Trinidad And Tobago Football Team
Soca Warriors At 2006 World Cup:
The Soca warriors of Trinidad
and Tobago crashed out of the 2006 World cup in Germany but gave an impressive
showing overall. The Trinidad and Tobago Soca warriors were splendid for their
first appearance in the World Cup finals.
Trinidad
and Tobago
buried the ghosts of 1973 and 1979 when it overcame Bahrain to book the final
spot for Germany 2006 and became the smallest country ever to qualify for a FIFA
World Cup Finals. But T&T’s qualifying history has left many heartbroken before,
at least twice in the past. Many were disappointed with the team’s failure to
progress out of the 2002 final qualifying round after breezing through the
semi-finals and comprising some of the best players ever on paper. But track
back to 1973 and 1989 and you will realize that the twin-island Republic has
been agonizingly closer to the big stage.
So we were
trying to get to West Germany in 1974. We narrowly missed out on getting to
Italia 1990 16 years later and then a further sixteen years later, three days
before the anniversary of the November 19, 1989 loss to the United States, the
towering Dennis Lawrence rose above the rest to head home and send T&T to
Germany 2006. What a marvelous achievement by the “Soca Warriors” and a
remarkable accomplishment for all of us to savor for the rest of our lives.
Captain Dwight Yorke was in tears moments after the final whistle of the 1-0 win
over Bahrain in Manama and surely were many others among the T&T faithful.
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