Alvin Corneal has his say.
https://www.youtube.com/v/7s0dseNXbag
mr corneal with all due respect to you sir, but for the years i've been subjected to your ramblings and you have yet to open your eyes and realize what is the true impediment to TT football, you nor the rest of the so called football insiders who always seem to have an opinion and ample blame when we fall short.
this lie that you all love to portray that we were somehow 10 goals better than the rest of CFU is glaringly obscene and wreaks of delusions of grandeur. we have struggled for decades to beat teams like martinique, guadelupe, jamaica, cuba, haiti, suraname and of late bermuda, grenada and antigua barbuda, and when we did beat them, we barely edge them out by a narrow margin, so give us a break with this "regaining or glory" nonsense. as the saying goes, in the land of the blind the one eyed man is king.
TT success back then was just a classic case of no infrastructure and lack of funding by these caribbean federations that lead us to dominate them for so long, but now that these countries are tapping into their commonwealth options and resources and sending players to play in other leagues around the world and money is being spend on their football, it may appear that they are catching up to us, but the reality is that they have done something to fix their footballing short comings, while we stayed stagnant by believing that good sound footballers grew on trees.
i don't care who's vex, but i will keep banging on this drum until it burst. if you plant nothing don't expect to reap a crop in the harvest, and we have planted nothing in forever. mr corneal people like you and your son sat at the table that jack set and ate heartily, so while the mad king was naked in your presence none of you had the balls to inform him of his wretched condition, and what we are reaping now is the fruits of the mad kings labor, so you should stay mum on the issue and bite your tongue since you're part of the problem
how many times your son was technical director, did he ever inform the league that they drastically needed to do something about raising it standards, did he inform the ministry of sports the importance of building schools exclusively for sporting disciplines particularly football? did he meet with the high school league in order to raise the bar seeing this was our only source of player development, what did anton, lincoln phillip and richard groden did for football but run their mouth and collect easy money?
i'll tell you what i would have done if i was a technical director of football in TT. i would have went to my boss and told him that we need new wine in new vessels and could no longer depend on the SSFL for our next generation of footballers.
i would have informed him and then tried to convince him of how desperately we need to build schools for football, exclusively geared towards academics and football, just like the schools that are geared towards the arts, aircraft engineering, and other sciences, and this was very much attainable if someone had the concern and the brain to fathom it and make it a reality. and if my boss didn't go for it then i would have confronted the government and the private sector to invest in those projects.
i would have then tried to broker a deal with the league and the federation to join forces in creating a promotion and relegation system by joining the two leagues together in a two tier league arrangement. then i would have went to the schools to offer better coaching qualifications by creating programs for all who wanted to coach in the SSFL to secure their euafa license, making it mandatory to coach in that school league,
and if none of these condition were met, then i would have resigned my post with immediate effect, but that's just me, but you know you trinis are easy to buy, two beers a pat on the back and a pay check with a title would have sufficed.
it's a crying shame all these things were never even dreamt of let alone tried, instead they sat on their laurels and when we fail and don't make it to the hex or a world cup, cry and blame everyone else but the real culprits.
i don't even know why they expected to go anywhere near this up coming world cup when we barely got off the ground with our football program. having our federation normalized with the long drawn out court process and possible fifa ban, together with our league suspended and hanging in the balance for two years in a row, one because of a lack of funding and the other year was due to covid, is enough to crash any short term program.
this 2021 would be the third year without a pro league but we want to go to qatar when our federation is in disarray with a 90 million dollars in debt attached to it? our national team has been unable to play a friendly since 2019 but alvin still has the gall to lament the teams effort. you guys need more than spectacles yes, you all need a telescope in regard to TT football because none of you has got it right,
and it's very simple, the reason for our failure is because no one spend any money or took the time to care for football in a proper manner, and that's the whole truth. you can't beat, starve and mistreat something and then expect it to like you. that's madness in the highest order.