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Football / Re: Re: The International Friendlies Thread
« on: November 13, 2017, 07:02:09 PM »
since they hired Ventura, i knew we wouldnt qualify. im not the least bit bothered.

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Football / Re: Sunderland Forever Thread.
« on: October 21, 2017, 01:34:40 AM »
hoping my current relationship has as much staying power as kev in this thread

thanks for the updates pal

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Football / Re: 2017 UEFA Champions League Thread
« on: April 18, 2017, 03:16:43 PM »
Real Madrid beating up on Bayern in overtime now. With Atletico already qualified for the semi's, Real on their way and Barca still have a chance tomorrow....it shows once again that La Liga has the top clubs right now.

i have a better chance at Kim Kardashian

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Football / Re: Dissecting Individual Technique and Tactics: A Discussion
« on: February 09, 2017, 02:32:55 AM »
Morace: Women players passing technique poor

 
Published:
Thursday, February 9, 2017

T&T Women’s football team head coach Carolina Morace chats with TTFA president David John-Williams during here first training session at the Ato Boldon Stadium in Couva, last week. Photo by:TONY HOWELL
WALTER ALIBEY

Women footballers in T&T have been using the wrong technique, new national women’s coach and head of the Women’s Development Programme Carolina Morace has said, following her first week of training at the Ato Boldon Stadium in Balmain, Couva yesterday.

It was one of few observations made by the Italian coach who has been recruited by the T&T Football Association (TTFA) to help develop local women’s football and take the country’s senior and under-20 teams to the World Cup.

Morace pointed out that players’ passes were inaccurate because of the techniques being used were not the right one. “The technique that they use is just random. The players passes were not accurate and the technique they use was not the right technique. Sometimes it’s just a suggestion, a little suggestion, that goes a long way.”

Assistant coach Nicola Williams called on players to work on their technical abilities, saying how the players pass and receive the ball are areas that they will have to develop. “Their natural ability in the match, the dribbling and fake is already good, but we have a journey to go on”, she explained.

Because of this Morace and her team intend to work hard with local coaches to show them the right techniques in passing and receiving the ball, and how to impart it to young players. She describe it as a critical part of their programme. Morace who is head of the programme is being assisted by Williams who is also coach of the country’s under-20 team, while another Italian Manuela Tesse is coach of the under-17 team and Betty Bavagnoli will also provide assistance to Morace at the senior team level.

They are expected to be joined by a number of local coaches soon. It is understood this is being organised by the T&TFA which is being led by David John Williams, the man behind the overall development of women’s football in T&T.

Only recently John-Williams announced that his association will look at offering women footballers and coaches contracts.

Morace, who coached the Canadian women’s team to the Concacaf championship in 2010, said another observation she made was that the local players were not fit. “What we can say is that the players are not fit. They need something. If you want to show your ability you have to be fit.”

As Morace continues her search for the country’s best players, she will continue with an open-door policy in which any and all players desirous of representing the country, will have the opportunity to try out. However she noted her policy is not a guarantee that anyone will make it on the national team, saying to make it on the team you have to have something more than a normal player.

According to Morace “It is about sacrifice and understanding what we want. I think there are many potential players here. We have to keep the potentials and improve the potentials. We have to be able to transform the potentials.”

​http://www.guardian.co.tt/sports/2017-02-08/morace-women-players-passing-technique-poor

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General Discussion / Re: Uber Comes to Trinidad
« on: January 17, 2017, 11:13:50 AM »
aint no grammar police but..much more safer?...that hit me hard

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Football / Re: Thread for T&T vs Haiti Game (08-Jan-2017)
« on: January 08, 2017, 05:50:25 PM »
Well all I could say is the attackers did their job today...we needed 2 and they provided 3 (doh mind how ugly it looked).

Unfortunately, the defenders couldn't get their job done, which we grow accustom to...sadly!

Way to step up for yuh country Winchester! Put some respeck on the kid name!

lol nonsense

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Football / Re: Thread for T&T vs Nicaragua Games (27 & 30 -Dec-2016)
« on: December 27, 2016, 07:20:22 PM »
this is probably one of the worst halves of football i have ever seen us play...especially considering the opposition

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Football / Re: TTFA set to appoint obscure Belgian; ex-Bangladesh coach
« on: December 09, 2016, 05:32:21 PM »
let d italian coach d mens team too

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Football / Re: Sunderland Forever Thread.
« on: November 26, 2016, 01:07:22 AM »
d kinda diligence and commitment kev have to this thread is inspiring

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Football / Re: Babwah, Isaac resign from Senior Team Staff.
« on: November 23, 2016, 03:43:52 AM »
thats a rather unprofessional and immature release from TTFA media aka fuentes

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Football / Re: BOAT RIDE ON INDEPENDENCE DAY
« on: September 12, 2016, 04:44:37 PM »
It really doh matter now because the cat is out of the bag. The whole friggin team should have gone to the boat ride for a pre match bonding.

 :rotfl: :rotfl: ah weak

but yea if ppl aint see anything wrong with it then by all means shuttle d whole team down too

imagine the latent discord within the camp and between groups of players

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Football / Re: Observations on yesterday's game
« on: September 03, 2016, 09:02:24 AM »
Congrats to the mammoth crowd that came out as well

Cudnt be there cuz some antibiotics givin me a hard time

each game of the HEX gonna be crazy i cant wait

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Football / Re: Thread for the T&T vs Guatemala Game (2-Sept-2016)
« on: September 02, 2016, 07:52:58 PM »
some people maths real failin dem boy....we playin d states for group honours tuesday.....objective uno complete

yea boy

an i have to teach remedial math tmrw eh

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Football / Re: Thread for the T&T vs Guatemala Game (2-Sept-2016)
« on: September 02, 2016, 07:07:42 PM »
injury time cato had a man open with acres round him and he didnt even see....dunno if is composure or wat but these things are critical

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Football / Re: Thread for the T&T vs Guatemala Game (2-Sept-2016)
« on: September 02, 2016, 07:00:13 PM »
i missin somthin?

how are we in if we on 9 and they 8

we hav d harder final game

oh shims

i get tie up

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Football / Re: Thread for the T&T vs Guatemala Game (2-Sept-2016)
« on: September 02, 2016, 06:58:42 PM »
i missin somthin?

how are we in if we on 9 and they 8

we hav d harder final game

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General Discussion / Re: UNC Thread
« on: August 23, 2016, 03:54:17 PM »
usain has to be the fastest on earth to hav avoiedd d blight kamla almost put on him  lol

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Football / Re: TTFA News Thread.
« on: August 14, 2016, 07:02:54 PM »
Had not heard of caribbeanjobs.com prior to the U17 position being advertised. Is it a well-known employment site?

the premier online job portal in trinidad actually

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Entertainment & Culture Discussion / Re: Game of Thrones
« on: March 08, 2016, 07:09:52 PM »
kinda slackness melisandre gettin on wit dey.....




...anxiously waiting  ;D

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Seems a while back, US was supposed to be a market for T&T LNG.

How exposed is T&T to US becoming an exporter of LNG?

http://www.cnbc.com/2016/02/24/in-a-first-cheniere-to-export-us-liquefied-natural-gas.html


well we've got the edge over them in terms of experience, track record, market savvy etc....under all d bruhaha america's LNG still in the fledgling stages...we still export LNG to them...very small amounts relative to elsewhere....and its just to cool their LNG plants

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General Discussion / Re: Couva Children’s Hospital Thread
« on: October 19, 2015, 08:48:33 AM »
so I have a couple questions about this.....don't we have a shortage of nurses? Where are all these peds nurses coming from? Since it is a trauma center why wasn't a heliport built to life flight people there....where is the support staff coming from especially if it is a "children's hospital" where are you getting your perfusionists etc

they went to uganda. the request was brought to the ugandan parliament and they rejected it as they themselves have a shortage. dont know where they getting the Paeds doctors from wither. mih paediatrician douxdoux from mt hope told me applications closed off and nobody knows where they got staff from cuz nobody applied

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General Discussion / Re: T&T 2015 General Elections Thread
« on: September 09, 2015, 06:41:30 PM »

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General Discussion / Re: T&T 2015 General Elections Thread
« on: September 09, 2015, 05:36:00 PM »




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Football / Re: Who should the new PM name Minister of Sport?
« on: September 09, 2015, 05:24:12 PM »
word is Brian Lara

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General Discussion / Re: T&T 2015 General Elections Thread
« on: September 09, 2015, 10:41:02 AM »
this incident with KB and the Special Branch does not look good. It is serious breach of protocol. I don't know who to blame here. Should the Special Branch be blame or is Mrs. KB the culprit? If something, God forbid, had happened to her on the way to Siparia, I think the Special Branch would have had to answer questions as to what had transpired. The fact that Mr. Rowley is being sworn in while she just lost her position as PM, make the appearance of no one in charge. Any clarifications on this, forum?

If something had happened Special Branch would have been blamed and rightly so. If the drunken weed smoking PM refuse to go in the vehicle they could not force her. The most they could have done was drive behind her and insured that she reached home. They should also continue to provide security until 130 pm today even if this means having a police vehicle parked outside the house of ill repute. Then at that time say THANK YOU JESUS and leave.

 :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

was a hard 5 years for special branch lol

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General Discussion / Re: T&T 2015 General Elections Thread
« on: September 08, 2015, 11:02:22 PM »





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a confidence, hustle, pressing and knock ive never seen before in tnt football (i wasnt around in strike squad days)...of course there's room for improvement but is just to notice the marke difference in those things a mentioned there...to me its amazing...

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Football / Re: Cops probe Fenwick.
« on: September 04, 2015, 06:48:00 AM »
gosh boy it hav no rest from bobol in dis country...it in everything boy

i doh get ppl wrong who set up shak deep in d forest and live off d land inno

dat lookin like paradise now

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Football / Re: Serie A 2015/2016
« on: August 19, 2015, 04:08:55 PM »
Serie A: Five key questions to determine how the season will unfold


Lazio manager Stefano Fiori says his side needs more players after an injury to Miroslav Klose marred their 1-0 win over Bayer Leverkusen in their Champions League qualifying first leg.
"Rich again!" La Stampa cried. "Ciao austerity!" an ebullient La Repubblica waved. After years of tightening the purse strings, Serie A has once again been flashing the cash.

Close to €460 million has been lavished on the transfer market, €329m of which has been invested by Juventus, the Milan clubs and Roma. That's up nearly three times on what the same quartet paid out a year ago, and it's what the league spent as a whole in 2011.

To find a comparable rate of spending, you have to go back to 2001. That was the summer Gigi Buffon, Lilian Thuram and Pavel Nedved moved to Juventus for €135m; Gaizka Mendieta joined Lazio for €48m; Milan found themselves €41m lighter after signing Pippo Inzaghi; and Inter wired €29m Fiorentina's way for Francesco Toldo.

   

Three players -- Paulo Dybala, Geoffrey Kondogbia and Carlos Bacca -- have cost in excess of €30m this window, and with a fortnight still to go before it closes, these teams aren't done yet. More fresh faces will be added to a new cast. Perhaps Schalke's Julian Draxler or even PSG's Zlatan Ibrahimovic.

The league has lost the three wonders of Juventus -- Andrea Pirlo to New York City FC, Carlos Tevez  to Boca Juniors and Arturo Vidal to Bayern Munich -- as well as Xherdan Shaqiri to Stoke City, Matteo Darmian to Manchester United and Mateo Kovacic to Real Madrid.

However, Serie A also brought in Edin Dzeko (Roma) and Stevan Jovetic (Inter) from Manchester City, Mohamed Salah (Roma) from Chelsea, and Mario Mandzukic (Juventus) from Atletico Madrid, while also retaining Paul Pogba (Juve), Gonzalo Higuain (Napoli), Dybala and Felipe Anderson (Lazio). Giuseppe Rossi is back from injury for Fiorentina, too.

Exciting, isn't it? This Serie A promises to be the most balanced, exciting and least predictable season since the early 2000s. With that in mind, here are five key questions to determine how the Italian league will unfold in 2015-16.

1. Can Juventus be caught?

To discourage a creeping sense of boredom, champions long at the top of their game will often make things a little harder on themselves to keep things interesting. They'll wear a blindfold, tie one arm behind their back, get someone to spin them round a few times and then try and hit the target they've been aiming for without fail for years.


If Juventus are to win a fifth consecutive Scudetti, Paul Pogba will have to earn his new No. 10 shirt.
Last season, Juventus won without Antonio Conte. For their next trick, they'll try to do it without go-to match-winners Pirlo, Tevez and Vidal -- or, as Maurizio Crosetti put it in La Repubblica, "the brains of the team, its right arm and pair of lungs."

The Italian Super Cup did offer concerned fans reassurances. Even without Giorgio Chiellini, Andrea Barzagli, Sami Khedira and Alvaro Morata, they beat Lazio 2-0 thanks to goals from new signings Mandzukic and Dybala. The faces change but the results remain the same.

Teething problems are still to be expected, though. The team is incomplete -- a left-back, midfield all-rounder and playmaker are being sought -- while trips to Roma, Napoli and Inter all in the first eight games doesn't make for a comfortable adjustment period. Great responsibility lies with Buffon, Chiellini, Barzagli, Leonardo Bonucci and Claudio Marchisio to radiate stability and pass on a winning mentality.

The same goes for Pogba, who asked for and received Juventus' No. 10 shirt. One imagines if Juventus are to win five Scudetti in a row for the first time since the 1930s, they will need Pogba, the only Serie A player on the last Ballon d'Or shortlist, to step up like Michel Platini did for one last time after Marco Tardelli, Zibi Boniek and Paolo Rossi all left following another European Cup final in 1985.

2. Who are the king-slayers?

Aside from the final games of last season, Roma hardly showed up for most of the second half of the campaign and still finished runners-up. Everything is being done to ensure they not only return to their best but get better, too.

The return of the injured Leandro Castan and Kevin Strootman are like new signings and the attack, which ranked eighth last season, looks fast and furious with the additions of Dzeko and Salah. Exhausted by Christmas last season, new fitness coach Darcy Norman, who worked with Germany, might well prove to be the most important recruit of them all if he can get Roma's players to run like sprinters and last like marathon runners.


Roma have added Manchester City's Edin Dzeko to their forward line.
Napoli, meanwhile, have kept a low profile. In 1987 and 1990, they won the Scudetto after appointing coaches from provincial clubs. Ottavio Bianchi came from Como and Alberto Bigon from Cesena. The omens are good, then, after they hired Maurizio Sarri, a contender for coach of the year after the job he did at Empoli in getting them into back Serie A and finishing 15th last season. Not only did they play great football, they defended well. That's what has been missing from Napoli.

Holes in the team have been filled, the midfield has a great balance to it, while the forward line remains as potent as any in Italy. On his day, Higuain is the best striker in the division and as such, Napoli merit consideration as outsiders.

As for Lazio, when a team exceeds expectations one year, the pattern in Serie A is that it often then fails to meet new and even greater ones the next -- particularly as they come to terms with playing on three fronts. They will have to make sure that pattern isn't followed.

3. Is the balance of power about to swing back to Milan?

As a city, only Madrid has won as many European Cups as Milan's 10. And so its decline and fall in recent years has left a void not only in Italy but on the continent, too. Simultaneously out of Europe for the first time ever, a sense of shame and wounded pride has led both AC Milan and Inter to conclude enough is enough.

Persuaded by Roberto Mancini, Inter owner Erick Thohir has thrown his initial caution to the wind. This, in turn, has stirred something in Milan. Owner Silvio Berlusconi has made the club a priority again, underwriting a spree not seen at the club in almost 15 years, as a consortium led by Bee Taechaubol prepares to pay a quite absurd €480m for a 48 percent stake in the club. This renewed sense of competition, spurring each other on, was best captured in the "derby" over the signing of Kondogbia.

Inter have completely overhauled the team and look like title contenders on paper. Preseason, however, would indicate that Mancini doesn't yet know his best team. Any advantage Inter and others may have at the beginning of the campaign as Juventus figure out how to win without Pirlo, Tevez and Vidal might be diminished unless the coach suddenly happens on the winning formula that has so far eluded him.

Milan, by contrast, already look like they have a clear idea of how they are going to play. You can see the imprint of Sinisa Mihajlovic. It's like they've been coached for the first time in 18 months.

Question marks linger about both teams' defences and the lack of a charismatic, silky passer in each midfield. Both have a lot of ground to make up, but the example of Juventus in 2012 serves as an inspiration. Juve had finished seventh in 2010-11, 24 behind champions Milan, but 12 months later pipped them to the Scudetto.

The Derby della Madonnina is once again an event worthy of its name. Expect Bacca to challenge Mauro Icardi for the crown he shares with Luca Toni as Serie A's Capocannoniere (Golden Boot winner).


AC Milan and Inter have reinvigorated sides this season and could be ready to challenge for silverware in 2015-16.

4. Where might a surprise come from?

The reawakening of the Milan clubs will make it harder for Lazio to remain on the podium and for Fiorentina to finish fourth for the fourth year running. By the same token, the chances of a Parma or a Genoa muscling into the top six, as has been the case in the past couple of years, would appear more remote.

If there is a team to do it, however, it must be Torino. Despite losing Ciro Immobile and Alessio Cerci a year ago, they had a wonderful campaign, becoming the first Italian team ever to win at Athletic Bilbao and also beating Juventus in the Derby della Mole for the first time in 20 years.

Darmian is gone, but the cast-iron defence of Kamil Glik, Nikola Maksimovic and Emiliano Moretti remains, and the money they got from Manchester United for Darmian has been spent well on under-21 internationals Davide Zappacosta, Daniele Baselli and Marco Benassi. Seasoned front pairing Fabio Quagliarella and Maxi Lopez also know their way around the league. The team is put together well, and Torino have a spirit, identity and stability that many of the better-resourced teams lack.

5. The next big thing

Every year a star is born in Serie A: Domenico Berardi, Dybala, Anderson, Alessio Romagnoli, Daniele Rugani. Who will be next?

Be sure to look out for Gianluigi Donnarumma, a 16-year-old giant of a goalkeeper who might force his way into the Milan side a little like Buffon did at Parma all those years ago.

Inter's new centre-back Jeison Murillo was voted best young player at the Copa America. Bologna claim to have found the new Vidal in Erick Pulgar.

   

Fiorentina rate Federico Bernardeschi so highly they have given him the No. 10 shirt. Juventus believe this could well be Kingsley Coman's year.

Lazio have gambled on the indisputably huge yet unfulfilled potential of Ricardo Kishna from Ajax and Ravel Morrison (formerly of Man United and West Ham), but European Under-19 Championship and Under-20 World Cup winner Sergej Milinkovic-Savic looks the most reliable.

It wouldn't be a surprise at all if one of these young men sees their value go through the roof in the next nine months.

James Horncastle contributes to ESPN, BBC Sport, Guardian Football Weekly, FourFourTwo and The Blizzard. Follow him on Twitter @JamesHorncastle.

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Football / Re: Serie A 2015/2016
« on: August 19, 2015, 04:08:26 PM »
Neither Inter nor AC are in Europe this year. Let that sink in.   

thats down to their own foolishness on and off the field and rightully replaced by more progressive clubs

they are rebuilding well though and i expect stronger opposition from themin the table and direct combat

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