Just received a call from Patriot and he said that on 95.5fm he heard that a caller from Bahrain (Vijay, the sports editor from the Gulf Newspaper) stated that David Nahkid has been approached to join Bahrain Technical staff and he is most likely to accept the position!!
Nahkid is no good. Apparently he has a side of a story that will be aired shortly!!
More updates to follow I'm listening to the talk show now!!
update 1He is apparently going to take the job, I will update later with Nahkid's story.
Update 2Nahkid had a fight with one of the assistant coaches in Panama about some comments about Islam. It was a very intense confrontation and Beenhaker said nothing about the matter. He said that he know that he was going to get fired.
He said that the TTFF tried to place a spin on it by firing him for so-called comments on the TV show.
He said that he is free to do what he wants and now he is free to work for whoever he wants.
He didnt confirm whether or not he is going to be on their staff, he said that everything will be revealed shortly. He said that Beenhaker is not the nice man that people think he is and Beenhakker siding with the man who made that racist highlights that!! He also said that Giovannie Elber also warned him about Beenhaker!!
Nakhid mum on Bahrain coaching job.
By Zaid Mohammed (Newsday).Former Trinidad and Tobago football captain David Nakhid last night refused to confirm or deny that he has been offered a position on the coaching staff of the Bahrain national team.
Nakhid, who was recently sacked as a scout for the Trinidad and Tobago team after comments he made about the Syrian community on local television, was speaking on i95.5 FM Radio to host Andre E Baptiste.
Yesterday a report carried in a Bahraini newspaper and confimed by the Sports Editor of the Gulf Daily News stated that Nakhid, 41, will be joining the Persian Gulf team in a "technical capacity."
Vijay Muratallah, also speaking on i95.5 FM yesterday, said Nakhid will be providing information to the Bahrainis about the Trinidad and Tobago players ahead of their crucial two-leg play-off series for a spot in the World Cup Finals in Germany next year.
The first leg is on November 12 in Port-of-Spain with the return match in Manama, four days later.
"I am a free agent. For the past eight months I have been with the Trinidad and Tobago team and two matches away from the World Cup Finals they make a decision that had nothing to do with what actually happened," said Nakhid yesterday.
He said that the decision to fire him as a team scout was unrelated to the statements he made on the crime situation linking it to members of the Syrian communirty on TV6’s Morning Edition programme two Tuesdays ago.
Instead, Nakhid told i95.5 FM that he almost came to blows with assistant team coach Whim Rijsbergen while the team was in Panama recently for a CONCACAF World Cup qualifying match.
"He has always been making remarks about Islam and Muslims. But when he spoke about Moroccans ruling Dutch society, I could not take it anymore, especially in the month of Ramadan," Nakhid, a Muslim said.
He said he had an intense verbal confrontation with Rijsbergen which was witnessed by national coach Leo Beenhakker, a compatriot of Rijsbergen.
"Beenhakker did not say anything at the time but after I spoke on television on the crime situation I saw the Football Federation claim that the remarks were racist and were disassociating themselves from it. I think that the statement is libellious and my attorneys are looking into it," said Nakhid yesterday.
He also disputed Beenhakker’s claim that he was hired for two matches insisting that he had e-mails which proved otherwise.
The former national midfielder, who has played professionally in Lebanon, Switzerland and in the MLS in the United States said that he is keeping his options open since he had outstanding issues to settle with the Football Federation. "If I am offered a job with the Bahrain team I will tell you about it," Nakhid told i95.5 FM’s Baptiste.
Nakhid in his own words!