Soca Warriors coach Stephen Hart says he is awaiting certain guarantees to be met before putting pen to paper on a new contract with the T&T Football Association (TTFA).
He made this disclosure at a TTFA media briefing held to announce the team for Friday’s international friendly away to Mexico at Rio Tinto Stadium in Sandy, Salt Lake, Utah.
He said, “I am yet to sit and talk with the federation, but in the meantime I have a job to do with regards to the upcoming matches and maybe when I return something will be sorted out soon.”
Despite not agreeing to the new contract as yet, Hart who returned home earlier this week from vacationing in his adopted homeland, Canada, has been given the full backing by Tim Kee to carry on in the job for a long time to come.
He is currently operating without a contract after his two-year deal expired at the end of the Concacaf Gold Cup in the USA last month when T&T was ousted 6-5 on penalty-kicks by Panama after a 1-1 draw, at the quarterfinal stage.
It was the second straight time Hart had carried the team to the quarterfinals after losing to Mexico, 1-0 in 2013 after only being a month in the position.
Overall, as coach of the T&T team, Hart has a record of 12 wins, nine loses and four draws in 25 matches, a fair return for a man who’s time at helm has been overshadowed and hampered greatly by a feud involving Minister of Sports and former national defender Brent Sancho and Tim Kee which sometimes left the San Fernando-born coach, the only full-time technical staff employee and the rest of his staff without salaries for months.