DAVID NAKHID has been fired as assistant coach/team scout of the Trinidad and Tobago football team.
Making this disclosure was special adviser to the Trinidad and Tobago Football Federation (TTFF) Jack Warner yesterday on radio station WMJX 100.5 FM.
During a television programme on Tuesday last, Nakhid reportedly accused members of the Syrian community for playing major roles in the local crime situation and wondered why such matters were not being investigated.
Yesterday, Warner said. "You should let sleeping dogs lie. (Team coach Leo) Beenhakker has said he doesn’t need his services anymore," Warner disclosed. (The TTFF) have terminated his contract based on Mr Beenhakker’s advice."
On Saturday the TTFF, together with the Local Organising Committee (LOC) Germany 2006 Limited in a media statement disassociate themselves, both individually and collectively, from the racist comments or any comments that may be interpreted as racist, that were made by Nakhid in the interview on TV6.
The TTFF release, which was signed by general secretary Richard Groden, pointed out that Nakhid is not a spokesperson for either body and the views expressed are not the views of the TTFF or LOC Germany 2006 Ltd. According to a newspaper article yesterday, Nakhid hinted that the TTFF would have given him the boot on the basis of his comments.
Warner said that they have apologised to the Syrian community. "And I think the community has accepted our apology," he said on WMJX. Nakhid, the 41-year-old former national captain, has had a long list of controversial issues since making his name with St Mary’s College in the 1980s.