FIFA freezes TTFA funding; KPMG halts services while football staff go unpaid

The Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) is in the midst of another financial crisis after FIFA confirmed that it has frozen its annual US$250,000 (approximately TT $1.5 million) subvention to the local body while the TTFA’s auditor, KPMG, has also suspended its services.

Photo: Trinidad and Tobago defender Sheldon Bateau (right) tackles Cuba attacker Ariel Martinez (left) while teammate Andre Boucaud looks on during the July 2015 Gold Cup. (Courtesy CONCACAF)
Photo: Trinidad and Tobago defender Sheldon Bateau (right) tackles Cuba attacker Ariel Martinez (left) while teammate Andre Boucaud looks on during the July 2015 Gold Cup.
(Courtesy CONCACAF)

As a result, the TTFA’s administrative staff has not been paid since June. And, worse, without KPMG’s assistance, the football body has no chance of meeting the criteria for funding set by FIFA or the Ministry of Sport.

Yet, on the surface, TTFA president Raymond Tim Kee and general secretary Sheldon Phillips present a facade of calm and progress, as they recently embarked on a media tour to boast of their leadership.

Last Friday, the football body announced a marketing deal with Clever Advertising and the launch of their “Being a Warrior begins here” campaign. No financial details were provided and media personnel present were not allowed to ask questions during the “interactive segment.”

Phillips confirmed to Wired868 that the TTFA has not paid its office staff since June.

“Yes, we have not been able to pay the staff for July because our funding has not come through from FIFA as yet,” Phillips told Wired868. “Also we were forced to spend $650,000 that we had not budgeted for as the Ministry was supposed to have paid for our travel… And also the remainder of the subvention is to be discussed.”

Phillips refused to give details regarding FIFA’s actions, though.

“Raymond (Tim Kee) is the best person to get details on that particular issue,” he said. “I will have him call you.”

Photo: TTFA president Raymond Tim Kee, who is a member of the FIFA Futsal Committee, tries out the furniture at the global football body's Zurich headquarters.
Photo: TTFA president Raymond Tim Kee, who is a member of the FIFA Futsal Committee, tries out the furniture at the global football body’s Zurich headquarters.

Tim Kee did not return any calls to his mobile phone or respond to a presumed prompt from Phillips.

However, Wired868 can confirm that the TTFA’s problems are directly related to its own accounting issues.

FIFA releases just over US$250,000 (approximately TT $1.5 million) annually to its member association under the Financial Assistance Programme (FAP), which is paid in four tranches. However, that payment was not wired to Trinidad in July.

A FIFA spokesman told Wired868 that it had turned off the tap due to the TTFA’s failure to provide audited accounts.


“As mentioned to you previously, in accordance with the General Regulations for FIFA Development Programmes, all member associations including the TTFA have to comply with certain standard procedures,” stated FIFA, via an email, “such as internal financial audits in order to receive funds corresponding to the Financial Assistance Programme (FAP) and other FIFA development programmes.

“Financial assistance and approval of new programmes to the TTFA are currently on hold awaiting full compliance.”

Photo: The "Women Soca Warriors" get ready for action during their 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup qualifying adventure. (Copyright AFP 2015)
Photo: The “Women Soca Warriors” get ready for action during their 2015 FIFA Women’s World Cup qualifying adventure.
(Copyright AFP 2015)

According to the General Regulations for FIFA Development Programmes, Tim Kee and Phillips were duty-bound to provide audited financial statements approved by the TTFA executive and presented to its general assembly.

The TTFA audit, according to FIFA, should have been up to December 2014 and ought to have landed in Zurich by 31 March 2015. But, up until 22 May 2015, the football body had only done audited statements up until 2008.

Ironically, Tim Kee blasted Sport Minister Brent Sancho for his initial refusal to release taxpayers’ money to the football body without the proper audited statements. After a two-month stand off, Sancho relented and resumed State funding for the TTFA.

FIFA has so far refused to be as lenient and, with president Sepp Blatter on the way out, there is no more patience for the excuse that it is all the fault of ex-FIFA vice president Jack Warner.

It has been four years since Warner quit all his football posts and three years since 13 World Cup 2006 players took several accounting documents out of the TTFA’s headquarters during a court ordered levy.

Photo: Ex-FIFA vice-president Jack Warner (left) and Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar share a light moment during the 2010 FIFA Under-17 Women's World Cup in Trinidad and Tobago. Warner served as Works Minister and National Security Minister for the People's Partnership Government before his resignation in 2013. (Courtesy FIFA.com)
Photo: Ex-FIFA vice-president Jack Warner (left) and Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar share a light moment during the 2010 FIFA Under-17 Women’s World Cup in Trinidad and Tobago.
Warner served as Works Minister and National Security Minister for the People’s Partnership Government before his resignation in 2013.
(Courtesy FIFA.com)

Tim Kee has repeatedly said he inherited a financial mess at the TTFA that was not of his own making. Arguably, the TTFA’s constitution says otherwise.

Under the current constitution, which should be formally replaced within the next two months, the TTFA’s vice presidents are assigned specific responsibility for one of three areas: Technical Matters and Development, Funding and Finance, and Competitions and Tournaments.

For more than a decade, Tim Kee had direct responsibility for “Funding and Finance” at the TTFA, including the controversial period before and after the 2006 World Cup.

And, although Tim Kee claimed he did the 2006 “Soca Warriors” a favour by helping them to receive a settlement for money owed through a World Cup bonus agreement, he had more than a passing responsibility for the football body’s finances at a time when the TTFF gave the players bogus income statements related to the prestigious FIFA competition.

Tim Kee is also the PNM treasurer and Port of Spain Mayor. And, with Trinidad and Tobago’s general elections looming in 2015, there is concern that, should the PNM replace the People’s Partnership, the TTFA president might hope to use taxpayers’ money to cover the financial irregularities within the football body.

Photo: Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) Raymond Tim Kee (right) enjoys some conversation at the 2014 FIFA Congress in Sao Paulo, Brazil. (Copyright TTFA Media)
Photo: Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) Raymond Tim Kee (right) enjoys some conversation at the 2014 FIFA Congress in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
(Copyright TTFA Media)

Still, Tim Kee and, by extension, the TTFA are not the only culpable parties.

FIFA violated its own FAP rules for over a decade as it continued to fund the TTFA despite the local body’s failure to fulfil its accounting obligation to the Zurich-based governing body.

And, even after Warner’s controversial departure in 2011, FIFA continued to send cheques to Trinidad. The FAP money is used primarily to pay the TTFA’s office staff and general secretary, Phillips.

Phillips, despite the TTFA’s failure to raise money from the private sector, receives a salary of just over TT$23,000 per month plus a housing allowance of around TT$21,000 and a company car.

On 30 November 2014, after Wired868’s exclusive report about a missing TT$400,000 TTFA licensing fee, Tim Kee restructured Phillips’ portfolio and hired football manager William Wallace to “lead government relations and team managements.”

Yet, although the TTFA agreed to pay Wallace to absorb some of Phillips’ key duties, the general secretary’s salary remained untouched.

Photo: Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) president Raymond Tim Kee (right) and general secretary Sheldon Phillips. (Courtesy Wired868)
Photo: Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) president Raymond Tim Kee (right) and general secretary Sheldon Phillips.
(Courtesy Wired868)

And, although Phillips’ contract expired in May, he continued to operate and be remunerated as general secretary.

The TTFA’s new crisis started with the United States Department of Justice’s swoop on FIFA, just before Blatter’s re-election in May.

As US law enforcement agencies started faxing extradition requests to Zurich, FIFA officials were apparently no longer willing to turn a blind eye to errant football bodies. And the TTFA’s pleas for leniency fell on deaf ears.

Crucially, KPMG was also spooked. After the DOJ’s arrests, the global auditing firm took a battering for its role as auditor for FIFA and many of its member associations.

KPMG’s audit, according to MarketWatch.com, is intended to express an opinion on whether the financial statements, prepared by FIFA personnel according to International Financial Reporting Standards, are free from material misstatements.

KPMG reviews the organisation’s internal controls when deciding which audit procedures to perform but did not, in FIFA’s case, express an opinion on the effectiveness of their internal control system.

Photo: Sepp Blatter heads for the exit in Zurich after announcing his intention to step down as FIFA president on 2 June 2015. (Copyright Valeriano Di Domenico/AFP 2015)
Photo: Sepp Blatter heads for the exit in Zurich after announcing his intention to step down as FIFA president on 2 June 2015.
(Copyright Valeriano Di Domenico/AFP 2015)

The international auditing firm should select activities and transactions to be tested “based on their risk of causing a material misstatement of financial reports.”

“With all the prior allegations of corruption and bribery levelled against FIFA and some of its member associations over the years, KPMG should have been on high alert to the potential for corruption,” said Jerry Silk, a partner at law firm Bernstein Litowitz Berger and Grossman that represented investors in lawsuits against the global audit firms. “Auditors are supposed to do more and be more vigilant when there’s clearly higher risk.”

Did KPMG decide, belatedly, that the TTFA was not worth the trouble?

The auditing firm declined comment on its relationship with the local football body. However, Wired868 was reliably informed that KPMG’s international body suspended its services to the TTFA soon after the FIFA Congress in May. And there is no timeline for a resumption of the relationship between the two bodies.

Phillips insisted that the TTFA was not responsible for the KPMG suspension of services although he said the local football body was trying to “sort things out” with the international auditing firm.

“Yes, there are issues (but) the KPMG thing has nothing to do with us,” said Phillips. “It is about the international branch calling the local branch and it is to do with the FIFA investigation and the DOJ investigations, which swept us up into the whole mess.”

Photo: United States Attorney General Loretta E Lynch.
Photo: United States Attorney General Loretta E Lynch.

Was KPMG, like FIFA, guilty of turning a blind eye to the TTFA’s or TTFF’s shenanigans?

It is worth noting that, while KPMG was responsible for auditing the TTFA, the auditing firm had no such authority over the football body’s various Local Organising Committees (LOC), which never seemed to close.

On 4 May 2008, a TTFF letter instructed committee members and companies seeking tickets for an international friendly against England to make all cheques “payable to LOC 2006 Ltd.”

Tim Kee, the then TTFF vice president, was copied in on the statement.

The letter, which was dispatched a full two years after the 2006 World Cup, not only implicated Tim Kee in the possible diversion of funds that should have gone to the football body.

It might also explain why the TTFF repeatedly refused, even under the threat of contempt of court, to hand over the LOC’s accounting statements to the Trinidad and Tobago High Court, during the bonus dispute.

For instance, in 2010, Warner instructed the South Korea FA and FIFA to wire a combined US$750,00 (approximately TT $4.5 million) in aid relief for Haiti to the LOC rather than the KPMG-audited TTFA.

Photo: Ex-FIFA vice president Jack Warner delivers water to Haiti. Haitian football officials claimed Warner failed to relay millions in aid money to the country in the wake of a devastating earthquake. (Courtesy CONCACAF)
Photo: Ex-FIFA vice president Jack Warner delivers water to Haiti.
Haitian football officials claimed Warner failed to relay millions in aid money to the country in the wake of a devastating earthquake.
(Courtesy CONCACAF)

For years, the TTFA pointed to KPMG’s reputation as a defence to accusations of fraud and misappropriation of funds while Tim Kee claimed that the football body’s scandals had nothing to do with him.

It appears that nobody is accepting either excuse anymore. And, without FIFA money and a cool response from the private sector, Tim Kee would be desperate to benefit from State funding if he is to have any chance of retaining his post at the TTFA’s election in November.

In the interim, the TTFA has used 2015 CONCACAF Gold Cup prize money and funding for different programs to keep the national teams afloat while Tim Kee continues his standoff with the Sport Minister.

The football body will also play Mexico in an international friendly in Salt Lake City, Utah on September 4. In keeping with tradition under the current TTFA leadership, details of the match contract were not only hidden from the media but from its own executive as well.

According to one London-based football agent, who operates in the Caribbean, match agents usually charge the host nation a minimum of £5,000 (approximately TT$50,000) per game plus “full affair costs”, which means all expenses such as travel costs and match fees.

On top of those fees, agents usually demand a percentage of gates and television revenue as well.

Photo: Argentina captain and superstar Lionel Messi (centre) dribbles between Trinidad and Tobago players Lester Peltier (far left), Andre Boucaud (far right) and Carlyle Mitchell during an international friendly in Buenos Aires on 4 June 2014. Argentina won 3-0. (Copyright AFP 2014/Daniel Garcia)
Photo: Argentina captain and superstar Lionel Messi (centre) dribbles between Trinidad and Tobago players Lester Peltier (far left), Andre Boucaud (far right) and Carlyle Mitchell during an international friendly in Buenos Aires on 4 June 2014.
Argentina won 3-0.
(Copyright AFP 2014/Daniel Garcia)

An agent with a commitment from an international team to arrange a game on a particular day, for instance, can hawk around the world until he or she finds a suitable football association that will pay the most for the match.

Trinidad and Tobago, according to the agent who spoke on condition of anonymity, is an attractive proposition for match agents as it is one of the few international teams that generally has all its affair costs paid for by its government.

So, in theory, a match agent could charge the Romania or Jordan FA for the cost of airline tickets and match fees for the Warriors and then pocket that money once the trip is written off by the Ministry of Sport. On top of that, the agent would still benefit from a booking fee and cut of the gates and television rights.

Phillips was a match agent and ran his own company, Element Agency, before he took up the position of TTFA general secretary in May 2013. He claimed to have closed the company then.

However, more than a year later, Wired868 received documentation that showed Phillips using his Element Agency email account to conduct TTFA’s business for a high profile friendly away to Argentina.

Phillips claimed it was an honest mistake.

Photo: Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) general secretary Sheldon Phillips. (Courtesy SPORTT)
Photo: Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) general secretary Sheldon Phillips.
(Courtesy SPORTT)

“I have a glitch in my email where sometimes emails that go out go out with my Element address,” Phillips told Wired868. “I’ve tried to fix it and even disabled the address but emails still go out. I have to get that fixed.

“Element has never been a part of anything since I got involved in the TTFA.”

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77 comments

  1. Thanks Lasana I missed that 1st time around…will have read.

  2. I’ve seen the draft for the new constitution but I don’t know that the final version is ready now.

  3. While I am happy to see this latest development expose the TTFA to greater scrutiny a PNM victory on Sept 7th all but assures that Mr Tim Kee retains his post in November. After all this is the SAME man who is currently the Party’s Treasurer and its appointed Mayor of the country’s Capital City. Besides which, as far as I am aware NO ONE has announced their intention to run against him so how can he be pressured out if he ALONE contests the Presidency?
    Additionally, even if the PNM lost and he stepped down, WHO would be taking over? Not one of the seemingly invisible Vice Presidents? Who are they? Why is the TTFA only perceived to be a 2 man show? We never hear from anybody else but RTM & SP…Aren’t FA’s supposed to have regular meetings constitutionally? If so how often and when last did one occur? What about the New Constitution? Have YOU seen it Lasana? Does it address any of these questions? When this current body took office I had high hopes that promises of transperancy and accountability would be kept…but then I had hoped the same of our current PP/UNC-Lead Govt too and we all see how that is ending. Unless and until we get “A few Good Men/Women” to step up and consistently demand accountabilty from ALL who put themselves up for office be it TTFA President or Prime Minister we will continue to get EXCHANGE instead of Change.

  4. Ah going and compose meh song for 2015 and it goes like this ah have ah song ah want to sing about the TTFA and they wrong doing lawd protect us from them, protect us from them. Savitri Maharaj yuh want to be my back up singer eh I know that you have a sweet voice eh and doh hut up your head yuh getting paid in US dollars. Them really good yes.

  5. And also this is the same reason why the Mayor didn’t go after the corrupted Jack Warner for the millions that he stole from the corrupted TTFA and our footballers, the 200 million that they got from the sponsors during the 2006 World Cup eh is still unaccounted for The Mayor Tim Kee really good yes.

  6. Kenneth Ransome but that is obvious eh, and it has been going on since in the corrupted Jack Warner days eh and he stole monies from Haiti, SIS when he was given millions when he was in the UNC, he stole the Concacaf property Excellence eh, so how can the corrupted TTFA give account for anything if their books was never in order so FIFA finally is doing the right thing until they really put their house in order a bunch of thieves. Them really good yes

  7. I have been forever concerned about the failure to adhere to basic accounting practices in all T&T sporting organizations, especially TTFA. Failure to show audited financial reports to T&T Ministry of Sport and to FIFA makes one suspect glaring financial misapropriateness.

  8. Doh wait for 7 Sept eh uncle Earl he might have a free hand with privilege eh. Allyuh really good yes

  9. Yeah that is the same thing the corrupted Jack Warner and his cronies use to do while they got rich from the FIFA millions of dollars over the years so the mayor and his bandits is just carrying on the motion Steeuuppss Them really good yes

  10. How we know hear about that 250 ks x6.45 good lord

  11. Well hopefully as the changing of the guards come September 7th all else will be put in place.

  12. When it will stop , Brent appoint a new football boss.

  13. Too much politics play in everything…and the victim mentality is rife at all levels eh

  14. Uncle Earl they have nobody skirt to hude behind eh…I want to see them hung drawn and quartered eh

  15. I commented on Wired uncle Earl…that was the first place I saw it posted

  16. Is their personal fiefdom the two of them running

  17. We accept waaaay too much nonsense in this country.

  18. What shocked me in this article was the agents comments re govt paying all the bills…everybody usong the govt as a piggybank and the TTFA encouraging it

  19. So what about my nephew Gordon Pierre eh, and where is Savitri Maharaj ah find that they to quiet the same eh. serious things happening and they are quiet eh Them really good yes. Hahahaha

  20. I share ur sentiments Savitri Maharaj….

  21. Kendall Tull you know that you cannot just steeuuppss with you explaining eh, because you know we are always waiting on your expertise in these matters. Them really good yes

  22. Hahahaha yea boy Earl Mango Pierre and Kenneth H. Ransome Jr. I in the sun all day for preseason here! Lol

  23. Let them check d pnm for it timkee probably giving them to campaign

  24. He better concentrate on winning his women’s soccer league this season eh hahahah

  25. Ha, ha, ha…. Nice one, Prince Borde! Yuh practicing for the next comedy show at Hasely Crawford Stadium, or what?

  26. What sad is all these people taking this chain up from you yes Lasana. Is only a matter of time before people recognize you for the empty suit that you are. But maybe I’m being too harsh… perhaps you haven’t seen the documents from FIFA and KPMG, otherwise you wouldn’t be misleading people as you are doing now. KPMG are under scrutiny for their own lack of diligence in overseeing FIFA’s financial affairs. As a result of that Headquarters instructed the local branch to cease work on TTFF/TTFA affairs for now. That cessation of services has now prevented the TTFA from presenting FIFA with the Statutory Audits required for the Developmental funding dut the TTFA. FIFA’s letter makes clear that this is a procedural suspension of funding, rather than a substantive suspension due to fiscal irregularities as you article implies. The letter plainly states that as soon as the TTFA engages a new auditing firm and the audits are produced that the funds will be released. But why let any of this get in the way of a finely driven agenda?

    • You’re hilarious Bakes/Sheldon Phillips.
      Here are two reasons why you are talking nonsense:
      1) FIFA never mentioned anything to do with an auditing firm in its letter but only the TTFA’s unfulfilled accounting responsibility.
      2) KPMG withheld its services long after the FIFA deadline for the TTFA to submit its audit for 2014, which makes it departure irrelevant.
      You know why you can never summarise your points in two short, neat sentences? Because you’re full of hot air and you are here only to try and confuse readers with long winding sentences that ultimately take them around in circles and try to confuse them. The truth is a simple affair.

      • I am not Sheldon Phillips, as the many people here and on Soca Warriors Online can attest… but you would not be you if you didn’t try some primary school smoke and mirrror deflection tactic. FIFA’s letter dated August 17, 2015 (signed by Markus Kattner) states: “We understand that your statutory auditor KPMG has suspended work on engagements associated with the TTFA and that therefore, TTFA could not yet fulfill its reporting requirements towards FIFA.” That right there addresses the two pieces of misinformation you continue to put forward above. 1) It makes explicit mention of KPMG by name; 2) It makes clear that FIFA acknowledges the delay in reporting to be due to KPMG’s suspension of services. But again, why bother with facts when lies and misdirection would suffice, right? I fault the TTFA though, if they were proactive in addressing all of this then they wouldn’t have to wait for charlatans like yourself to hijack the narrative. Hopefully somebody will get a clue in that administration and put these letters on their website when launched so that you could be exposed for being the fraud that you are.

        • The TTFA is free to release any information it thinks will help its case.
          And here is how you can prove that I’m a fraud:
          1) Get FIFA to contradict the email they sent me.
          2) Find evidence to show Tim Kee was not in charge of funding and finance for almost a decade under Jack Warner.
          3) Prove that Tim Kee was never party to local football funds being directed to the LOC, outside the realm of the KPMG auditors.
          4) Prove that Sheldon Phillips has never conducted business related to Soca Warriors matches using the email account of his match agency company.
          5) Prove that the TTFA does not have an audit accounts for anything after 2008, despite your ridiculous assertion that their 2014 audit was somehow affected by KPMG suspension of services in June 2015.
          Otherwise, keep yapping… I won’t respond to anything lacking substance.

  27. Look Prince Borde what ever rum eh drinking change the brand nah FIFA doesn’t appoint no corrupted presidents to no football associations eh Prince you really good yes. Hahahahagaga

  28. I didn’t read the article but wasn’t it FIFA who appointed our president in the first place?

  29. Why is Sheldon Phillips still there ?

  30. Waiting to see what happens now with the various teams preparations

  31. Well, I did and took my time too, but we’ve seen/heard it all before. Looks like the noose is tightening eh…remember, yuh could run but you cant hide…for too long. RTK and SP cant hide behind JW anymore…they are EXPOSED.

  32. This is long overdue because of the lack of transparency and accountability steeuupps the next thing FIFA needs to also suspend is that bootleg professional league . Them really good yes

  33. This doesn’t seem like that big of a deal to me.

  34. And they said Jack was the problem ???

  35. My goodness…..think it was only a matter of time though…sigh

  36. They will blame Sancho of course, even Rowley

  37. …..things that make you get sick to your stomach. Sheldon Phillips just neeeeeds to go!!!! Enough, enough, enough. oh my word.

  38. Things really have to be bad when fifa cuts off funding

  39. Finally the winds of change are blowing down this TTFA house of cards that Jack built. I hope Tim Kee Kee Kee and Fill-ups are hearing the death knells for their careers in local football administration …

  40. With 6 years of audited financial statements outstanding, the TTFA faces another obstacle.

    (1) The audit fees a firm would have charged 5-6 years ago has increased, so for a new firm to come in and be engaged to learn about the organization prior to conducting their audit, it would cost the TTFA more in audit fees.

    (2) For independent reasons, an audit form is not supposed to begin an audit for a year when they have not been paid for the prior year’s audit. For example, when the new auditors are finished with the 2009 audit, they can’t start 2010 without getting paid for 2009. Therefore with no funding to pay staff and everyday expenses, how are they going to pay their auditor to do the financial statements that would allow them to get funding from FIFA?

    • In the first line of the 2nd bullet, the word “independent” should be read as “independence”, and the word “form” should be read as “firm”.

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