Trinidad and Tobago Football Federation Raymond Tim Kee is scheduled to meet with FIFA President Sepp Blatter at the FIFA headquarters in Zurich, Switzerland on Tuesday (Jan 15th).
This will be Tim Kee’s first official meeting with the FIFA boss since his installation as President of the TTFF last year. Tim Kee recently returned from the United States where he met with CONCACAF President Jeff Webb.
According to Tim Kee, he intends to discuss several matters relating to the TTFF with Blatter, among them the possibility of financial assistance to the organization to aid in payments owed to thirteen members of the 2006 World Cup squad as well as other individuals who are owed by the TTFF.
“I feel quite optimistic about the meeting and the opportunity that we have right now to fix some of the problems that the Federation is facing. I don’t know that you can erase history but what you can do is try to emulate what was desirable and positive and discard the things that were not,” Tim Kee stated on the weekend.
Tim Kee shared a little of his intentions over the coming months, disclosing that there are proposed standing committees that will be set up to share advice into the running of some of the TTFF’s operations.
“I am not one to say that everything that the Federation did was wrong because that would not be true. But what we can now is to try to do more and to ensure some the mistakes that were made before do not confront us again. We have to salvage what we have and move forward. We have to do some serious renovation.
I am looking very closely to making some adjustments that would speak to the kind of foundation that we need,” Tim Kee said.
“I am acutely aware of interdependence and that is the mindset I have moving forward. I am what you call the conscious incompetent. I know what I don’t know and therefore that allows for me to learn and seek information and experience,” he added.
Tim Kee will speak further on his meeting with Blatter following his return to Port of Spain later this week.