New home for football.
By Ian Prescott (Express).
FOOTBALL in Trinidad and Tobago is soon to have its own home on a piece of land at the former horse racing track at Union Park, Marabella.
Yesterday, Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) president Raymond Tim Kee announced that only surveying was preventing the transfer of land to the Association. Tim Kee spoke of acres of land being granted to football.
“This is advance to the point where it has been approved, where all (that) is left (to do) is to transfer the ownership from Government to football (TTFA),” Tim Kee said.
The TTFA president also stated the Association planned to get its football headquarters project going with a US$1 million grant from FIFA under its goal project.
The TTFA plan is to build a facility with two international playing fields, artificial and natural and smaller training fields. They also want to include a living facility to house national teams, which could also be rented out to teams looking for summer training options in the Caribbean.
“They had agreed to give us two instalments amounting to US$1 million all in one shot,“ said Tim Kee.
Since 1999, under the GOAL Project, FIFA, the governing body for world football, is supporting the project of its member associations with grants of US$500,000 every three years to finance the implementation of key football projects.
FIFA has funded and completed more than 1,000 football projects around the world.
Tim Kee said the TTFA had negotiated with FIFA to be granted two GOAL instalments to begin building its headquarters and he had expected the money to come in since earlier this year.
