Is not like we qualifying for 2022 WC
And is not like we qualifying for the next Gold Cup either
So no sense in looking to break bank further to hire a "name" coach
In the overall scheme of things, the Mens National Football team is NOT A PRIORITY AT THIS TIME
Instead.....focus on getting Pro League or whatever it's called and clubs that compete there functional, competitive, and administratively competent.
Identify and then develop young talent countrywide....and the country includes BOTH islands.....to feed into those Pro League teams
Hire a local coach and staff who have the communication, management, and technical skills to work with young players to form a nucleus or core of the National team going forward
Play that core as much as possible and that becomes your Mens National team for future Gold Cups and World Cups.
Agreed. People calling for big coach...we can barely even pay for local coaches, how we going to pay for that? The federation and by extension football itself is in crisis. At this point asset allocation is critically important. Wallace has to perform very delicate economic triage to bring the FA back towards health. Whatever little money we scrape together would yield far greater dividends if we rebuilt from the ground up.
Blowing operational budget on a 'big' coach with the general calibre of our current core and bench players is folly. We barely made it to Germany on the strength of one of the greatest teams in our history. There are no short cuts. TTFA must simply roll up its sleeves and begin producing players that are competitive in CONCACAF.
TT never lacked money, those debts are nothing in comparison to what is wasted and gambled and siphoned in TT... the govt should do a bail out and the rest will have to be handled by the ttfa ...
We need a great coach and we shouldn’t give up on the wc ... why?
Why can’t we do both, develop and try to qualify?
At this stage the greatest challenge facing T&T football is a failure to consistently deliver a CONCACAF contender on the field at any age/gender group. We can't even deliver a CFU contender. This is not a coaching issue. Its a deeper reflection of management (in)competence, low morale, almost non-existent ethical standards, and poor organizational planning. These are issues related to asset allocation choices and not issues a national coach can resolve.
Hart was a great coach for us. But he took a side whose core players (Cyrus, Molino, Hyland, Curtis Gonzalez, Bateau, Miekeil Williams, Aubrey David) who had already been to one or two youth world cups. Who will replace Joevin Jones, Molino, and Hyland in the midfield? If Cyrus, Williams, Bateau etc are flawed, which young players are better? Name the next generation team capable of beating a USMNT or running with Mexico...in Mexico. Then tell me how your coach of choice can realistically repeat Hart's success with that lack of depth.
We all wish we could hire the best coach while simultaneously building the best developmental program in CONCACAF. But at this point, can our our finances allow us to do either, far less both?
Yes TTFA should incorporate solid PLANs for both long and short term successes. But spending money to execute those plans is a whole other story.
SOme great points which I agree with and also feel the same way.
But we have the talent to beat the US and play with Mexico on an equal level...
But those players were:
1. Not being selected bc our team was being sabotaged
2. Players were not paid well or on time
3. They fired our best coach and didn’t give him the support he needed
4. Spiteful and corrupt admin
Jones, Garcia, garcia etc are all still available and will perform extremely well under the right coach. For example we just saw powder get ignored and many other players like ranjitsingh who is in essence our best keeper outside of the other player who’s name escapes me from Europe ...
We haven’t seen our best team or best coach with the support around the coach, without being sabotaged, so we can’t say we don’t have depth... we have immense talent, but it’s not being selected or coached well or given the environment to perform and worse yet, identifying talent and selecting that talent
Tbh the bail out is our only option, it will right the wrong and start fresh... that way we will then have the ability with sponsors, investors etc that will be able to fund that budget to compete and give us the chance for the wc and also development.
If Hart doesn’t want it and can’t leave Halifax... it will have to be Nakhid or Fenwick... I’m not convinced with eve
Outside of them, we will have to search for a coach and weigh it from there, I have a list but you never know who ttfa will pull out of their hat..
We have to see how Wallace operates... whoever it is, needs to have a full list of our players, and try out all of the ones that are not on the radar and they haven’t seen live... we have tremendous depth but it takes time to find it and scout it and try them out..
Tallman and flex over the years have that list and always add to it, so I highly doubt we are short on talent from what I have read, seen and know