Popular Trinidadian calypsonian Maximus Dan's "Soca Warriors" epitomizes the anticipation every national of Trinidad & Tobago feels towards the 2006 World Cup Football, June 9 -July 9. Similarly, Iwer George's "We Reach" is a virtual war cry heralding Trinidad's qualification for the upcoming FIFA World Cup finals.

Ask any "Trini" and the response will simply be "win, lose or draw, we reach"!

Mere qualification in itself, makes up for the disappointment felt and tears shed when T&T missed out narrowly on qualifying for the World Cup finals in 1974 and in 1990.

The latter was especially heartbreaking as on November 19, 1989, T&T were only one point away from going to the finals in Italy. All they needed was a draw at home against the U.S.A., in their last World Cup qualifier.

Back then, the Hasely Crawford Stadium in Port-of-Spain was bursting at the seams with 35,000 fans decked out in red (red, white and black are T&T's national colours)....

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