The long, long, long dispute between a group of players from Trinidad & Tobago's 2006 World Cup squad and their national football federation reached a new but not yet final phase today when many of the physical assets of the federation were seized by order of the Trinidadian High Court. (The original article is located here.

Ricardo Clark certainly makes his goals count. Two of his three career international goals have been game-winners, and both in dramatic fashion. In addition to last night's header in the seventh minute of added time, Rico drove home the lone goal in the 1-0 against Trinidad & Tobago on Sept.

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Trinidad and Tobago has named their training squad in preparations for the Olympic qualifying coming up in March. Sporting KC defender, Daneil Cyrus has been named to the TnT squad that is currently training in Port of Spain in Trinidad. The team is preparing to be in Group B of Olympic qualifying with Honduras, Panama, and Mexico in Los Angeles which begins on March 22nd.

The field is set for the 2012 CONCACAF Under-17 Women's Championship being held in Guatemala in early May after Karla Riley scored her second goal in four days and led Panama to a 2-1 victory over Costa Rica last Saturday to give her country the final berth in the eight-team tournament.
Riley, who scored in each of Panama's four qualifying victories, tallied the winner in the 80th minute to complete a 3-1 aggregate triumph.

On Thursday, CONCACAF announced the full schedule for 2011 Olympic Qualifying. FIRST ROUND All times U.S. Eastern (local times in parentheses) Group A (Nashville, Tennessee): Canada, Cuba, El Salvador, United States Group B (Carson, California): Honduras, Mexico, Panama, Trinidad & Tobago Thursday, March 22 At Nashville, Tennessee El Salvador vs.

The United States will play Canada, Cuba And El Salvador in Group A of Olympic Qualifying, with Honduras, Mexico, Panama and Trinidad & Tobago in Group B. The USA's group will be based at LP Field in Nashville, with Group B playing at the Home Depot Center. Two teams from each group will move onto the semifinal stage at LIVESTRONG Park in Kansas City, Kansas.

The United States drew a favorable path to the semifinals of CONCACAF Olympic qualifying on Tuesday, getting put in Group A with Canada, Cuba and El Salvador. Group A's games will take place at LP Field in Nashville, Tenn. The full schedule for the qualifying tournament will be released later this week, according to CONCACAF.

The United States Under-23 national team will find out its road to London soon enough.

CONCACAF announced that it will hold its draw for the Olympic qualifying tournament on Tuesday at the organization's headquarters in New York.

The eight teams in the draw (United States, Canada, Cuba, El Salvador, Honduras, Mexico, Panama and Trinidad & Tobago) will be split into two groups of four, with one group playing its games at the Home Depot Center in Carson, Calif.

Mais um jogo das eliminatórias da Copa do Mundo de 2014, foi realizado no dia 02/09/2011, na cidade de Port of Spain-TTO, onde jogaram as seleções de Trinidad & Tobago (91º no ranking da FIFA) e a seleção de Bermudas (185º no ranking da FIFA).
Antes desse jogo, as 2 seleções jogaram:
Eliminatórias Copa do Mundo
2010Prospect 22/06/2008 BER0:2 (0:1)TRI Second stage2010Macoya 15/06/2008 TRI1:2 (1:2)BER Second stage
Amistosos
2005Port Of Spain 27/05/2005 TRI1:0 (1:0)BER 2005Port Of Spain 25/05/2005 TRI4:0 (1:0)BER 2004Hamilton 12/02/2004 BER2:2 (1:1)TRI 2004Hamilton 10/02/2004 BER0:1 (0:0)TRI 2001Hamilton 23/06/2001 BER0:5 (0:2)TRI 1989Arima 18/04/1989 TRI0:1 (0:0)BER 1989Port Of Spain 16/04/1989 TRI1:1 (0:0)BER 1978Medellin 16/07/1978 TRI2:3BER First stage
O árbitro desse jogo, foi: Jafeth Perea-PAN
O primeiro gol do jogo, foi de Kenwyne Jones, aos 45 minutos do primeiro tempo, sendo seu quinto gol pela seleção nacional.

The Philadelphia Union picked up midfielder Nizar Khalfan in the MLS Waiver Draft after Vancouver Whitecaps FC waived him earlier today.

The Union have waived goalkeeper Thorne Holder and defender Juan Diego Gonzalez.

A native of Tanzania, Khalfan played in 22 Major League Soccer regular season matches with Vancouver, scoring one goal and four assists.

Mais um jogo amistoso, foi disputado no dia 21/08/2011, na cidade de Port of Spain-TTO, onde jogaram as seleções de Trinidad & Tobago (88º no ranking da FIFA) e a seleção da Índia (153º no ranking da FIFA).
Antes desse jogo, as 2 seleções jogaram:
1984Arima 22/06/1984 TRI3:0 (2:0)IND
1984San Fernando 11/06/1984 TRI3:0 (2:0)IND
1984San Fernando 09/06/1984 TRI1:3 (1:1)IND
O árbitro desse jogo, foi: Courtney Campbell-JAM
O primeiro gol do jogo, foi de Stern John, aos 19 minutos do primeiro tempo, sendo seu 70º gol pela seleção nacional.

Panama clinched Central America's third and final berth for CONCACAF Olympic Qualifying with a 1-1 draw against Costa Rica. The two met Nov. 3 at Estadio Alejandro Morera Soto in Alajuela, Costa Rica. Panama won 3-2 on aggregate after a 2-1 win in the first leg at home in Panama City Oct. 26.
Honduras and El Salvador round out the group of qualifiers from Central America.

Panama grabbed a 2-1 lead over Costa Rica following the first leg of the Central American playoff for the region's third and last berth in the CONCACAF Olympic qualifying finals. Costa Rica will return home to Estadio Alejandro Morera Soto in Alajuela on Nov. 3 for the second leg.
Both teams are looking to join fellow Central American neighbors El Salvador and Honduras, as well as automatic qualifiers Canada, Mexico and the United States in next year's eight-team finals.

Panama and Costa Rica will go head-to-head twice over the next two weeks to determine which country will join the U.S. Under-23 Men's National Team in CONCACAF Olympic Qualifying. The aggregate winner joins El Salvador and Honduras as the third and final team from Central America in the qualifying tournament.

Ten years ago today on Oct. 7, 2001, the U.S. Men's National Team faced Jamaica on MatchDay 9 of final round qualifying for the 2002 FIFA World Cup. Having lost three straight matches, the USA's place in Korea/Japan was by no means certain. In order to qualify that day and avoid a nail-biting finish, the U.

Joined in progress, it's the second matchday of the second round of CONCACAF World Cup qualifying. Here we go: [Group B] Barbados 0-2 Trinidad & Tobago F [Group A] Dominican Republic 1-1 Suriname F [Group F] US Virgin Islands 1-8 Antigua & Barbuda F [Group E] Belize 1-2 Guatemala F [Group D] St. Lucia 2-4 St.

Today CONCACAF World Cup qualifying starts for 19 more national associations in the confederation, with matches going on from Toronto to Georgetown. (Or is Paramaribo further south?) This post will be updated throughout the day with results and events as they come in, but I'll be working so it will be more of a semi-live blog.

Photo: Nicolae Stoian

The Philadelphia Union announced on Monday that Trinidad & Tobago goalkeeper Thorne Holder has been reacquired.

Holder was waived on July 26, presumably to free up an international spot on the Union roster. With the summer transfer window now closed, and the sole Union signing being the American Freddy Adu, Holder returns to the club to re-fill the vacant third goalkeeper role.

Well, I suppose if I'm going to do this again for 2011-12, I should probably post the summary stats from lat year first, huh?
W L T GF GA DIF Win% PPG
Mexico 25 10 7 91 42 49 59.5 1.95
Costa Rica 6 4 2 20 17 3 50.

The big news from yesterday's announcement by the FIFA Ethics Committee was the life ban to FIFA Executive Committee member Mohammed Bin Hammam, but there were other decisions that affected officials in CONCACAF. CFU members Debbie Minguell and Jason Sylvester, both of Trinidad & Tobago, were banned from participating in all soccer-related activities for one year.

Later today the 2014 World Cup qualifying cycle will start with the preliminary round tie between Montserrat and Belize. St Lucia and Aruba were supposed to get things started a couple of weeks ago, but those matches were pushed back for who knows what reason. Montserrat-Belize could be postponed at the last minute, and there have been rumblings from Belize about a standoff between the national government and the federation that would produce just that, but Montserrat's team is in Trinidad & Tobago and they expect the match to go ahead today.

If agents are known as 'Mr. 10%'s for what they take out of soccer, then Jack Warner is Mr. 300%.For the CONCACAF boss and FIFA Vice-President sold World Cup tickets at a 295% profit, according to a former customer who spoke to the BBC on last night's 'Panorama' special.Norwegian ticket broker Atle Barlaup told Jack's hunter-in-chief Andrew Jennings how he bought 820 of Trinidad & Tobago's 2006

FIFA has announced the referees list for the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup. There are three Americans on the list -- one long-time referee (Kari Seitz) and two assistant referees -- as well as three Mexicans and one each from Canada, El Salvador, and Trinidad & Tobago. Here's the list: Referees Kari Seitz (USA) Carol Anne Chenard (Canada) Quetzalli Alvarado Godíñez (Mexico) Assistant Referees Emperatríz Ivonne Ayala López (El Salvador) Mayte Ivonne Chávez García (Mexico) Marlene Duffy (USA) Cindy Mohammed (Trinidad & Tobago) Rita Muñoz (Mexico) Veronica Pérez (USA)

You could be forgiven for thinking there is only one English-born player currently turning out for Los Angeles Galaxy in the MLS.

Given that the player in question is David Beckham, arguably the most famous footballer of his generation, you can understand why.

But there is another, and it charts another remarkable chapter in the football career of Chris Birchall.

GUATEMALA CITY, Guatemala (March 29, 2011) – The U.S. Under-20 Men's National Team opened its CONCACAF U-20 Championship campaign with a 4-0 win against Suriname at Estadio Nacional Mateo Flores in Guatemala City, Guatemala. Four different U.S. players scored, with Conor Doyle leading the offense with a goal and two assists, Kelyn Rowe netted a goal and an assist and Bobby Wood and Joe Gyau each added a goal.

Trinidad & Tobago books a place in the final eight with a hard-fought 1-0 win against Guatemala in the very difficult Group C. Combined with a scoreless draw against Jamaica on Tuesday, T & T has four points from two games. Jamaica has one point from one game and Guatemala has zero.

The CONCACAF U-17 Championship hosts need a win or a draw against Guatemala on Saturday to secure advancement into the quarterfinals.

Union

Individual and group tickets went on sale yesterday. Buy! Buy! Buy!

On Wednesday we posted an update that linked to a Twitter message from former Trinidad & Tobago goalkeeper Shaka Hilsop that said Thorne Holder had signed with the Union. Big Apple Soccer.com posted a story saying that Holder's former college, Aldelphi University, had announced the signing with a quote from coach Carlo Acquista congratulating Holder.

There is no announcement yet from the Union, but a report on Twitter from Shaka Hislop says that Trinidad & Tobago goalkeeper Thorne Holder has signed with the Union.

Reports from Trinidad confirmed that Holder was on trial with the Union in January. The former U-20 national team goalkeeper played high school soccer at Queen's Royal College in Trinidad & Tobago before going to University of Maryland and Adelphi University.

D.C. United have announced that they have acquired forward Charlie Davies. The Black-and-Red have signed the striker to a loan deal from French side FC Sochaux for the 2011 season. The club used its position in the MLS allocation ranking to acquire the forward.

"We are really pleased to have concluded a deal that will bring Charlie to United," D.

I had known about the pay dispute between members of Trinidad & Tobago's 2006 World Cup squad and the T&T Football Association, but I was unaware of the ongoing disputes between the FA and national team players and staff. And when there's a dispute with the T&T FA, it's really a dispute with one man, who happens to wear many hats in his country and beyond.

Last year i kept a running track of who was reported as being in camp and their contract status (to the best of our knowledge). This seemed to be well received, so I'm going to do it again this year. Later this week I'll try to break down the current roster under the new roster rules, but for now I'm just going to sort into general categories.

Monday's Daily, and Trinidad & Tobago are looking for a high profile coaching hire, then we move to a discussion of the MLS teams that have yet to take advantage of the soccer-specific construction era. By J Hutcherson - WASHINGTON, DC (Jan 31, 2011) US Soccer Players -- As the Gold Cup approaches, at least one team in the region is thinking about 2014.

The 2010-11 Pro League in Trinidad & Tobago concluded this weekend, and the new champions have broken the San Juan Jabloteh-Joe Public monopoly of the previous four seasons. Defence Force won the championship with 41 points from 19 matches (Tobago United withdrew from the competition halfway through), their 21st league title but the first in over ten seasons.

FC Tampa Bay announced today the hiring of former Tampa Bay Rowdies player Ricky Hill. The English native who began his playing career at 17 with Luton Town FC in 1976 spent the bulk of his years playing in England. He moved to the U.S. in 1991 to become player coach of the Tampa Bay Rowdies in the American Soccer League.