FOOTBALL

The improved performances of our national football team, popularly known as the Soca Warriors, have given local sport fans reasons to hope again.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida – Trinidad and Tobago punched their ticket to the 2021 Concacaf Gold Cup group stage thanks to a dramatic 8-7 penalty shootout win over French Guiana following a 1-1 draw in the Second Round of the 2021 Gold Cup Prelims on Tuesday at DRV PNK Stadium in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

It is rare for a team to win no trophies yet be revered by a nation. It is even rarer for them to be still spoken of four decades later.

FORMER Trinidad and Tobago footballer Clyde Leon has died. The football fraternity expressed words of sympathy on Facebook on Wednesday morning.

Leon, 37, had 48 caps for the national team after making his debut in 2008. At club level, Leon was a long-serving member of W Connection and worked as an assistant coach under Stuart Charles-Fevrier after retiring.

The former midfielder was from Laventille. The details of his death are not clear.

Source: https://newsday.co.tt

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