FOOTBALL

THE Prime Minister said on Monday while TT has produced several successful athletes throughout the years, he believes the quality of local sports management has declined.

Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley says the foot­ball fra­ter­ni­ty should have no more ex­cus­es for its poor state, both on and off the field, in the fu­ture now.

Mere weeks after the passing of former national team defender Reynold George, the country has lost another outstanding footballer albeit, in this instance, departing this world almost without mention.

EA Sports’ officially licensed FIFA series has a thriving online community and given world soccer’s governing body a credible route into esports. Christian Volk, the Fifa director of gaming and eFootball, lays out plans to bring the physical and virtual games together.

The years have rolled by rather quick­ly. I could dis­tinct­ly re­mem­ber the first day the Al­cons Soc­cer Acad­e­my start­ed its pri­ma­ry coach­ing ses­sion at the Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies (UWI), St Au­gus­tine front ground in June 1969.

The foot­ball fra­ter­ni­ty was plunged in­to mourn­ing yes­ter­day fol­low­ing the un­time­ly pass­ing of Richard Fakoory, this coun­try's 'gen­tle gi­ant in foot­ball' at the age of 71.