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The Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) has officially confirmed Derek King’s second appointment as interim Men’s National Senior Team head coach for the upcoming match window.
King will spearhead the technical staff for a practice game away to Bolivia on 15 March as well as for the Fifa Series against Venezuela and Gabon on 27 and 30 March respectively in Uzbekistan.
Photo: TTFA Media.
The TTFA, via a press release, did not commit itself to King beyond March. Instead, the local football body, led by president Kieron Edwards, declared that: “the TTFA will communicate any further developments regarding the Men’s Senior National Team technical staff in due course.”
King has been a virtual ever-present in the national set-up since 2012, when he assisted interim head coach Hutson “Baba” Charles and then the co-leadership of Charles and Jamaal Shabazz.
He then worked, alongside Charles, as assistant to Hart between 2013 and 2016.
Photo: Daniel Prentice/ Wired868.
King, who won the Caribbean U-20 trophy as coach, along with domestic titles at Joe Public, North East Stars and FC Santa Rosa, returned to the international scene in 2020 as assistant to Terry Fenwick and then Angus Eve and Yorke respectively.
He also had four games as interim head coach in 2024, which comprised a 4-0 defeat away to Honduras, a goalless draw with French Guiana in Bacolet, a 2-2 draw away to Cuba, and then a 3-1 home win over Cuba—all in Concacaf Nations League A competition.
King’s first act will be to select his squad to face Bolivia next week.
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TTFA needs a bush bathe in sweet broom and dandelion. Stop appointing people who do not know how to develop a system of development or have no idea about succession planning. What is happening that the same names and faces keep popping up to steward a program that is a total failure top to bottom? Since 2006 just a string of odd appointments and gatekeepers involved in the sport. I promise you, I could put together a team of coaches that will turn this program into the best in CONCACAF. There is too much talent to be this bad. The leadership needs new blood.
That is one of the most stupid decisions by the TTFA! Derek King is not a successful coach atall! I have a feeling that the TTFA must sack him & find a foreign coach and staff from europe who are on top level!
The more things change the more they stay the same.