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Jimmy Rooting for Trinidad in World Cup

June 16th, 2006


Jimmy is mentioned in the Atlanta Journal Constitution article “Trinidad and Tobago scares England.”

The smallest country ever to qualify for a World Cup held the country that invented soccer to a scoreless draw for 82 minutes here Thursday night. Trinidad and Tobago couldn’t hold out forever, though. Two goals in the final 11 minutes gave England a 2-0 victory and a berth in the World Cup round of 16.

“It was a great match. We [just] ran out of gas,” Jimmy Buffett said.

Yes, that Jimmy Buffett. Two members of his Coral Reefer band are from Trinidad and Tobago, and he said his son was “raised by Trinidadian nannies.”

Read the entire article here.


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