Trinidad and Tobago at the FIFA World Cup

The FIFA World Cup, sometimes called the Football World Cup or the Soccer World Cup, but usually referred to simply as the World Cup, is an international association football competition contested by the men's national teams of the members of Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), the sport's global governing body. The championship has been awarded every four years since the first tournament in 1930, except in 1942 and 1946, due to World War II.

The tournament consists of two parts, the qualification phase and the final phase (officially called the World Cup Finals). The qualification phase, which currently take place over the three years preceding the Finals, is used to determine which teams qualify for the Finals. The current format of the Finals involves 32 teams competing for the title, at venues within the host nation (or nations) over a period of about a month. The World Cup Finals is the most widely-viewed sporting event in the world, with an estimated 715.1 million people watching the 2006 tournament final.

Trinidad and Tobago have qualified for the final stages of the FIFA World Cup on one occasion, in 2006, when they qualified for the tournament in Germany, but were eliminated at the group stage.^[1]

World Cup record

FIFA World Cup record
Year	Round	Position	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA
1930	Did Not Enter
1934
1938
1950
1954
1958
1962
1966	Did Not Qualify
1970
1974
1978
1982
1986
1990
1994
1998
2002
2006	Group Stage (Group B)	4th	3	0	1	2	0	4
2010	Did Not Qualify
2014
2018	To Be Determined
2022
Total	Group Stage	1/20	3	0	1	2	0	4

2006 FIFA World Cup

Squad

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Club
1	GK	Shaka Hislop	22 February 1969	26	West Ham United
2	DF	Ian Cox	25 March 1971	16	Gillingham
3	DF	Avery John	18 June 1975	58	New England Revolution
4	DF	Marvin Andrews	22 December 1975	98	Rangers
5	DF	Brent Sancho	13 March 1977	42	Gillingham
6	DF	Dennis Lawrence	1 August 1974	65	Wrexham
7	MF	Chris Birchall	5 May 1984	21	Port Vale
8	DF	Cyd Gray	21 November 1976	41	San Juan Jabloteh
9	MF	Aurtis Whitley	1 May 1977	26	San Juan Jabloteh
10	FW	Russell Latapy	2 August 1968	66	Falkirk
11	MF	Carlos Edwards	24 October 1978	53	Luton Town
12	FW	Collin Samuel	27 August 1981	19	Dundee United
13	FW	Cornell Glen	21 October 1980	37	Los Angeles Galaxy
14	FW	Stern John	30 October 1976	97	Coventry City
15	FW	Kenwyne Jones	5 October 1984	30	Southampton
16	MF	Evans Wise	23 November 1973	17	Waldhof Mannheim
17	DF	Atiba Charles	29 September 1977	19	W Connection
18	MF	Densill Theobald	27 June 1982	40	Falkirk
19	FW	Dwight Yorke (c)	3 November 1971	56	Sydney FC
20	FW	Jason Scotland	18 February 1979	25	St Johnstone
21	GK	Kelvin Jack	29 April 1976	32	Dundee
22	GK	Clayton Ince	13 July 1972	63	Coventry City
23	MF	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.
Head coach of Trinidad and Tobago's 2006 World Cup squad was Leo Beenhakker.

Finals Matches

Trinidad and Tobago were drawn in Group B along with England, Sweden, and Paraguay.

In their first match, Trinidad and Tobago held a strong Swedish side to a 0–0 draw, despite having Avery John sent off less than 30 seconds into the second half. Team captain Dwight Yorke won Man of the Match honours.^[2]

Trinidad and Tobago lost their second game of the group stage to England 2–0. Late goals from Peter Crouch and Steven Gerrard secured England a place in the second round.^[3] Trinidad had hoped for a draw between Paraguay and Sweden for their best chances of getting second place but Sweden defeated Paraguay 1–0.^[4]

Trinidad and Tobago lost their third and final game of Group B to Paraguay 2–0. An own goal from Brent Sancho put them behind early in the game, and Paraguay scored a second goal late in the match from Nelson Cuevas.^[5]

Trinidad and Tobago finished last in Group B with one point, and were eliminated from the 2006 World Cup. They were the only team in the 2006 World Cup not to score a goal.^[6]

Group B

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts  England 3 2 1 0 5 2 +3 7  Sweden 3 1 2 0 3 2 +1 5  Paraguay 3 1 0 2 2 2 0 3  Trinidad and Tobago 3 0 1 2 0 4 −4 1

Team #1   Score   Team #2 Trinidad and Tobago 0–0 Sweden England 2–0 Trinidad and Tobago Paraguay 2–0 Trinidad and Tobago

References

1. "FIFA World Cup™ Statistics for Trinidad and Tobago - FIFA.com". FIFA.com. Retrieved 4 June 2015.
2. "BBC SPORT - Football - World Cup 2006 - Sweden 0-0 Trinidad & Tobago". bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 4 June 2015.
3. "BBC SPORT - Football - World Cup 2006 - England 2-0 Trinidad & Tobago". bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 4 June 2015.
4. "BBC SPORT - Football - World Cup 2006 - Sweden 1-0 Paraguay". bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 4 June 2015.
5. "BBC SPORT - Football - World Cup 2006 - Paraguay 2-0 Trinidad". bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 4 June 2015.
6. "BBC SPORT - Football - World Cup 2006 - Teams - Trinidad & Tobago - Beenhakker admits defeat was fair". bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 4 June 2015.

External links

• Trinadad and Tobago at the 2006 World Cup BBC Page