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Tom Saint­fi­et says he should have re­signed from the job as So­ca War­riors head coach on the same day he was ap­point­ed.

He said this be­cause he nev­er got the sup­port of the TTFA Pres­i­dent and was not al­lowed to work with the play­ers and staff that he want­ed to work with.

Sain­fi­et&nb­sp; hand­ed in his res­ig­na­tion let­ter on Tues­day,&nb­sp; days af­ter the So­ca War­riors were hu­mil­i­at­ed af­ter plac­ing last in a three team tour­na­ment to qual­i­fy for the Gold Cup.

T&T lost to both Suri­name and Haiti in the gold cup qual­i­fi­ca­tion rounds, held in T&T.

Saint­fi­et was ap­point­ed as head coach on De­cem­ber 7, re­plac­ing for­mer na­tion­al coach Stephen Hart.

Not­ing that he had been giv­en the man­date to guide the team past Pana­ma and Mex­i­co in the com­ing World Cup qual­i­fiers in March, he said he had come to the con­clu­sion that he could not be suc­cess­ful in the cur­rent en­vi­ron­ment.

"From the first day of my un­veil­ing, I did not get the sup­port of the TTFA and its Pres­i­dent, sup­port which is need­ed to be able to do my job in a pro­fes­sion­al way," Saint­fi­et wrote.

"Per­haps I should have tak­en this de­ci­sion right from day one of my ap­point­ment af­ter the Pres­i­dent open­ly sec­ond guessed his own choice of em­ploy­ing me but I gave him and the TTFA the ben­e­fit if the doubt."

He said it was an ho­n­our and priv­i­lege to work for a beau­ti­ful na­tion like T&T and wished the play­ers, staff, TTFA, fans and the whole foot­ball fam­i­ly the very best.

The TTFA to­day ac­cept­ed Saint­fi­et's res­ig­na­tion.

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