Trinidad is Now the Caribbean’s Top-Ranked Football Team

By: Caribbean Journal Staff - April 10, 2015

Above: the Soca Warriors in action

By the Caribbean Journal staff

The Soca Warriors are on top of the Caribbean.

Trinidad and Tobago’s national football team sits atop the region in the latest FIFA/Coca-Cola World Ranking, which was released this week.

Trinidad and Tobago is ranked 65th in the world, just ahead of Burkina Faso and just behind Peru.

The next-highest-ranked team is Jamaica at 75th, followed by Haiti at 79th and Antigua and Barbuda at 106th.

FIFA and Coca-Cola released the world rankings once each month.

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