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Tuesday, July 22, 2025

TTFA, Avec Sports may head to court

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Walter Alibey
1877 days ago
20200602
TTFA former President William Wallace, centre, Sports & Games Director Omar Hadeed, left, and Senior Men's Team head coach Terry Fenwick at the official signing of the agreement at Sports & Games, Trincity Mall in March.

TTFA former President William Wallace, centre, Sports & Games Director Omar Hadeed, left, and Senior Men's Team head coach Terry Fenwick at the official signing of the agreement at Sports & Games, Trincity Mall in March.

TTFA Media

T&T foot­ball ad­min­is­tra­tion, whether it is the FI­FA-ap­point­ed Nor­mal­i­sa­tion Com­mit­tee or the T&T Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion, will have to pay back US$1.4 mil­lion to UK sports­wear sup­pli­ers Avec Sports for a con­tract with the TTFA that is not be­ing ho­n­oured.

The amount is on­ly part of what the em­bat­tled foot­ball as­so­ci­a­tion may have to pay, one mem­ber of the oust­ed TTFA team told Guardian Me­dia Sports on Mon­day, as they brace for the le­gal im­pli­ca­tions of not ho­n­our­ing a four-year $25 mil­lion deal which was sup­posed to be­gin of­fi­cial­ly yes­ter­day (June 1) with the ar­rival of uni­forms to out­fit all the coun­try's foot­ball teams.

The con­tract with Avec Sports was signed by for­mer TTFA pres­i­dent William Wal­lace and gen­er­al sec­re­tary Ramesh Ramd­han on be­half of the or­gan­i­sa­tion back in Jan­u­ary and was sched­uled to take ef­fect yes­ter­day (June 1). Ac­cord­ing to a source close to the mat­ter who spoke to Guardian Me­dia Sports on con­di­tion of anonymi­ty, the UK sports­wear sup­pli­ers have al­ready pumped a sig­nif­i­cant sum in­to en­sur­ing that the uni­forms are ready.

Ac­cord­ing to the agree­ment the TTFA need to sell £125,000 or TT$1.25m or 7, 500 uni­forms from Avec. How­ev­er, the prof­its of the sales will be shared 8o to the TTFA to 20 per cent to the lo­cal dis­trib­u­tor which is Sports & Games.

It un­der­stood that FI­FA is not in­ter­est­ed in any con­tracts that the Wal­lace-led TTFA, who are now con­sid­ered per­sona non gra­ta, had en­tered in­to.

The sourced added that Emile Mo­hammed, who worked along­side for­mer TTFA Gen­er­al Sec­re­tary Ca­ma­ra David in the T&T Su­per League sec­re­tari­at back in 2017, is an as­sis­tant to the Nor­mal­i­sa­tion Com­mit­tee.

The source said Mo­hammed at­tempt­ed to reach out to Avec Sports re­cent­ly in an at­tempt to dis­cuss the deal, how­ev­er, Avec ap­peared not to be in­ter­est­ed since the uni­forms were al­ready in pro­duc­tion.

Ef­forts to con­tact Ramesh Ramd­han, the TTFA Gen­er­al Sec­re­tary for an up­date on the uni­forms proved fu­tile.


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