Warner’s black book.
TnT Review.
Lasana Liburd ploughs through a list of jilted coaches since 2000
Bertille St Clair
(May 1997 – March 2000)
St Clair lasted 35 months and won two Caribbean Cup titles and steered T&T to the Concacaf Gold Cup semifinals before being sacked for supposedly not winning the competition.
(Stats tabulated as Played-Won-Drawn-Lost-Goals For-Goals Against)
T&T Record: 38-19-4-15-77-59
Competitive: 21-16-0-5-59-26
Home: 14-11-2-1-41-10
Away: 24-8-2-14-36-49
Ian Porterfield
(March 2000 – June 2001)
Porterfield lasted 16 months. He paired Marvin Andrews and Dennis Lawrence in central defence for the first time, won a Caribbean Cup and managed four successive W/Cup qualifying wins in the semi-final stage including a 1-0 triumph over Mexico in Port of Spain. He tried unsuccessfully to drop Russell Latapy, Dwight Yorke and Anthony Rougier for missing a practice game.
T&T Record: 35-19-6-10-68-40
Competitive: 22-13-3-6-44-24
Home: 18-14-1-3-53-18
Away: 17-5-5-7-15-22
Rene Simoes
(June 2001 – May 2002)
Simoes survived 12 months. He dropped Latapy and Yorke for indiscipline before his first game but failed to manage a single victory at home and was eliminated in the Gold Cup group stage.
T&T Record: 10-2-2-6-7-15
Competitive: 6-1-2-4-3-9
Home: 3-0-1-2-1-4
Away: 7-2-1-4-6-11
Clayton Morris
(July 2002 – August 2002)
His interim appointment lasted two months during which his only action was a hastily arranged series in St Kitts. He failed to win a game.
T&T Record: 3-0-1-2-1-3
Home: 0-0-0-0-0-0
Away: 3-0-1-2-1-3
Jamaal Shabazz
(September 2002 – October 2002)
He was appointed interim coach but had not yet convened a training session before being relieved of the position.
Hannibal Najjar
(October 2002 – April 2003)
Najjar had six eventful months during which time he called up 91 players for a single training session, faced a player strike and then was sacked after failing to qualify for the Gold Cup.
T&T Record: 6-3-0-3-7-6
Competitive 5-3-0-2-6-4
Home: 6-3-0-3-7-6
Away: 0-0-0-0-0-0
Zoran Vranes/ Jamaal Shabazz
(April 2003)
They shared the post for one month as T&T were eliminated from the Gold Cup Play Off round.
T&T Record: 3-0-0-3-2-8
Competitive: 2-0-0-2-2-5
Home: 0-0-0-0-0-0
Away: 3-0-0-3-2-8
Stuart Charles-Fevrier
(May 2003 – January 2004)
Charles-Fevrier lasted eight months. He was told to face Cuba without foreign-based players won but was still sacked two months later—although no-one told him. He was unbeaten at home after facing Cuba and Venezuela.
T&T Record: 8-2-3-3-8-11
Home: 2-1-1-0-4-3
Away: 6-1-2-3-4-8
Bertille St Clair
(January 2004 – March 2005)
St Clair lasted 14 months in his second spell and failed to win silverware. But he did coax Yorke out of retirement and played him in central midfield for the first time as an international since the “Strike Squad”.
T&T Record: 35-18-3-14-59-45
Competitive: 21-13-1-7-42-24
Home: 17-12-1-4-32-13
Away: 18-7-2-9-27-32
Leo Beenhakker
(March 2005 – June 2006)
Beenhakker gave T&T 16 glorious months that culminated in a historic appearance at the Germany 2006 World Cup. He extracted a few decisive performances from then unheralded local midfielder Aurtis Whitley. He never lost a game on home soil.
T&T Record: 21-8-5-8-23-27
Competitive: 14-5-4-5-13-18
Home: 7-5-2-0-14-5
Away: 14-3-3-8-9-22
Wim Rijsbergen
(August 2006 – October 2007)
He managed 29 tumultuous months in which he criticized everyone from Pro League clubs to the media and was eventually suspended for attacking technical director Lincoln Phillips. He faced the infamous blacklist arising from the 2006 World Cup bonus dispute.
T&T Record: 18-6-4-8-28-29
Competitive: 8-3-2-3-15-11
Home: 8-6-1-1-21-7
Away: 10-0-3-7-7-22
Anton Corneal
(December 2007 – January 2008)
He led out national team in two scrimmages against Puerto Rica and Grenada respectively but neither game was recorded as a full international. Still, Corneal was undefeated in his stint and stayed on to assist Francisco Maturana.
Francisco Maturana
(February 2008 – April 2009)
He lasted 15 months and extracted stirring performances from youngsters like Khaleem Hyland, Keon Daniel and Marvin Phillip. But he is the first coach to falter in the group stage of the Caribbean Cup.
T&T Record: 32-17-9-6-57-30
Competitive: 17-7-4-4-26-22
Home: 20-13-5-2-41-13
Away: 12-4-4-4-16-17
Russell Latapy
(April 2009 - ?)
After 19 months, Latapy already has the worse home record since Najjar while he managed just one win from seven competitive outings. He might have unearthed a new scoring machine in Devon Jorsling but success in the Caribbean Cup is crucial to his survival at the helm.
T&T Record: 17-4-3-10-17-30
Competitive: 7-1-1-5-7-17
Home: 6-2-1-3-10-10
Away: 11-2-2-7-7-20
