Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley appears to have thrust the government in the middle of a legal dispute between the Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) and world governing body, Fifa, after recent discussions over the use of the controversial Home of Football facility in Couva. Rowley confirmed today that …
Read More »Farewell Lenny Kirton; tribute to ex-Harvard coach who once mentored Lara
“[Brian] Lara describes himself as ‘grateful for having had the opportunity to learn from Lenny Kirton,’ whom he remembers as ‘a good man’ but ‘very hard to please’. It was, he says, the coach’s way of ensuring that the talented teenager ‘keep a level head, be humble and keep working …
Read More »US DoJ: Warner ‘defrauded’ Caribbean, South Africa and T&T while serving in Cabinet
At roughly the same time that Jack Warner was offering crime-fighting tips in Trinidad and Tobago as acting prime minister and minister of works and infrastructure, he was, according to the United States Department of Justice, engaged in wire fraud, money laundering and bribery in his more illustrious portfolio as …
Read More »Bring it on! Wallace and Look Loy discuss Fifa fight, media backlash and Peter Miller
Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) president William Wallace vowed to file an appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) today, as the local body attempts to stave off a take-over by global governing body, Fifa. On 17 March, Fifa general secretary Fatma Samoura announced the governing body’s …
Read More »Collective head-scratching as Fifa lists Corneal, De Four and Caesar as employees
Who returned Anton Corneal, Stephan De Four and Wayne Caesar to their former Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) portfolios? At present, the Fifa website lists the aforementioned men as technical director, Women’s National Senior Team head coach and referee’s department head respectively. However, none of those appointments were made by …
Read More »Wallace: We oppose Fifa’s ‘unwarranted and illegal intervention’, TTFA set for CAS appeal
“The elected officers of TTFA advises the public that we will oppose Fifa’s injustice at the Court of Arbitration for Sport in Lausanne, Switzerland. “[…] The expense of this legal challenge is a tremendous obstacle but we are determined to fight for what is right, to defend democracy and the …
Read More »The abnormal normalisation clause: how seven Fifa ‘gentlemen’ usurped 210 nations in war on the TTFA
On 11 March 2020, the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared the Covid-19 outbreak to be a pandemic, which was unprecedented for a coronavirus. By then, Italy’s Serie A had already been halted by the government with multiple sporting competitions set to follow. The Bureau of the Fifa Council promptly rescheduled an …
Read More »Fifa appoints Hadad as normalisation head, Attorney: Wallace is still TTFA president
Fifa appointed three of its five member normalisation committee for the Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) this morning with Robert Hadad, co-CEO of family-owned company Hadco, in charge. Hadad, who is also a board member of the International School in Port of Spain, was named today as chairperson of the …
Read More »CFU member: Dear TTFA, you broke the unwritten rule against ‘witch hunts’
“Based on my experience as a president, nine years now, the parent bodies don’t like those witch hunts because they are considered counter-productive to football development. “[…] There’s an unwritten script that was set up by the parent bodies and it seems your member association didn’t follow that script…” The …
Read More »TTPS: No investigation of Wallace-led TTFA; football president accuses i95.5 of destabilising campaign
The Trinidad and Tobago Police Service (TTPS) confirmed this morning that there is an ongoing fraud investigation centred around the Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA). The investigation was revealed on i95.5FM as ‘breaking news’ this morning by talk show host Andre Baptiste. Baptiste spoke to Commissioner of Police Gary …
Read More »‘They ent lifting a finger!’ TTFA rules out Caribbean support as Ramdhan lets loose
If the Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) hoped for regional support as they try to stave off Fifa intervention in the form of a normalisation committee, such dreams have apparently dissipated. “We have private support [from the Caribbean member associations],” one official told Wired868 today. “They agree that we …
Read More »Dear Editor: My daughter deserves spot at Carifta games after ‘devastating infringement’
“[…] I assumed that an exception would have been made for Kayleigh. Apart from the devastating infringement that cost her the race on Saturday, she is the national champion at that distance and over the last year, she had run faster times than any under-17 or under-20 athlete in the …
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