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Trinidad and Tobago Football Association President David John-Williams today announced the Technical Committee of the TTFA.

John-Williams, also revealed the new head coach of the Trinidad and Tobago Senior Women’s Team ahead of the upcoming CONCACAF Olympic Qualifying Final Round in the United States next month.

The TTFA’s Technical Committee will comprise of the following individuals:

  • Dexter Skeene (Chairman)
  • Dr. Alvin Henderson (Deputy Chairman)
  • Bertille St. Clair
  • Errol Lovell
  • Jinelle James
  • Stuart Charles-Fevrier
  • Muhammad Isa

The committee held its first meeting on Wednesday evening at the TTFA’s offices at the Hasely Crawford Stadium.

Richard Hood has been appointed as Head Coach of the T&T Women’s Senior Team.

John-Williams also announced that Trinidad and Tobago’s Senior Women’s Team will face Costa Rica in two warm-up matches in Costa Rica as part of preparations for the Olympic qualifiers on January 25th and 27th.

“We wish thank extend gratitude to Randy Waldrum for his services extended to the National Women’s Team and we wish him the best in his future endeavours,” John Williams stated.

“Richard Hood will head the Women’s Team. I have a lot of confidence in Richard. I think he is an upcoming and developing coach. We are doing it in the best interest of the team. It was a unanimous selection with the Executive at the time because the technical committee was not set up and we had to take a decision. It sort of went against what I had preached but the circumstances demanded that we took a decision,” Williams stated.

On the setting up of the Technical Committee, the TTFA President added: “It covers a wide area and we are quite confident in the expertise and capabilities of the members of the technical committee. Stuart Charles will oversee the youth arm of the technical committee, Bertille St Clair (Tobago), Dr Henderson is the deputy chairman, Lovell will be in charge of the goalkeeping department and Jinelle James will there for the women’s game.”

He stated that the TTFA’s Technical Committee will be responsible for making decisions as it relates to the various national teams. John-Williams added that Skeene was named as the committee’s chairman as the TTFA’s constitution stated that the chairman must be a member of the TTFA Board of Directors of which Skeene is.

“That is their responsibility. I don’t intend to be an Executive President even though I have been functioning as an Executive President in the first month. But yes, the Technical committee will be in charge of that mantle and I have a lot of faith and confidence in the people that the Executive has placed on the technical committee and we hope will do a good job.” John-Williams added.

Trinidad and Tobago’s Women will open their CONCACAF Final round account against Guatemala in February 11th. They will face Canada on February 14th and Guyana on February 16th. The top two teams from the two groups will advance to the semi final round with the two finalists advancing to the Rio Olympics 2016.

“It’s a tight schedule. The plan is to play the two games in Costa Rica on the 25th and 27th and then go straight to Houston. I think it’s important that in the short space of time that we have a team that can gel and a team that is together. It’s a different challenge from the Men’s Team and we will try to work around all those challenges to see what best we can get for the Trinidad and Tobago Women’s Team,” John- Williams added.