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ONCE AGAIN, David Nakhid is embroiled in controversy. The 40-year-old Trinidad and Tobago player/coach is being asked to apologise by ex-national teammate Russell Latapy, and his business manager Wayne Mandeville, over comments made on a programme aired on NCC Channel 4 on February 10. Latapy’s management team, headed by Mandeville, has sent a letter to Nakhid, dated February 28 from his (Mandeville’s) attorneys-at-law Gittens Smart and Co. The letter stated: “On Thursday February 10, 2005, in a television morning programme.... you uttered the following words: ‘Anyone can pay a couple of people to hold up some placards outside the Oval. We know that and I know that, I speak open —  so if Mandeville or whoever want to pay a few people to hold up some placards I have no problem with that’.”
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Jose Luis Seabra is a disappointed man, as it now seems unlikely that he will be part of Trinidad and Tobago’s journey to Germany 2006—but the Brazilian born player is still hopeful that one day he still may become a ‘Soca Warrior.’
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Trinidad and Tobago national football team manager Richard Braithwaite does not look the type to reach for a rabbit foot or holy beads during trying times. And the disciple of sang froid was as unruffled as ever as the national football team looks to shake off their uncertain form at the recently-concluded Digicel Caribbean Cup finals in Barbados.
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KENT WELCH is a Trinidad soccer coach based in Florida, USA. He has created his own brand of soccer, which he called "Error Free Soccer", based on education and what he terms "motion of offence and defence".
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On Carnival Thursday, we all awoke to see two very interesting headlines in our daily newspapers relating to football in T&T — “Dwight Yorke is back” and “Bring back David Nakhid.”
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THE goal scored against Jamaica by T&T striker Nigel Pierre in the Digicel Caribbean Cup encounter, was largely tipped to be given the “Goal of the Tournament” vote.
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