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Football / Re: Soca Warriors seize TTFF assets
« on: February 08, 2012, 05:57:49 PM »
...Not ONE TTFF officer turned up at the TTFF office today...the imagery of rats and sinking ships comes to mind. They want Watson and Company? Well there it is. Mark you, the situation will continue to deteriorate over the next several days...

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Football / Re: Soca Warriors seize TTFF assets
« on: February 08, 2012, 11:51:35 AM »
Understand it man. The TTFF doesn't own a building or ANYTHING of real value...

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Football / Re: Soca Warriors seize TTFF assets
« on: February 08, 2012, 10:29:20 AM »
...Another shameful, disgraceful chapter in the TTFF melodrama. The TTFF clique are guilty of "bringing the game into disrepute". Hopefully, this development will expedite the collapse of the house of cards. The question must be asked and answered: "What does the TTFF have to levy? NOTHING - (old) computers, beer crates, microwaves, "sundry items" - petty stuff, after more than one hundred years of existence! Shameful! And no surprise that elements in the media "snitched"...

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Football / Re: Reporting from the TTFF Office
« on: February 08, 2012, 10:16:17 AM »
..Guilty of bringing the game into disrepute" and much more than that..

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Football / Re: Can anyone fill in the blanks about T&T football bosses.
« on: January 27, 2012, 04:52:36 PM »
...Cliff Bertrand...Olympian for the West Indies Federation...uncle of Cayton Ince...Arima...

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Football / Re: Can anyone fill in the blanks about T&T football bosses.
« on: January 27, 2012, 04:45:47 PM »
...Brandon Bailey...2nd in the 1963 Pan American Games Heavyweight class, 3rd in the 1967 Pan American Games Heavyweight class...Arima...

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Football / Re: Can anyone fill in the blanks about T&T football bosses.
« on: January 26, 2012, 12:31:38 PM »
There is always talk about "a real good player from dong by me" being left out of some national team. If the current Under 23 team went on to win the football competition in London there would be SOMEBODY complaining about some player from somewhere that was left out because "them coaches bias". Go check on the birthplace and residence of the current Olympic team players, or the men's team for that matter. If there is a problem with the player identification system, let's address that but to blame geographical bias for the failings of the TTFF and local football is backward and useless...

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Football / Re: Can anyone fill in the blanks about T&T football bosses.
« on: January 26, 2012, 11:59:40 AM »
This is the kind of irrational, fact-less, thoughtless, personalized, perspective that will not EVER help to resolve the myriad issues confronting the TTFF and local has football. So the solution is to get more people in from south Trinidad? How about Tobago, Central and the North coast? Anybody for football government by geographical quota? How about selecting national teams based on geography while we're at it? Didn't this type of anachronistic thinking go out with the 1960s. For the record:

1) Skeene, Henderson, Shabazz, Watson, Anton Corneal and Look Loy are from the east.
2) Roberts, Alvin Corneal, Joseph, Camps and Phillips are from the north.
3) Thomas and Vidale are from the south.
4) Groden is from Tobago.
5) Tim Kee and Romany, I don't know.
6) Of course, Jack Warner is from central.

Seven of the persons named went to CIC/Fatima (Henderson, Look Loy, Skeene, both Corneals, Joseph, Roberts). Phillips went to QRC. The rest, I don't know.

Beware ye who enter these gates (or pages, as the case might be)...

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Football / Re: T&T Olympic Team Manager FIRED???
« on: January 20, 2012, 06:37:20 AM »
...But don't worry. Carnaval coming...bacchanal...bacchanal...bacchanal...

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Football / Re: T&T Olympic Team Manager FIRED???
« on: January 20, 2012, 06:05:46 AM »
...Trinidad people only talk. Nothing will be done about this. Ferguson is just more "collateral damage" of the ongoing TTFF disaster. And btw, while people stood up to protect Eve's job after the St. Kitt's round of Olympic qualifying (when the Under 23s lost to the host), here he is now talking about "feeling" for Ferguson. case in point. Talk, talk, woof, woof, blah, blah...

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Football / Re: TTFF could name national coach today
« on: January 13, 2012, 05:40:57 PM »
...It's as I said above...it's only TTFF games...

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Football / Re: TTFF could name national coach today
« on: January 13, 2012, 07:19:24 AM »
All of this is PR nonsense...business as usual at Dundonald Street...the Soca Warriors can't levy on nothing...the TTFF owns NOTHING...no new coach will be appointed today...the TTFF is a stagnant pool that the cabal is attempting to stir from the bottom but only muck will surface...

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1) Anton Corneal will be appointed TTFF technical director today, 2) changes will be made to the staff of the national Under 23 team, 3) Alvin and Anton Corneal, and Edgar Vidale will assess potential national coaches in late January. Not sure about Jamaal Shabazz. If he is included that would be improper. He is coach of another national team. Meantime, the sports ministry continues to demand standards and accountability while financing the federation, which has none.

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Football / Re: Champion Jabloteh meets ‘El Do’ school-boys in FA-Cup.
« on: January 12, 2012, 11:41:07 AM »
This is nonsense - another decision made by the TTFF without thinking it through properly. No serious national association has schoolboy teams participating in its national Cup tournament - not even the USSF in its Open Cup. The reality is that NO SSFL team is in training, and many of the players have moved on to play with TTFF clubs at different levels. There's a difference between a men's team that includes a schoolboy and a schoolboy team. The FA draw has St. Anthony's up against Defence Force in the first round. The schoolboys have NO chance. Meantime, lesser teams have been seeded into the second round. The TTFF cabal are merely attempting to play they are turning a new leaf, promoting youth development and being "progressive".

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Hope in ethical decisions, transparency, and/or resignations emanating from the TTFF is FUTILE. The cabal that runs the federation understands full well that neither the so-called football community (an oxymoron if ever there was one), the government, nor the people of Trinidad and Tobago care enough to do anything about their shenanigans. The only hope is for FIFA to impose a normalization committee on TNT as it has on the CFU. I am to be proven wrong but all people - particularly including the clubs - do is talk...

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Football / Re: Re: Jack Warner to appear in court in 2 weeks
« on: January 09, 2012, 05:50:49 AM »
Hope in ethical decisions, transparency, and/or resignations emanating from the TTFF is FUTILE. The cabal that runs the federation understands full well that neither the so-called football community (an oxymoron if ever there was one), the government, nor the people of Trinidad and Tobago care enough to do anything about their shenanigans. The only hope is for FIFA to impose a normalization committee on TNT as it has on the CFU. I am to be proven wrong but all people do is talk...

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 :laugh:  :laugh:

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 :) You don't know me pal. My life is GOOD. Thank God, I have done a lot with and in it and there's more to challenges to be met and overcome. I have a lot to be grateful for. The very best to you...and I'll give you the last word...  :laugh:

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THAT's my point - you "MAY". While you dawdle, think and TALK, trying to make up your mind, do two things: 1) try to know what you're talking about when you level baseless criticism against people who concretely trying to make a difference, and 2) try your best to handle Watson and the "new" TTFF...

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Look Loy could have laid low and maintained his position in the TTFF if he wanted. You are TALKING about matters you don't know anything about. Even the proverbial "blind man on a galloping horse" could understand that Look Loy was not supported in the EFA precisely because he is seen as a threat to the clique. But hey! Enough said. Hopefully YOU will do something concrete and meaningful to remove them and to develop local football rather than "talk yuh talk"......

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Tempo,
YOU are misinformed or not following events closely enough:
1) Look Loy was not "cast aside". He resigned from the TTFF on principle and in order to fight against the TTFF clique - the very thing that many people only TALK about on SWO.
2) Phillips did invite the KNVB to TT to deliver pone ITS courses. Look LOy initiated a discussion with the Dutch, based on the coaching education programme HE had written for the CFU, I repeat, in order to establish and launch a TTFF, read LOCAL, coaching course - not a DUTCH course. He insisted that we should have a trained panel of LOCAL instructors, and the KNVB agreed to that and trained several persons, including Jamaal Shabazz, Anton Corneal, Hayden Martin, Rajesh Latchoo, and Marlon Charles. This is a first for the TTFF.
3) It was the MSYA that refused to renew Lincoln Phillip's contract. Look Loy had nothing to do with it.  You might want to take that up with the TTFF's latest benefactor, Anil Roberts.
4) Do not use your onlooker's perspective to presume you know anything Look Loy's or his motives. You know nothing about either.

Elan,
The syllabus is  not a "top secret". After all, almost two hundred coaches have already participated in this course. You don't expect the TTFF to advertise it in the media, do you. What's the CXC English syllabus? Those who participate in it know it.

Spideybuff,
Good question. The TTFF does not have a technical director, whose responsibility it would be to PLAN the implementation of the caoching education programme. Consequently, no-one knows when or where the next course would be delivered and it depends on who asks for a course in their area. To date, the course has been delivered for the Northern FA, Central FA, Tobago FA, and SSFL. Where next, quien sabe?

Finally, Coops,
To say that something was wrong with the programme bacause CFU did not implement it demonstrates lack of clear thinking. How then would the KNVB associate itself with the very same programme? Moreover, you very well know that the same person who controlled the TTFF also controlled the CFU. Neither had any interest in RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT. Competitions were their priority and so we have what we have in the CFU. Caribbean teams almost invariably finish LAST in CONCACAF tournaments.

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Football / Re: National football consultation today.
« on: December 01, 2011, 05:14:40 AM »
The Ministry of Sport is assuming the TTFF's responsibilities, and the TTFF clique are happy for the financial backing that will prolong their collective life....

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When the Eastern FA had not even thought about organizing a coaching course, the EFA and the TTFF refused to grant permission to the rebel clubs united under the banner of the Movement for Football Excellence (MOVE) to organize said C Licence course. Almost forty coaches from the EFA, Eddie Hart Football League and Arima Football League were registered for the MOVE course. Keith Look Loy was the person who initiated and pursued the discussion with the Royal Dutch Football Association (KNVB) that has resulted in this C Licence course. Indeed, the course is based on a coaching education programme he wrote for the Caribbean Football Union, and which was adopted by the CFU in 2005 without ever being implemented. As ever, politics guided/guides every decision made by the self-same clique that ran both organizations.

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Football / Re: Petition for the resignation of the TTFF Executive Committee
« on: November 30, 2011, 06:16:53 AM »
Zandolie. Well said.

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Football / Re: Petition for the resignation of the TTFF Executive Committee
« on: November 29, 2011, 12:13:16 PM »
What it MEANS, friend, is that the TTFF will have Ministry of Sport support that is NOT contingent on financial and/or administrative criteria...

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Football / Re: Wales football manager Gary Speed has died at the age of 42.
« on: November 29, 2011, 11:50:14 AM »
Read this and buy the book about German goalkeeper Robert Enke, suicide victim, if you want insight into clinical depression and how tragically it could end. Football players and coaches commonly suffer the most withering criticism, often from people who don't have the first clue about performance and its requirements:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2011/nov/28/ronald-reng-robert-enke-book-award

We don't know if Gary Speed was a depressive, but this book on Enke is timely and poignant in the context of Speed's recent suicide. The problem of clinical depression and suicide is more widespread and misunderstood that one would imagine. Indeed, the TNT Ministry of Health has just advised that mental illness is on the increase in Trinidad and Tobago. Some empathy is required...

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Football / Re: Fire Angus Eve Thread.
« on: November 29, 2011, 10:19:01 AM »
That's correct - two qualify. No play-offs. The difficulty in strengthening the team is that CONCACAF final round tournament is not a FIFA event and clubs - local or foreign - cannot be forced to release players. As well, MLS clubs will be in pre-season training so players like Cyrus will be additionally hard-pressed to join the team. These are the facts of life, unfortunately.

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Football / Re: Petition for the resignation of the TTFF Executive Committee
« on: November 29, 2011, 10:12:11 AM »
We absolutely agree! Well said! We absolutely need a figurative "Occupy TTFF" mentality and movement among the public. My description of yesterday's event as a "sham" is not aimed at the participants - or most of them, anyway. Their contributions are valid, I am sure, and have been made previously by the same or other voices over many years. My criticism is aimed at the TTFF and the Ministry. Plain politics by both, the latter propping up the decrepit former for its own purposes. Listen, the Ministry may very well use the remaining WCQ funds for community football. That does NOT change the status quo within the TTFF, however. Indeed, it will prolong the clique's death throes as they will receive funding for national teams behind which to posture - once they win, that is. In the final analysis, I repeat - the public has a key role to play in removing the "parasitic oligarchy" that runs the Federation, but the prime movers in this process will always have to be the clubs.

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Football / Re: Petition for the resignation of the TTFF Executive Committee
« on: November 29, 2011, 08:08:56 AM »
The concept of "Great Man" and "who we go put" politics has brought us to the state of collapse that we now confronts us - in Society as in Football. Still, we persist in this hope that someone will arise to rescue us. Nobody can just "step up and enter elections" and deliver the transformation the TTFF and TNT football are dying for. The regional clubs elect representatives to the TTFF General Council and Executive Committee. They also elect the Federation's officers, including the president. There is simply no hope of changing the face of the TTFF if one begins at the top.
I am afraid the transformation required must begin in the regions. Those who are involved in organized football understand this - including the clique that has controlled the TTFA/TTFF for the past generation. Which is why they invest so much in maintaining control over the regional bodies. I hasten to add that forming a rival Federation is a useless pipe dream. FIFA will not recognize it. Of course, one could then proceed to play outside of FIFA but then don't complain when the national teams do even worse than at present. It's going to be a hard slog guys...

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Football / Re: National football consultation today.
« on: November 28, 2011, 06:02:40 PM »
I hear that Coops...

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