FOOTBALL

MINISTER of Sport Darryl Smith yesterday disclosed that local football officials are working to get FIFA to resume its funding of the TT Football Association (TTFA).

Trinidad and Tobago National Senior Team captain Kenwyne Jones has urged “Soca Warriors” supporters not to heap too much responsibility on Levi Garcia just yet, after the 18-year-old Netherlands-based winger shone in their 3-2 win over St Vincent and the Grenadines on Friday afternoon.

Olsson was left bamboozled by Cruyff at the 1974 World Cup, and the Swede admits he and his team-mates erupted into laughter after the match

When we marvel at the beauty of Barcelona’s current team we have to thank the vision of one man who tore up the rule book and coached every player to be comfortable on the ball, playing Total Football with total freedom

For the TT Pro League, football’s enormous popularity in an age of fingertip access to the world represents an almost insurmountable challenge. As is to be expected, CEO Dexter Skeene remains confident that the key stakeholders—from the executive level of the League to the individual clubs—have what it takes to survive an extremely challenging economic period.

The more things are supposed to change, the more they so often stay the same.

Gianni Infantino’s election as the new President of FIFA was supposed to hail the beginning of a new dawn; the start of a new, corruption-free era where the bribery and deceit of the previous regime is banished to the past.