Trinidad and To­ba­go meets Bermu­da for the sec­ond time in Group B of Con­ca­caf 2026 World Cup Qual­i­fy­ing’s fi­nal round, with both teams play­ing for pride at the Hase­ly Craw­ford Sta­di­um in Mu­cu­rapo, Port-of-Spain, as match­es through­out the con­fed­er­a­tion be­gin si­mul­ta­ne­ous­ly at 9 pm on Tues­day.

​The first meet­ing be­tween the two teams at Bermu­da’s Dame Flo­ra Duffy Na­tion­al Sports Cen­tre end­ed 3-0 in T&T’s favour with goals from Dante Sealy (10th), Tyrese Spicer (30th), and Ko­bi Hen­ry (49th), T&T’s sole win of the fi­nal round.

​T&T can on­ly fin­ish third, and Bermu­da, with­out a point from their pre­vi­ous five match­es, have long seen their hopes of a first qual­i­fi­ca­tion evap­o­rate. De­spite the low­ered stakes, head coach Dwight Yorke says his play­ers haven’t lacked mo­ti­va­tion head­ing in­to the fi­nal group game of this cam­paign.

“We spoke about it in length, the stan­dard that we try to set our­selves de­spite the dis­ap­point­ment in the game against Ja­maica and not get­ting the max­i­mum points in the game,” he re­vealed.

“Now, it’s easy to just go through the mo­tions and you can tell in my se­lec­tion there will be changes, but not a whole deal of (whole­sale) changes.

“We want to end the cam­paign on a high, and I think it’s im­por­tant that we do that, and so when you look at an over­all per­for­mance, hope­ful­ly with the win to­mor­row (Tues­day), we would have gone through the whole cam­paign with one de­feat in terms of when you in­clude Cos­ta Ri­ca in it.”

Yorke added, “I think it’s the first time we’ve been able to achieve some­thing like that, and so there was a lot of pos­i­tive as much as there is a bit of neg­a­tive in there, but we fo­cus on the fu­ture of this team.”

​There has been a lot of spec­u­la­tion as to what di­rec­tion the na­tion­al set­up will take af­ter to­day’s match; how­ev­er, Yorke de­murred when asked about his own fu­ture.

“This par­tic­u­lar cy­cle of foot­ball will fin­ish to­mor­row (Tues­day) night,” he not­ed. “And so we want to make sure and fin­ish that off and then the con­ver­sa­tion can be­gin as to where we want to go with this group of play­ers, and cer­tain­ly I’m not too con­cerned about my fu­ture in terms of where that takes me.”

He al­so summed up his thoughts on his sec­ond head coach as­sign­ment: “In­ter­na­tion­al foot­ball is a lit­tle bit more sub­dued.”

Yorke said, “Out­side of play­ing and qual­i­fy­ing for the World Cup as a cap­tain, this is the next best thing that I’ve ex­pe­ri­enced. It’s been a won­der­ful ex­pe­ri­ence, and I hope that that ex­pe­ri­ence con­tin­ues not just for me as a coach, but this team and the fu­ture of this coun­try in terms of where foot­ball is con­cerned and I hope to be the leader of that go­ing for­ward.”

To­mor­row’s match is al­so the last for Kevin Moli­no in a T&T strip; both he and long-time num­ber one goal­keep­er Mar­vin Phillip are ex­pect­ed to play their last for the se­nior men, and Yorke sin­gled them out for par­tic­u­lar praise at the end of their ca­reers.

“I have watched Kevin Moli­no over the years as a play­er, and I ad­mire him dear­ly. And then I had the op­por­tu­ni­ty to work with him, and I was hop­ing that he’d fol­low in my foot­steps when I led the team to the World Cup,”

Yorke said, “I think I un­der­es­ti­mat­ed Moli­no, in some ways, and what he brings to the ta­ble but oth­er than that, I think he was ex­cep­tion­al; when­ev­er I called up­on him to lead the team, he’s al­ways been there first and giv­ing 100 per­cent.

“Mar­vin Phillip as well; these are two guys who have been in Trinidad and To­ba­go foot­ball for a very, very long time, and hope­ful­ly the peo­ple of Trinidad and To­ba­go will come out one last time to re­al­ly sup­port them.”

The T&T Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion (TTFA) will make a spe­cial pre­sen­ta­tion to ho­n­our the pair as well as Jo­evin Jones and one oth­er play­er at to­day’s match ac­cord­ing to the as­so­ci­a­tion.

Teams

T&T: Jabari Brice, Mar­vin Phillip, Den­zil Smith, Isa­iah Gar­cia, Justin Gar­cia, Ko­bi Hen­ry, Jer­rin Jack­ie, Déron Payne, An­dre Ray­mond, Josi­ah Trim­ming­ham, Daniel David, Wayne Fred­er­ick II, Kevin Moli­no, Daniel Phillips, Noah Pow­der, An­dre Ram­per­sad, Stef­fen Yeates, Kaïlé Au­vray, Levi Gar­cia, Re­al Gill, Nathaniel James, Roald Mitchell, Dante Sealy, Tyrese Spicer, Lin­dell Sween, Ryan Telfer.

Bermu­da: Dale Eve, De­tre Bell, Co­leridge Fubler, J’Nai But­ter­field Steede, Ju­lian Car­pen­ter, Jorj Dublin, Deniche Hill, Reese Jones, Kieron Richard­son, Har­ry Twite, Eu­se­bio Blank­endale, Willie Clemons, Rahzir Jones, Roger Lee, Kezi­ah Mar­tin, Aun­de Todd, Ne-Jai Tuck­er, Kole Hall Reg­gie Lambe, Zeiko Lewis, Sachiel Ming, Djair Parfitt, En­rique Rus­sell.

Group B Stand­ings

#*MP*W*D*L*GD*PTS

1*Cu­ra­cao*5*3*2*0*10*11

2*Ja­maica*5*3*1*1*8*10

3*T&T*5*1*3*1*1*6

4*Bermu­da*5*0*0*5*-19*0