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Wednesday, July 23, 2025

Tim Kee buoyed by Fifa, Concacaf support

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Trinidad and To­ba­go Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion (TTFA) pres­i­dent Ray­mond Tim Kee is back­ing Con­ca­caf pres­i­dent Jef­frey Webb to trans­form the re­gion­al con­fed­er­a­tion in­to a more dy­nam­ic and suc­cess­ful or­ga­ni­za­tion in the months ahead.

This was Tim Kee's re­ac­tion to dis­cus­sions held with Webb on lo­cal and re­gion­al foot­ball, dur­ing a vis­it Port-of-Spain, re­cent­ly. Tim Kee said that while there has been some type of or­ga­ni­za­tion­al analy­sis of the TTFA since he has been Pres­i­dent, he in­tends to see the process con­tin­ued par­tic­u­lar­ly through the work of the In­de­pen­dent Foot­ball Re­form Com­mis­sion.

He in­tends to have a clos­er look at the im­pact of the TTFA in­ter­ac­tion with oth­er or­ga­ni­za­tions and stake­hold­ers.

Days be­fore his vis­it to Port-of-Spain, on be­half of Con­ca­caf, Webb signed a mem­o­ran­dum of un­der­stand­ing with UE­FA to mu­tu­al­ly de­vel­op the game in the con­fed­er­a­tion.

The agree­ment is sim­i­lar in na­ture to that signed be­tween Con­ca­caf and the Con­fed­er­a­tion of African Foot­ball in April 2013. Webb and UE­FA Pres­i­dent Michel Pla­ti­ni signed the agree­ment which will pro­vide Con­ca­caf with tech­ni­cal as­sis­tance and sup­port while build­ing a strong con­nec­tion with sport­ing, so­cial, cul­tur­al and ed­u­ca­tion­al ben­e­fits.

"I can say with­out a doubt that the Con­ca­caf pres­i­dent is on the right path to en­sur­ing that Con­ca­caf re­mains a strong or­ga­ni­za­tion with­in world foot­ball and that it con­tin­ues to ex­pand and ex­pe­ri­ence growth that will be com­mend­able and one that will al­low it to stand firm­ly among the rest," Tim Kee said.

Among some the ar­eas of dis­cus­sion held be­tween Webb and the Tim Kee in­clud­ed the es­tab­lish­ment of sys­tems and op­er­a­tions, which will aid in the TTFA be­com­ing a more vi­able or­gan­i­sa­tion through part­ner­ships with stake­hold­ers and cor­po­rate T&T as well as the gov­ern­ment of T&T.

Webb main­tained that T&T is among the top ranked coun­tries in the re­gion when it comes to the prod­uct and the re­sources and in­fra­struc­ture for de­vel­op­ment of the game, as well as host­ing of dif­fer­ent foot­ball-re­lat­ed events.

"Our dis­cus­sions were all geared to­wards the de­vel­op­ment of the game in T&T and ways in which both Con­ca­caf and TTFA can work to­geth­er to pro­mote and en­hance the sport.

"Webb has our coun­try's in­ter­est at heart and he said to me that while he is aware of the chal­lenges fac­ing T&T, he's com­mit­ted to­wards work­ing with us to solve the is­sues and to help us gain mo­men­tum as we try to move for­ward," added Tim Kee, who said that Webb was al­so pleased with the sup­port af­ford­ed to the TTFA by the Min­istry of Sport and the Min­istry of Tourism as well as the Sport Com­pa­ny of T&T (SporTT).

Fi­fa de­vel­op­ment of­fi­cer Howard McIn­tosh con­tin­ues to work with the TTFA.

Re­cent­ly, Fi­fa women's foot­ball con­sul­tant An­drea Rode­baugh vis­it­ed T&T for two days of meet­ings aimed at im­prov­ing lo­cal women's foot­ball. Con­ca­caf will al­so stage a grass roots de­vel­op­ment event in T&T in May.

Al­so, re­cent­ly Fi­fa an­nounced that T&T would be among those ben­e­fit­ing from nine projects ap­proved with­in the Fi­fa In­come Gen­er­a­tion Pro­gramme, a spe­cial ini­tia­tive launched by the Fi­fa ex­ec­u­tive com­mit­tee in 2011 with the ob­jec­tive of fos­ter­ing rev­enue cre­ation in mem­ber as­so­ci­a­tions with high foot­ball de­vel­op­ment po­ten­tial.

Both Tim Kee and gen­er­al sec­re­tary Shel­don Phillips will at­tend the Fi­fa con­gress in Sao Pao­lo in ear­ly June, pri­or to the start of the 2014 Fi­fa World Cup fi­nals.

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