Quarantine or play elsewhere! Wired868 looks at why gov’t blanked TTFA’s late WCQ proposal
The Trinidad and Tobago Men’s National Senior Team will concede home advantage in a World Cup qualifying campaign for the first time in 36 years, after Ministry of Health chief medical officer Dr Roshan Parasram ruled that a proposal by the Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) fell short of local Covid-19 regulations.
Dr Parasram has steered clear of public statements on sport, ever since he was criticised by Commissioner of Police Gary Griffith, in July 2020, for refusing to sanction the Commissioner’s Cup youth football tournament.
Amiel appointed as TTFA interim general secretary, Hadad mum on foreign-based NC member
Former
Wired868 freelance reporter and Central FC press officer Amiel Mohammed was revealed tonight to be the interim general secretary of the Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA), via an email to members.
He replaces general secretary Ramesh Ramdhan, who was suspended by Fifa-appointed normalisation committee chairman Robert Hadad in mid-2020 ‘pending an enquiry’.
Photo: Then Trinidad and Tobago National Futsal Team head coach Clayton Morris (left) has a laugh with Wired868 reporter Amiel Mohammed (centre) during an interview at the Maloney Indoor Sport Arena in 2016.
(Copyright Chevaughn Christopher/CA-images/Wired868)
Give a woman the job
Former TT senior women’s head coach Jamaal Shabazz. -
THE TTFA (Trinidad and Tobago Football Association) is currently advertising the post for national women’s team coach, with local, and even international coaches, available to apply.
The position has been vacant for over a year, since Stephan De Four was dismissed in December 2019.
De Four served as coach for the 2020 Olympic Games qualifying series, but the TT squad were eliminated in the group stage, in October 2019. Even though TT, as hosts, were the overwhelming favourites to advance as the group winners, from Group A of the Caribbean Football Union (CFU) leg, they finished third in the group, behind St Kitts/Nevis and Dominican Republic.
‘Nobody is being told anything!’ Hadad slammed for poor communication and constitutional violations
Trinidad and Tobago Football Referees Association (TTFRA) vice-president Osmond Downer has criticised Fifa-appointed normalisation committee chairman Robert Hadad for either ignoring the local body’s constitution or totally misunderstanding his role within the Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA).
Hadad and his three-member committee, which includes Judy Daniel and Nigel Romano, replaced the TTFA Board on 27 March 2020 with a specific mandate to: run the TTFA’s daily affairs, establish a debt repayment plan, review and amend the constitution (where necessary), and conduct elections for a new board.
Businessman Robert Hadad - chairman of FIFA Normalisation Committee.
Players, coaches, and staff members of the T&T Football Association (TTFA) have been paid, Robert Hadad, the chairman of the FIFA-appointed Normalisation Committee has confirmed, thereby delivering on his promise to pay salaries before Christmas Day.
Hadad said on Monday, that were all paid. The coaches, some of whom are on contracts, while others are on agreements, some of which have expired, have not received salaries since taking up national duty in January when the technical committee which was headed by Keith Look Look, appointed a cadre of coaches inclusive senior team coach Terry Fenwick, Derek King (Men’s Under-20 Team), Angus Eve (Men’s Under-17 Team), Keith Jeffrey (Men’s Under-15 Team), Richard Hood (Women’s Under-20 and Under-17 Teams) and Jason Spence (Women’s Under-15 Team).