NEW YORK — Jamaican Dane Kelly netted a hat-trick to fire Charlotte Independence to their third win in four outings in the United Soccer League last weekend, headlining a productive round of matches for Caribbean marksmen. Playing at Sportsplex at Matthews in North Carolina last Saturday, the 29-year-old Kelly banged in a brace in the […]
MIAMI— The final round of CONCACAF’s qualifying tournament for the 2022 World Cup is to be expanded from six to eight teams, the governing body for football in North America, Central America and the Caribbean confirmed on Monday. CONCACAF said in a statement that five teams — Mexico, United States, Costa Rica, Jamaica and Honduras […]
Players for the Portland Thorns and the North Carolina Courage knelt during the national anthem Saturday when the National Women’s Soccer League opened the Challenge Cup tournament in Utah. The players and coaches wore Black Lives Matter T-shirts in warmups before the game, which was nationally televised on CBS. The players also knelt during a […]
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 […]
