President of the Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) Raymond Tim Kee has said he will know by Wednesday if he will go up for re-election as president when the TTFA Annual General Meeting (AGM) and election of officers take place on November 29.
Only Saturday Direct TV W Connection boss David John Williams announced he will be seeking the post of president of the embattled TTFA, which is still attempting to shake off the dust of corruption left by its former special adviser Jack Warner as well as the stigma of his colleagues Oliver Camps and Richard Groden who worked closely under him.
A website report stated that while Tim Kee may have had some achievements under his name, there were still some administrative bungles that outnumbered the good, such as a mysterious TT$400,000 licensing fee allegedly received by his association's marketing official Darren Millien; the departure of the T&T Women’s with just US$500 for a pre CONCACAF camp; a suspicious fund-raising venture for deceased footballer Akeem Adams; the loss of funding and partnerships from corporate T&T and the suspension of funding from FIFA because the TTFA couldn’t meet accounting criteria.
Contacted yesterday, Tim Kee said he was fairly satisfied with the work he has done at the TTFA to date, although there are some things he would have liked to do which in reality, was impossible to achieve.
“I would have liked to have some more support from corporate T&T but the reality is that from a business point of view, once the market has lost confidence in you as an organisation it is extremely difficult to get back” Tim Kee said.
The TTFA boss, who is also Mayor of Port-of-Spain, made it clear that he has achieved a number of things that were not even considered in years gone by. For instance, “I changed an old constitution, democratised it and allowed all to have the power of decision-making.”
As though he was reading from a prepared text, Tim Kee continued with his list of achievements, saying for the first time in the history of football the country has seen some nine T&T football teams all doing well and all receiving funding for local, regional and international tournaments. He added that only recently the beach football team defeated CONCACAF giants Mexico and of significant achievement is that both T&T’s men and women teams have made it to the top 50 in the world in the FIFA rankings.
Tim Kee reminded all that it is never easy when you inherit an organisation in debt by $38 million and has lost all its sponsors for one reason or another and has a number of people on your back for monies owed to them. “I had to make some really tough decisions and decisions that were not favourable, but I had to do what was necessary,” Tim Kee said.