The novel coronavirus outbreak could put an end to the Hex, the six-team World Cup qualifying format used by the CONCACAF region, said CONCACAF chief Victor Montagliani in a recent interview with Canada’s OneSoccer. With the COVID-19 pandemic wreaking havoc on sport and soccer schedules around the globe, qualifying for the Qatar 2022 World Cup […]
The Caribbean Games will be held in 2021 despite the postponement of the Tokyo 2020 Olympiuc Games., Keith Joseph, secretary general of the Caribbean Association of National Olympic Committees (CANOC) has confirmed. The inaugural Caribbean Games are scheduled to take place in Guadeloupe from June 30 to July 4 2021. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, […]
The latest rankings of the International Federation of Association Football (FIFA), published this week, listed Trinidad and Tobago at 105th in the world, its second-lowest in history. The eight-time Caribbean Football Union (CFU) champions have now spent a 10th consecutive month outside the world’s top-100. The last time Trinidad and Tobago ‘s Soca Warriors were […]
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – Disgraced former FIFA vice-president Austin ‘Jack’ Warner is among former executives of football’s governing body who United States prosecutors say accepted bribes in exchange for Russia and Qatar World Cup votes. A new indictment unsealed in the US District Court in Brooklyn on Monday, after a long-running FBI investigation, alleges […]
Football legend Pele is experiencing “a kind of depression” and barely leaves home anymore because health problems have left him unable to walk normally, his son said in an interview published last Monday. “He’s pretty fragile in terms of his mobility… and that makes him suffer a kind of depression,” Edinho said of his 79-year-old […]
KINGSTON, Jamaica – So the Reggae Boyz have completed their fixture in Group C of League B in the inaugural CONCACAF Nations League with a win and a draw. The Boyz went into the final game inside Catherine Hall Stadium in a perfect win record after five games, but the much changed-up starting 11 […]
By Darnel Harris Ten thousand four hundred and eighty-six fans from across southern Ontario and Alberta gathered last Saturday afternoon to bear witness as Hamilton’s Forge FC and Calgary’s Calvary FC battled in the Canadian Premier League’s first Final. The primetime game did not disappoint; crunching tackles, twenty-one shots, a pile of yellow and red […]
By Darnel Harris The Canadian Premier League (CPL) launched this spring with seven teams across Canada, and even more questions. With representation from Halifax to Vancouver Island, Canada finally had its own truly professional men’s soccer league, built for Canadians. However, given the CPL’s focus on smaller markets and the challenges new sports leagues […]
By Darnel Harris When the new qualifying process for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar was announced, Canadian fans groaned. From June 2020, the Top 6 teams in our region will compete to grab three of the four spots available for Qatar. The last spot? The other twenty-eight nations will spend two years battling over […]
By Darnel Harris Forge welding is an ancient blacksmithing process during which metal is heated, before being hammered into one refined piece. In their first Concacaf League series, Forge FC lived up to their motto – Together We Forge – by absorbing pressure and then hammering Antigua GFC to win the series two to one […]
