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“[…] Nobody could force Selwyn Melville; it is his intellectual property. The game is bigger than everybody, so let’s just move on, leave him alone and get another nickname—just like we moved on from ‘Strike Squad’.
“[…] We have a World Cup to qualify for and this should not be an issue…”
The following Letter to the Editor regarding a new nickname for the Trinidad and Tobago Men’s National Senior Team was submitted to Wired868 by Kendell Karan from Chaguanas:
(Back row, from left) Darnell Hospedales, Justin Garcia, Isaiah Leacock, Joevin Jones and Sheldon Bateau.
(Front row, from left) Isaiah Garcia, Steffen Yeates and Kevin Molino.
Photo: TTFA Media.
It’s time to move on from the ‘Soca Warriors’. I have a suggestion: Feteballers.
Nobody could force Selwyn Melville; it is his intellectual property. The game is bigger than everybody, so let’s just move on, leave him alone and get another nickname—just like we moved on from ‘Strike Squad’.
Minister David Nakhid should tell the TTFA to file an application to Intellectual Property Office of Trinidad and Tobago to have trademark rights for a new name, they should forge a new dynasty.
Photo: Nicholas Bhajan/ Wired868.
Let the TTFA hold the rights not one person, to avoid another Selwyn Melville.
I suggest Minister Nakhid also contact Mr Regan Asgarali, a QRC old boy, who loves football himself and is the controller of Intellectual Property for Trinidad and Tobago. Refer him to Mr Osmond Downer (the TTFA vice-president) to guide him accordingly.
We have a World Cup to qualify for and this should not be an issue.
Feteballers is a cool nickname. We are really good at throwing fetes, we have a ‘fete-like’ efficiency. If we pretend everything is a fete, we would be way better than Singapore.
(via TTFA Media.)
Footballers to Fete-ballers, yuh dig?
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Does not matter what name they are given, it is true, the task ahead (to qualify) is more important than a name that few people actually care about anyway…who cares if they are not called the Soca Warriors officially?