When the Caribbees Were Kings of Montreal Soccer
Nineteen-seventy-one was a special year for soccer players from the Caribbean and their supporters in Montreal. It was the year that Caribbees Football Club, a team made up mainly of players from the Trinidad and other islands along with a few hardy men from elsewhere, finally found their stride in the Quebec Soccer League earned province-wide supremacy by snagging the premier division loop title . In a report documenting the team’s dominance that year, the Montreal Star, the leading daily at the time, heaped praises on the boys, for their goal-scoring prowess and the “razzle-dazzle” that they exhibited on the …