THE TRINIDAD and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) may have to gather almost $300,000 as Metro Hotel Limited is claiming that the TTFA is owing the hotel money for accomodation and hospital services.
THE TRINIDAD and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) may have to gather almost $300,000 as Metro Hotel Limited is claiming that the TTFA is owing the hotel money for accomodation and hospital services.
Trinidad and Tobago Football Association Technical Director Muhammad Isa has said that efforts will be made to provide the National Under 20 Men’ Team with the best preparation possible over the 14-week period leading up to its Caribbean Football Union Final Round in Curacao in October.
Warner wins round one in extradition fight
In a small legal victory for former Fifa vice-president Jack Warner, a local judge has refused the United States government permission to join the judicial review lawsuit brought by Warner challenging Attorney General Faris Al-Rawi’s decision to sign off on an extradition request from the Justice Department.
The Trinidad and Tobago Football Association participated in a FIFA TMS Workshop held earlier this month at the Double Tree Hotel in San Jose, Costa Rica.
On the heels of a Solidarity Contribution and Training Compensation Workshop hosted by the Trinidad and Tobago Football Association aimed at bringing benefits to local clubs, TTFA President David John-Williams says plans are afoot to stage a Club Licensing Program in the near future.
Manipulation of football administration in the Caribbean is nothing new. But in a region desperate to shake off the long shadows of former presidents Jack Warner and Jeff Webb, the old ways of operating seem to be alive and kicking. They may have even taken a turn for the worse with regional confederation CONCACAF stepping into the game with the support of FIFA and its new president Gianni Infantino.
A host of local club representatives and officials attended the first ever FIFA Solidarity Contribution and Training Compensation workshop to be staged in the Caribbean as the Trinidad and Tobago Football Association held the event at Naparima College, San Fernando on Saturday.
Ricarda Nelson, one of the participants representing Morvant Caledonia United at the recent Fifa Solidarity Contribution and Training Compensation Workshop hosted by the T&TFA, has said that she came out of the forum much wiser on the benefits of developing players and exporting them to foreign teams.
A fresh row has broken out in the Caribbean over what is being interpreted by national associations as back-door interference in the region’s affairs by regional confederation CONCACAF. The moves further undermine the management of the Caribbean Football Union (CFU) and its executive at a time when it has already seen its power base at the region’s top political table eroded and its membership split and marginalised.