Tag Archives: FIFA

If you are a football fan or stakeholder, then this may be the most important case that you have barely heard of. On 14 December 2015, the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) ruled against Lebanon-based football coach and ex-Trinidad and Tobago international player David Nakhid in his bid to …

Ex-Trinidad and Tobago football captain David Nakhid is set to take FIFA’s Ad-hoc Electoral Committee to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) over his expulsion from the FIFA presidential contest. Wired868 understands, according to sources who spoke on condition of anonymity, that Nakhid’s case hinges on the perceived duty …

Former Trinidad and Tobago national football team captain David Nakhid’s attempt to challenge for the FIFA presidency appeared to have ended today in controversial fashion, as his candidacy was invalidated by a spoilt nomination from the US Virgin Islands (USVI). A FIFA spokesman confirmed that Nakhid’s nomination was declared invalid. …

Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) general secretary Sheldon Phillips confirmed that the local football body is monitoring a request, sent by then Central FC operations director Kevin Harrison’s email address, which asked for a “personal payment” for Harrison and then club chairman Brent Sancho related to a club transfer. At …

The Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) is in the midst of another financial crisis after FIFA confirmed that it has frozen its annual US$250,000 (approximately TT $1.5 million) subvention to the local body while the TTFA’s auditor, KPMG, has also suspended its services. As a result, the TTFA’s administrative …

Former Trinidad and Tobago National Senior Team captain David Nakhid announced today that he will contest the post of FIFA president at the upcoming elections on 26 February 2016. Controversial president Sepp Blatter has vowed to step aside to make way for a new leader at the helm of the …

The IOC did what FIFA would not December 8, 2011, IOC HQ, Vidy: I was shocked. I had not seen President Jacques Rogge for two years and this late afternoon in Lausanne, as he settled in his chair at the press conference, he looked like a cadaver and spoke like …

Says he wants to publish damning report… June 24, 2010: THE TIMING was brilliant. I don’t believe the prosecutors in Zug conspired with FIFA to release their statement as the first round of the World Cup in South Africa was ending and the eyes of fans were on teams advancing …

Columnist Kendall Tull, a certified management account and industrial management practitioner, explains how he would go about cleaning up FIFA: Sepp Blatter was not the problem at FIFA. It is easy to think that Blatter’s departure changes anything since he presided through an era of rampant corruption. But the FIFA …

ONE OF FIFA’s top corruption investigators is claiming that the inspection report on countries bidding to host the World Cup in 2018 and 2022 can no longer be trusted, calling into question the votes that gave the tournament to Russia and Qatar. How come? A Zurich lawyer, hand-picked by Sepp …

Have you ever heard the story about the Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) and the Big Bad Wolf? Well once upon a time there was a tiny island that was almost fooled into thinking that they were a sovereign football nation. No fairy tale is true. In reality the …

Former World Cup 2006 and England Premier League goalkeeper Shaka Hislop has been appointed by FIFA to serve on an advisory panel for the influential International Football Association Board (IFAB), which discusses and decides upon proposed alterations to the laws of the game. Hislop, who now works as a football …