Trinidad and Tobago national football team

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Trinidad and Tobago
Nickname(s)	The Soca Warriors
Association	Trinidad and Tobago Football Federation
Confederation	CONCACAF (North America)
Head coach	Francisco Maturana
Captain	Aurtis Whitley
Most caps	Angus Eve (118)
Top scorer	Stern John (65)
Home stadium	Hasely Crawford Stadium
FIFA code	TRI
FIFA ranking	88
Highest FIFA ranking	25 (June 2001)
Lowest FIFA ranking	98 (February 2008)
Elo ranking	85
Highest Elo ranking	35 (January 1929)
Lowest Elo ranking	116 (September 1987)
First kit 　 Second kit
First international
Trinidad and Tobago 3 - 3 Dutch Guiana (Trinidad and Tobago; August 6, 1934)
Biggest win
Trinidad and Tobago 11 - 0 Aruba (Grenada; June 4, 1989)
Biggest defeat
Mexico 7 - 0 Trinidad and Tobago (Mexico City, Mexico; October 8, 2000)
World Cup
Appearances	1 (First in 2006)
Best result	Round 1, 2006
CONCACAF Gold Cup
Appearances	6 (First in 1991)
Best result	Semifinals, 2000

The Trinidad and Tobago national football team, nicknamed The Soca Warriors, is the national team of Trinidad and Tobago and is controlled by the Trinidad and Tobago Football Federation. The country has produced several Premiership players, such as Dwight Yorke, Carlos Edwards, Kenwyne Jones, Stern John and Shaka Hislop, and reached the first round in the 2006 FIFA World Cup under the management of Leo Beenhakker.

The separate Trinidad and Tobago football teams are not related to the national team and are not directly affiliated with the game's governing bodies of FIFA or CONCACAF but are affiliated with the Trinidad and Tobago Football Federation.

Contents 1 Home Ground 2 World Cup record 3 Gold Cup record 4 Notable Players 5 Recent Results and Upcoming Fixtures 6 Current Squad 7 Notes 8 External links

[edit] Home Ground

The national team plays their home games generally in one of three stadia in the country. Games of significant importance are usually played at the Hasely Crawford Stadium. However, many World Cup qualification matches have been played at the Queen's Park Oval, a multipurpose, but primarily cricket, stadium. Low profile games, such as international friendlies against other islands in the Caribbean, are played at the Marvin Lee Stadium.

[edit] World Cup record

• 1930 to 1962 - Did not enter
• 1966 to 2002 - Did not qualify
• 2006 - Round 1

[edit] Gold Cup record

• 1991 - Round 1
• 1993 - Did not qualify
• 1996 - Round 1
• 1998 - Round 1
• 2000 - Semifinals
• 2002 - Round 1
• 2003 - Did not qualify
• 2005 - Round 1
• 2007 - Round 1

[edit] Notable Players

• Dennis Lawrence (scored the goal for going to Germany 2006)
• Dwight Yorke
• Stern John
• Carlos Edwards
• Marvin Andrews
• Christopher Birchall
• Angus Eve
• Cornell Glen
• Shaka Hislop
• Clayton Ince
• Julius James
• Avery John
• Kenwyne Jones
• Russell Latapy
• Jason Scotland
• Brent Sancho

[edit] Recent Results and Upcoming Fixtures

Below is a table containing the results of recent matches involving the Men's Senior National team and known upcoming fixtures.

Date	Location	Opponent	Score1	Competition	T&T scorers	Opponent scorers
June 7, 2007	The Home Depot Center, United States	El Salvador	1-2 L	GCF	Silvio Spann 8'	Ramón Sánchez 38', Dennis Alas 81'
June 9, 2007	The Home Depot Center, United States	USA	0-2 L	GCF		Brian Ching 29', Eddie Johnson 54'
June 12, 2007	Gillette Stadium, United States	Guatemala	1-1 D	GCF	Errol McFarlane 87'	Carlos Ruíz 83'
October 17, 2007[1]	Estadio Cuscatlan, El Salvador	El Salvador	0-0 D	F
January 26, 2008[2]	Juan Ramón Loubriel Stadium, Puerto Rico	Puerto Rico	2-2 D	F	Kerry Baptiste (pen), Seon Power 70'	Kupono Low, Chris Mesaloudis 33'
February 6, 2008[3]	Queen's Park Oval, Trinidad and Tobago	Guadeloupe	0-0 D	F
March 19, 2008[4]	Marvin Lee Stadium, Trinidad and Tobago	El Salvador	1-0 W	F	Keon Daniel 57'
March 26, 2008[5]	Independence Park, Jamaica	Jamaica	2-2 D	F	Osei Telesford 75', Aurtis Whitley 90'	Marlon King 32', Tyrone Marshall 38'
April 27, 2008[6]	Marvin Lee Stadium, Trinidad and Tobago	Grenada	2-0 W	F	Jerrol Forbes 56', Kevon Carter 69'
May 11, 2008[7]	Marvin Lee Stadium, Trinidad and Tobago	Barbados	3-0 W	F	Jamal Gay 41', Devon Josling 87', Aklie Edwards 90'
June 1, 2008[8]	Hasely Crawford Stadium, Trinidad and Tobago	England	0-3 L	F		Gareth Barry 12', Jermain Defoe 16' 49'
June 7, 2008[9]	Marvin Lee Stadium, Trinidad and Tobago	Jamaica	1-1 D	F	Khaleem Hyland 29'	Luton Shelton 90'
June 15, 2008	Marvin Lee Stadium, Trinidad and Tobago	Bermuda		WCQ Round 2
June 22, 2008	Bermuda National Stadium, Bermuda	Bermuda		WCQ Round 2

¹ - T&T score always listed first

Key

• F = Friendly International
• GCF = Gold Cup Finals
• WCQ = 2010 FIFA World Cup Qualifiers

[edit] Current Squad

Squad for friendly match against England on 1 June 2008.^[10]

No. Pos. Player DoB (Age) Caps Goals Club 1 GK Clayton Ince 12 July 1972 (1972-07-12) (age 35) 64 0 Wallsall 12 GK Marvin Phillip 1 August 1984 (1984-08-01) (age 23) W Connection 2 DF Kern Cupid 11 April 1984 (1984-04-11) (age 24) 7 0 W Connection 3 DF Makan Hislop United Petrotrin 4 DF Ancil Farrier Southern Connecticut State University 5 DF Dennis Lawrence 1 August 1974 (1974-08-01) (age 33) 69 4 Swansea City 13 DF Kareem Smith 1 January 1985 (1985-01-01) (age 23) 4 0 United Petrotrin 14 DF Osei Telesford 30 November 1983 (1983-11-30) (age 24) 13 0 Puerto Rico Islanders 16 DF Akeem Adams 13 April 1991 (1991-04-13) (age 17) W Connection 6 MF Aurtis Whitley (captain) [11] 1 May 1977 (1977-05-01) (age 31) 30 1 W Connection 7 MF Khaleem Hyland 5 June 1989 (1989-06-05) (age 19) 8 1 8 MF Carlos Edwards 24 October 1978 (1978-10-24) (age 29) 57 1 Sunderland 9 MF Keon Daniel 16 January 1987 (1987-01-16) (age 21) 8 2 United Petrotrin 17 MF Ataullah Guerra 14 November 1987 (1987-11-14) (age 20) Jabloteh 18 MF Hayden Tinto 31 August 1985 (1985-08-31) (age 22) Caledonia AIA 10 FW Kenwyne Jones 5 October 1984 (1984-10-05) (age 23) 34 3 Sunderland 11 FW Stern John 30 October 1976 (1976-10-30) (age 31) 101 67 Southampton 15 FW Darryl Roberts 26 September 1983 (1983-09-26) (age 24) 12 1 FW Kevaughn Connell 23 July 1983 (1983-07-23) (age 24) L'Entente SSG FW Jerol Forbes 22 December 1984 (1984-12-22) (age 23) United Petrotrin

[edit] Notes

[edit] External links

• Official Site of the Soca Warriors
• Official site of Trinidad and Tobago Football Federation
• SocaWarriors.net
• The Warrior Nation (Soca Warriors Supporters Club)

v • d • e Trinidad and Tobago squad - 2006 FIFA World Cup 1 Hislop • 2 Cox • 3 A. John • 4 Andrews • 5 Sancho • 6 Lawrence • 7 Birchall • 8 Gray • 9 Whitley • 10 Latapy • 11 Edwards • 12 Samuel • 13 Glen • 14 S. John • 15 Jones • 16 Wise • 17 Charles • 18 Theobald • 19 Yorke • 20 Scotland • 21 Jack • 22 Ince • 23 Wolfe • Coach: Beenhakker

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