Trinidad and Tobago Football Federation (TTFF) president Raymond Tim Kee was scheduled to meet with Fifa president Sepp Blatter at the Fifa headquarters in Zurich, Switzerland, yesterday.

This will be Tim Kee’s first official meeting with the Fifa boss since his installation as president of the TTFF last year. Tim Kee recently returned from the United States where he met with Concacaf president Jeff Webb.
Before leaving for Zurich, Tim Kee said he intended to discuss several matters relating to the TTFF with Blatter, among them the possibility of financial assistance to his organisation to aid in payments owed to 13 members of the 2006 World Cup squad as well as other individuals who are owed by the TTFF.

“I feel quite optimistic about the meeting and the opportunity that we have right now to fix some of the problems that the federation is facing. I don’t know that you can erase history, but what you can do is try to emulate what was desirable and positive and discard the things that were not,” Tim Kee said on the weekend.

Tim Kee shared some of his intentions over the coming months, disclosing that there were proposed standing committees that would be set up to share advice into the running of some of the TTFF’s operations.

“I am not one to say that everything that the federation did was wrong because that would not be true. But what we can do now is to try to do more and to ensure some of the mistakes that were made before do not confront us again.

“We have to salvage what we have and move forward.  We have to do some serious renovation. I am looking very closely to making some adjustments that would speak to the kind of foundation that we need,” Tim Kee said.

“I am acutely aware of interdependence and that is the mindset I have moving forward. I am what you call the conscious incompetent. I know what I don’t know and therefore that allows for me to learn and seek information and experience,” he added.

Tim Kee will speak further on his meeting with Blatter following his return to Port-of-Spain later this week.

Source: www.guardian.co.tt