Stars Soccer Review (SSR)
would like to thank you for your support and
valuable feedback. In this, our fourth issue of
the magazine, we bring to you an in depth look
at Trinidad and Tobago Football, and its rich
history. This includes its leagues and Winners
in Winners Circle.
With the perception that all roads in Trinidad
and Tobago football goes through its Special
Advisor, we thought it was imperative to
Interview Mr. Jack Austin Warner, Special
Advisor to the Trinidad and Tobago Football
Federation.
At Stars Soccer, we know that in sport for the
most part, you get what you put in, and with the Soca Warriors successful 2006 World Cup campaign
as the smallest country ever, they were also the
oldest team there. So we decided to follow the
Warriors 2010 W-C Campaign to spot the changes,
if any.
SSR took the
time to talk with Everald “Gally” Cummings and
Bertille St Clair, two of T&T’s most successful
coaches. We also got a brief word with one of
T&T all time greats, Leroy “Dilly” De Leon, in
which he commented on the Soca Warriors in
Germany and their 2010 Campaign.
We interviewed
Dexter Skeene, (CEO of the TT-Pro league) about
his role and the league’s role as it relates to
T&T Football. As the pendulum by which a country
sport revolves, we thought it wise to interview
the Honourable Gary Hunt, Trinidad and Tobago
Minister of Sport and Youth Affairs.
We covered the
winners of the Secondary School Football league
(SSFL), which reinforces the theory that the
breeding ground for football talent, is in the
School System. We saw raw and exceptional talent
in the SSFL, with the National U-17 and U-20
players in both the Boys and Girls Divisions.
There were also diamonds in the rough at the
Primary school level.
In Volume 4,
you will find all the Trinidad and Tobago teams
which participated in World Cups or Youth
Championship.
What we discovered, was that the Soca Warriors players who led the team to World
Cup Germany, was back and was not a factor in
leading the team in the 2010 qualifiers.
Alvin Corneal,
assessment of Trinidad and Tobago football, in
his article in the magazine is pretty close to
being on the money. “ONE
FOOT FORWARD - -TWO STEPS BACKWARDS”.
Corneal is a
former T&T national coach and player, and is
presently a member of FIFA’s Study Group.
More
importantly, Trinidad and Tobago senior men’s
football team is at the crossroads and may be
forced to expose its younger players. Hence, we
asked Kenwyne Jones, the highest profile Soca
Warriors player at present, to comment on his
thoughts of leading the Soca Warriors forward.
(Don’t Back-Back)
Tobago
football is also on the rise, and we went to
Tobago to cover the first International football
match in its history, at the Dwight Yorke
Stadium. We also covered Tobago’s Digicel
Premier League, in which Stokelyvale won, and
later qualified to play in the T&T National
Super league.
Football magazine launch at
stadium by T&T
Newsd@y
Newspaper
Friday, May 14 2010
STARS Soccer Review (SSR) will be launching
their Trinidad and Tobago football magazine
today at 5 pm, at the Hasely Crawford Stadium,
Mucurapo.
There will also be a Tobago launch at the Dwight
Yorke Stadium, Bacolet tomorrow at 4 pm. The
producer of the magazine is Trinidad and Tobago
native Aldwyn McGill.
McGill was selected to the national squad to
undergo training for international duty to
represent Trinidad and Tobago in 1972 in
preparation for the 1974 World Cup in West
Germany, but migrated to Toronto, Canada, two
weeks after selection.
This squad was the start of TT Road to Germany
2006 and with the success of the Soca Warriors
against Bahrain; Aldwyn McGill was a member of
the TT media team in Germany following Trinidad
and Tobago's victory over Bahrain.
As a result SSR magazine first issue, was on the
Soca Warriors and the 2006 World Cup Germany
highlights. Now SSR has combined the Soca
Warriors' history, with the winners of the
different levels of play in Trinidad and Tobago.
Stars Soccer Review has guaranteed that coverage
of Trinidad and Tobago football in their Volume
Four issue of the magazine cannot be matched
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