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Trinidad and Tobago
	Shirt badge/Association crest
Nickname(s)	The Soca Warriors
Association	Trinidad and Tobago; Football Federation
Head coach	Wim Rijsbergen
Most caps	Angus Eve (118)
Top scorer	Stern John (64)
FIFA code	TRI
First colours	Second colours
FIFA ranking
Current	90
Highest	25 (June 2001)
Lowest	95 (April 1994)
First international
	Trinidad and Tobago 3 - 3 Dutch Guiana ; (Trinidad and Tobago; August 6, 1934)
Biggest win
	Trinidad and Tobago 11 - 0 Aruba ; (Grenada; June 4, 1989)
Biggest defeat
	Mexico 7 - 0 Trinidad and Tobago ; (Mexico City, Mexico; October 8, 2000)
World Cup
Appearances	1 (first in 2006)
Best result	Round 1, 2006
CONCACAF Gold Cup
Appearances	6 (first in 1991)
Best result	Semifinals, 2000

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The Trinidad and Tobago national football team, nicknamed The Soca Warriors, is the national team of Trinidad and Tobago and is controlled by the Trinidad and Tobago Football Federation. The country has produced several Premiership players, like Dwight Yorke, Stern John and Shaka Hislop, and qualified for the 2006 FIFA World Cup under the management of Leo Beenhakker.

Usually considered one of the best teams in the Caribbean, Trinidad and Tobago has won the Caribbean Cup eight times and is one of four Caribbean countries to ever qualify for the FIFA World Cup. During the 1974 World Cup qualification the team came within one point of qualifying for the World Cup in place of Haiti. The Soca warriors managed to inflict Mexico's only loss during the tournament(4-0). Trinidad made another run in the 1990 World Cup qualifying once again coming within one point. Trinidad won their semifinals group in 2002 in a group that included Mexico and Canada however came in last winning only one game in the final round.

Trinidad and Tobago played Demerara and Barbados for the Martinez Shield between 1923 and 1933. Technically, their first ever match was a 1-1 draw against Demerara, but no exact record and no exact dates for those matches exist.

On October 12 2005, Trinidad and Tobago beat Mexico 2-1, with a brace of goals from Stern John. This win allowed them to finish in 4th place in the CONCACAF final qualification round, and therefore participated in a playoff with the fifth place Asian team Bahrain for a chance to enter the 2006 World Cup. After a 1-1 draw in Port of Spain, the team beat Bahrain 1-0 (with a Dennis Lawrence header) in Manama to clinch their first ever qualification for the World Cup, becoming the smallest nation ever to qualify for the World Cup finals. ^[1]

Their group for the World Cup was group B, which also contained Sweden, England and Paraguay. The underdogs drew 0-0 with Sweden in their first ever match at a World Cup. However they lost by two goals against both England and Paraguay.

On 6 October 2006 thirteen of the players in the 2006 World Cup squad indicated their intention to retire from international football after the friendly matches against St Vincent and the Grenadines on 7 October and Panama on 11 October because they alleged that the Trinidad and Tobago Football Federation had reneged on various contractual commitments to the team. This is viewed as a negotiating position. ^[2]

World Cup record

1930 to 1962 - Did not enter
1966 to 2002 - Did not qualify
2006 - Round 1

Gold Cup record

1991 - Round 1
1993 - Did not qualify
1996 - Round 1
1998 - Round 1
2000 - Semifinals
2002 - Round 1
2003 - Did not qualify
2005 - Round 1

Notable Players

2006 World Cup squad

Head coach of the Trinidad and Tobago 2006 World Cup squad was Leo Beenhakker

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Club
1	1GK	Shaka Hislop	22 February 1969	26	West Ham United
2	2DF	Ian Cox	25 March 1971	16	Gillingham
3	2DF	Avery John	18 June 1975	58	New England Revolution
4	2DF	Marvin Andrews	22 December 1975	98	Rangers FC
5	2DF	Brent Sancho	13 March 1977	42	Gillingham
6	2DF	Dennis Lawrence	1 August 1974	65	Wrexham
7	3MF	Christopher Birchall	5 May 1984	21	Port Vale
8	2DF	Cyd Gray	21 November 1976	41	San Juan Jabloteh
9	3MF	Aurtis Whitley	1 May 1977	26	San Juan Jabloteh
10	4FW	Russell Latapy	2 August 1968	66	Falkirk F.C.
11	3MF	Carlos Edwards	24 October 1978	53	Luton Town
12	4FW	Collin Samuel	27 August 1981	19	Dundee United
13	4FW	Cornell Glen	21 October 1980	37	Los Angeles Galaxy
14	4FW	Stern John	30 October 1976	97	Coventry City
15	4FW	Kenwyne Jones	5 October 1984	30	Southampton F.C.
16	3MF	Evans Wise	23 November 1973	17	Waldhof Mannheim
17	2DF	Atiba Charles	29 September 1977	19	W Connection
18	3MF	Densill Theobald	27 June 1982	40	Falkirk F.C.
19	4FW	Dwight Yorke (c)	3 November 1971	56	Sydney FC
20	4FW	Jason Scotland	18 February 1979	25	St Johnstone
21	1GK	Kelvin Jack	29 April 1976	32	Dundee FC
22	1GK	Clayton Ince	13 July 1972	63	Coventry City
23	3MF	Anthony Wolfe	23 December 1983	4	San Juan Jabloteh

Silvio Spann was originally in the squad, but had to drop-out after sustaining a hamstring injury in the run-up to the tournament. He was replaced by Evans Wise [1].

2006 World Cup information

Many supporters of Scottish football lent their support to Trinidad and Tobago, partly because they were opponents to England and in part because six of the squad members played for Scottish clubs.^{[citation needed]} Also many Scottish fans supported the Trinidad and Tobago player Jason Scotland.^{[citation needed]}

Trinidad and Tobago had a good start in the 2006 FIFA World Cup, holding a very strong Swedish side to a 0-0 draw. Another factor that made this achievement more remarkable is that Trinidad and Tobago had Avery John sent off less than 30 seconds into the second half, and had to survive the remainder of the match with 10 men. Captain Dwight Yorke won Man of the Match honors.

Trinidad and Tobago lost their second game of group B to England 2-0. Late goals from Peter Crouch and Steven Gerrard secured England a place in the second round. Trinidad had hoped for a draw between Paraguay and Sweden for their best chances of getting second place but Sweden defeated Paraguay 1-0.

Trinidad and Tobago lost their third and final game of group B to Paraguay 2-0. An own goal by Brent Sancho put them behind early in the game, and Paraguay scored a second goal late in the game from Nelson Cuevas. Trinidad and Tobago finished last in group B with 1 point, and were eliminated from the 2006 World Cup. They were the only team in this World Cup not to score a goal.

On their return from Germany, the government awarded Leo Beenhakker and each member of the squad the country's second highest honour, the Chaconia Medal, Gold, plus TT$1,000,000 (one quarter in cash, the rest in unit trusts). As captain, Dwight Yorke was awarded TT$1,250,000, while players who had participated in qualification but not in Germany were awarded TT$250,000. Ten members of the teams' technical staff were also later awarded TT$250,000. [2]. There was, however, dispute over the sums due [3] and a number of players threatened to retire from the national team over the matter, Brent Sancho doing so.

Notes

^ "The World Cup's smallest team". BBC article. Retrieved June 11. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help); Unknown parameter |accessyear= ignored (|access-date= suggested) (help)
^ Vital Football, Scotland quits international scene., retrieved on 7 October 2006

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[1] "The World Cup's smallest team". BBC article. Retrieved June 11. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help); Unknown parameter |accessyear= ignored (|access-date= suggested) (help)

[Vital_Football_-_St_Johnstone-2] Vital Football, Scotland quits international scene., retrieved on 7 October 2006

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