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It seems like only yesterday that I got a call from the team manager of my former football club in Queens, New York asking me if I would like to go on trial with a team in Finland. It was actually 1999. Now what made this request especially strange is …
Read More »FIFA must overturn illegitimate TTFF
FIFA recently announced an extraordinary incursion into Caribbean football administration with the creation of a Normalisation Committee per Article 7 of the FIFA Statutes. While some would characterize, FIFA’s move as an overreach of its organizational powers, at best, or the introduction of European neocolonialism, at worst, I am of the opinion that FIFA …
Read More »Time for the ‘TTFF Spring’
Hutson “Barber” Charles, a former “Strike Squad” stand-out and Defence Force legend, was having a hard time curbing his enthusiasm on Sunday night. Shaun Fuentes, the Trinidad and Tobago Football Federation (TTFF) press officer, did his best to help. The national football team had just lost 3-2 to the visiting …
Read More »Sacked U-23 manager claims victimisation
Sacked national under-23 football team manager Norris Ferguson accused the Trinidad and Tobago Football Federation (TTFF) and, in particular, its Interim President Lennox Watson of victimisation after Ferguson and equipment manager Frank Rodriguez were removed from the technical staff on Wednesday. Rodriguez was part of a slate, headed by FC …
Read More »Gally criticises “hasty” Corneal appointment
Ex-Trinidad and Tobago national football team standout player and coach, Everald “Gally” Cummings, today criticised the Trinidad and Tobago Football Federation (TTFF) for its “haste” in appointing former assistant coach Anton Corneal as technical director. Corneal, who received a four-year contract to oversee the development of the local game, began …
Read More »Corneal named TTFF technical director
Trinidad and Tobago Football Federation (TTFF) Acting President Lennox Watson announced today, via press release, that long-time senior team assistant coach, Anton Corneal, is the new national football team technical director. Corneal was awarded a four-year contract, which suggests that he will bear long-term responsibility for arresting the decline in …
Read More »Justice Rampersad orders Warner to reveal 2006 W/Cup money while Lalla plays bizarre triple role
Trinidad and Tobago Minister of Works Jack Warner, the former Fifa vice-president and Trinidad and Tobago Football Federation (TTFF) special advisor, has until 10 February 2012 to provide to the local High Court written accounts of ‘all income, donations, gifts, grants or benefits whatsoever and all expenditure’ arising from the …
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