*** The OFFICIAL Soca Warriors Football Thread***

[Numb3r4]

This is a good win but to equate it to 1989 just doesn't seem right. True we knocked them out just like Caliguiri's goal did to us.
However they qualified and went to Italia 1990 by knocking us out. T&T in this instance still sitting home watching TV6 salty broadcast from Russia just like the US would be home watching on Fox.

Wait we watching it on TV6 or CNC3?

[Dizzy28]

This is a good win but to equate it to 1989 just doesn't seem right. True we knocked them out just like Caliguiri's goal did to us.
However they qualified and went to Italia 1990 by knocking us out. T&T in this instance still sitting home watching TV6 salty broadcast from Russia just like the US would be home watching on Fox.

Wait we watching it on TV6 or CNC3?

Same lame commentary and pre and post match analysis

[Witch Doctor]

Salt level over 9000

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgFh729L2oA

[SSSavage]

200 million for drainage now.

drainage fuh water....or drainage fuh treasury...???

Lol

[Dizzy28]

Jlloyd Samuel: Former Aston Villa and Bolton defender dies in car crash
Former Aston Villa and Bolton defender Jlloyd Samuel has died in a car crash in Cheshire.

The 37-year-old, most recently player-manager of non-league side Egerton, died on Tuesday.
Samuel made 199 appearances for Villa after signing with the club in 1998, and played 83 times for Bolton between 2007 and 2011. The Trinidad and Tobago Football Association said he had "collided with an oncoming vehicle".

"We are deeply saddened to hear of the death of our former player Jlloyd Samuel at the age of just 37 in a car accident," Championship side Villa said on Twitter.

"Our players will wear black armbands as a mark of respect tonight [in their play-off semi-final] and our thoughts are with his friends and family at this very difficult time."

Samuel won two international caps for Trinidad and Tobago, and also played club football in Iran between 2011 and 2015.

https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/44127716

[hydroep]

Good move to weed out the stinkers. But given the state of T&T's football we'll probably never see another World Cup appearance in our lifetime...

CONCACAF changes W/Cup qualifying format
Walter Alibey

T&T's chances of qual­i­fy­ing for the FI­FA World Cup in 2022 and be­yond have be­come in­creas­ing­ly hard­er.

The Con­fed­er­a­tion of North, Cen­tral Amer­i­ca and the Caribbean Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tions (CON­CA­CAF) on Wednes­day an­nounced a new for­mat which could be a ma­jor both­er for T&T and the wider re­gion­al na­tions.

The re­struc­tured com­pe­ti­tion will com­prise of two parts, to take place si­mul­ta­ne­ous­ly dur­ing the FI­FA-match win­dows in 2020 and 2021.

The first part of the CON­CA­CAF qual­i­fiers, to be played in a Hexag­o­nal for­mat, will be con­test­ed among the top six ranked CON­CA­CAF Mem­ber As­so­ci­a­tions based on the FI­FA Rank­ing pub­lished af­ter the FI­FA win­dow of June 2020. Af­ter home-and-away round-robin play dur­ing the FI­FA Match win­dows of Sep­tem­ber, Oc­to­ber and No­vem­ber of 2020, and March and Sep­tem­ber of 2021, the top three teams will qual­i­fy di­rect­ly to the FI­FA World Cup Qatar 2022.

The sec­ond part of the qual­i­fiers, to be played across a Group Stage and knock­out phase, will in­volve the CON­CA­CAF Mem­ber As­so­ci­a­tions ranked 7-35 ac­cord­ing to the FI­FA Rank­ing pub­lished af­ter the FI­FA win­dow of June 2020. For the group stage, these 29 par­tic­i­pat­ing CON­CA­CAF Mem­ber As­so­ci­a­tions will be di­vid­ed in­to eight groups (five groups of four teams and three groups of three teams).

Af­ter a home-and-away round-robin plays dur­ing the FI­FA Match win­dows of Sep­tem­ber, Oc­to­ber and No­vem­ber of 2020, the first-place fin­ish­ers in each of the eight groups will qual­i­fy for the knock out stage.

Na­tion­al coach Den­nis Lawrence, in an im­me­di­ate re­ac­tion to the new for­mat yes­ter­day, said the change means they will have to play every game as a fi­nal. Lawrence, whose So­ca War­riors are ranked 10th in the CON­CA­CAF and 92nd in the world, said, "Based on the facts and the in­for­ma­tion pre­sent­ed, if you are ac­tu­al­ly in the top six ranked CON­CA­CAF teams on the Fi­fa rank­ings at this mo­ment, you’ll prob­a­bly be think­ing you’re in a favourable po­si­tion, and all you’ve got to do is pro­tect your sta­tus un­til June 2020."

He not­ed, "If you aren’t, then it means it will be a lot more dif­fi­cult in terms of the Road to Qatar 2022, and you’ve got a lot of work to do to try and get in­to the top six. If not, then you will have to bat­tle it out for a chance to have a go at the fourth spot."

Gi­ant Mex­i­co ex­pect­ed­ly leads the CON­CA­CAF re­gion, with the Unit­ed States in sec­ond and Cos­ta Ri­ca and Ja­maica se­cur­ing the third and fourth spots.

The oth­er teams Hon­duras (5th), El Sal­vador (6th), Pana­ma (7th), Cana­da (8th) and Cu­ra­cao com­pletes the six oth­er po­si­tions, but these are set to change when the new rank­ings that fol­low the just con­clud­ed CON­CA­CAF Gold Cup are re­leased.

Lawrence said, "It is dif­fi­cult, more than be­fore now for the teams ranked 7-35, and favourable for the top six ranked teams. We just have to see how it plays out. What it means now, and not that it wasn’t im­por­tant be­fore, it shows how huge­ly im­por­tant it is for us to do well in every game that we play be­tween now and June, in the FI­FA win­dows. Every game is like a fi­nal now to get in­to the Hex. If we want to im­prove on our rank­ings we have to get re­sults."

The quar­ter­fi­nals, semi­fi­nals and fi­nal match­es of the knock out phase will be played in a home-and-away di­rect elim­i­na­tion for­mat, dur­ing the FI­FA Match win­dows of March, June and Sep­tem­ber 2021.

The win­ner of the knock­out phase will face the fourth-place fin­ish­er of the Hexag­o­nal group to de­ter­mine the CON­CA­CAF rep­re­sen­ta­tive in the FI­FA in­ter­con­ti­nen­tal play­off. The home-and-away play­off match­es be­tween the two CON­CA­CAF rep­re­sen­ta­tives will take place dur­ing the FI­FA Match Win­dow of Oc­to­ber 2021.

http://www.guardian.co.tt/sports/concacaf-changes-wcup-qualifying-format-6.2.883555.56ec6daf36

[Dizzy28]

Seems like this ensures USA passage into the WC.
As much as we think the Americans hate football their companies are some of the largest FIFA commercial partners and their TV market is still a significant one.

[fokhan_96]

July 14th 2021
MEDIA RELEASE

CoP- Increased Security in US for TT Football Team

Commissioner of Police, Gary Griffith, has assured that there will be increased security around the Trinidad and Tobago Football Team who is participating in the CONCACAF Gold Cup in the United States.

The decision to increase security around the team followed death threats to members of the team following the 0-0 draw with defending champions Mexico, in the opening round in Arlington, Texas, last Saturday night.

The CoP said he held discussions with the Ministers of National Security and Foreign and Caricom Affairs, as well as the Trinidad and Tobago Ambassador to the United States, His Excellency, Anthony Phillip-Spencer.

As a result of those discussions, a decision was taken to send the Special Branch representative, based in Miami, to be the security liaison with the Trinidad and Tobago Team for the remainder of their campaign in the Gold Cup. The officer joined the team this morning.

According to Commissioner Griffith, the officer’s role will be to liaise with the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI), the Frisco Police Department in Texas, Hotel Security, Match Security officials, security checks to the team bus, coordinate security at the hotel, training fields, and match venues, especially prior to departure and on arrival, and ensure the players are secure from access to spectators from opposing teams.

The TT National team will play El Salvador at 7.30 pm today at the Toyota Stadium, Texas. The national team will complete the Group Stage on Sunday against Guatemala.

Corporate Communications Unit
July 14th 2021
END

[fokhan_96]

Looks like the threats serious. But them really threatening Abu Bakr for defending so good... dem know who he fadda is...

[Cantmis]

https://guardian.co.tt/news/yorke-wins- ... 033c48176e

[Dizzy28]

Is this thread still to be called Soca Warriors thread?

Since the reporter won the case that the name is his they haven't been using the name in international matches.

[MaxPower]

Joker Warriors

[Dizzy28]

Nobody watching Gold Cup? I stopped watching with the US 4-0 up on TT. Ended up 6-0.

Between them and West Indies, sports fans have some dark days ahead.

[pugboy]

it’s been dark decades now just that we live in a time warp of glory days gone by hope

but the rock bottom reality is finally settling in

Nobody watching Gold Cup? I stopped watching with the US 4-0 up on TT. Ended up 6-0.

Between them and West Indies, sports fans have some dark days ahead.

[MaxPower]

Rename thread to Joker Warriors…

Talk to me about winners.

[SuperiorMan]

Proud of my country 6-0.

USA USA USA.

[MaxPower]

Proud of my country 6-0.

USA USA USA.

X3000

Your country has my support.

[pugboy]

pics circulating of the fat boy angus eve pick to play , a real padnas scene yes

max i agree, in proper countries coach not picking he deficient padna to play, at least doh pick a man terribly out of shape with he belly hanging

[MaxPower]

Have the great warriors returned home?

Are we having a welcome home and job well done greeting upon their arrival?

[The_Honourable]

Shaka Hislop collapses during a live ESPN broadcast of AC Milan vs Real Madrid. Hope he is ok.

[MaxPower]

“Shak” “Shak”

Doing what the joker warriors do best.

Hope he ok on a serious note.

[The_Honourable]

Ex-Soca Warrior Shaka Hislop faints on air, doing 'okay'

FORMER TT goal-keeper Shaka Hislop fainted during a live broadcast on ESPN on Sunday.

Hislop was at the Rose Bowl in California, US doing commentary for a preseason match between AC Milan and Real Madrid.

Hislop was seen wobbling before falling to the ground. His colleague, Dan Thomas quickly shouted for help, saying, "Shak, Shak. We need some help."

At half-time, Thomas said Hislop was looking "okay."

"As it stands, it is good news. He is conscious, he is talking. I think he is a little embarrassed by it all he has apologised profusely. Not a man who likes people to make a fuss of him. Obviously too early to make a diagnosis, but the important thing is that Shaka is conscious."

An emotional Thomas said the situation is looking "okay."

Hislop represented TT at the 2006 World Cup in Germany, the only time this country competed at the prestigious tournament

https://newsday.co.tt/2023/07/24/ex-soc ... oing-okay/

[lancer3]

The Soca Warriors have been stepping up their game lately, haven't they? I was impressed by their midfield action in the recent matches. We'll have some exciting games if they keep playing like this. By the way, I usually check out sports stats and game insights on https://sportscore.io, which is super helpful. I like to read what the statistics will say about the upcoming games before and after the games. Is anyone also doing this, or am I the only one doing it?

[K74T]

[Mmoney607]

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Bad move. Trouble does follow Yorke everywhere he goes. A few years from now you will hear ttfa owing him a million US

[MaxPower]

Lol ok

Dwight is the best person to teach the joka warriors discipline.

The very best.

[PariaMan]

Do as I say and not as I Do

Sent from my SM-A325M using TriniTuner mobile app

[mero]

Man who did the impossible

[pugboy]

with the assistance of uncle jack

Man who did the impossible

[MaxPower]

SW still around?

I stop watching garbage.