Dear Editor,
TTFA is currently locked in battle with FIFA for control of the Association. The world body refers to William Wallace and the democratically elected officers "former officers of the TTFA".
Their supposed removal by FIFA under highly questionable circumstances related to TTFA Board approved corruption investigations into the mismanagement of the David John-Williams administration and the role of FIFA officials connected to the Home of Football project. This investigation and FIFA's action to block it were consistent with current Swiss criminal investigations of FIFA President, Gianni Infantino, for obstruction of investigation and justice.
To stifle the deepening investigation into its political allies in the John-Williams administration, FIFA expressly and forcefully declared that the Normalization Committee was implemented to:
A. Remove and replace those committed to oppose the behaviour of the old TTFA leadership;
B. Cease internal investigations into TTD $16 million in unaccounted expenditure in the Home of Football project from funds allocated by FIFA;
C. Punish the TTFA membership for removing FIFA leadership ally, David John-Williams, who FIFA and CONCACAF leadership unethically and openly campaigned for one week prior to the 2019 TTFA elections.
Furthermore, the recent threat by FIFA to take punitive action against TTFA has no merit and is a fiction created to distract and panic the public from the failure of Normalization Committee members to fulfill the mandate provided by FIFA to properly operate ALL components that make up a football association; including but not limited to:
1. Pay its office staff and coaches
2. Communicate with TTFA members
3. Communicate with the Trinidad and Tobago public about its so-called reformation plans.
It is for the above reasons United TTFA believe the process and rationale used for implementing a Normalization Committee in Trinidad and Tobago is not only illegitimate but may also very well follow the same pattern of criminality in which Switzerland authorities are currently investigating FIFA President, Gianni Infantino_.
The question must be asked: If FIFA claims to be in charge of TTFA via its so called Normalization Committee, and that the elected officers have been removed, is it then that FIFA will ban itself?
Keith Look Loy
President of the T&T Super League