An­oth­er World Cup dream lies in ru­ins. An­oth­er Trinidad and To­ba­go foot­ball team has fall­en short. And Ken­neth Butch­er, the for­mer na­tion­al play­er, coach, and gov­ern­ment sports min­is­ter, has seen enough.

On Fri­day night, the Trinidad and To­ba­go se­nior women’s na­tion­al team suf­fered a crush­ing 2-0 de­feat to El Sal­vador, of­fi­cial­ly end­ing their bid for a spot in the 2027 FI­FA Women’s World Cup.

The loss is the lat­est in a stag­ger­ing se­quence of fail­ures: the se­nior men, the Un­der-20 men, the Un­der-17 girls, and the Un­der-17 boys have all crashed out of their re­spec­tive World Cup qual­i­fi­ca­tion cam­paigns in re­cent months.