The following suggestions are an alternative approach to scouting in both Trinidad and Tobago for all levels of football.
- Scouting for football at all levels should be done by county, Trinidad consists of 8 counties and Tobago can be divided into Western and Eastern Tobago, which means 2 counties in Tobago.
- Each county will have scouting for all levels of football ie./ u17, u20, u23 and Senior Level
- Each level will consist of 15 players from each of the 10 counties.
- A database will be made for all players that make the final cut for the team of 15 from their respective county. For example, 150 players will be scouted for the u17 team nationwide, comprising of players from all counties throughout Trinidad & Tobago.
- The database will contain all information on the players, to include training, diet and business training schedules.
- The Scouting Program will take a maximum of 10 months, it is necessary all players get a fair shot that are interested in representing the nation.
- To rule out bias, the national selection committee will ask for all teams in the county, amateur and semi-professional to list players that are playing currently. Minor league teams and fete teams will also be considered for scouting.
- A month will be spent on each county to select the best players and finalize the list of 15 from every level.
- Coaches and management for the scouting program should not include any local coaches to rule out any type of bias in selection of players.
- After all teams are finalized, they will engage in a nationwide tournament over a period of 6 months, maybe a year if needed, to extract the best players locally for the final 15 at every level, regardless of where they come from, religion, colour or race.
- T&T has the time to work on this system for scouting as none of the teams have qualified for any major tournaments.
- A similar scouting program can be implemented in North America and the UK, concentrating on the areas where there is a high concentration of Trinbagonians.
- Players that have already been chosen for the national team will not take part in trials and will be viewed as an entirely separate team to play in the tournament, if they are available.
- Before such a huge endeavor as this one takes place, we need coaches that are screened and qualified by a neutral committee for each county and level. It will breed coaches for the future of our football, we will need them to coach the teams selected at every level.
- The database will track and retain even the players that have been cut and their progress, it will also track players in foreign, similar to the player profiles on sw.net.
- When foreign based players have been scouted and narrowed down to 15, they will also play against their foreign counterparts. Resulting in a final 15 from every level, they will then play the final 15 locally to complete the team of 22 that will go on to represent our twin island republic.