Former Trinidad and Tobago and Guyana international senior team coach Jamaal Shabazz suggested today that the “Soca Warriors” might have outgrown their administrators and called on the “TTFA leadership” to either improve quickly or resign. The men’s senior team slipped five places to 54th spot in the latest FIFA international rankings …
Read More »Hadeed on TTFA/Argentina scandal: The fellah is an absolute f***ing crook!
“(Darren) Millien is a person that no one should have any business association with,” Tourism Minister Gerald Hadeed told Wired868. “The fellah is an absolute f***ing crook! That fellah is a scamp… I don’t know how (the TTFA) hired him.” Tourism Minister Gerald Hadeed is renowned for speaking bluntly; and …
Read More »Messi affair: Tim Kee tries to explain $.4 million cover-up
Almost half a million dollars of taxpayers’ money routed through the Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) has disappeared with TTFA president and Port of Spain mayor Raymond Tim Kee unable to account for it. Four hundred thousand dollars, which was the third biggest line item on the budget for …
Read More »Warrior captain calls for change within TTFA
Trinidad and Tobago national football team captain Kenwyne Jones confirmed that the “Soca Warriors” will do everything in their power to be crowned Caribbean champions tonight when they face host Jamaica from 9 pm (TT time) in the 2014 regional final in Montego Bay. However, Jones described the situation between …
Read More »Game on: Gov’t rescues Warriors but warns TTFA about accounts
Trinidad and Tobago national football team manager William Wallace and captain Kenwyne Jones have confirmed that the “Soca Warriors” will take to the field this evening to fight for the regional title against Jamaica in the 2014 Caribbean Cup final. The Warriors and Jamaica will square off from 9 pm …
Read More »Tim Kee allegedly deceived TTFA executive about Warriors’ debt
Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) president Raymond Tim Kee, according to a letter leaked to Wired868, apparently tried to deceive his own executive committee about the financial health of the football body and its debts to players and staff. On 10 November 2014, Tim Kee, in a letter to …
Read More »FIFA flouted own principles in TTFA election delay
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 …
Read More »FIFA tries to justify TTFA stance; but doubts over zonal elections
The suspension of the Trinidad and Tobago Football Association’s (TTFA) elections was, according to FIFA Associations Committee representative Primo Corvaro, an initiative of the world governing body, FIFA, rather than beleaguered local football president Raymond Tim Kee. Corvaro tried to make that point clear at a press conference yesterday afternoon …
Read More »TTFA versus Tim Kee: FIFA must referee civil war in T&T football
FIFA chose to involve itself in Trinidad and Tobago’s football business on an obscure premise. Now, the world governing body has no choice but to play referee. Two of the three Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) vice-presidents, Lennox Watson and Rudi Thomas, told Wired868 that they wrote to FIFA …
Read More »FIFA protects TTFA president: Tim Kee gets seven-month extension
Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) president Raymond Tim Kee will hang on to his football portfolio for another seven months at least after FIFA granted the local football body an undemocratic extension without citing any by-law that allowed its decision. The delay, according to correspondence sent by FIFA general …
Read More »Hunger games: T&T’s conscience Waynes; Fuad brings down the House
Since when did Trinidad and Tobago become the set for the “Hunger Games?” In the past week, the two island republic’s inability to feed the minds and conscience of its citizens has made global and local news. Let’s just say when, as Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) president Raymond …
Read More »No thanks: TTFA returns Haitian donation for Soca Princesses
The Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) formally declined an offer of financial assistance from Haiti today as TTFA president Raymond Tim Kee wrote his Haitian counterpart Dr Yves Jean-Bart to say thanks but no thanks. Haiti national women’s coach Shek Borkowski, a Polish native, said his players heard the …
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