I think there has to be a bit of a reality check when it comes to the prospects of professional football in T&T. First, can anyone name another country in the world with a population of 1.5 million that has a THRIVING professional football league? It doesn't exist.
Second, T&T football has, by and large, come out of a 30-year era dominated by one person who, with the enabling of the world governing body of football, seems to have queered any semblance of goodwill for the sport to such an effect that the entire game has failed to produce a single recent positive and proven result connected to T&T football beyond the qualification to the Gold Cup; which really should be given more credit by fans. Think of Warner's abrupt departure from T&T football like that of Saddam Hussein and ask yourself how have things been going in Iraq since that vacuum was created?
Third, there is a government in place (democratically elected by the people), prominently featured with the full knowledge of the people the same individual, who dominated football in T&T and seems to have taken on the Samuel Jackson character in Django Unchained and represents a constituency that is not football mad. Furthermore, since his exit from FIFA and football in general, this same high government official does not seem to have any incentive to support football; in fact, human nature would indicate he would have every motive to watch the sport burn now that it is no longer in his control; allegedly
Fourth, you have a corporate and merchant class that is largely ambivalent to the sport and sells goods on an island with very little outside competition for goods and services or need to distinguish themselves from the pack. Whatever, community support or advertising is spent through the sport is largely done under a charity model with no expected return on investment. With few exceptions (digicel, bmobile, for instance) corporations have very little incentive to be associated on a large scale with the sport AND the people who are part of the football family don't seem to be disciplined enough to develop brand loyalty and actively call for companies to support football and boycott those who don't support football.
Under these conditions, it is almost a miracle that there are professional teams much less a national team program functioning. Things could change but it will take a level of consciousness that may have been numbed by the decades of bread and circus platforms and cynical leadership politicians have known all too well to present and lull an increasingly docile public to sleep.