They left the World Cup: one team with a win, the other with a dream fulfilled.

Julio DOS SANTOS (PAR), Budweiser Man of the Match
I’m very happy to have started tonight’s game, because I was disappointed that I hadn’t started before. We knew the importance of winning this game, not just because it was our last […]

Both left the tournament, but they left with heads up high, especially Trinidad and Tobago.

Anibal RUIZ (PAR)
We had asked the players to try and lift their spirits after the Sweden defeat. We knew that it wasn’t easy, because that was a harsh blow, but it was important to get up for this game and play […]

Obviously, England players were happy because of the win and because Rooney seemed quite fine. He wasn’t in the best shape, which is to be expected, but he played and that’s important.

David BECKHAM (ENG), Budweiser Man of the Match
I think you can safely say that you haven’t seen the best of us yet, but we […]

What a chance for Trinidad and Tobago on a wrong exit from the goalkeeper Robinson.
England should be careful… they are not playing bad, but they are not scoring. They rely too much on shots from Lampard, Gerrard and Beckham

Mathematics of the World Cup said that Trinidad and Tobago should have lost by far the game against Sweden. But mathematics is not everything in the World Cup.

“But football is not played on paper, it is played on a pitch. This game is not mathematics and in football two plus two very rarely equals […]

The first real surprise of the World Cup was met with unhappiness and pleasure from the coaches and players ofboth teams.

Leo BEENHAKKER (TRI)
You could see in the game today that there are no more small fish in international football. My boys put the big boys in their place tonight. Of course they had more chances […]

Even if the score would have been 1-0 for Sweden, it would have been a surprise nevertheless. But still, a 0-0 is a HUGE surprise, especially since Trinidad played in 10 players for almost half of the game.
Sweden was a team that easily got to the goal, but their most valued players, Ibrahimovic and Larsson […]

Trinidad and Tobago’s defender Marvin Andrews will not play in their first match at the World Cup against Sweden because of injury.

“Marvin Andrews is injured and for sure he will not make it for (Saturday),” said coach Leo Beenhakker at a media conference on Friday.
“The rest are fit and in good shape and are […]

Trinidad and Tobago aren’t on the right track in their warm-up games before the World Cup. They just lost 3-1 against Slovenia.

If Leo Beenhakker’s men were looking to improve on their 2-1 defeat by Wales last weekend, there was little sign of it in an unhappy opening quarter of an hour in Celje in which […]

One of the most important players in the Trinidad and Tobago team is, without a doubt, the 32-years-old Marvin Andrews.

Unfortunately, he played for an entire year, against doctor’s reccomendation of not playing with a cruciate ligament injury. This means that it finally is getting to him and Leo Beenhakker expressed concern about this.
“Marvin wants […]