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« on: October 11, 2012, 10:22:53 PM »
Soca Warriors in urgent need of promised government funding.
By Roger Seepersad (Express).
Trinidad and Tobago's national senior team footballers have been barely surviving on their current trip to St Kitts for the 2012 Caribbean Cup qualifiers, and will be under pressure this weekend if they do not get the funds promised by the government by today.
Team manager William Wallace told the Express, yesterday, that the Soca Warriors were still waiting on promised funding from the government to pay the bills accrued on the trip. He said that while they were surviving, the greater concern is what happens on Monday morning when all their bills have to be paid.
"We are surviving as best we can...we are not dying, but there is a serious concern how we go forward in terms of the payments for personnel and things like laundry services. Stipends have to be paid and these things have to be paid in cash," Wallace said.
"We have received absolutely no funding. There is a promise from the PS (Ministry of Sport Permanent Secretary Ashwin Creed) that we are going to get funding by the end of the week. If we get funding by tomorrow (today), we will be alright."
Wallace said the budget for the trip was TT$423,000, and as of yesterday, they had not received any part of it.
By Roger Seepersad (Express).
Trinidad and Tobago's national senior team footballers have been barely surviving on their current trip to St Kitts for the 2012 Caribbean Cup qualifiers, and will be under pressure this weekend if they do not get the funds promised by the government by today.
Team manager William Wallace told the Express, yesterday, that the Soca Warriors were still waiting on promised funding from the government to pay the bills accrued on the trip. He said that while they were surviving, the greater concern is what happens on Monday morning when all their bills have to be paid.
"We are surviving as best we can...we are not dying, but there is a serious concern how we go forward in terms of the payments for personnel and things like laundry services. Stipends have to be paid and these things have to be paid in cash," Wallace said.
"We have received absolutely no funding. There is a promise from the PS (Ministry of Sport Permanent Secretary Ashwin Creed) that we are going to get funding by the end of the week. If we get funding by tomorrow (today), we will be alright."
Wallace said the budget for the trip was TT$423,000, and as of yesterday, they had not received any part of it.
