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In the wake of the dis­as­trous World Cup Qual­i­fy­ing cam­paign that led to the sub­se­quent part­ing of ways be­tween T&T se­nior men's foot­ball team coach Dwight Yorke and the T&T Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion (TTFA), for­mer T&T head coach An­gus Eve says there may have been un­re­al­is­tic ex­pec­ta­tions placed on Yorke and T&T's World Cup ob­jec­tives.

Eve ad­mit­ted to agree­ing that the coun­try had a good chance to qual­i­fy for the 2026 FI­FA World Cup in the Unit­ed States of Amer­i­ca, Cana­da, and Mex­i­co due to the au­to­mat­ic qual­i­fi­ca­tion of the three co-hosts. He be­lieves that the group fea­tur­ing Bermu­da, Cu­ra­cao, and Ja­maica was one from which the So­ca War­riors could have pro­gressed.

T&T fin­ished third in the group be­hind the even­tu­al win­ners, Cu­ra­cao, which earned au­to­mat­ic qual­i­fi­ca­tion. Sec­ond-placed Ja­maica is sched­uled to face an in­ter-con­fed­er­a­tion play-off.