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Stephen Hart is out.
The Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) officially sacked its National Senior Football Team head coach this evening, after a meeting at fast food restaurant, Ruby Tuesdays, in Valsayn.
A TTFA release said that president David John-Williams wishes Hart “every success in his future endeavours.” John-Williams vowed to announce a new coach “in the shortest possible time.”
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No information was provided on the fate of Hart’s backroom staff, which included assistant coaches Hutson “Barber” Charles, Derek King and goalkeeper coach Michael “Brow” Maurice.
Hart took over the Soca Warriors in mid-2013 and led them to quarterfinal finishes at the 2013 and 2015 CONCACAF Gold Cup tournaments as well as the Hex of the ongoing Russia 2018 World Cup qualifying campaign.
However, Trinidad and Tobago’s form dipped considerably in 2016 and his team lost seven of their last 10 outings. At present, the Warriors are at the foot of the Hex with zero points from two games, along with the United States who axed coach Jürgen Klinsmann on Monday.
The decision to fire Hart was made by an ad-hoc committee headed by John-Williams, which is believed to have included technical committee chairman and Pro League CEO Dexter Skeene, technical director Muhammad Isa, Eastern Counties Football Union representative Sherwyn Dyer and vice-president Allan Warner.
According to the TTFA’s constitution, only the board of directors can hire or fire coaches. But the board opted to allow a sub-committee to make the call.
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John-Williams was easily the most influential person in the room, since he appointed Skeene and Isa to their current posts—he also works with Skeene at Pro League level—while Warner campaigned alongside him in his successful bid to be elected football president in November 2015.
Skeene and Isa, incidentally, had already ruled on Hart’s future on Monday when, in a technical committee meeting, they recommended that the board of directors make changes to the technical staff. That initial decision by the technical committee was made without bothering to speak to Hart in person or read his report on the Warriors’ 3-1 World Cup qualifying loss away to Honduras, which had not yet been submitted.
The potential flaw in the technical committee’s verdict—coupled with the backlash from the bizarre resignations of Dr Terence Babwah and Dave Isaac from the team’s technical staff, might have prompted a stay of execution for Hart—as the board ruled that Hart should have a chance to speak before a decision was made.
But that only bought the beleaguered coach an additional 24 hours.
Incidentally, only seven of the 13 board members turned up to the Wednesday meeting, although the low turnout might have been influenced by the 5.30pm start in the middle of the work week.
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Hart’s exit completes the clear-out of coaches at all significant levels under the new football president.
In under a year, technical director Kendall Walkes, women’s senior coach Randy Waldrum, under-20 coach Derek King and under-17 coach Ken Elie were all replaced. King and Waldrum were both Caribbean champions in their respective categories.
In truth, Hart’s performances fell away drastically since the change in local football presidents.
In the last nine matches before John-Williams replaced Raymond Tim Kee, the Warriors defeated Guatemala (twice), Cuba and Panama, with draws against Mexico (twice), the United States and Nicaragua. While their solitary loss came via kicks from the penalty mark in the Gold Cup quarterfinal contest against Panama.
But, under the new president, the Warriors only managed wins against St Vincent and the Grenadines (twice) and the Dominican Republic in the whole of 2016 with losses to the United States, Costa Rica, Panama, Haiti, Martinique, Peru, Uruguay and China and draws with Guatemala and Grenada.
During that period, Trinidad and Tobago dropped from 49th in FIFA and fourth in CONCACAF to 78th and ninth respectively.
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Hart insisted that the bad run was no more than a dip in form and vowed to turn things around by shaking up his player squad. But John-Williams and his board members were unconvinced. And the former Canada head coach and St Benedict’s College past pupil had to go.
He was told that he was surplus to requirements for the John-Williams-led football body at a popular fast food restaurant.
TTFA press release:
The Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) and Senior National Men’s Team head coach Stephen Hart have agreed to part ways with immediate effect.
This follows a meeting held this afternoon between Mr Hart and members of the TTFA board of directors.
President David John-Williams, on behalf of the TTFA, thanks Mr Hart for his services over the past three years and wishes him every success in his future endeavours.
Mr John-Williams confirms that the announcement of a new head coach for the TTFA Senior National Men’s Team will be made in the shortest possible time.
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Lasana Liburd is the managing director and chief editor at Wired868.com and a journalist with over 20 years experience at several Trinidad and Tobago and international publications including Play the Game, World Soccer, UK Guardian and the Trinidad Express.
What really going this morning like the rain get to you people
I think alyuh paranoid yes.
Fortunately Shabazz not in the race now or ever Cheyenne. So no need to include the bloke.
Lol Jamaal TriniGuy ?
Well a lot of people hinting you were on the shortlist so had to include .
I fully understand there are not many coaches in the world who have been involved in actions like I have done ….and still end up coaching two national teams. So it’s a name easy to call eh. All you good yes.
Whey Mango ?????
Well it’s Mango call yuh name self
Earl Mango Pierre whey yuh???? Lol
hahahaha Ah now get up eh and I doh care what anyone say eh given the chance Prof Jamaal Shabazz will get the job done and they better don’t have as a joint Coach like what they did to him the last time with Hudson Barber Charles who doesn’t have a clue about Coaching at that level steeuuppss. Them really good yes.
LOLOLOLOLOLOL!!!!!!!!
I didn’t realize T&T and CFU teams have such a consistent history of getting out of groups in Gold Cup history – for Hart doing it twice not to be considered a strong part of his legacy smh
Ent !!! The hate is strong with some of these people .
Haterz will be haterz. They don’t want facts.
Anyway it’s done . Let’s hope they get a proper replacement in and not some local coach who will have no effect on this group of players . Sorry but none of the crop here are good enough and I’ll include Latapy in that list. These boys need a proper foreign coach who will come in with great enthusiasm and hopefully the boys respond to his methods .
If allyuh think them men going to respond to Shabazz , Stuart Charles or Latapy etc ???
I would agree the results this year were not good enough but you also have to factor in WHY they weren’t good enough .
The team has been beaten over and over and over again by the TTFA and it is not coincidence that our worst period comes with DJW in charge who has interfered with the first team (something tim Kee and Phillips never did)
Results wise over the last 3 games including losing to Martinique is not good enough especially as it puts us at risk for no gold cup 2017 and World Cup hopes look faded but that happens , teams go stale , coaches go stale but don’t pretend it’s just that reason . A lot of this is to do with the working conditions set by the TTFA and DJW’s interference having a negative effect sweep through the team since January .
Klinsmann looking fuh wok
People are dreaming if they think Klinsmann would even consider working here.
Lasana Liburd Oh gawd Lasana let people dream nah
If Mourinho get fired tomorrow, some people will say he coming Port of Spain oui. I had no idea people thought we were such a powerhouse that we should be ripping Costa Rica–who defeated Italy and England–to shreds and have managers like Klinsmann waiting by his phone for a chance to coach us.
Lasana Liburd I said this before but it needs repeating. For me losing was one thing but the manner in which we lost was inexcusable. We played bad football. There was confusion and no cohesion. They played as if it was the first time they stepped onto a football pitch together. Something had to give. Since you cannot replace the entire team, the coach had to go. But make no mistake it was not all his fault.
Yesss
This is beyond ridiculous…”exciting games”? That’s Hart’s legacy? I appreciate the sentiments and Hart battling with and within a poor administration but at the end of the day football is about results…not sentiment. Once a team gets out of its group in the gold cup they reach the quarter finals…that is not any achievement to be lauded. Come in guys…I like Hart…but he simply wasn’t cutting it anymore
Only two Trinidad and Tobago coaches ever got Trinidad and Tobago beyond the group stage. Bertille St Clair and Stephen Hart.
The list of coaches who failed to do that includes Rene Simoes and Leo Beenhakker. Francisco Maturana and Russell Latapy failed to even get them to the group stage.
I think we have unrealistic expectations if we don’t see that as an accomplishment.
That’s the acceptance of mediocrity….the reality is that a Gold Cup quarter finals is simply not any significant achievement when put in its proper context. To paraphrase…I think we have unrealistic expectations period
Stephen Hart on behalf of the fans of Trinidad and Tobago football I want to thank you for the tremendous job you did in restoring a measure of RESPECT to the National Team Shirt. While others have chosen to forget or ignore that in our previous World Cup campaign a German Coach could not even GET us to the Hex. In fact he led us to early elimination after defeats by CARIBBEAN “SUPERPOWERS” Bermuda & a Jamal Shabazz-led GUYANA. You took the helm and from the word go got us fans BELIEVING AGAIN… T&T’s 4-4 draw in the Gold cup was voted the most exciting game ever played in that competition by leading commentators in the US. Since the arrival of the new TTFA President a year ago your and indeed ALL our National Football teams at EVERY age-group level have fallen…Is it not passing Strange that when teams fail Coaches get fired and players dropped but the ADMINISTRATORS who run the show remain? I for one will miss your selfless Patriotism sacrificing time away from family and friends in Canada to do a job in which at times your salary was late in coming. May God Bless you with success and happiness in your next endeavor S.H. you are a GIANT among men!!!
Spot on B
“Hart-less” is in the headline but “heartfelt” is in this comment. Thanks, Brian, for putting into words what a lot of people feel, including some who hold the view that SH has plateaued and should make room for someone else at this stage.
Wish i could share your post Brian Springer. You wrote what was in my heart.. Please tag me.
Debbie it’s on my personal page you can share it from there if you want
The TTFA is clueless !
Hart had plenty courage, commitment to stay with a handicap:- no money for foreign camps/matches, no money to scout players. Bunch of jokers!!!!
Results wise getting us to a Gold Cup QF in 2013 having inherited the team right before and played one friendly . Beating Honduras 2-0 in that tournament was the highlight … then the 2 games in Saudi Arabia were pretty exciting . 3-3 with UAE and beating the hosts 3-1 . Unfortunately going out on penalties in the 2015 gold cup QF but some of the results included beating Guatemala , drawing 4-4 with Mexico . Then the 3-3 with Mexico shortly after . Winning a friendly in Panama and also winning in Guatemala in the group of 4 WCQ was a special result . Even the draw at home to USA was solid .
I think what’s more remarkable about Hart’s time here was his loyalty to the team under these conditions of no support from the TTFA since he’s here , to deal with Tim Kee and then this dictator president John Williams and all the abuse and disorganization is remarkable in a world where loyalty and selflessness is dead .
Hart gave this thing his absolute all . Any other coach would have walked away .. maybe he should have but as a fan of the Warriors I’ll always hold him in the highest regard for his actions more than his on the pitch results (and they had many positive results)
Cheers Hartie ! ?
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Somehow i think Carlton Carlon Garcia was being sarcastic Cheyenne.
TTFF strikes again….clueless leadership or just selfish. T&T football pays the price. Good luck coach Hart and thanks for the professionalism you brought.
They couldn’t just bring back latapy and put him in charge of a junior team, they want to make him coach of the senior team
Change is needed if we are to qualify for the world cup, kudus to Hart he did a great job but I don’t think he could take us to Russia just my thoughts.
We just have to wait and see
Well if he can’t take us I wanna see who else can he really had the guys playing good football plus for me this is the hardest final round to get to a WC I’ve seen
I hope they also remove the captain to
No surprise here Colin Sue….i only hope we get a competent replacement….sighs
Hmmm
What exactly were Stephen Hart’s accomplishments as national coach?
Bunch of jokers. I could rant but saw it coming, was told by someone associated with TTFF about 2 months that they looking to make Latapy the coach again, the fact that they hired his brother….. im waiting to see how continually poor thier judgement is….
I really hope thats not the case…cause then this would jist be politics as usual in tnt…
Exactly. We all read between the lines
What is Russell Latapy track record as a coach? Things to make you go hummm
Ruby Tuesdays is the new board room for the TTFA. This is how the meeting went five drinks each lets fire hart.
Lmao
So they had to get drunk first in order to fire my Coach Hart eh. Them really good yes hahaha
Lmao i died with that one shawn
I want to publicly thank Mr Stephen Hart for his great work with the Trinidad and Tobago national football team, it is with a heavy heart that i say goodbye to a man i have respected as a brother. I wish him well in all his future endeavors, u was a class act and returned respect and stability to the national football and for this true football lovers are forever grateful. It is my wish that your are allowed to continue making a contribution to national football at some level bc u have much to offer!! God blessings, stay strong my brother u did us proud a true trini to d bone!!
IMO, they have done Hart a tremendous favour. I thought he should have left a long time ago but not under these circumstances. Hopefully, they will get a coach with more experience and less decency. Hart is too much of a gentlemen to survive among guttersnipes.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8MaC6F6–LI
“When you have people on the staff see their job is being post…it doesn’t hold well for the team”
Precisely so !
Smfh
Half of that football side should go also
Exactly what am saying!! That team need fresh blood,you can get the best coach in the world if the players ain’t got what it takes to play at that level the team will go nowhere
agreed..whoeber the new coach is has to shake up the side drastically…i rather lose after a good shake up rather than conitnue losing with the same old strategies and people
Fired @ ruby Tuesday I can’t believe it
What do you know…another tin-god and paper tiger comes to town…
Mark my words…this will put paid to any chance we had of making it to Russia in 2018, as slim as they were in any case. Just a dotish move in my view.
So my dictator president really went and hire this man to Coach our Soca Worries team eh. Them really good yes.
Nah neither one of them eh, so why you couldn’t say my Prof Jamaal Shabazz eh lol
You have to be joking
Who they hire?
Cannot buss the file nah, leaving this one for meh friend Mr Live Wire to buss in his upcoming story and I am certain that there will be satire in it to eh. so stay tuned. Them really good yes.
Which man Earl Mango Pierre?
Lol so Stuart Charles or Latapy … predictable
Earl Mango Pierre I called that one long time ago if you remember.
Yes you certainly did eh Debbie Espinal.
If they don’t bring in someone like beenhakker or better this is a bad move.
My thoughts exactly…ok so accountabillity dor a string of horrible performances…right ok…so who is the replacement..and will the replacemebt do what is necessary to shake the squad up because much of the responsibility rests on their shoulders as well…i will be very disappointed if i hear latapy is the new coach….nothing against latas as a player and a rep for tnt or his coaching skills but hart brought us back from the lowest of lows so if you remove him the rplacement should be of beenhaker pedigree
Dean a change was inevitable.. check his record. You’re a coach therefore you are aware of the business
Nothing wrong with the change you know Reynold Mondesir, it’s how they went about it. Undermining, deceitful, and out right disrespectful. Remember this though, our football was dead and Hart brought us back. We started failing as soon as John Williams and his mafia team came into power. I do agree that due to results a change may have been needed. I’m waiting to here Stuart Charles is the next coach.
I believe our football is still dead by the way… only time will tell re TTFA decision making
Yes right now it need some shaking up. Not only with the coach but with players. I think we should come out of retirement. Lol. Hope all is well my brother.
Lol.. all is well bro!
Happy Thanksgiving!
Well said re players.. especially the seniors need to go.
One setta low budget coaches and we have the money for better.
When DJW consult others is a problem, when he doesn’t, he’s a dictator…alyuh good yes
Hart did really say football is a paradox oui.
Half the people quarreling for him to drop KJ, but vex he fired.
So what yuh want ? Oh the irony !!!
Not mr.st.clair
J W destroyed Wanderers cricket club and he will do the same to T&T footballer
I’ve heard about that and I regret not digging into it more. I suppose I still might at some point.
You should it reveals what a selfish and self centered man he is
Will run my cricket contacts on this one
Too bad more of this information wasn’t available before the TTFA election, so that members would know exactly what they were voting for and would have decided that eyes wide open.
I don’t even think it’s follow fashion..just John Williams wanting his way
Brethren and sistren, as many would have heard me say . . . .. this is about more than football! Frankly, fellow Trinbagonians, the way that football is being run is no different to anything else we are doing in TT. Nothing in TT works well. Governance doesn’t, the Judiciary doesn’t, the police doesn’t, the medical service doesn’t, etc. and the list goes on. We, as a nation are in the midst of a serious crisis. It is a crisis of leadership! As leaders get weaker, they become more egotistical, self-serving and aloof. A cursory look at the best leaders in the world and a comparison with what’s happening in TT would make my case easily. If we take in and digest for one moment the CEO of Pepsi in the attached link (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDTVdX-enr4) speaking to vision, performance and purpose – one sees how real worldclass leaders drive actualization of purpose. Where do we see this come in TT? The performance of our national football team should not be viewed in a vacuum, as it is a manifestation of a bigger, deeper and more pervasive problem – leadership. The firing of Mr Hart is only a small reflection of this. Until we accept that there’s a bigger problem, it won’t be fixed. The fact that many immediately say that we should seek a foreign coach is also illustrative (please note that I’m not against having a foreign coach) of a sense that WE are not getting it done. Admittedly, a foreign coach who has worked at that level will bring something more and different! Most of all he won’t take the TTFF nonsense. I believe that deep down every Trini knows that better can and should be done, but there is a sense of resignation that we cannot get out of our own ways and are hamstrung by what we’ve come to accept as ‘our normal’ behaviors. So what do we learn from this latest fiasco? It is a point worth pondering. As I told Mr Livewire a few moments ago, its about time that we get together and discuss the issues that plague the TTFF, TTGF, Pantrinbago, TUCO, NCC, National Band Leaders Association, the Judiciary, the various state enterprises, medical services, JCC, etc. All of these institutions are underperforming. This is not an issue of talent!!!! Our people are bright and intellectually comparable to anyone anywhere. This is an issue of systems, structures, cultural norms. The way we select leaders is consistent with what we have come to accept. It is the way we run everything. So can we continue to do the same thing and expect better or different results? Remember the definition of madness. Right? What will we do? What should we do? TT is a good place for alcohol commercials – because we have to be drunk to deal with this crap, over and over and over again. Stay thirsty my friends.
Well said
Brian
I totally agree with you that our institutions are failing and we lack professional leadership. However, where I disagree with you is that “it is not an issue of talent” and “our people are bright and intellectually comparable to anyone anywhere”. I appreciate your utilization of comparable as a qualifier and to have mutual understanding I take “bright” to mean smart.
On the contrary, I find the majority of our population NOT to be bright and NOT to be intellectual. The cause is we continue to emphasize a learning process based on rote learning. This process has created some individuals we often term as “bright” but are no more than 10GB hard drives with little or no processing power. These individuals are often eloquent repeaters of data and systems but lack ingenuity, creativity and problem solving techniques so we can not expect them to be leaders. I have met with too many middle and upper level managers in our private sector and MP’s, Ministers and CEO public sector with Phd’s, MBA’s, CFA’s, etc and been shocked with the lack of cognitive ability. Sadly, we have not fundamentally evolved from a colonial then neo-colonial learning process that was engineered for dependency. Rote learning is not just in our classroom it is overemphasized through out the society.
We continue to do the same things over and over again because we are a rote society; our political parties, our governance systems, judiciary are all repeaters. It’s not only rote but the strict disciplinary environment that the learning takes place. To bring this back to football, I heard Coach HART ask where are the dribblers, the boys/girls that are brave and creative to “tek” on. The reality is it has been coached out of them, I would say that our education process has also taught the creativity, thinking, reasoning and problem solving OUT of us. If we are so “talented” so “bright” so “intellectual” what was our last invention, creation, internationally recognized scholarship, etc..? Where is the prove?
One last point, you make solid reference of our instant need for our foreign coach or foreign consultants as a reflection of what I view as our lack of confidence. I will take it a step further that even when we bring foreign coaches/consultants they can and do provide value often with detailed plans that require implementation. Since implementation, is a cognitive process not based on repeating we RARELY implement those plans. The many a corporate and ministry office file cabinet are full of coaches/consultant detailed plans we paid for begging to be implemented but as you said that requires leadership.
Lastly, we do not need alcohol to accept this because we too have had our minds programmed to have a level of comfort and acceptance of the repetition and dysfunction.
Naturally, I am with you that we must endeavor to free our minds to create a functional society.
Sean thanks for your thoughtful response to my post. I believe that where you see disagreement, we are actually in agreement. As I cited the various institutions, I was pointing to widespread collapse and system-wide failure. In my view, we need to engage in some real systems thinking to resolve these difficult issues. And yes, I think the change needed will be difficult for the exact reason you have cited – lack of cognitive abilities and the gradual de-intellectualization of our society. People do not think and are not trained to think, for we build a perception of progress and capability around passing exams so people simple study to pass exams and not think to solve problems or get things done.
Regarding, whether we produce bright and/or smart people, I think we do, but they operate in a system where they don’t have to think and as you correctly stated “we simply repeat what we read and how we did it before”. As such we lose many of them by age 15. I have seen many of our citizens come out to the USA, Canada, and UK and perform very well – like you. I look at the energy industry where many of our engineers have multiple patents to their name – but it was not accomplished in TT – they did it when exposed and immersed in a different ‘system’, same thing in medicine and engineering. A few years ago I sat beside a senior police detective from Atlanta on a flight to TT, as he was going to POS to conclude an investigation which was being done jointly with the TTPS. I asked him his thoughts on the policemen in TT. He said, “I think that they have very good investigative skills and are well trained, but the system they work in will not generate successful prosecutions and crime reduction”. So placed within the right system we do well – suggesting that we have the raw material.
We have never been good at implementation and I also agree with your sentiments in that regard.
TT for many reasons has not kept up with world class practices. I think the people operate like they have lost hope. The reason why a foreign coach may be what we need at this point is exactly because he will be listened to and the local coaches we have will not command the same respect and don’t have the coaching experience or confidence on the world stage.
I could go on and on but, its sad even writing about it.
Nice analysis Brian Harry, but it does ignore the ever-present influence of scale. Small is good when it sensationally magnifies our victories to the limits of the theatre also used by the big, but everything else about small is a handicap. Remember, we dance to the tune of our bigger mentors and partners while still giving them access to the minutiae of our processes. While Federation probably wouldn’t save us, it would at least show ambition. Trinidad is too darm small for all that big talk.
Danny, Trinidad is too small for what big talk?
Foolish move…..follow fashion, except that they don’t have the resources the US does…..he has been the best manager in a long time.
I don’t think firing Klinsmann is a good thing though
Mudda-So-An-So-Effin-TTFA-Jackholes!
Well then you have to remove the entire staff ?
That elbow man has been marketing himself for that job long time now made all the right comments during his commentary to undermine Hart we await the next chess move we might a management coaching team with the three stooges we wait
I would state that the ex pats abroad will say what I say.. we done watching TT football unless Williams is removed and his minions… after reading this nonsense I’m done with local football
I beg your pardon how is this a nonsense decision? Klinsmann got axed and was coming off of beating T&T 4-0.
Klinsmann is the USA’s business though. He wasn’t fired for losing two games anymore than Hart was. That’s just on the surface.
Explain Lasana Liburd ?
Gino McKoy Really can you please enlighten me of what positive results the team has had since the Gold Cup?
Enlighten me when the results started to go down.. when your boy David came into power..
Gino McKoy You can’t blame him for that. That’s non-sense. I have no agenda just to be clear and I respect SH very much. I am an outside observer but frankly team roster selection has been debatable in recent games and certainly not in favor of W Connection’s players if that’s what you are implying. If anything some decent players coming out of W Connection have had no chance on the team. Namely Winchester and Britto. So I don’t really see your point.
Trini Don, explain why what the USA does isn’t our business? Or why the firing wasn’t about just two games?
Lasana Liburd Well here clearly it wasn’t because of only two games. Losing to Haiti the qualifier to Copa America, and most recently the game vs Martinique, among other losses or poor games added to the pot.
That added to it Simone. Bear in mind that this is a president who told one of his coaches that his view is all coaches should submit their resignation when there is a change of president. That is the thinking of the man.
That was the undercurrent.
I accept that football says a coach’s job is always in the balance when results go against you. But I don’t Hart ever really had the full support of the president and i find the way the players and staff were treated was shocking at times.
The connection players are not head and shoulders above the rest. . You give SH warm up matches that are not with the full team to play world class competition..you destabilize the team upon now becoming president with the players almost striking … team staff and coach going months with any pay.. should I continue? He can’t run a football body and has done everything in his power to destroy what Hart built
You think the potential player strike didn’t throw off the team? David was doing things to destroy Hart’s efforts … I hope Trinidad football dies… it will serve all them idiots in Trinidad right..
I don’t know where you have been or what Hart’s journey has to do with Klinsmann but you’ve been under a rock for the last 2 years
All I was saying is that removing a coach in this situation can’t be called non-sense. It’s very very common and actually even the very best coaches have been let go.
Because it is common doesn’t mean it isn’t wrong at times Simone. I bet you can think of lots of common occurences that are wrong.
I think what matters is this situation here. Not what is happening in the US or anywhere else.
Lasana Liburd Only time will tell. But certainly this was the worst start we could have wished for in the Hex.
Actually no, we lost our first two in the 2006 campaign
Gino McKoy I said “wished for”. That is zero points with only one goal scored in first two games and 5 received.
I wish I could win the lottery but that’s not happening… I wish David john wasn’t president as well..
Simone, Trinidad and Tobago has the least pedigree of the nations in the Hex at the moment. We started poorly. But not surprisingly so.
We have never beaten Costa Rica in a World Cup qualifier. Ever. With much better teams.
And a loss away to Honduras is hardly a devastating result. They have a very good home record.
You must think this is Brazil or Argentina. People have unrealistic expectations.
Well I personally think a few changes in the line up may make this team a third place contender.
We could have beat costa for the first time… however Cummings was shot, Hoyte gone… Molino prefer liming… David creating his usual disturbances to upset the team balance.. they were so jealous of Harts achievements, he set out to destroy it
They may Simone. Or they may not. Hart knows the players and believed he knew the right changes to improve our results.
If his ideas seemed reasonable and the dressing room still believed in him, I’d have allowed him to continue.
I can understand if the TTFA makes a football decision and feels they can do better. But I think, as a local coach with a wealth of knowledge in our set-up already, we should have given him every opportunity to succeed for our long term benefit.
So now it is back to square one. A foreign coach for a short term job and back to a lesser local coach at the end of the campaign to try to rebuild. We have been here before…
Lasana who is the apparent heir to this so called throne called coach of the national team?
Everything is being done to destabilize our football and prevent Russia.. David has executed his plan
Exactly Lasana Liburd from my short time being alive we never seem to have a national plan for anything. One that will continually birth new talent and ensure success and advancement. I thought that was the plan when they hire Hart if I remember correctly. Part was developmental and not the short term (though it would be nice) qualification for a world cup.
We have the talent right now to qualify but David just ruined that…
I think Wini Schafer would make so much sense . Worked with Jamaica , similar in style of play. Obviously a very enthusiastic infectious type coach who inspires belief . Got them to the Gold Cup final and was unlucky to be in a group with both Costa Rica and Panama .
Could be a masterstroke to put him on a 1 year contract and see what he can do …
But it’s the TTFA so I fully expect it to be Latapy or SCF . Maybe some random Brazilian coach who DJW know for years .
Schafer just screams sensible decision . Sadly the TTFA aren’t capable of making sensible decisions
Lol
Now if they go wit your choice Lasana the soca warriors will be like the WI team I do not know when they are playing.
lol
If not Hart, the most sensible pick to me is Terry Fenwick. But that and a flying pig…
Terry Fenwick?? He might cuss and kick down his players especially KJ when they lose a game.
Maybe that’s what they need Chica.
Terry in the dressing room giving his team a motivational speech.
Chica, people said the same thing about Alex Ferguson. No top flight coach lasts long and gets success just be screaming and cursing though. Just a myth.
The players who worked with him are: Jan-Michael, Marvin Phillip, Sheldon Bateau, Khaleem Hyland, Ataulla Guerra, Willis Plaza, Yohance Marshall, Kevin Molino, Sean De Silva, Leston Paul… I’m not saying that I think he will get the job. And I preferred Hart was still there. But for me, Fenwick remains the best coach in the country who never got a shot.
Chica Emery lol lol
Good luck Harty. On to bigger and better things now that that noose around your neck is gone. Thank you for the yeoman service performed for your beloved homeland
All indications point to a foreign coach. Probably South American.
Guyana is in South America
Hahaha
Hopefully we eh getting Stuart Charles or Latas as neither is ready for this level…
Well then, that puts an entire new light. You had a coach and team that had a high level of success then you came in and all that changed. Logic would tell me you are the problem and not the coach. Yes we need an injection of new players and some ideas, but things changed for the worse at your arrival.
Lasana Liburd I hope you’re right,’cause they might have fired Hart with Babwahian swiftness then when come to finding a replacement they coulda then decide to take up the mannequin challenge.
Lol. Nah David. DJW probably dreaming about this for months. Surely he has it all choreographed.
Shabazz still coaching Guyana?..that in South American yuh know lol
Lol. I’ve heard that they are looking towards South America…
So he did go scouting for a coach in SA then?
He said he hasn’t. And maybe he is right. But that doesn’t mean he hasn’t been in talks with potential coaches from there.
I’d suspect they have a coach already and are waiting for the dust to settle before the announcement.
Well I should rephrase he may not have gone physically but he was inquiring of a SA coach. Basically there was some truth to the report.
My sources are well placed. So I think so. But I’m not sure who is leading that race.
That’s exactly who we getting
If this new coach gets all that he asks then we continue to snub our guys here. We never know what the future holds but let’s say the new coach loses the next two games then what?
The new guy will be this president’s pick. Hart wasn’t.
There u go!!!
A Coach cannot succeed with this type of Administration running football.
Indeed. As fast as you can say Russ…
What now ?
Hart was good for T&T football. Funny enough, his team was the lone success story in the past year, even with their slide in form.
Things look a little bit gloomier at the moment. Although I suspect DJW knows that he needs a familiar name to replace him with.