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Tuesday, July 22, 2025

Edwards backs Yorke to lead T&T to 2026 World Cup

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Sport Desk
34 days ago
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T&T men's football head coach Dwight Yorke.

T&T men's football head coach Dwight Yorke.

Pres­i­dent of the T&T Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion (TTFA), Kieron Ed­wards is back­ing So­ca War­riors’ head coach Dwight Yorke to lead the side out of a tough group and book their spot in next year’s FI­FA World Cup.

T&T has been drawn with Ja­maica, Cu­ra­cao and Bermu­da in Group B for the fi­nal round of the Con­ca­caf Qual­i­fiers, with the group win­ner book­ing an au­to­mat­ic qual­i­fy­ing spot in the 2026 World Cup, set to be co-host­ed by Cana­da, Mex­i­co and the Unit­ed States.

The four teams will play in a home-and-away round-robin, with each team play­ing six match­es—three at home and three away—be­tween Sep­tem­ber, Oc­to­ber, and No­vem­ber.

Ja­maica is the high­est ranked coun­try in the group at 63rd, ahead of 90th ranked Cu­ra­cao, while T&T are ranked 100th and Bermu­da 168th.

De­spite the rank­ings, Ed­wards said he was con­fi­dent Yorke would lead the side to the top of the group and to their sec­ond ever FI­FA World Cup.

Speak­ing on Is­ports on i95.5 FM re­cent­ly, Ed­wards said even though T&T’s first two games were against Ja­maica and Cu­ra­cao, he ex­pect­ed pos­i­tive re­sults from those match­es.

“This is the coach’s team un­til he qual­i­fies us for the World Cup, and I tru­ly be­lieve he will qual­i­fy us for the World Cup, I’m pos­i­tive of that.

“I tru­ly be­lieve that we will qual­i­fy out of the group and coach Dwight Yorke, I tru­ly be­lieve has the right mind­set, the right ap­proach with this group of guys,” Ed­wards said.

“Since the draw, I’ve nev­er thought of the pos­si­bil­i­ty of get­ting no points, even in the first two match­es. I’ve been here with the team and the team has been pro­gress­ing.

“I’m to­tal­ly 100 per cent be­hind coach Dwight and his staff to get us to the World Cup,” he added.

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