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Football / Wikipedia - Soca Warriors Supporters Club
« on: April 30, 2006, 08:33:07 PM »
The Warrior Nation has started a page in Wikipedia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soca_Warriors_Supporters_Club

Feel free to add worthwhile content or edit decently.
Inappropriate work or vandalism will not be tolerated.
I encourage you to join Wikipedia, then sign your name on the 'Talk page' everytime you add or edit.

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General Discussion / Post ah Recipe!!
« on: April 30, 2006, 06:33:44 PM »
alright people as the subject say "Post ah Recipe"
we might make a book someday  :)

Rules:

1. Put the name of yuh recipe in the subject line.
2. Post anything once it edible.(eg.Crix and condense milk).
3. Try and make it as clear as possible.
4. Has to be something yuh have eaten or made before.
5. No copy and paste from cook books.
6. If yuh want to make a comment on a recipe, yuh must add a recipe of yuh own first. (this is for people who like to drop 'smileys' or 'one liners' to boost they post count lol).
7. We can put the ole talk in another thread if allyuh want, just to keep this one clear.

Enjoy  :beermug:

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Football / Need e-mail addresses for a Warrior Nation database
« on: April 23, 2006, 09:30:12 AM »
We are putting together an e-mail database of people who we would like to target as prospective Warrior Nation members.

This list will also be used to show off our promotions and benefits (eg.Tickets) to entice new members.
So can you please contribute  and send a list of your address book contacts who you think might be interested in T&T football to membership@TheWarriorNation.com

This is not going to be used for "SPAM" nor will be shared with our sponsors.


Thanks for your assistance
Feliz
SWSC Secretary

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Football / WARNING...Fake MSN8 Beta is a Trojan Horse
« on: April 14, 2006, 08:41:28 PM »
allyuh look out for a fake MSN 8 Beta
apparently it uses your conatc list on MSN to send a message and makes the recipient open it to check the link..then it spreads to the other persons contact list and so on.
i got a message from Jefferz..and now i screwed..it deactivated my Norton and then proceeded to delete it...steups

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Football / Best Looking Player
« on: April 13, 2006, 08:08:28 PM »
since nothing interesting going on let we see who is the most handsome male footballer.
sometimes dem boy in dey shorts is look hot and with they slick hairstyles..oh and smooth faces :devil:
ah go take pick Ian Harte and Kevin Davies.

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Football / Allyuh think Chelsea could be caught?
« on: April 01, 2006, 07:02:42 AM »
ah was just looking over the table last night...and i notice Chelsea is 'only' 9 points ahead of Man U.
Chelsea have a run in with some of the form teams and some chasing Euro spots in the EPL - West Ham, Bolton, Everton, Man U and Newcastle.
Manchester has to play soem contenders also - Arsenal, Tottenham, Middlesborugh, Chelsea and Charlton.

this would've been evn closer if Tottenham had beaten Chelsea the other day..we'll see after this weekend games what the situation will be.
this makes for interesting viewing
ah going to make a bet on Man U taking the title this year  ;D

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General Discussion / How does this involve the US Government?
« on: April 01, 2006, 06:44:32 AM »
anybody knows exactly the extent to which the follwoing case concerns the US Government?..and why they have to be involved?

The United States government has decided to extradite Ishwar Galbaransingh and Steve Ferguson on charges of corruption arising out of the Piarco Airport development project.

This was confirmed yesterday by the assistant United States Attorney Richard Gregorie, who said moves were afoot to put the men before a US court.

Ferguson and Galbaransingh are charged before the United States Southern District of Florida court with enriching themselves by overpricing contracts for the project.

The indictment reads: “The purpose of the conspiracy was to defraud the Government of Trinidad and Tobago by manipulating the bid process for certain Piarco International Airport construction packages, so that the defendants and their related companies would unjustly enrich themselves through the receipt of proceeds from excessively inflated contracts and to transfer those proceeds in interstate and foreign commerce, in order to conceal and disguise the nature and location of those proceeds.”

Speaking with the Guardian from his Miami office yesterday, Gregorie said it was their intent to have the two men taken to Florida to answer the charges.

“I will not speak on the specific charges, because they are before the court,” Gregorie said.

“But what I will say is that having filed the superseding charges last week, we will now be moving to have the two Trinidadians extradited to the United States to face the charges.”

Gregorie said he was not in a position to say exactly when the request for extradition will be made, but he assured that it will not be long in coming.

“Extraditing Mr Galbaransingh and Mr Ferguson will involve the State Department and so there are diplomatic matters involved; but we are preparing the necessary papers, so that we can seek to extradite the Trinidadians.”

It is alleged that both men used political influence to enrich themselves and business partners.

The US government has alleged that in construction packages 13 and nine, Calmaquip and Northern Construction overpriced the work by more than $150 million and is seeking judgment in the amount of $201 million.

Attorney General John Jeremy yesterday confirmed that the United States government has already asked for assistance in locating the two businessmen.

He refused to divulge any more information, but said the requests are being dealt with in accordance with the Mutual Legal Assistance Act.

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Football / Where we mascot..NDookie?
« on: February 16, 2006, 07:45:12 PM »
aye when last allyuh see we mascot Ndookie?..like he drop off the planet or what?..ah hope he come back in time for World Cup..if not ah sure we go see him when Naps winning out again  ;D
he was a nice decent fella..compared to the other 'brats' on the board right now

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General Discussion / Time for another coup?
« on: February 16, 2006, 05:47:49 AM »
Beware growing national ferment

THE demonstrations in Point Fortin and Cascade have caused me to reflect on a few historical matters.

One morning in June 1905, the people of Odessa in Russia were awakened by the sound of gunfire emanating from the giant naval base on the precincts of the city. The Imperial Russian Navy was based here.

The fracas began on the battleship Potemkin, the pride of the Russian fleet. As it turned out, the sailors on the ship mutinied, the result of non-payment of wages, bad food, and cruel treatment by the officers.

Although there were years of rumbling and unrest throughout Russia, the mutiny contributed to the start of the actual Russian Revolution, the downfall of the House of Romanov, and the emergence of communism.

What has this got to do with T&T, with Carnival right around the corner?

Well, it was one small event that precipitated the end of the tsars, and I humbly bring this particular fact to the attention of the Government and people of this country, in light of the tyre-burning in Point Fortin, and more recently, the protest in St Ann’s by people who are enraged at the prospects of President’s Grounds being subsumed into the Prime Minister’s residence.

The police resorted to tear gas in Point Fortin, and more than one daily newspaper has dealt with the gravity of this incident, and its capacity to escalate into dissent and pillage in the country.

Nonsense, some will say, especially those with short memories. However, I feel that we should cast our minds back to February-April 1970, and the start of the so-called Black Power riots.

Many people are still wondering what triggered the unrest which began in February that year, but as I recall, it was a minor event which started the burning and violence in April—a planned march into the city by students at UWI, thwarted by the police. NJAC joined the fray, followed by more burning and an attempted insurrection by some regiment personnel.

As the riots started, Prime Minister Dr Eric Williams was ensconced at Crow’s Nest in Chaguaramas, mediating in a border dispute between two South American countries. Rumour has it that he was in a state of total shock, unable to accept that a Black Power revolt was occurring in a black country, on his watch, as the saying goes.

The balisier diehards and the Rienzi Complex blowhards should begin to reflect on this situation. Let us say, for the sake of argument, that Panday is finally able to excite a number of flood victims, cocaine-in-water-tank activists, and malcontents on the East-West corridor into marching on Port-of-Spain.

The overworked police will fill the air with tear gas, pepper spray (probably discharged from the blimps), and this will further aggravate the marchers, who then arrive in Port-of-Spain, molotov cocktails in hand, to be greeted by tear gas, rubber bullets, and then real ammo.

Who’s to say what will follow? For starters, the business barons will probably flee en masse to Barbados or their island homes, and the Government will move into the Hilton Trinidad, the traditional retreat when the natives become restless.

Will other groups then step in overnight to restore law and order, possibly resulting in T&T becoming an Islamic state?

The Manning administration appears unable to accept the fact that there is growing national ferment, and anger. People are becoming disgusted by the inability of their representatives to fix the roads, end flooding, improve hospital care, curb the rise in food prices, and, most important of all, reduce the rate of criminality.

The disintegration of the UNC (soon to be blessed with three leaders, it appears) continues to feed the arrogance in Whitehall.

If the coffers were empty, perhaps we would be a little more forgiving. But every time the Prime Minister speaks, he tells us of the rapidly declining unemployment rate, the massive untapped reserves of gas and oil, the number of large international conglomerates banging on his door looking for business opportunities, and the number of large buildings to be erected in an already overcrowded Port-of-Spain.

The planned $850 million stadium at Tarouba is the cause of anger and disgust. Why not yield to pressure and upgrade existing stadiums located throughout the country instead.

Patrick Manning’s delusions of grandeur grow unabated, and many regard this massive building programme as nothing more than his perceived arrogant legacy to future generations. It reminds me of China’s Great Wall. Constructed by the similarly arrogant Emperor Qin Shi Huang in 127 BC, it was not completed until 1300 AD or thereabouts.

But to return to my original treatise: it takes one minor incident to start a disaster. On June 28, 1914, Gavilro Princip, a Slav anarchist, assassinated Archduke Francis Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, in Sarajavo, Bosnia. This event triggered the start of the First World War, a fact which intrigues historians to this day.

Take note, Manning.

Monica Gopaul

Curepe


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Football / Arsenal in trouble?
« on: February 03, 2006, 11:05:47 AM »
what really going on in north London?..they really playing shit regardless if this a rebuilding season etc.
Henry leaving in the summer for sure, maybe Ashley also.
btw ah wonder what Sol Campbell off the field problems are?
he boyfriend leave him or something? ::)

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Football / So...Anybody get any TTFF Tickets yet?
« on: January 27, 2006, 10:53:56 AM »
ah was just wondering if any ah allyuh get called or e-mailed tickets confirmtions?

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General Discussion / Fishs yuh safe?
« on: January 22, 2006, 09:09:32 AM »
was just reading the news this morning and saw the bombing of a pipeline in Georgia are..hope is not the one allyuh working on  :)

TBILISI, Georgia - Explosions hit pipelines running through southern Russia early Sunday, cutting the natural gas supply to Georgia and leaving the Caucasus Mountain country with just one day's reserves.
   
The blasts, which hit two pipelines in the southern Russian region of North Ossetia near the border with Georgia, also cut supplies to Armenia, said Viktor Beltsov, a spokesman for Russia's Emergency Situations Ministry.

Nikolai Shepel, chief prosecutor for Russia's southern region, was quoted by the Interfax news agency as saying that prosecutors opened an investigation into deliberate destruction of property.

In recent years, pipelines in Russia's troubled North Caucasus region have occasionally been damaged in explosions that investigators have deemed sabotage, but the blasts have not caused major supply disruptions. Criminal groups and militants with ties to     Chechnya's separatist rebels have been suspected.

It will take two or three days to repair the pipelines, regional Emergency Situations Ministry official Vladimir Ivanov was quoted as saying by the ITAR-Tass news agency.

The cutoff threatened to plunge Georgia into a new energy crisis as it headed into a cold snap. The former Soviet republic, which relies on natural gas for most of its heating, has faced extreme energy shortages for more than a decade.

"The situation is very difficult. We have enough gas for just one day," Georgian Energy Ministry spokeswoman Teona Doliashvili told The Associated Press.

Two out of four units in the main electricity station in the capital, Tbilisi, were switched off because of the explosions, Doliashvili said. The temperature in the Georgian capital Sunday was 23 degrees Fahrenheit.

Georgia's Inguri hydroelectric plant, which generates some 45 percent of the country's electricity, was working at full power but would be unable to sustain operations at that intensity for more than a few days, Doliashvili said.

Georgian Energy Ministry officials headed to neighboring Azerbaijan on Sunday to negotiate the start of gas supplies on a pipeline between that country's capital, Baku, and the Georgian port of Batumi. It will take three days to get that pipeline operating, Doliashvili said.

Russian gas transits Georgia to reach Armenia, which sends back some electricity to Georgia. Electricity supplies from Armenia were also cut Sunday in response to the gas cutoff.



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Football / New Keeper for Arsenal??
« on: January 09, 2006, 06:13:56 PM »
allyhu ent think is time Arsenal get a decent keeper?
Lemoan is a waste!!!
Schwartzer and Jaaskalinen on the move it seems.
they missed out on Niemi earlier in the week.

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Cricket Anyone / Trinidad & Tobago give Jamaica a severe beating.
« on: January 09, 2006, 05:45:31 PM »
Trinidad & Tobago give Jamaica a severe beating.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - Title-holders Jamaica surrendered their lead in this year's Carib Beer Cricket Series when they were defeated by 282 runs by Trinidad and Tobago at the Sir Frank Worrell Grounds, St Augustine on Monday.

The local team under the captaincy of Daren Ganga declared at their overnight total of 178 for seven, leaving the visitors a victory target of 372 in 90 overs.

However, the former leaders in the six-team standings succumbed to the probing spin and pace attack employed by skipper Ganga and folded for a meagre 89 one hour after lunch.

Doing the damage for the T&T team was Dave Mohammed who picked up five for 51 to end with a match haul of nine for 97.

Lending support was pacer Rayad Emrit who grabbed the first three wickets - all by the bowled out route and ended with the best figures of three for 13 from 10 overs.

Right-arm leg-spinner Sanjiv Gooljar capped off a decent debut with two for eight. Only wicketkeeper Carlton Baugh with a quickfire 39 in 46, offered resistance to the disciplined Trinidadians.

Test wicketkeeper Denesh Ramdin, who scored an unbeaten 125 in his team's first innings and figured in four dismissals when the Jamaicans batted, was named "Man of the Match" by former T&T off-spinner Surujdath Mahabir.

T&T with 18 points from the victory lead the standings after two rounds of matches. Jamaica have been demoted to second position with 12 points from three matches.

A decent crowd was on hand at the start of the day's play, and they did not have to wait long for success, as in the fourth over, promising fast bowler Emrit knocked back the stumps of West Indies batsman and Jamaica captain Wavell Hinds (4) with the total on seven.

Emrit enjoying the conditions struck again in the 11th over clean bowling another West Indies batsman Marlon Samuels for 10 with the total on 22.

Two runs later Emrit uprooted the stumps of Tamar Lambert (0) and with the score unchanged, Dave Mohamed had opener Brenton Parchment (8) caught at mid-off by Jason Mohammed.

The score was then 24 for four and the Jamaicans were in dire straits. Jamaica slipped further into trouble just before the interval, when Dave Bernard (2) was leg before wicket to Dave Mohammed.

At lunch, Jamaica were 58 for five, and on the resumption with the addition of one run, Gareth Breese (0) was caught by Jason Mohammed off Dave Mohammed's bowling.

Whatever hope the Jamaicans had of saving the match was blown away when the troublesome Baugh was well caught at mid-wicket off Dave Mohammed.

Gooljar picked up the wickets of Jerome Taylor (3) and Jermaine Lawson (0) with consecutive balls, while Mohammed (D) ensured victory and another five wicket haul at this level. Ganga said that it was a great success for T&T cricket and everyone played their part.


Trinidad & Tobago v Jamaica 
Sir Frank Worrell Memorial Ground, St. Augustine, Trinidad
January 6-9, 2006 (4-day match)
Toss: Jamaica
Umpires: K. Barrasingha and B. Doctrove
Result: Trinidad & Tobago won by 282 runs
Man of the Match: Denesh Ramdin
Points: Trinidad & Tobago 12; Jamaica 0
     
Trinidad & Tobago 1st innings 
L. Simmons  b Taylor 3   
T. Maraj c Lambert b Breese 31   
*D. Ganga lbw b Samuels 93   
D. Bravo lbw b Breese 2   
G. Mahabir  b Breese 2   
J. Mohammed  b Breese 18   
+D. Ramdin not out  125   
R. Kelly c Bernard b Breese 62   
R. Emrit c Baugh b Lawson 15   
D. Mohammed c Taylor b Richardson 5   
S. Gooljar  b Taylor 3   
Extras (lb 7, nb 20)  27   
Total (all out, 149.4 overs)  386   
Fall of wickets: 1-13, 2-85, 3-89, 4-97, 5-135, 6-181, 7-281, 8-319, 9-349, 10-386
     
Bowling O M R W 
Lawson 20 4 52 1 (nb 16)
Taylor 21.4 6 42 2 
Richardson 24 5 67 1 (nb 3)
Bernard 3 0 10 0 (nb 1)
Miller 25 5 53 0 
Breese 37 3 106 5 
Samuels 19 3 49 1 
     
Jamaica 1st innings
*W. Hinds c Ramdin b Kelly 4   
B. Parchment lbw b D. Mohammed 22   
M. Samuels c Ramdin b Bravo 63   
T. Lambert lbw b Gooljar 26   
N. Miller c wkp Ramdin b Kelly 8   
D. Bernard c Emrit b D. Mohammed 8   
C. Baugh c Simmons b Bravo 30   
G. Breese c Mahabir b Bravo 3   
J. Taylor c Ramdin b D. Mohammed 19   
J. Lawson not out  1   
A. Richardson c Mahabir b D. Mohammed 0   
Extras (lb 5, nb 4)  9   
Total (all out, 76.2 overs)  193   
Fall of wickets: 1-8, 2-82, 3-97, 4-119, 5-127, 6-141, 7-163, 8-182, 9-189, 10-193
     
Bowling O M R W 
Kelly 16 5 42 2 
Emrit 12 2 22 0 
Bravo 16 4 35 3 (nb 3)
D. Mohammed 13.2 1 56 4 
Gooljar 19 6 33 1 
     
Trinidad & Tobago 2nd Innings
L. Simmons c Richardson b Lawson 22   
T. Maraj c Richardson b Breese 26   
D. Ganga  b Bernard 4   
D. Bravo c Baugh b Richardson 3   
G. Mahabir c Hinds b Richardson 37   
J. Mohammed c Samuels b Taylor 21   
R. Kelly not out  43   
D. Ramdin lbw Richardson 6   
R. Emrit not out  3   
Extras (b 3, lb 2, w 1, nb 7)  13   
Total (7 wickets, declared)  178   
Fall of wickets: 1-31, 2-42, 3-45, 4-69, 5-109, 6-140, 7-166
     
Bowling O M R W 
Taylor 11 1 45 1 
Lawson 9 0 31 1 (nb 3)
Bernard 3 0 16 1 (nb 4)
Richardson 8 1 29 3 
Breese 8 0 41 1 (w 1)
Miller 2 0 11 0 
     
Jamaica 2nd innings
W. Hinds  b Emrit 4   
B. Parchment c J. Mohammed b D. Mohammed 8   
M. Samuels  b Emrit 10   
T. Lambert  b Emrit 0   
D. Bernard lbw b D. Mohammed 2   
C. Baugh c (sub) S. Ganga b D. Mohammed 39   
G. Breese c J Mohammed b D. Mohammed 0   
N. Miller not out  14   
J. Taylor  b Gooljar 3   
J. Lawson lbw b Gooljar 0   
A. Richardson c Maraj b D. Mohammed 7   
Extras (lb 2)  2   
Total (all out, 38.2 overs)  89   
Fall of wickets: 1-7, 2-22, 3-24, 4-24, 5-49, 6-59, 7-76, 8-82, 9-82, 10-89
     
Bowling O M R W 
R. Kelly 5 1 12 0 
Emrit 10 3 13 3 
D. Mohammed 14.2 4 41 5 
Bravo 5 0 13 0 
Gooljar 4 1 8 2

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2006 World Cup - Germany / Only Confirmed Arrangements here - Please
« on: December 15, 2005, 06:41:49 PM »
let we create this thread to help out other people decide what is the best way to get game tickets, find cheap flights and reasonable accomodations for Germany...try and keep the ole talk out of it..to make it just an information thread.

so people who already have things in place for the trip next year..would you all please post your links where you got hooked up from or details of itinerary including cost ,dates, etc..if you don't mind sharing...Ricky and FF allyuh could start  :)
Thanks

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Football / Vote for a Supporters Club nickname
« on: December 06, 2005, 08:00:05 PM »
No Reply needed, Just Votes -Thanks!!
In an effort to formally form the Supporters Club we would like the forum public to choose the name we will be known by.

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2006 World Cup - Germany / German Timeshare access anybody?
« on: December 04, 2005, 08:29:41 AM »
well ah just dream this up last night in a drug induced haze lol
we couyld seriously get a couple timeshares in Germany for a couple weeks..that going to be significantly cheaper than hotel accomodation..which we looking at is almost $120US+ a night plus most timeshares have more than 2 bedrooms etc..also with timeshares you can trade off time with other people in other places..let me hear allyuh input on this scenario and if some of we could hook up and rent a house or apartment.

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Football / What base City/Stadium would appeal to you in Germany?
« on: November 27, 2005, 11:35:46 AM »
here is some video footage from Germany..let me here allyuh opinion and why it would suit our people...also what vibes/atmosphere etc u get from seeing the peple and city...or you have some special memory of a game there.

Short Videos of City and Stadiums: http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com/06/en/d/video.html

German Gallery Photos: http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com/06/en/photozone.html

we could do this till the draw next week..and see who was right lol..ah doing this cause ah bored  :)

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Football / Big magician interview
« on: November 13, 2005, 11:49:12 AM »
hey Big here's your interview with the Express..heard you said you didnt know how to post it..so here it is..good one by the way  :beermug:

http://www.trinidadexpress.com/index.pl/article_news?id=11556103


WITH ALL THE attention T&T World Cup football has received in the weeks since the Mexico game,it struck me there was one important group
being completely ignored officially by everyone - the loyal Warriors fan, Gary Hector, lead singer of local rock and roll band, jointpop, has followed local football for 20 years and written about it occasionally since 1993. As well as playing a pretty mean guitar, he covered the last Gold Cup for
the Express.

Q: How many of the home qualifying matches did you attend?

 A: Every one. All of the last round, the semi-final, the qualifying rounds. For the last five or six campaigns.

Did you have comps or a pass?
A: Never did. I pay for all my tickets for myself, wife, two kids. Every game: four tickets.

 What did that run you?


A: It's $200 a ticket for the covered stands. In this campaign there were ten games, all told.

So it has cost you eight grand to

support the team?
Basically. [Chuckles]

Why covered stands as opposed to grounds?

A: Sometimes it lacks a bit of passion but the view is good. I always sit on the half-line, as high as possible. You get to see the full spread of the field, more of the tactical plays and so on. Sometimes you miss the little old talk the uncovered will give you; but when it comes to a Trinidad & Tobago football match, you just want to pay attention.

What time did you get to the

(Hasely Crawford) stadium to buy

tickets on Friday?


A:Five a.m. We joined up with the Socawarriors. net group, a fan-based forum covering Trinidad football for Trinis all over the world, Georgia, Japan, here, and you only know them by their handles. I am "The Big Magician"; [teenage son] Cheyenne is "The Small Magician". You get to meet the people you've been chatting with for years. One of the moderators of the side is "Tall Man" from Miami. He came straight from the airport to line up at one o'clock [Friday] morning. These guys have been running a service for T&T football fans for the past eight years. And they're lining up from 1 a.m. There was a huge fear we wouldn't get tickets. We got through [but] I know people a mere ten minutes behind us probably didn't. They went in a flash.

It was easy to get a ticket for the

first game against the US on Ash Wednesday, though?

A: Yeah, they put them on sale two weeks before and you could probably have waited until the day before. When the campaign starts, sadly, there's a wait-and-see approach. But this is the actual World Cup. What you see on TV is the grand finals. So when someone says, "Steups. You going and watch that? Them fellas playing a setta crap!" Well, that's the best you're going to see before your own eyes in Trinidad. You have to be willing to give the team time to grow and you follow the journey.

What did you think of selling tickets

in just three outlets the day before

the game?


A:I can see where they're coming from. They'd probably have more control over people holding tickets for people; whereas in the bank, you could call some bank friend and say, "Hold down a ten for me". Having it out in the open, you get there early, get in line and you will get your chance.

 

I bought a Rolling Stones DVD in August and I've been getting e-mails

offering me discounts as a "preferred customer"; what do the Rolling

Stones know that the TTFA don't?


A:[Chuckles] There are so many ways you could do it. You could go along the lines of the organised fan club. They have it in England: the supporters association get tickets first...A simple thing like season tickets: the real fan will say, "I'm going to them anyhow, even if we're knocked out early or have no other chance". If we had no chance by the time Mexico came here, it would have, what, 3,000 people want to see Mexico vs Trinidad? I would have been covered because I would have taken my season ticket up-front.

Is this support about football or Trinidad & Tobago?

A:Hmmm. Good question. It's a combination of both obviously but it's deeper than that. Football would have been the starting point. When you're 12 or 13, you're just into the football. We could sit in Trinidad and watch [foreign] football on TV or I could watch a club game, Jabloteh vs W Connection or whatever, and the bad passes don't hurt you as much as seeing Trinidad & Tobago make a bad pass. Something about you wanting that team to do well and then the connection is made. Trinidad & Tobago football team taught me about my country more than a bunch of other things. In 1989, I was 26 years old, the time in a man's life when he's thinking what to do. I was thinking of getting out of Trinidad. It had kinda started to mean nothing; being a musician, too, you want to get out there and play music. That Strike Squad campaign solidified Trinidad & Tobago to me. I found the country through the football team. Not some leader preaching something: my connection to my country came through football: yes, I am a Trinidad & Tobago person.

Based on the regular as opposed to

the bandwagon crowd, is national

football truly national?

A:You'll see the whole of Trinidad [yesterday]. Everybody wants the same for the team and they have every right, be they bandwagon or diehard. But the general football crowd is pretty much mixed ethnic background. I see all types at the smaller matches. I never really looked at it from any ethnic thing. I just know they're Trinidad & Tobago football fans.

Why the ground and not a sports bar?

The atmosphere of the stadium, that buzz, that thing you can't describe, you can't get that at home. The tactical point of view, if you want to see football as Xs and Os and that strategic thing, the television won't show that. They just show where the ball is, not why the right back is running all this way. But it's the vibe in the stadium. You meet strangers and you talk football. When you go regularly, you generally sit in a certain area and you realise [chuckling] you have a kind of adopted family. Is years you and him sitting right next to each other. You'll find about 18 people sitting in the same place all the time.

You feel the government did enough

for football this rounds?


A:Big, big no. Nothing. Whatever they just gave still amounts to nothing. They have no idea whatsoever what they're dealing with. They don't know what it means. Forget qualifying. Just having a national programme, being organised from the youth up...I'd think ministers are well travelled and educated but they have no idea what football means to countries around the world and to us. Because they wait. They think it's about winning; it's not. It's about playing and being one of the teams that can compete. But you must put money in to develop players and coaches. We wait for the very last thing when the players are old and are trying to win a tournament. It's fully the wrong way around. Yet we've proved we could be in there with a chance. To qualify for the World Cup, you need to be around qualification a lot. It can't be, one year you didn't get to this stage, the next campaign you did, the next two you don't. You must be in that last six all the time. If you're in it three times in a row, you're going to get through. That's why the Costa Ricans are always there and that's why they qualify. There's no maths in that. It's because you're developed and you have respect in the region and people know, "Whew, we have to play Trinidad & Tobago tomorrow, that's a big game". You have to become a footballing nation.

Do you feel the private sector did enough?

A:Nope. And thanks to the ones who did. It's another wait-and-see Trinidad approach. We don't realise what it means. All over the world, I talk football to people. If I meet a Colombian, we talk about Valderama. Qualification means that conversation will get better. Because now they can talk to you at a higher level. Now, it won't be, "Yeah, we know Dwight Yorke". Now they'll know us, Trinidad & Tobago: "You all played in the World Cup in 2006". They can't take that away from us! People will remember our name forever. And that's what the government and private sector don't see: it's not like they're helping a football team, nothing to do with that: it's the country.

The brand Trinidad & Tobago?

A:Yeah. The World Cup is a global party. And you now bringing your vibe to that party. Jamaica had the most popular [souvenir] shirt after the French shirt in [French World Cup]. And we have something to bring!

Suppose we have another November 19?
A:That is so possible because it's sport and sport is cruel. We want it bad, they want it bad. It's going to come down to that thing I call the theatre, which is why I go. You can train, do this, that, there are little moments in the game you're not prepared for. As on stage, the little moments when you have to wing it: you could fall flat on your face or you could produce magic. That's the theatre, the magic, the part that drives the people, that gets the coach off his seat. Who capitalises on those moments will make the magic. But what we had [yesterday] was only a first half. Whether we win or lose on (yesterday), we have Wednesday to play the second half.

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Football / What's T&T plan for next week?
« on: November 12, 2005, 06:51:05 PM »
first of all i have to say we were lucky..especially chasing the game so late on..getting an equalizer when we coulda easliy conceded the killer 2nd goal.
I really disappointed cause this Bahrain team nowhere near as decent as the Mexican and Guatemala team we last played..but on the other hand i still glad we going to Bahrain at 1-1.
Obviously we will have to attack but i hope our defence can get back in shape...4-5-1 defintelty wasnt the way to go...is either we attack with full force or defend for the rest ah the game..this thing with coming from behind especially late on is not good.

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Football / Latapy on "DREAM TEAM" -Fox Sports
« on: October 27, 2005, 07:39:57 PM »
allyuh fellas who have FSC
Latas playing this week for Rangers against Harchester and he just score de equalizer.

its a soap opera by the way  ;D
real scandalous too  :beermug:

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Football / US$340 Million Powerball
« on: October 18, 2005, 09:16:30 PM »
ok if ah happen to win..ah carrying everybody with over 300 post tuh Germany.
ok i go cut down the odds for allyuh then...we going whether we qualify or not then  ;D ...nah nah..with that kinda money ah sure ah could buy a referee or 2  ;D

so my advice to allyuh is to keep posting lol..meh Powerball ticket done. buy.

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Football / Allyuh "Guests" out there
« on: October 12, 2005, 05:34:59 PM »
why don't allyuh sign up as members.
it ain't going to take 2 minutes.
let we get to know some of allyuh nah  ;D9

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Jokes / Tech Support
« on: October 12, 2005, 04:45:11 AM »
Dear Tech Support:

Last year I upgraded from Girlfriend 7.0 to Wife 1.0. I soon noticed  that the new program began unexpected child processing that took up a  lot of space and valuable resources. In addition, Wife 1.0 installed itself into all other programs and now monitors all other system activity. Applications such as Poker Night 10.3, Football 5.0, Hunting and Fishing 7.5, and Racing 3.6
I can't seem to keep Wife 1.0 in the background while attempting to run my favourite applications. I'm thinking about going back to Girlfriend 7.0, but the uninstall doesn't work on Wife 1.0. Please help!

Thanks,
A Troubled User. (KEEP READING)
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REPLY:
Dear Troubled User:

This is a very common problem that men complain about.

Many people upgrade from Girlfriend 7.0 to Wife 1.0, thinking that it is just a Utilities and Entertainment program. Wife 1.0 is an  OPERATING SYSTEM and is designed by its Creator to run EVERYTHING!!! It is also impossible to delete Wife 1.0 and to return to Girlfriend 7.0. It is impossible to uninstall, or purge the program files from  the system once installed.

You cannot go back to Girlfriend 7.0 because Wife 1.0 is designed to not allow this. Look in your Wife 1.0 manual under Warnings-Alimony-Child Support. I recommend that you keep Wife1.0 and work on improving the situation. I suggest installing the background application "Yes Dear" to alleviate software augmentation.

The best course of action is to enter the command C:\APOLOGIZE because ultimately you will have to give the APOLOGIZE command before the system will return to normal anyway.
Wife 1.0 is a great program, but it tends to be very high maintenance. Wife 1.0 comes with several support programs, such as Clean and Sweep 3.0, Cook It 1.5 and Do Bills 4.2.

However, be very careful how you use these programs. Improper use will cause the system to launch the program Nag Nag 9.5. Once this happens, the only way to improve the performance of Wife 1.0 is to purchase additional software. I recommend Flowers 2.1 and Diamonds 5.0 !
WARNING!!! DO NOT, under any circumstances, install Secretary With Short Skirt 3.3. This application is not supported by Wife 1.0 and will cause irreversible damage to the operating system.

Best of luck,
Tech Support

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Football / GolTv highlights- T&T v Pan & Bahrain v Uzbek
« on: October 10, 2005, 08:12:28 PM »
ah just get some highlights is bout 3-4 minutes of the Panama game..if allyuh want meh to upload it..tell em how then..its good quality by the way..but the commentary just as bad as 95.5fm lol

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2006 World Cup - Germany / World Cup Tickets
« on: October 09, 2005, 06:16:42 PM »
just wanted to know if socawarriors.com is the "official" supporters group..are we recognized by the relevant authorities?..who going to get the chance to buy tickets allocated to Trinidad & Tobago for Germany?..are the local sponsors going to get a big share for promotions?..we going to be able to buy them cheaper from the TTFA?

i see we are available to buy tickets without our football asscociation on the official world cup site.

Ordering TST series

What is TST series?


A team-specific ticket (TST) enables you to watch a series of matches played by a team you choose in advance. If this team should fail to qualify for the competition (finals), you will be refunded the ticket price minus an administration fee. TST series are only available for countries that can still qualify for the 2006 FIFA World Cup Germany™.

You can select from five different TST types:
• TST-3: You see all three group games played by your team
• TST-4: You see all three group games and one match from the round of sixteen
• TST-5: As TST-3, but with one round of sixteen match and a quarter final
• TST-6: As TST-3, but with one round of sixteen match, a quarter final
 and a semi-final
• TST-7: As TST-3, but with one round of sixteen match, a quarter final,
 a semi-final and the final.

What happens to my TST if my team is knocked out during the tournament (finals)?


If you have a TST-4 to TST-7 ticket and your selected team doesn't make it past the group phase, the ticket is automatically transferred to the winner of the group in which your selected team originally played. If your team goes out at the knockout stage and your TST is still valid for subsequent games, the ticket is automatically transferred to the winner of the respective knockout match. In other words, you always follow the winner of the round. That means you will definitely see the specified number of matches, no matter when your own team goes out.


Cost of a ticket for all 3 matches in the group phase is bout $350 Euros with shipping and taxes...which is bout $2700TT or $430US.

I know is premature..but it might be worth it to book your tickets early and if the worse thing possible that could happen..happens..then you'll automatically get your refund for the tickets minus a 30 Euros processing fee.

I'll see what travel and visa requirements are needed and I'll post later.

I just wanted to share this useful info with allyuh fellas  :beermug:




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Football / Other Important Sept.7th games
« on: September 06, 2005, 08:31:31 PM »
besides our own game against Costa Rica there are some make or break games for other countries in their bid to qualify...next year in Germany we bound to see some unknown quantities in action..example our very own sweet T&T  :wavetowel:

the big one is Rep. of Ireland vs France...i like Ireland at home for this one but France might come back and draw.
Spain vs Serbia..i is a Spanish so yuh know who i backing deh.
Ukraine vs Turkey...i going with Ukraine here.
Denmark vs Georgia...Denmark fuh sure.
Russia vs Portugal...Draw.
Latvia vs Slovakia...Slovakia.
Norway vs Scotland...too unpredictable..might be a draw
Italy vs Belarus...Italy fuh sure.
Poland vs Wales...Wales with ah upset.
Northern Ireland vs England...england by at least 3 if they play 4-4-2.
Hungary vs Sweden....Sweden defintely.

an de next big one that have implications for we
Guatemala vs USA..is ah must...USA have to win.

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Football / The Latapy Factor.
« on: September 03, 2005, 09:06:53 PM »
‘Warriors’ go for the advantage.
By: Shaun Fuentes.
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Trinidad and Tobago will be pressing for the advantage away from home when they face off with Central American giants Costa Rica in their 2006 World cup qualifier at the Ricardo Saprissa Stadium, San Jose from 8pm (10pm T&T time).
Team captain Dwight Yorke says he foresees a “very difficult” match for the Warriors but is not counting out the possibility of a positive result, particularly on the back of a inspiring come from behind 3-2 win over Guatemala in Port of Spain on Saturday.
A charter flight will be arriving in San Jose through the efforts of team sponsor TSTT as well as CLICO with Honourable President Max Richards and other fans coming to support the ‘Warriors’. FIFA Vice President Jack Warner will also be on hand to witness the affair. Yorke and  company awoke for a 9am breakfast and had their first session in San Jose at 11am on Tuesday followed by a second one at 7pm.
With the match being played on artificial surface, coach Leo Beenhakker made  a request for two sessions and was  allowed to conduct two separate one hour sessions.
Following a five-hour stay in Miami after leaving Port of Spain at 9am, T&T’s footballers set out on the journey to San Jose and touched down around 7:15pm,  Costa Rican time and were immediately escorted through immigration before having to brace through a heap of Costa Rican media with several TV cameras surrounding the team bus, making the entrance to the bus at least a couple minutes longer than anticipated.
Upon arrival at the TryP Corobici Hotel, the “Warriors” were greeted by more cameramen, including a couple who have been camping out at the hotel since early Tuesday morning which started much earlier as the sun is fully up from 5:30 here.
“It’s nothing new in football,” Beenhakker said.  “But we are here for a match and we know it will be played on an artificial turf. There’s nothing to complain about but to just go and get on with our game.”
Defender Brent Sancho, because of his dreadlocks was mistaken by reporters for Russell Latapy and some of his teammates couldn’t resist laughing at him being to get through some shouting “Russell, Russell, how do you feel?”
“Obviously we’re here to try and get a result. A victory would be great but we know that Costa Rica are also on a high and they will be going all out to get the three points,” Sancho said.
The morning session was watched by a host of Costa Rican media as the “Warriors” went through their paces, getting accustomed to the new surface. The conditions were cool with a strong wind coming across the tight venue which puts the fans virtually on the backs of the players on the pitch.
And having played here alongside Latapy when Costa Rica won 3-0 back in 2001, Yorke said his team is prepared for anything on the night.
“The surface is not a problem at the moment. But we expect it to be a difficult match for us. We know that the Costa Rican fans will be trying to make it very hard for us on the night but it’s not something that should throw us off. I am hoping to be part of a very  entertaining game because we know that our team is a good one offensively and so are the Costa Ricans,” Yorke told TTFF Media. “But in saying that, we need to be as tight as possible at the back and ensure that we don’t give anything away.”
Latapy has been most popular among the people here who have jumped at every opportunity to shake hands or take photos with the him.
“We know it’s going to be tough out there because this is the time where all the teams will be trying to get results. But at the same time, there’s no reason for us to feel we can’t get something out of this match,” Latapy said.
Costa Rican head coach Alexandre Guimaraes has been suspended for the match after being ejected in the last game versus Panama. The homeside will undoubtedly look to the services of Ronald Gomes, Paulo Wanchope, Winston Parks, Jafet Soto and Walter Centeno.
Beenhakker added: “It’s not anything big because he (Guimaraes) isn’t playing. We must be as ready as we can be and try to get the best result possible.” A victory will push T&T to ten points, same as Costa Rica while the T&T faithful will be hoping for Mexico to do their job on Panama and likewise USA on Guatemala.

Costa Ricans prepare for War.

The head of the Fuerza Pública has reminded soccer fans that the encounter in Tibás Wednesday is just a game and not a war, but his units are preparing for war. More than 400 officers, including the Unidad de Intervención Policial, will be on the job inside and outside Estadio Ricardo Saprissa.
The way the North, Central American and Caribbean Conference shapes up is that  the U.S. team is guaranteed a World Cup trip. México is almost certain to be at least No. 2 in the league and win a berth also. So Costa Rica is competing with Trinidad and Guatemala for the third berth. Then the two remaining teams will slug it out for the right to meet an Asian team as the fourth-pace finisher and a possible World Cup trip.
In short, Tico spirits are high, and the Fuerza Pública head, Comisario Wálter Navarro, is warning fans against carrying anything to the game that could be thrown on the field, such as glass bottles. He also warned against flags and banners that had wooden staffs or similar. Police will be inspecting each fan as they enter the stadium. In the event of a Tico victory, fans will find heavy police presence at critical spots in the city, such as the Fuente de Hispanidad in Los Yoses, a traditional celebration site.

T&T train in San Jose, Photos Compliments: TTFF Media Man Shaun Fuentes.
CL Financial drums up support for T&T.
T&T Guardian Reports.
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President George Maxwell Richards and Minister of Sport and Youth Affairs Roger Boynes, are among a party of supporters who will follow this country’s Warriors to Costa Rica to give support to tonight’s World Cup Qualifier in San Jose. Also included in this charter are West Indies batsman Brian Lara, former national player and coach Gally Cummings and president of the Football Federation Oliver Camps.
The trip is made possible by the CL Financial group of companies which has chartered a flight to Costa Rica in keeping with its “commitment to the deve-lopment and furtherance of sport.”
Boynes is of the view that this gesture “would be encouraging and inspiring for our players.” Andre Monteil, an executive of CL Financial was quick to support the idea particularly as Cyd Gray and Aurtis Whitley are members of T&T Pro League giants CL Financial San Juan Jabloteh.
On Saturday the Warriors showed great determination to come from behind twice to beat Guatemala 3-2 in their qualifier at the Hasely Crawford Stadium, Mucurapo reviving hope in the team’s ability to advance to the 2006 World Cup finals in Germany.
Costa Rica won 3-1 in Panama on Saturday to also boost its prospects of qualifying for Germany 2006, the win leaves them three points clear on 10 in third place in the North, Central America and Caribbean Zone standings while T&T is tied on seven point with Guatemala and is in fifth place.
Clico’s director and former top north goalkeeper, Ian Garcia, described the idea as unique and historic and one that should serve to further motivate the Warriors.
According to one of the organisers at CL Financial, the conglomerate was prepared to make T&T shine. “We are prepared to go the extra mile to help our people fulfill their dreams and the extra support is one way that the company can achieve this goal.”
In a statement yesterday Jack Warner, chairman, LOC Germany 2006 Ltd, in conjunction with the TTFF expressed thanks to CL Financial for the gesture as part of the company's continuing assistance to the development of local football. The BWIA charter carrying 146 supporters leaves Trinidad at 2 p.m. today for Costa Rica arriving there at 4 p.m. Costa Rica time, they will return at 6:45 tomorrow.
News from the 6th of September 2005.
Warriors try to settle.
By: Ian Prescott (Express).


Trinidad and Tobago's football Warriors were arriving at Piarco International Airport long before 6 am yesterday on the way to San Jose for their important CONCACAF World Cup football qualifier against Costa Rica which takes place at 10 pm TT time tomorrow at the Ricardo Saprissa Stadium.
But their flight, originally carded to leave Piarco International airport at 8 pm suffered a delay and only took off an hour later. But once aboard the American Airlines flight, the team was welcomed by the captain and received loud applause from fellow passengers appreciative of their dramatic come-from-behind victory over Guatemala on Saturday at the Hasely Crawford Stadium.
But following that hard-fought victory on Saturday, and another light session the morning after, most of the Warriors used the three and a half hour flight to Miami to catch up on some much needed sleep. Despite being out of the Costa Rica game due to suspension, left defender Avery John also travelled with the team, but his place is expected to be taken by North East Stars defender Glenton Wolfe. A regular reserve, Wolfe had been looked good when practising Beenhakker's drills on the eve of the Guatemala match.
Having touched down in Miami at 12.30 p.m. yesterday, the Warriors had a few hours to kill  until their flight to Costa Rica which was due to leave Miami International Airport at 6.24 pm to arrive in Costa Rica at 7.11 pm ( 9.11 TT time).
Many of the squad, including Dutch coach Leo Beenhakker, took the time to see the sights in an overcast downtown Miami, but instead found the place almost deserted due to the Labour Day holiday in the United States.
Today, coach Leo Beenhakker has scheduled two training sessions. One full session will take place this morning with a further one-hour session carded for tonight at the Ricardo Saprissa Stadium, which is located about 45 minutes away from the Melia Caliari Hotel where the team is staying.
News from the 5th of September 2005.
‘Warriors’ say Thank You T&T.
By: Shaun Fuentes.


Still basking in their 3-2 victory over Guatemala on Saturday evening, Trinidad and Tobago’s senior footballers took the opportunity on Sunday to extend  gratitude to the local public and other well wishers for their support before, during and after the pulsating affair at the Hasely Crawford Stadium.
A proud captain Dwight Yorke said it was undoubtedly one of the more touching moments for him when he experienced the backing of the fans following the victory.
“We must say a special thanks to the fans for coming out in all their numbers and portraying the red, white and black and giving that extra force in what was obviously a crucial victory for us,” Yorke said.
Team manager Bruce Aanensen said it was a fact that the support did reach through to the team members who felt they could only repay the fans with such a fighting performance, one down to the wire as it turned out.
“The guys have always mentioned the need for proper support and they got that on the day. There’s nothing more that we could have asked for and now the fans also have something to take home with them and to take on for the rest of the campaign because our aim is to crown this off by going all the way,” Aanensen told TTFF Media.
“It’s been an overwhelming feeling for everyone but we are back to work and will have to get it right again for Costa Rica on Wednesday.”
Double goalscoring hero Stern John admitted that he wasn’t pleased by the harsh criticism but he was happy that he rose to the occasion.
“I was really happy to hit the target again and it came when it mattered most. The fans have been on my back and it’s not something to feel good about but they still came out there and gave us that support which we needed and we give thanks to them for it. Hopefully it can continue and we can move even closer to qualifying now,” John said.
TTFF President Oliver Camps said it was truly one of the best matches he had experienced since the 1990 “Road to Italy” campaign.
“Everything about Saturday’s victory was something to relish. I cannot recall ever feeling this way since 1989 and I must say that we appreciate the support of the fans and others who contributed to the event and from a Federation standpoint we feel the same way about what coach Leo Beenhakker and his team produced out there.”
TTFF special advisor Jack Warner added too “The Journey to Germany has come alive and it will remain alive. The display was one of determination and passion and one can only be truly delighted to see what transpired on and off the pitch. It gave the people a sense of hope, the man in the street, the little children, those of all classes and race celebrated on Saturday and we all know what this can do for our country,” Warner said.
Following a light workout at the Hasely Crawford Stadium on Sunday morning, Beenhakker and his team will now depart for San Jose, Costa Rica at 7am on Monday with there being one change to the squad from the Guatemala match. Wrexham defender Dennis Lawrence comes in for Avery John who is out of the match on two yellow cards while National Quarries North East Stars player Glenton Wolfe has been added to the roster as a 19th player.

Squad for Costa Rica

Kelvin Jack, Shaka Hislop, Ian Cox, Dennis Lawrence, Atiba Charles, Cyd Gray, Silvio Spann, Brent Sancho, Marvin Andrews, Glenton Wolfe, Russell Latapy, Carlos Edwards, Dwight Yorke, Chris Birchall, Aurtis Whitley, Densill Theobald, Stern John, Scott Sealy, Jason Scotland.
Fight with backs to wall.
By: Nigel Simon (Guardian).
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Austin Jack Wanrer, FIFA vice-president and adviser to the T&TFF, one of the key men in getting Russell Latapy to return to the national team, was yesterday singing praises of the “Little Magician”, Stern John and coach Leo Beenhakker, following the Warriors’ dramatic 3-2 win over Guatemala.
The victory took T&T to even points in the fight for a top four finish (the first three automatic and the fourth for a play-off for World Cup Finals 2006) in the CONCACAF Final Round qualifier. Warner said: “I will like to say (that) the win has brought about a new resolve in the team.
“It showed that we have the capability to fight and even though our backs were against the wall when we trailed in the match, we never had doubts about our capabilities.
“Credit must also be given to coach Beenhakker, who stuck to his belief in striker Stern John when there was outcry about his play in recent times.
“The coach vindicated his belief in the player who returned the faith shown in him with two goals to help the team get the important win.
“Overall as a team, I think we played exceptionally well and the return of Latapy surely did justice to the team, it brought out more spirit and fight from the players.”
Warner said of the former FC Porto and Rangers midfielder:
“Latapy’s play for a person at the age of 37 years shows that no matter what age you are, once a player takes care of his body and stays fit, nothing is impossible.”
Acknowledging the support shown by the T&T public, the Caribbean Football Union boss added:
“The crowd support was just superb. I thought that the venue would have been sold out, but there were 2,000 empty seats.
In anticipation of good results against Costa Rica and Panama, Warner said:
“I would like to see that when we host Mexico for our final match on October 12, that this venue would be filled to capacity for the 8 pm match.
“Not only was the crowd very supportive in numbers, but in volume also, as the T&T public let their voices be heard from start to finish. It was just great.”
The match against Costa Rica will not be an easy task, said Warner.
“It will be played on an artificial surface and this will be a first for the T&T team.
“The Costa Ricans have 10 points following their 3-1 win against Panama and they are hoping to get a win to secure their spot in Germany.
“For us, the tactics and strategies will have to be different, but everyone in the team has faith in that we can achieve what we set out to do.”
One player who will not be in the T&T line-up is hard-tackling left back, Avery John, who picked up a yellow card, his second of the campaign, and so will miss the match. His spot in the team will be taken by National Quarries North East Stars Glenton Wolfe.
Returning to the team of 19 to tour is Wrexham defender Dennis Lawrence, who sat out the Guatemala match after picking up a red-card in the match against USA.
Team manager, Bruce Aanensen was also delighted about the T&T performance. “It was a tremendous performance, the guys show great determination out there.
“This is what international football is about. Sometimes you have to literally play with blood in your boots. “Coach Beenhakker has been telling them all along that they have to be consistent for the whole match and they did that out there and got the right result.”
With three matches left to play in the CONCACAF region USA (18 points) are assured of a spot in Germany, while Mexico needs only a point to do so.
The battle is now on between Costa Rica (10 points), Guatemala (seven) and T&T (seven) for the two remaining places,with the team finishing fourth in a play-off with the team finishing in the same spot in the Asian group.
In the next three rounds of matches T&T faces Costa Rica (away); Panama (away) and Mexico at home; Costa Rica is at home to T&T and USA before travelling to Guatemala; and Guatemala meets USA and Mexico, before ending with a key match against Costa Rica.
News from the 4th of September 2005.
Warriors!!!...on Latapy’s magic & John’s resolve.
By Jovan Ravello (Guardian).
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T&T’s Warriors did what was required of them yesterday- they beat Guatemala 3-2, on goals from Russell Latapy and Stern John in their 2006 Concacaf World Cup qualifier at the Hasely Crawford Stadium, Mucurapo in front of a sellout crowd.
The match started in the same vein as T&T’s 1-0 loss to the United States World Cup at Rentschler Field, Connecticut, on August 17. The Guatemalans charged out of the gates and went for the jugular from the opening whistle.
And the match was only three minutes old when the visitors got the opening they were searching for.
Brent Sancho in central defence for T&T took down Guatemala’s Gonzalo Romero just in front of the T&T area; Guillermo Ramirez took the kick and his well- struck shot took a deflection before whizzing past Kelvin Jack in goal for T&T.
The T&T players were not discouraged and immediately went for the equaliser, but John could not get to Russell Latapy’s chip into the Guatemala area.
For his part, Latapy looked nothing close to his 37 years and exhibited his characteristic skill, control and ability to read the game as he commanded his position alongside John in attack.
T&T continued to surge forward in the face of the quick-passing Guatemalans, who won the first leg of the final round tie 5-1. Carlos Edwards and Silvio Spann on the right and Aurtis Whitley and captain Dwight Yorke in the centre of the park,featured in the play.
In the ninth minute, John got a golden opportunity after some poor defensive work by the Guatemalan backline, but he steered his shot wide of the far post with Guatemalan custodian Miguel Klee at his mercy.
After some frantic moments on both ends of the field the Warriors settled down into a more constructive rhythm and built their attacks on either flank through Latapy and Edwards, but the attack was plagued by offside calls nine of them on John.
In the 18th minute, John’s header at the end of a Sancho cross from deep in midfield was bundled away by Klee and the rebound fell to Yorke, who put it in the back of the net. But the goal was disallowed for offside.
The T&T defence looked unsteady at times, but escaped the penalty for slack marking and indecisiveness in the first-half, as the Guatemalans seemed content to ride their lead into the interval.
Jason Scotland, a half-time substitute for Whitley, kept the pressure up for the Warriors, allowing Latapy more space to worry the Guatemalan defence with precise passing, and his efforts paid off. On one such foray in the 47th minute.
Latapy controlled the ball on the right side of the field cut inside the area, dribbled the last defender and curled a shot with his left foot to Klee’s left setting, off frienzied celebrations, which gave lie to his “expect no miracles” suggestion earlier in the week. It was indeed a magical moment.
In the 62nd minute Romero got Guatemala’s second goal off a pass from Elmer Ponciano, which silenced the crowd. Soon afterwards, Klee came up with a couple of saves off shots from Scotland and Birchall, who was not as effective as in his earlier matches for T&T. Warriors began to show signs of fatigue.
In the 72nd minute Spann made way for Scott Sealy and Latapy pulled back into midfield as Beenhakker adopted a more attacking strategy. It paid off in the 86th minute. Latapy’s quickness of eye and feet proved vital as he played the ball to John in the Guatemala area and John put it to Klee’s right with a stiff one-time shot.
Before the goal, the crowd was calling for John’s scalp, but were soon singing his praise he did the unthinkable and gave T&T the three points with a well- taken goal from a pass by Yorke.
With time and space, John chested Yorke’s chip in the area let it bounce and blasted a half- volley past Klee on the first post a minute after his first goal, to set the red, white and black 23,000 plus crowd in a delightful crescendo of acclamation.
The victory takes T&T to seven points, the same as Guatemala and Costa Rica, who host T&T on Wednesday in Costa Rica, when Mexico hosts Panama and Guatemala meets the USA.

T&T:
Kelvin Jack, Avery John, Brent Sancho, Marvin Andrews, Christopher Birchall, Carlos Edwards, Aurtis Whitley (Jason Scotland 45th - Ian Cox 90th), Silvio Spann (Scott Sealey 72nd), Russell Latapy, Stern John, Dwight Yorke (capt).

Subs not used:
Shaka hislop, Atiba Charles, Densill Theobald, Cyd Gray.

Guatemala:
Miguel Klee, Gustavo Cabrera, Sylvyn Ponciano, Angel Sanabria, Fredy Garcia (Carlos Figueroa 57th), Elmer Ponciano, Jilio Giron, Fredy Thompson, Gonzalo Romero, Guillermo Ramirez, Carlos Ruiz (capt).

Subs:
Paulo Cesar Motta, Victor Hernandez, Rigoberto Gomez, Maynor Davila, Juan Carlos Plata, Edwin Villatoro.

Referee:
Armando Archundia Tellez.

Goals Scorers:

T&T: Russell Latapy 47th, Stern John 86th, 87th

Guatemala: Guillermo Ramirez 3rd, 61st
The Latapy Factor... Beenhakker lauds 'Little Magician'
By: Ian Prescott (Express).
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Leo Beenhakker feels that Russell Latapy added a little bit extra to his team yesterday. Playing his first international game in four years, the "Little Magician" capped his return with a goal and victory.
Memories of Latapy at his best must have filled the mind, as the diminutive footballer weaved his way through the Guatemala defence to level the score at 1-1 early in the second half. As the ball hit the back of the Guatemala net, Trinidad & Tobago erupted in ecstasy.
A game that had everything, tension, frustration and finally elation, saw the Warriors coming from a goal down to win 3-2 before a 20,000 strong crowd of happy natives at the Hasely Crawford Stadium.
Afterwards Beenhakker said his Warriors have a right to be happy-a little bit- following an excellent victory which that kept alive their hopes of qualifying for the 2006 World Cup in Germany.
Afterwards, the Dutchman spoke about Latapy's contribution.
"At least he is giving me more possibilities and balance in the team. You know in the team you like everybody, you like the player who can get the ball back, you like guys who are willing to run, and you like guys who play with a lot of intelligence. And in that way, he (Latapy) is a very intelligent player. He has a very good eye for running with the ball. He has a very good eye for the free man, and the way he is playing now, he gives something extra in the balance of the team."
Beenhakker was also high in praise for the battling qualities of all his Warriors.
Once again, they suffered an early setback, conceding a goal after just three minutes, but battled to the very end to pick up the victory. Even if they had lost, the Dutchman might have been pleased with what he saw.
"I think, more than ever, the team has deserved this victory, and the way they fight the last moment is a big difference from the first half hour in the USA. So, at least they learnt their lesson. That made me, of course, very happy.
"We had a difficult start again, just like the USA match of course. But, I have to say the team after this disappointment, conceding a goal after just two minutes, coped very well. They did what I coached. In my opinion, I think they deserved in the first half to get a goal. We weren't very lucky in the first half, and it was the same thing in the second half. I think we did a good performance."
On the field, Beenhakker had many heroes. Brent Sancho played like a Trojan, compensating for another sub-par performance from fellow stopper Marvin Andrews. Sancho was everywhere, tackling with aplomb the difficult job of containing the ever-dangerous Guatemalan striker Carlos Ruiz with aplomb. Also doing well were Silvio Spann and Aurtis Whitley. Dwight Yorke took on the captain's responsibility, linking the team together when they fell behind.
And most of all, Stern John became the T&T sweetheart again by scoring two goals, one to tie the game at 2-2 in the 86th and the winner in the 87th. Shrugging off poor form, bad luck and growing criticism, John become the hero of the day. He worked hard throughout, but had no luck until he scored the two crucial goals.
Yesterday, Trinidad & Tobago saw two familiar things. Latapy is playing again and Stern is scoring again. However, what they haven't seen for sometime is Trinidad and Tobago battling back to win at the death. At least, not since Kerry Jamerson unleashed a bullet in 1989 to beat another Guatemala team.
Guatemala coach Ramon Maradiaga said his team were at no time inferior to Trinidad and Tobago. He added that his team's chances of reaching the World Cup are excellent, and as good as any of the other teams still in contention. But with games against Costa Rica, the United States and Mexico to come, Maradiaga seemed to be putting on a brave face. Guatemala's World Cup chances might well have disappeared when John netted that very late winner.

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Football / Roll Call for Hartford
« on: August 10, 2005, 05:48:12 PM »
Only 15,000 tickets sold so far, that means the stadium only going to be half-full  :o
I know it have  a lot of Trinis in the New York area..how come they not making an effort to even attend the game?...lets hope to see some real last minute Trini planning  ;D

So who going for sure?..Anyway lets do a small survey to see who will be there...i really want to see some of allyuh faces  ;D I hope i ent going to get clout up for some of my postings either yes lol..just add your name to the list.

Feliziano  - Section 223  Row 27  people 4  Minnesota

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Football / Coventry pre-season
« on: July 24, 2005, 12:13:46 PM »
Rushden 2-1 Coventry City 
 
Ince was stretchered off after 15 minutes against Rushden
Rushden & Diamonds beat Coventry City 2-1 in a bad-tempered clash marred by an injury to experienced Sky Blues goalkeeper Clayton Ince.
Ince was stretchered off with suspected broken ribs after a challenge by Rushden striker Drewe Broughton.

Rushden took the lead when Greg Pearson scored from close range but Coventry equalised when Stern John headed home trialist Paul Watson's cross.

A draw looked likely until City's Rob Page put through his own net late on.

Ince, 33, only joined Coventry at the start of July.

The Trinidad and Tobago international had been released by Crewe Alexandra after six years at Gresty road.


Depends on the way you look at it..its either good news or bad news.

But at least Stern finally score  ;D

 

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