now this from Latas??
When we won our second successive Caribbean Club Championship last year, we received no recognition from Minister Smith said Williams. It was the highest profile sporting achievement by any team from T&T in 2016, yet we didn't even receive a letter of congratulations The club did receive a congratulatory letter from both the President of FIFA and CONCACAF, commenting on the outstanding achievement.
It's very disappointing as a player in our national sport to see the lack of respect for our achievements added Williams.
Granted he may (??) have spoken out of turn but "lack of wisdom and understanding"??? So did the Hon Minister (like FIFA and CONCACAF) really did congratulate them and JMW just not know?
So three Pro League titles AND two CFU is not any kind of achievement huh?
So JMW talking bout the minister is the, "straw that broke the camel's back" for Latas?
I could go on with dissecting Latas statement but really what's the point...sigh.
Who they go put? Shabazz?nah,he taking his turn with the women program, ah think is Anton turn again... :-\
I believe David Nakhid was the TT player to play in the UEFA Champions' League not Latas.
VB
I believe David Nakhid was the TT player to play in the UEFA Champions' League not Latas.
VB
I don't think Nakhid ever played in the Champions League. The first time Grasshoppers qualified for the Champions League was 1995/96 and he was gone already.
I believe David Nakhid was the TT player to play in the UEFA Champions' League not Latas.
VB
I don't think Nakhid ever played in the Champions League. The first time Grasshoppers qualified for the Champions League was 1995/96 and he was gone already.
I thought it was with a Belgian club. But although I believe it, can't find any evidence on the net to back it up. ;-)
VB
I believe David Nakhid was the TT player to play in the UEFA Champions' League not Latas.
VB
I don't think Nakhid ever played in the Champions League. The first time Grasshoppers qualified for the Champions League was 1995/96 and he was gone already.
I thought it was with a Belgian club. But although I believe it, can't find any evidence on the net to back it up. ;-)
VB
The Belgian club he played for was KSV Waregem, and as far I know, they have never been involved in European competition. Even Nakhid's resume (http://www.davidnakhid.com/p/resume.html) makes no mention of it.
It is poor managerial practise (sic) to engage in any matters that may arise internally to engage in those matters publicly.
--- Justin Latapy-George
What Sir Bobby Robson had to say about Russell Latapy prior to Hibs move - and why Alex McLeish once let him off for breaking curfewThe problem for R Latapy is at Fc Porto Bobby Robson used him as a winger and at Glasgow Rangers Dick Advocoat used him as a winger he played best as a number 10
By Craig Fowler (Edinburgh Evening News)
English football legend Sir Bobby Robson correctly predicted that Russell Latapy would be a huge hit in Scotland, as revealed by former Easter Road boss Alex McLeish.
The ex-Hibs, Rangers and Scotland manager was speaking to Si Ferry on Open Goal as he reflected on the first time he became aware of the playmakers availability.
In particular, he recalled a friendly game where Latapy, on trial, played as if he were floating above the pitch.
This convinced the former Aberdeen and Scotland centre-back to sign the Trinidad and Tobago star. He would be a huge hit at Easter Road, helping the club to the First Division crowd and third place in the SPL. He would later go on to have a less-than-stellar spell with Rangers before starring for Falkirk over a six-year period.
McLeish said: An agent phoned me and asked if I knew about Russell Latapy. I said I knew the name because hed played in Portugal with Bobby Robson.
So I phoned Sir Bobby. He said, beautiful little player, he likes to have a bit of fun, but I think hell smash it in Scotland.
I asked Russell to play a trial game for us to make sure he had the legs. We played a friendly up at Brechin, I think it was. I was amazed he said yes. It was pelting with rain, certainly not the Caribbean weather he would have been used to.
This wee guy plowed through the pitch like he was dancing above it. He was like he had a hoverboard above the grass. He was sensational.
I was looking up into the stands to make sure there were no scouts watching. I was scared we were going to lose him in the 24 hours before the deal was done.
Latapy had a bit of a reputation for enjoying the nightlife during his time at Hibs, which at times made him life difficult for his managers. Ultimately he would be sacked by the club after socialising with countryman Dwight Yorke, which went against club rules, and ended up with a drunk-driving charge.
McLeish, however, remembers a happier time when the two came to an agreement as he was ready to punish his midfield genius.
He added: We were in Trinidad and Tobago. I think Rod [Petrie] saw it as a commercial trip. Russell was so excited to be back in his homeland.
"I told the players there was a curfew and they needed to be back by a certain time. Now, Russell probably wasnt the only one who did break it, but he was the one who was caught.
So I told him the next day that Im going to fine him. He asked me to show a bit of leniency. Then I heard that Brian Lara is one of his best pals - and I like cricket. So I told him to bring Brian Lara in for lunch and Ill let you away with it.
Latas and his troops were due to play Iceland next week but the COVID vibes kicked that to the curb. Would have been nice to have had at least one match against Iceland in complement to the Barbados matches, even if that meant playing their secondary players to get a 3rd match in. Kudos to them for getting a quality opponent.
Latas and his troops were due to play Iceland next week but the COVID vibes kicked that to the curb. Would have been nice to have had at least one match against Iceland in complement to the Barbados matches, even if that meant playing their secondary players to get a 3rd match in. Kudos to them for getting a quality opponent.
Would like to see if barbados has improved under latapy ....I know he has been doing alot of scouting for eligble bajan players in additon to the few local players that have had trials / moved to europe ...
Full match: Panama vs Barbados. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6SZDbCN-xY&t=1791s)can we get the full match TT vs guyana?