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Players from Trinidad and Tobago’s 2006 World Cup football team have indicated an intention to pursue a legal battle against the Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA), despite Government on Monday agreeing to pay a final US $1.3 million settlement owed to them by the local governing body for football.
FORMER Trinidad and Tobago Football Federation (TTFF) special advisor Jack Austin Warner has wished the 13 members of the 2006 Soca Warriors well, after Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar announced yesterday that the players will be receiving the sum of US$1.3 million owed to them following a prolonged bonus pay dispute with the local governing body (now called TT Football Association).
The Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) is set for a $4.8 million (US$750,000) cash injection from FIFA after the international football body approved the unprecedented payment to its member associations at last week’s Congress in Sao Paulo.
Former FIFA vice-president Jack Warner has appealed to Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar to come to the aid of former president of the Trinidad and Tobago Football Federation Oliver Camps, who he claims is in debt and stands to lose his home.
Trinidad and Tobago national football team head coach Stephen Hart and team manager David Muhammad have broken their silence on the team’s decision to fly to Argentina on June 1 without goalkeeper coach Michael Maurice and therapist Dave Isaac.
Trinidad and Tobago Football Federation (TTFF) president Raymond Tim Kee’s election promise of a new dawn and an influx of funding from the private and public sector continues to sound hollow in the face of the football body’s continuing financial crisis.
The Trinidad and Tobago national football team displayed its battling abilities over the last week with gutsy performances in defeats to World Cup-bound teams, Argentina and Iran. But, closer to home, local football remains in near crisis mode with half of the national teams inactive while the Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) owes its coaches, players and office staff and legal woes mounting.
With the 2014 World Cup Finals presently in focus, the Trinidad and Tobago Football Association is moving ahead with plans to stage a home-based training camp for the men’s senior team in August and the women’s senior side in Houston next month.
STEPHEN HART is the kind of coach footballers want to play for. There is no doubt about it.