Former Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) technical director and Fifa coaching instructor Anton Corneal launched a scathing attack on the management style of Fifa-appointed normalisation committee chairman Robert Hadad, as frustrations boil over regarding not only the non-payment of TTFA debts but the behaviour of the new local football …
Read More »“If it wasn’t so serious, it would be laughable!” Downer explains where Rigues went wrong
What was wrong with Jameson Rigues’ special meeting for Trinidad and Tobago Super League (TTSL) clubs on Saturday? Where to begin? Veteran football official and referees association vice-president Osmond Downer, one of the framers of the Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) Constitution, has regularly been consulted on constitutional matters …
Read More »Dear editor: Hadad should forget Pro League and focus on Fifa mandate of TTFA debt
“[…] Mr Robert Hadad is seeming to fall in the same footsteps of Mr David John Williams and Mr William Wallace in shelving the most prestigious and longstanding football tournament, which is under the purview of the TTFA, while chasing a very costly league at this time—noting fully well the …
Read More »Hart: A happy Wanderer, why I kept Garcia and ‘Ramps’, and how to turn around T&T football
In the maiden Canada Premier League (CPL) season in 2019, Trinidad and Tobago coach Stephen Hart finished bottom of the table with his HFX Wanderers outfit. The turnaround in 2020 could not be much more profound, as the Wanderers roared to second place, with what the CPL media described as …
Read More »Quan Chan denies calling for Fifa action against Wallace; Wired868 reveals Guardian transcript
Southern FA (SFA) president and former Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) Board member Richard Quan Chan has rebuked a Trinidad Guardian article which claimed that he wants Fifa to take action against former local football president William Wallace and vice-presidents Clynt Taylor, Susan Joseph-Warrick and Sam Phillip. In fact, …
Read More »Fifa lifts suspension on Nov 19, criticises ex-TTFA officials for ‘hindering’ NC
The Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) is once more a full Fifa member, after the world governing body formally lifted its suspension of the Soca Warriors today. The decision was made by the Bureau of the Fifa Council, which is headed by Fifa president Gianni Infantino, and promptly communicated …
Read More »‘Trinidad and Tobago football needs realists’; Clayton Morris throws hat in ring for TTSL presidency
“[…] There is a saying that: ‘The Pessimist complains about the wind; The Optimist expects it to change; but The Realist adjusts the sails’. “Trinidad and Tobago football is in need of realists—persons who want to serve and adjust for the betterment, enhancement and development of our young players: boys …
Read More »Griffith: What’s Thompson talking about? Soca Warriors can train despite Fifa ban
“[…] The Fifa suspension is not to disband any national team or prevent them from training but to prevent them from participating in Fifa-sanctioned tournaments or Fifa-approved international friendly matches. “Any manager should know this, and it is of even greater concern if he did but still made these uncalled-for …
Read More »Fifa ‘welcomes’ TTFA’s acquiescence but still ‘assessing’ next step, after two weeks
It is almost two weeks since the court of appeal broke the Trinidad and Tobago Football Association’s legal resistance to Fifa, with the local football body’s member delegates swiftly voting to subsequently hand its reins to the governing body’s normalisation committee. Having forced regime change, Fifa president Gianni Infantino is …
Read More »Dear CJ: ‘[Your] unwarranted statements reflect negatively on my competence as a judge’; Gobin on Fifa ruling
“[…] I am sure that I do not need to remind you chief justice that there is more to the management of cases than fixing timetables. First instance judges often have to remind litigants and lawyers of the significance of what we do. “A judge who refuses to defer to …
Read More »Only Fifa can rein in Fifa! Spain-based lawyer says Swiss courts couldn’t help TTFA either
“[…] Domestic Swiss courts would have not offered Mr Wallace or the TTFA any relief either. Fifa is a private association under Swiss law. Swiss law is very clear in that private associations are free to make their own rules as they see fit, and the Fifa Statutes definitively exclude …
Read More »What ‘embarrassment’?! TTOC president suggests how T&T’s high court and appellate court validated Wallace
“[…] If you look at the high court judgment of Madame Justice Carol Gobin and then the court of appeal, in its judgment in paragraphs 37 and 39; they are essentially saying the same thing… “So the high court and the court of appeal appeared to have validated William Wallace …
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