Football in Trinidad and Tobago

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The football is to cricket the most popular sport in Trinidad and Tobago . The national soccer team occupies a leading position in the Caribbean and since the end of the 1990s has also caught up with the level of the best Central American national associations organized in the continental association CONCACAF . The highlight of national football history was the qualification for the 2006 World Cup in Germany . Since 1996/1999 the TT Pro League , i. H. the highest league, played professionally .

Association

Football in the island state is organized in the Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA for short; between 1992 and 2013 Trinidad and Tobago Football Federation , TTFF for short). The association was founded in 1908 and joined the continental association CONCACAF in 1962 and the world association FIFA a year later . Its seat is in the capital Port of Spain , the president is David John-Williams . Jack Austin Warner is President of CONCACAF and Fifa Vice President, who has repeatedly come under suspicion of corruption.

Club soccer

Semi-professional teams have played in the TT Pro League since 1996, and full profit was introduced in 1999. In the amateur time the team dominated armed forces ( Defense Force FC ) with 18 titles between 1974 and 1999 champions is (as of 2017) in the Point Lisas -based club W Connection with five titles.

The team of Defense Force was in 1985 the only team from Trinidad and Tobago to the CONCACAF Champions Cup win and reached 1,987 and 1,988 respectively in second place. Only the Police FC took second place in this continental competition for club teams in 1991 . The Caribbean CFU Club Championship competition, which has been held since 1997, has been won by teams from Trinidad and Tobago seven times ( United Petrotrin 1997 , Joe Public 1998 and 2000 , San Juan Jabloteh 2003 , W Connection 2006 and 2009 , Caledonia AIA 2012 ) and placed second six times. There were five final matches between two teams from the TT Pro League (1998, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2006 and 2012). Only clubs from Jamaica can compete here.

The Trinidad and Tobago Cup has been held since 1927 .

National team

The best result of the national soccer team at the continental championship for Central and North America, the CONCACAF Gold Cup , was reaching the semi-finals at the tournament in 2000 . In the previous tournament, the CONCACAF Championship , the team came second in 1973 , third in 1989 and fourth in 1967 .

At the soccer caribbean championship , which is also a qualifying tournament for the CONCACAF Gold Cup, Trinidad and Tobago took one of the top three places in all tournaments: the 1989 , 1992 , 1994 , 1995 , 1996 , 1997 , 1999 and 2001 tournaments were won by the team, In 1991 , 1998 and 2007 she was second, in 1993 and 2005 third, at the canceled tournament in 1990 the team was in the final.

The highlight of the national soccer history was the qualification for the soccer world cup 2006 in Germany under the Dutch national coach Leo Beenhakker . In Group B , the selection reached a 0-0 win against Sweden in the first game , but lost 2-0 each to England and Paraguay . Beenhakker's successor was his compatriot Wim Rijsbergen .

Tobago

The island of Tobago has competed in international friendly matches six times with its own selection team. The selection team is only put together for individual games and is not a member of international organizations.

date home Away Result source
December 8, 2001 Tobago Trinidad 0: 5
February 1, 2003 Tobago Finland 0: 2
March 11, 2003 Tobago Montserrat 6-0
4th September 2014 Tobago Guadeloupe 0: 3
February 14, 2012 Tobago Guyana 2: 1
May 27, 2009 Tobago Trinidad and Tobago 0:10

player

The country's most famous footballers, such as Dwight Yorke , Stern John and Shaka Hislop , play in the English Premier League and some of them were born and raised in Great Britain. A large number of the national players play in the second or third English , the first or second Scottish league and in the US major league soccer . World Cup participant Evans Wise played with SSV Ulm 1846 in the Bundesliga in the 1999/2000 season , making him the only player from Trinidad and Tobago in the top German division.

While several clubs in the TT Pro League only have players from Trinidad and Tobago in their ranks, a considerable number of foreign footballers play at other clubs. Most of these come from countries bordering the Caribbean (especially from Colombia , Jamaica and Guyana ), from Brazil ( eight Brazilian professionals played at W Connection 2006) and a few from Nigeria .

Youth football

Trinidad and Tobago hosted the U-17 World Cup in 2001 , but failed in the preliminary round. In 2007 , the U-17 team qualified for the Junior World Championship in South Korea and met the German team there (0: 5).

Women's soccer

The women's national team reached third place at the CONCACAF Women's Gold Cup in 1991 and the semi-finals in 1993 , 1994 and 2014 . The team has not yet qualified for World Championships or Olympic Games . The actions of the Trinidad and Tobago Football Federation caused a national scandal in 2014, which only provided the women's team for the CONCACAF Women's Gold Cup in the USA with cash in the amount of 500 US dollars to cover the costs of participation, so that the then coach Randy Waldrum had to raise funds for food and transport for the players as part of a viral campaign.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gunda Wienke: Trinidad and Tobago , dossier on the 2006 World Cup of the German Federal Agency for Civic Education .
  2. ↑ a b c RSSSF.com: Trinidad and Tobago - List of International Matches. Retrieved October 21, 2018 .
  3. ↑ SocaWarriors.net: Guadeloupe whip game Tobago. Retrieved October 21, 2018 .
  4. ↑ StabroekNews.com: Youthful Golden Jaguars toppled 2-1 in Tobago. Retrieved October 21, 2018 .
  5. ↑ SocaWarriors.net: Soca Warriors hammer Tobago boys 10-0. Retrieved October 21, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Article on Foxsports.com. Retrieved September 5, 2015 .