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There was no white smoke at the end of the Trinidad and Tobago Football Association’s (TTFA) statutory meeting this evening, as the board of directors failed to agree on the new head coach of the senior Soca Warriors team.
Instead, the TTFA issued a brief statement:
“The Trinidad and Tobago Football Association wishes to state that following several hours of its statutory Board Meeting on Wednesday evening at the Association’s Head Office, it is yet to come to a final decision on the selection of the Trinidad and Tobago Men’s Senior Team Head Coach.
“The TTFA expects to make an announcement on the selection by this coming weekend.”
(Courtesy Sean Morrison/Wired868)
Wired868 understands that W Connection technical director Stuart Charles-Fevrier was recommended by the TTFA technical committee to be Trinidad and Tobago’s next Men’s National Senior Team head coach. It was not believed to have been a unanimous choice though and was not the only name presented at this evening’s meeting.
The technical committee is chaired by board member and Pro League CEO Dexter Skeene and also included vice-chairman Dr Alvin Henderson, Errol Lovell and technical director Muhammad Isa.
However, the board of directors, which has the constitutional power to appoint and dismiss coaches, remained unconvinced after hours of discussion at the TTFA’s Port of Spain headquarters.
TTFA president David John-Williams is the co-founder of the W Connection football club.
The current TTFA board of directors comprises: John-Williams (president), Joanne Salazar, Ewing Davis and Allan Warner (vice-presidents), Samuel Saunders (Central FA), Sherwyn Dyer (Eastern Counties Football Union), Karanjabari Williams (Northern FA), Richard Quan Chan (Southern FA), Anthony Moore (Tobago FA), Joseph Taylor (Trinidad and Tobago Football Referees Association), Sharon O’Brien (Women’s League Football), Wayne Cunningham (Eastern FA) and Skeene (TT Pro League).
(Courtesy Chevaughn Christopher/Wired868)
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Lol. Apples and oranges, though, might be a fallacious comparison. However, they are both fruits – the former flourishes in colder temperatures and the latter thrives better in warmer weather.
It can be argued that every single head coach was never a head coach before their very first appointment as a head coach.
Everyone who applied for the TTFA head coachjob comes with different backgrounds, degrees of experience, temperament, motivation etc.
Once the boxes tick off with the basic stipulated requirements, the key factor in making a final decision (apart from money, terms and conditions etc)should be who can: 1. command the respect of all the players and 2. inspire and motivate the players to high standards of commitment, discipline and all out effort.
Now take everything into account, weigh the pros and cons and see for yourself if Dennis Lawrence does not stand head and shoulders taller than the other applicants.
Oops, well at 6 feet 6-7 inches, he actually does – literally speaking! Lol
Well Siewdath Persad, the current CoP started as a constable. So why not take a constable and appoint him as Commissioner of Police and forget all the other steps?
How does that fit into your thinking?
Ain’t Dennis Lawrence currently an assistant coach with the Belgian national team?! That can hardly be paralleled to a constable to CoP comparison.
As a matter of fact, Stephen Williams was a Senior Superintendant when he applied for the job of CoP. That was three ranks lower than CoP. Deputy CoP and asst CoP are two ranks under Cop and higher than Sen Supt. And after a laborious process of shortlisting and interviews Sen Supt Stephen Williams was appointed to act in the top post.
Siewdath, do you know his duties in Belgium? And no he isn’t assistant coach there.
And a head coach has managerial and supervisor responsibilities that an assistant coach–which he was at Everton–does not have.
Your suggestion that everyone is a first timer some time so let him start off as head coach of Trinidad and Tobago is an example of something no Top company would ever do.
But that people think is plausible because it is “just sport.”
Do you know even know how many assistant coaches they were at Everton? Because it ent one or two. So go research what his duties were first.
Are you putting forth an argument that Dennis does not possess or is not capable of possessing managerial or supervisory skills?
My argument is that there is an absence of common sense if you try to debate this without information as to his background in jobs that require managerial and supervisory skills and everything else that might be useful in being head coach.
But Siewdath, this is Trinidad and Tobago. You think anything you say can surprise me? You can name Kevin Molino player/coach and I won’t bat an eye.
What I would do is point out the flaws in that set-up.
I’m done. Won’t expend any more energy on this non-discussion.
Or, lemme rephrase that, we can further the discussion when we have more information on Lawrence’s previous jobs.
Fair enough
Like I said I am not that naive. And football teams (national and clubs) are replete with persons touted as possessing great managerial and supervisory skills but they fail to kindle and nurture chemistry amongst players and between team management/coaches and players; They may “manage” spectacular report writing and possess the gift of garb, yet they fail to inspire their players to achieve desired results.
Point to note. Brazil is one of the biggest football nations in the world. In 2006, its FA hired former defensive midfielder Dunga as head coach (manager).
Can anyone remind me at what level he coached and whether he was a head coach anywhere prior to that?
For persons proposing Terry F. for the job, please state what has he done as a coach to distinguish him for the position of Head Coach for a World Cup bound team? How far has he taken his Club internationally? Are persons under his guidance any better at performing at the international level than players from other clubs?
Again, what has he done to warrant a part on the international stage? If he can do it, then let him, if not, then find someone who can.
Professional mentality: Get someone who will guarantee success
Fete match mentality: Give everybody a knock/chance.
Not arguing over a list of people that is under consideration by a group that seems to lack ambition and vision. Seems like Beenhakker is now a distant memory..
Apples and oranges Siewdath. He has never served as head coach. He might be great. But you have little information to suggest that he would be. It is just a gamble.
Everton has the money to hire the best coaches, Dennis was on their bench as an assistant. Dennis is now an assistant with the Belgium national progromme heading into WCQ. Could Stuart get a job on any level with these teams? With regards to respect, I believe Dennis and Terry will attract Bostock and other Trinbagonian kids.
Collin, the only way to gauge would be to find out what Dennis’ job specs were at Everton and get an evaluation of how he performed them.
It is wonderful to see him involved in their set-up and I’m sure he can offer something to Trinidad and Tobago football.
The question is: WHAT. What is he able to give to us now based on his work so far? I can’t get that just by seeing him on the bench.
Nihil habemos? Papa!
Terry is the best man for the job. T&T requires a strong personality in the dressing room. He knows the culture and the players.
Stuart is a very good coach, especially for long term development. Terry is a better motivator and will be the alpha in the team. The politics of the TTFA appears to be getting in the way.
I agree with you
Terry for Head Coach
Stuart Charles Fevrier is the best at developing discipline, talent, strategy in our Youth.
Together we have all we need.
And they are foreigners, so all criteria that we always chase are met.
It has been right in front of us all along, face it, nobody has a better Youth Team that Stuart, they grow up connection, playing Beautiful winning Football, why should he not be in charge of building our football for the future.
Terry I love his Dressing room presence, discipline and thinking, if they are teamed together, I believe we can go to the next WC, and the next one.
That is my point Sheldon Scipio. Unfortunately our culture necessitates a strong figure in the dressing room. We are not really self motivated. Terry is better than Stuart at commanding the troops.
Stuart is a guy a like a lot , he has a proven track record and is tactically sound.I just feel he has a psychological edge required the deal with some of those guys in the squad.
Correct
I have worked with Terry, and closely observed Stuart. That is why I put them where I put them. They should work together they understand the terrain & the issues
Aways. …
It would also be nice if Angus Eve is included in the eventual staffing as an assistant coach
The Technical Committee could have at least given the interview scores of the top three with their justification of their choice or the top person. And from there the Board of Directors could have come up with their choice. And overs this non sense and get a coach. Time is against us.
My recommendation to TTFA, if they are really serious, let’s hire our son-of-the-soil Morvant role model Dennis Lawrence on a two-year contract. He has a very good resume as a professional player and is a highly qualified coach. He is disciplined, well respected and has a very nice demeanor.
Absolutely no disrespect to the other candidates.
DJW could spoil vomit
« on: June 10, 2005, 09:34:59 AM »
Tic-tac-toe goal!
By Siewdath Persad (T&T Mirror)
TIC-TAC-TOE! Eenie-meenie-miney-moe!
This perhaps best describes the 71st minute icing item from beanpole Warriors defender Dennis Lawrence in their make-or-break 2-0 win against Panama at the Hasely Crawford Stadium last Saturday.
TIC: Lawrence kidnapped the pelota a short distance away from the far left of his team’s 18-yard box.
With a neat touch, he slipped custody over to skipper Dwight Yorke near the half-line and started a diagonal run towards the right edge of the Panamanian goal area.
A murmur from the two-thirds filled stadium lent to the harmony of the incessant drumming and rhythmic noises to applaud the consummate ease with which Lawrence, who plays for English Club Wrexham, waltzed the play.
TAC: Yorke tapped to his unmarked strike partner, Stern John, just inside the opponents’ half of the field. He was in a more threatening position to launch forward.
Sensing that something was definitely on, the decibel level grew with anticipatory instructions chorused from the estimated 15,000 Warriors’ supporters.
TOE: In a split second, Lawrence, negotiating his advance to perfection to stay onside, broke clear, all the while waving for delivery.
John lifted his head and picked out his six-foot-six teammate, who controlled well enough even as he was confronted by a defender.
Then, with a body beat the opposite way, hypnotic drag with the inside of his right foot and unmistakable urging from the fans in red, Lawrence turned, leaving the attendant Panamanian defender marking a shadow.
EENIE-MEENIE-MINEY-MOE: Facing goal and with time hanging still long enough for him to choose his spot, Lawrence calmly let loose a clinically precise left-footer to the far corner that effectively put a double-seal to claim the handsome three-point ransom as the pelota nestled at the back of the net.
Goalkeeper Jaime Penado never had a chance.
The crowd went wild. Pyrotechnics exploded. And confetti spouted out around the stadium. Hope was restored – of making the journey to Germany 2006.
What a classic build-up from an incisive counter-attack!
Still cool at the post match Press conference, Lawrence said it was pure instinct and he was under no pressure to score because, as a defender, everyone expected him to miss.
Coach Leo Beenhakker, who made countless nervous walks between the bench and touchline gesticulating instructions up to that point, celebrated by lighting a cigar.
After expressing brief congratulations in the team’s dressing room, the Dutchman, dapper in his cream suit, strolled to a corner at the tunnel entrance to the playing arena, offering a quiet prayer perhaps. He took a moment to survey and soak in the joyous scenes of celebrations around, then lit up another cigar and drew in a deep pull.
Seated next to Lawrence at the Press conference afterwards, he playfully discouraged his charge from such overlapping indulgence, saying with a mock stare at the former Defence Force man: “He will not be doing that again,” when asked if he would encourage more defenders’ overlaps up front as a feature of his game plan structure.
In the 35th minute, Stern John, who missed a couple relatively suckeye chances, opened the Warriors’ account by squeezing one in from close up, beating a challenge to a Yorke ground cross from the right.
Incidentally, the engineering process to that strike was initiated by right back David Atiba Charles, who combined well with midfielder Carlos Edwards to earn a throw deep inside the Panamanian half.
Charles quickly threw to Yorke who provided the service required.
Edwards, who had an exceptional game, and Christopher Birchall always had good understanding in midfield, despite a few testing periods when Panama dominated possession in the middle.
Although Panamanian striker Luis Medina posed repeated threats to the TnT goal, the Warriors defenders grew in confidence and, as it turned out, it was only twice in the second half that goalie Kelvin Jack was really extended to keep a clean slate.
(I’m just reliving that memory, not to mention Lawrence’s headed item in the unforgettable 1-0 win away to Bahrain that booked TT’s historic World Cup appearance in Germany 2006!)
Still fighting down Fenwick, just give him the job already ??
just enough time for w connection to let him say his good byes and get its house in order nothing more than a smoke screen
Dw. u please step down please. U ppl no how to kill a gd thing.
I vote for Fenwick…but DJW knows he cant control him
The TTFA is a laughingstock. You fired the Trini because you felt he failed and then you hire a foreigner but he leaves in disgust because our players lack discipline and you did not support him. Now you are marinating over who to select. Because why, you don’t want to appear as if you orchestrated the entire thing to put your crony into position????? That ship has already sailed. I am amazed you actually get people to come out to games.
Like we didn’t see that coming hahahaha. Eyes wide shut. As the old rhyme goes three blind mice three blind mice……..
As I said
Have no fear, Stuart Charles FOREVER is here lol
HAHAHAHAHA. ..These people not playing with a full deck…..they are MADDDD….
So is W connection team playing for Trinidad and Tobago I saw this from a mile this whole thing is about getting connection players national caps so they could be sold an loaned for John Williams benefit willing to destroy Trinidad football for himself. Why is he even the president
I knew that would of been the choice from JW……
I would love to see what Terry can do with a solid group of players but with clown Williams in charge this will never happen
SCF will get the job and I would imagine majority of the selection would be local based players and w connection would have a heavy presence…
Which would be the end of the road for T&T in this World Cup because no way the local players are at the level required to compete with Panama and Mexico .
They couldn’t do it against Suriname and young Haiti team!
cheyenne hector you are so correct SCF , maturana all ah dem had dey chance dey dont understand d type of football our opponents play i listen to TF commentate on some games wen d soca worriors play an everything d man say d other side is goin to do dey end up doin it from d build up to the scorin of d goals and his tactics while is majority ah d time is correct
ah mean common ppl and d TTFA look how long TERRY FENWICK has been around our football stop dis saga and give d man d job or else any other coach we might as welll kiss russia 2018 goodbye an start lookin for brazil to support in the WC as usual cuz we wont be goin noway
So u listen to a man commentate and that is what swaying ur decision. Seriously!
I wanna know why is it folks think TF is the man for the job. He may be the best person but what influences you to gravitate to his selection. Cuz based on what u proffering there Andre Errol Baptiste should makenan excellent candidate.
Kester Lendor so u have a better candidate an yes based on his commentating he has more knowledge about d game dan based on d load ah crap all d rest ah coaches have done with d team makin we look like fools out there way u feel is FIFA 17
Ok, so the criteria for selecting a national coach is his ability to commentate on games?
?
Kester Lendor u still aint answer my Q who is ah better candidate an obviously you like u havent been following local football to see wat TF HAS done with d clubs he has coached
Exactly what question you asked? You’re correct, I dont know who is the better candidate.
Both men have had successes at local level so this leads me to my initial question. What makes one better than the other? Is it because you say so.
I don’t know and the answers you have provided are quite frankly pedestrian captain.
Btw, the other candidates are an internationally recognised and acclaimed coach, a newly certified UEFA (so the papers say) and Scottish Premier league assistant and an Premier league assistant.
Let’s all just try to get along guys because we also have coaches that took other national teams to the world cup that no one seem to be discussing. Just for friendly argument sake.
T&T National teams that is.
Kester Lendor yes but wat im sayin is SCF , RL .FM all had chances dey did nothing so y go through it again wen u have someone who has been around our culture and our local base and foreighn base players knows there ability y not give d man ah chance to prove his ability based on his skills not in commentating i mean lol
All of this begs the serious question: when will David John-Williams truly divest his interests in W Connection and take up the post of TTFA President with maturity, accountability and responsibility? Cuando, cuando, cuando, cuando?
So they really want Stuart Charles to be the next coach. Very disappointed with this technical committee.
I is a seerwoman
If SCF is selected, whether merit based or not, it will be the death knell of local football. Whatever miniscule progress made by the TTFA on any level will be undone with that appointment. Surely DJW and Co know this…and I’m hoping that is why they were unable to arrive at a consensus.
This looks like a set up.
shamless
Well well yes….hmmmm
” Put up yuh han’ but never surrender “
Surprise surprise…like we did not see that one coming…???
What a tangle web we weave..blah blah blah. That white smoke tho Lasana ??
Lol. That was so funny. Cause I remember looking on at the last pope selection wondering when the smoke would come?
It seems to be red, white and black smoke all together. What could that mean????
Hahaha… it means “WE HAVE A DOPE”?
Oh shite! Allyuh behave!
“O stercore!!!” …..daiz ” o shit ” in Latin .
When first we practice to deceive.
“WE HAVE A DOPE”. Rose-Marie take win.
Hmmmm..appoint someone who you know would fail or be fired …so that room could be made for your friends…good one TTFF..well played…
Charles fevrier will just b d president puppet
Please correct that statement change will to is
If $ is the issue, I think S.Charles or T.Fenwick are good candidates. If $ is no issue, I’d go foreign [3 yrs] with a coach who handles the senior and U23 team, aiming for 2019 GCup & 2020 U23 Olympics.
Out of the 3 candidates he has the least experience
why it soooooo godamme hard maturana stuart all ah dem had dey chance and dey no good terry fenwick is d man for d job o gosh ppl be real
Comical at best. They took two days to come up with the one name they was always gonna call??
Steuppss!!!! Soooo all this to give Maturana the post.
#uhearditherefirst
He’s the most qualified
Is he really?
I don’t see anything different from when he was here last time and when we finished last in the hex with 2 points (maybe wrong about that).
And what is the issue with Stuart Charles?
In the end its not about the board or the technical committee, its who the players willing to play for and will give a 100%
He is by far. I didn’t say he was the best. Who of the rest successfully took their team to the WC? Which one?
Umm i wouldn’t put too much stock in that.
Colombia is Colombia and that team has depth at every position.
T&T however does not and he has already proven he can’t get the best out of what we have available so it doesn’t make sense to give him a second go.
Sebastian”Colombia is Colombia…” which is why they’ve only qualified for the WC final five times… three times, excluding the two consecutive Cups in 1990-2994 that Pacho got them qualified. Even if you wanted to discount his domestic success, you also gloss over his success at Real Valladolid in La Liga. In fact, smart money is that you never even knew about his time in Spain, else you wouldn’t be trying to compare him to Fevrier.
wasnt comparing him to Stuart Charles!
i asked that question cause the committee recommended him but the board couldnt agree.
i personally dont think he should get it either cause he also tried and failed.
but it matters not what i think, it matters who the TTFA likes and can afford.
Scratch the word ttfa and replace that with the dictator
Now this Technical Committee sounding dohtish so?
Why doesn’t John-Williams just recommend W Connection to represent T&T
..Straight up jokers..
Interesting events occurring ?
Other teams plotting and planning while we still looking for a coach.
I agree with you. we on games DJW should just resign. Can the Technical Committee see a huge conflict of interest.
I so fed of this entire situation…. all I know is we less than 60 days away from a WC qualifier and we eh have no coach…
Give it up Brent! It’s useless stress over them
They cannot be serious about football
hmmmmm…….
why not terry if local clubs can pay for him why can ttfa.