Earl Carter, head coach of Adam’s Construction San Juan Jabloteh, pleas with referees, Trinidad and Tobago Head Coach Otto Pfister and the general public for different reasons.
The former US based coach spoke with ttproleague.com following his team’s 2-0 win over 2011-2012 Digicel Pro League Championship leaders W Connection on Tuesday night at the Mannie Ramjohn Stadium in a rescheduled Round One Match Day Three fixture and expressed disappointment over a number of issues.
He first directed his disappointment over the current standard of officiating in the country’s top flight football saying, “The referees need to raise their level. The players want to raise their level and so must the officials. They need to be consistent as well. The problem isn’t just at our games.”
Cater blamed the low standard of officiating for his side’s run of form with three draws prior to Tuesday’s 2-0 win with leading goalscorer Willis Plaza notching his sixth item in all competitions and Hector Sam also finding the back of the net.
Carter then directed his attention to Pfister adding, “I hope that the national coach pays particular attention to Willis Plaza who has scored in every game he played this season.
What does a player need to do to be recognized by the National coach,” questioned the Jabloteh coach. “And this goes for other performers in the League such as goalkeeper Cleon John.”
Carter then expressed his disappointment in the inconsistency of crowd support at games.
“When we look at our game against Connection I think both teams demonstrated good ball possession and played very attractive football.
The public should come out and support this type of football and they are not doing it consistently. This is an issue I had from the beginning. So I continued to beg the public to come out and support professional football,” ended the former Trinidad and Tobago international goalie.