The secret behind T&T's football revival

[SWF Reporter]

The secret behind Trinidad and Tobago's football revival
By Lasana Liburd (Wired868.com)

Question: What is the most successful component of Trinidad and Tobago’s football at present?
Allow me to make it easier for you. The Trinidad and Tobago national men’s football team last won a Caribbean title eleven years ago in 2001 and has only played in one regional final since then.
In contrast, Trinidad and Tobago’s professional clubs have managed six Caribbean titles in that same period while, on four occasions inclusive of the 2012 edition, there were two local teams competing in the final.
So, again, exactly who is waving the flag for the local sport?
Next week, Neal & Massy Caledonia AIA coach Jamaal Shabazz will lead the “Soca Warriors” into battle at the 2012 Caribbean Cup finals in Antigua and Barbuda—he is joint head coach alongside interim appointment Hutson “Barber” Charles—after helping his club to the equivalent provincial title, just months ago.
Yet, some do not regard this as a sensible choice.
In 13 years of professional football on these shores, Shabazz is only the second coach to be promoted from the domestic club game after DIRECTV W Connection’s Stuart Charles-Fevrier.
Fevrier, a St Lucian who lived in Trinidad since he was a teenager, coached the Warriors for eight full internationals in 2003, six of which were away, and lost three.
Trinidad and Tobago was defeated 2-0 away to a full strength Moroccan team that, four months later, lost 2-1 in the Africa Cup of Nations final. It took a late penalty to defeat the Warriors in South Africa although T&T played the last 20 minutes with 10 men
And Fevrier had less than 48 hours to prepare for a hastily arranged meeting with Haiti while a conflicting local Cup game meant his team was so thin that Michael McComie and Trevor Nottingham, both in the twilight of their careers, were his goalkeepers. Haiti won 2-0.
Read more: http://www.wired868.com/2012/12/02/the-secret-behind-trinidad-and-tobagos-football-revival/

[dreamer]

Wait nah, as I now reading Lasana's article, I realize I was trying to make some related points in the post on Shabzz appointed joint head coach. Daiz real spooky dread. Anyway, good read Lasana. Respec'.

[reggae-fan]

The secret behind Trinidad and Tobago's football revival
By Lasana Liburd (Wired868.com)

Question: What is the most successful component of Trinidad and Tobago’s football at present?
Allow me to make it easier for you. The Trinidad and Tobago national men’s football team last won a Caribbean title eleven years ago in 2001 and has only played in one regional final since then.
In contrast, Trinidad and Tobago’s professional clubs have managed six Caribbean titles in that same period while, on four occasions inclusive of the 2012 edition, there were two local teams competing in the final.
So, again, exactly who is waving the flag for the local sport?
Next week, Neal & Massy Caledonia AIA coach Jamaal Shabazz will lead the “Soca Warriors” into battle at the 2012 Caribbean Cup finals in Antigua and Barbuda—he is joint head coach alongside interim appointment Hutson “Barber” Charles—after helping his club to the equivalent provincial title, just months ago.
Yet, some do not regard this as a sensible choice.
In 13 years of professional football on these shores, Shabazz is only the second coach to be promoted from the domestic club game after DIRECTV W Connection’s Stuart Charles-Fevrier.
Fevrier, a St Lucian who lived in Trinidad since he was a teenager, coached the Warriors for eight full internationals in 2003, six of which were away, and lost three.
Trinidad and Tobago was defeated 2-0 away to a full strength Moroccan team that, four months later, lost 2-1 in the Africa Cup of Nations final. It took a late penalty to defeat the Warriors in South Africa although T&T played the last 20 minutes with 10 men
And Fevrier had less than 48 hours to prepare for a hastily arranged meeting with Haiti while a conflicting local Cup game meant his team was so thin that Michael McComie and Trevor Nottingham, both in the twilight of their careers, were his goalkeepers. Haiti won 2-0.
Read more: http://www.wired868.com/2012/12/02/the-secret-behind-trinidad-and-tobagos-football-revival/

Who are the clubs that play in the caribbean club championships, and what is the criteria for entry. When does this competition take place and how is it played? Home and away? Is it similar in structure to the Cariibena Cup where one country hosts it?

[SWF Reporter]

The Caribbean Club championship follows a similar pattern to the international tournament with several group qualifying stages held on different islands until four teams are left and it becomes a knock out competition.
It isn't home and away at any point. The amount of Caribbean teams that go on to the next round has varied but it is three teams at the moment.
In 2012, Caledonia, W Connection and Puerto Rico Islanders advanced.

[Controversial]

fevrier should be given a chance again, hes the better of the two coaches selected now, but its unlikely to happen