Jack happy after football talks with PM.
By: Driselle Ramjohn (Express).
Trinidad and Tobago will have a new plan for football by the end of the month. This followed a meeting between Prime Minister Patrick Manning and Fifa vice president Jack Warner at Whitehall, Port of Spain yesterday. Warner left the meeting feeling that the Soca Warriors would qualify for the 2010 World Cup finals.
Warner, who is also the Trinidad and Tobago Football Federation special adviser, described the meeting with Manning, T&TFF president Oliver Camps, former Warriors coach Leo Beenhakker, new coach Wim Rijesbergen and Sports Minister Roger Boynes as "fruitful''.
The meeting was held to discuss the future and overall development of local football. Speaking with the Express following the meeting Warner said: "With the open-mindedness and positivity in which the Prime Minister discussed the future of football we will definitely qualify for the 2010 World Cup.''
Camps told the Express that based on the meeting, he believes that football in Trinidad is "on the way up, high up''. The Office of the Prime Minister said in a statement: "It was agreed that proposals previously submitted by the Federation would be exhaustively between the Ministry of Sport and the Federation and agreement should be reached on an appropriate programme on the way forward for football by July 31.''
The Minister of Sports will then submit the agreed proposals for the consideration of Cabinet. The meeting discussed the way forward for the overall development of football with specific reference to the preparation of the under 15, 17 and 20 players for upcoming tournaments including the Gold Cup 2007 and the Olympics in 2008.
