David John-Williams, pres­i­dent of the T&T Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion (TTFA), has de­scribed the res­ig­na­tion of na­tion­al coach, Bel­gian Tom Saint­fi­et as un­for­tu­nate.

The 43-year old coach whose last job was the Bangladesh na­tion­al team, called it quits yes­ter­day, cit­ing lack of sup­port from the TTFA and its pres­i­dent.

His re­place­ment is ex­pect­ed to be Stu­art-Charles Fevri­er, the W Con­nec­tion coach who, it was ru­moured, would have tak­en over the coun­try's coach­ing po­si­tion with the elec­tion of John-Williams as new TTFA pres­i­dent.

The lo­cal foot­ball boss how­ev­er said he was not pleased with the res­ig­na­tion and will soon hold a press con­fer­ence to clear the air on it. Ru­mours that Saint­fi­et was go­ing to be fired fol­low­ing T&T's fail­ure to qual­i­fy for the CON­CA­CAF Gold Cup be­gan cir­cu­lat­ing af­ter Sun­day's cru­cial 4-3 ex­tra-time de­feat by Haiti n the CFU/CON­CA­CAF Gold Cup play-off at the Ato Boldon Sta­di­um.

Apart from his loss to Haiti, Saint­fi­et's men could not get past Caribbean min­nows Suri­name as they went down 2-1 in their open­ing match of the tour­na­ment.

John Williams yes­ter­day re­ferred Saint­fi­et's res­ig­na­tion let­ter to the Tech­ni­cal Com­mit­tee which lat­er rec­om­mend­ed that it be ac­cept­ed and rat­i­fied by the Board of Di­rec­tors of the foot­ball as­so­ci­a­tion.

John Williams in an in­ter­view with CNC3 Sports sought to make his po­si­tion clear, say­ing he does not se­lect the coun­try's head­coach, as the tech­ni­cal com­mit­tee makes that de­ci­sion.

He made it clear the tech­ni­cal com­mit­tee will al­so se­lect a re­place­ment for the Bel­gian coach in the short­est pos­si­ble time.

Mean­while, Fevri­er said he will ac­cept the coun­try's coach­ing job if it is of­fered to him. "I am a foot­ball coach by pro­fes­sion and I will cer­tain­ly con­sid­er any job that I am be­ing of­fered, es­pe­cial­ly to work at the high­est lev­el of the game.

"It is cer­tain­ly a dif­fi­cult time for T&T foot­ball. Some­times you can turn a neg­a­tive in­to a pos­i­tive and some­times it may not work al­so, but if you have to take the job, you have to think pos­i­tive­ly" Fevri­er said.

Quizzed on whether he can take over the hot T&T job at this time he re­spond­ed "T&T have not been do­ing well for a while now, not just the last week or two weeks.

"The re­sults have been in-be­tween, not con­sis­tent, and I be­lieve there is need for a holis­tic plan, but for now it's all about qual­i­fy­ing for the World Cup.

"How­ev­er the qual­i­ty must be im­proved be­cause we will be go­ing up against qual­i­ty op­po­nents"

Fevri­er has promised no guar­an­tees if he takes the job but not­ed that he is con­fi­dent in his abil­i­ty. (WA)