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Football / Digicel Caribbean Championship

« on: October 15, 2010, 08:26:45 PM »

1st round almost done, 2nd round groups almost set:

2nd Round
GROUP E
22nd-26th October in Grenada
Grenada
Guadeloupe
Saint Kitts & Nevis
Puerto Rico

GROUP F
2nd-6th November in Trinidad & Tobago
Trinidad & Tobago
Haiti
Guyana
Suriname

GROUP G
10th-14th November in Antigua & Barbuda
Antigua & Barbuda
Cuba
Saint Vincent & the Grenadines
Dominica OR Dominican Republic

In Sunday's final 1st round qualifying matches:
Guyana and Suriname have both already qualified, and are playing (in Suriname) to determine the Group C winners.  They are both exactly equal on points (6) and goals (4-2).  The loser of this match will be Trinidad & Tobago's first opponents on 2nd November.  The winner will play T&T on 4th November, and T&T take on Haiti on 6th November.

Dominican Republic and Dominica are playing for the 12th and final place in the 2nd round.  Hosts Dominican Republic need a draw to qualify.  Both teams hammered British Virgin Islands, but Dominican Republic done it better (17-0 vs 10-0).

For the finals tournament in Martinique:

GROUP H
Jamaica
Winners Grenada group
Winners Antigua & Barbuda group
Runners-up Trinidad & Tobago group

GROUP I
Martinique
Winners Trinidad & Tobago group
Runners-up Antigua & Barbuda group
Runners-up Grenada group

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Football / T&T - CFU champions in 1988 - any info?

« on: February 01, 2010, 07:46:03 PM »

According to the archives of the Jamaica Gleaner, Trinidad & Tobago won the CFU Championship in July 1988.  The finals were held in Martinique, and the hosts, Antigua & Barbuda, T&T and one other unknown team took part.  I think Trinidad & Tobago beat Martinique 3-0 in the final.

In the 1st round of qualifying, Trinidad & Tobago beat Barbados 4-0 away (2 goals by Jones, 1 by Charles and 1 by Lewis) and 5-1 at home.  I think there was also a 2nd round of qualifying.  Does anybody have any more information?

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Football / Trinidad & Tobago Senior Women's team - 2011 World Cup qualification

« on: January 21, 2010, 12:57:10 PM »

The draw for the 2011 Women's World Cup qualifiers (Caribbean Zone) has been made by CFU, but for some reason they are keeping it a secret from the press.  The matches were due to start on 23rd January, but I'm not sure if that is still the case.  The draw is as follows for the CFU section.  I presume that USA, Mexico and Canada will get a bye to the final CONCACAF stage, and there will also be Central American qualification system.  I think also that Jamaica may have received a bye because of their Top 4 placing in the last CONCACAF tournament, because they are not listed in the draw for the CFU section.

Group A: Cuba, Guyana, Saint Vincent & the Grenadines, Suriname

Group B: Dominica, Puerto Rico, Saint Kitts & Nevis, Trinidad & Tobago

Group C: Antigua & Barbuda, Saint Lucia, United States Virgin Islands

Group D: Dominican Republic, Haiti, Turks & Caicos Islands

Group E: Anguilla, Barbados, Grenada

Matches were originally meant to be played on a home-and-away basis in each group, but Guyana has since been given permission to host the whole of Group A from 17th-21st March 2010 (meaning 6 matches instead of 12).

The top 2 teams from Groups A and B along with the top teams from Groups C, D and E will qualify for the next stage along with the best placed team among the runners-up from Groups C, D and E.

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Football / Trinidad & Tobago v Guyana today in Couva?

« on: June 04, 2008, 03:54:50 PM »

June 4th, from Guyana Football Federation website:

The Guyana national football team will play a friendly match against the Trinidad and Tobago Soca Warriors today at the Ato Boldon Stadium in Couva from 4.00pm, a press release from the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) said yesterday. The practice game was agreed to by GFF Technical Director Jamaal Shabazz and Trinidad and Tobago Columbia-born Coach Francisco Maturana who, according to the release was very impressed with the Guyanese talent playing in T&T.
T&T played England, last Sunday and are using this match to prepare for their friendly international versus Jamaica on Saturday.

Match should be about finished by now if it played, anybody have any more news of this?

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Football / Trinidad & Tobago football - missing historical results

« on: April 29, 2008, 02:15:42 PM »

Hello everyone, and congratulations for a great site.  I'm currently researching the history of the Shell Caribbean Cup and the CFU Nations Cup.  There were a number of results missing, but I have managed to fill a few in over the past weeks.  I'd like to ask if anybody could help me find the missing results involving Trinidad & Tobago.  I've already e-mailed TTFF and received no response, so I was hoping someone here may be able to access some newspaper archives or something similar.   Anyway, here are the matches in question:

1978 CFU Nations Cup qualifier (first CFU Nations Cup)
20-08-78 - Trinidad & Tobago 2-4 French Guiana
The Trinidad & Tobago coach lost his job after this result, but Trinidad & Tobago somehow went through to the next round.  They may have won the return leg in French Guiana by 3 goals or more, but I can't find any information.  Whatever happened, they were named as hosts for the Final tournament in the end - so this may have saved them from exiting the tournament.

2 match results are unknown from the final tournament
1978 CFU Nations Cup Finals in Trinidad & Tobago
22-10-78 Suriname        3-0 Haiti
23-10-78 Trinidad/Tobago    ?-?  Antigua/Barbuda
25-10-78 Trinidad/Tobago    0-1 Suriname
26-10-78 Haiti         ?-?  Antigua/Barbuda
28-10-78 Suriname        4-0 Antigua/Barbuda
29-10-78 Trinidad/Tobago 2-2 Haiti
Suriname champions

1979 CFU Nations Cup Qualifiers
22-07-79 Grenada               0-1 Trinidad/Tobago
04-08-79 Trinidad/Tobago    2-1 Grenada
It appears that Trinidad & Tobago may have played a further Round to qualify for the finals.  I know nothing of the opponents or results.

1979 CFU Nations Cup Finals in Suriname
11-11-79 Haiti        1-0 Trinidad-Tobago
12-11-79 Suriname           2-3 St Vincent
14-11-79 Haiti             ?-?  St Vincent (Haiti won)
15-11-79 Suriname       3-0 Trinidad-Tobago
17-11-79 St Vincent    2-1 Trinidad-Tobago
18-11-79 Haiti        1-0 Suriname

1981 CFU Nations Cup qualifier, Semi-Final round
08-08-81 - Suriname 1-1 Trinidad & Tobago
15-08-81 - Trinidad & Tobago ?-? Suriname, at Skinner Park

Trinidad & Tobago advanced overall, and went on to win the final tournament in October in Puerto Rico.

1985 CFU Nations Cup Qualifiers
1st Round
24-02-85 St.Vincent/Gren.    1-1 Trinidad/Tobago
10-03-85 Grenada    1-5 Trinidad/Tobago
24-03-85 St.Vincent/Gren.    3-0 Grenada
Trinidad & Tobago advance to 2nd Round
2nd Round
??.?? Suriname  ?-? Guadeloupe
??.?? Guadeloupe ?-? Trinidad/Tobago
05.05 Trinidad/Tobago 0-1 Suriname
Guadeloupe & Suriname qualified

1989 Shell Caribbean Cup Qualifiers
Zone A
23-04-89 Trinidad/Tob. 11-0 Aruba
23-04-89 St.Kitts/Nev.  1-0 French Guiana
??-??-89  Trinidad/Tob.  3-1 French Guiana
??-??-89  Trinidad/Tob.  2-0 St Kitts/Nevis
06-06-89 Grenada        1-0 Trinidad/Tobago
Only Trinidad & Tobago's results ans St.Kitts/Nevis v French Guiana are known.
There are 5 matches where the result is not known
Aruba v French Guiana
Aruba v St.Kitts/Nevis
Aruba v Grenada
French Guiana v Grenada
Grenada v St.Kitts/Nevis

I'd really appreciate it if somebody could help or knew somebody else who may be able to help.  I'm sure these amtches must have been reported in the Trinidad press at the time.  I managed to find a lot of the Trinidad match reports in the Jamaica Gleaner newspaper, so I'd expect the Trinidad press would be more interested in the games of its own national team and may have reported on the games.

Thanks for your time.