IN PORT OF SPAIN yesterday everyone was seeing red because the Americans were coming. The front-page headline in the Daily Express declared it a "red dawn" and the arrivals hall at Piarco airport was decked out in red banners with posters of the nation's heroes prominently displayed.

Canada's national soccer team, now preparing for the Confederation of the North, Central American and Caribbean zone football associations World Cup playoff in Honduras at the end of the month, beat Trinidad and Tobago 4-2 on Wednesday.

SECOND-placed Trinidad and Tobago face two tough return World Cup qualifying matches later this year but should be prepared for their opponents Guatemala and the United States, says national football coach Everald Cummings.

Jamaica backed by a well supported crowd beat Trinidad and Tobago 2-0 in their home leg Caribbean Football Union's (CFU) Nations Cup Soccer match at the National Stadium yesterday evening.

Trinidad and Tobago won the first Shell Caribbean Cup football tournament with a dramatic 2-1 victory over Grenada at the National Stadium here on Sunday.

The Trinidad and Tobago Football Association has announced the names of 18 players from whom the final team will be chosen for Saturday's World Cup playoff with Surinam in neutral Cayenne, French Guyana.

The United States crept one step closer to the 1986 World Cup finals tonight with a 2-1 victory over Trinidad and Tobago in a qualifying match before a crowd of 15,823 at Busch Stadium.

Trinidad football team is capable of winning the CONCACAF zone preliminaries of the World Cup Football tournament in Haiti next month and go on to capture the final in Munich next year, it was predicted today by Eduard Karim, Indonesian-born soccer coach now domiciled in Holland.