Rus­sell Lat­apy ar­rived in Trinidad from Scot­land on Sat­ur­day night and is ex­pect­ed to be here for at least the rest of the month, as he awaits word from the Trinidad and To­ba­go Foot­ball Fed­er­a­tion on whether he will have any fur­ther part to play in its af­fairs with lo­cal foot­ball. It has been wide­ly re­port­ed that Lat­apy will be re­placed as head coach of the "So­ca War­riors" by a for­eign coach with ex-Por­tu­gal na­tion­al team coach Car­los Queiroz tipped to be the man for the job.

And while TTFF tech­ni­cal ad­vis­er has gone on record of say­ing Lat­apy will be re­placed, the "Lit­tle Ma­gi­cian" has him­self re­ceived no of­fi­cial cor­re­spon­dence from the TTFF over the ter­mi­na­tion of his ser­vices or at least a shift in po­si­tion. The same oc­curred with Bertille St Clair in 2000, Ian Porter­field in 2001 and Fran­cis­co Mat­u­rana would al­so have seen all the ev­i­dence lead­ing to his ser­vices be­ing halt­ed in 2009 via the me­dia. But ac­cord­ing to TTFF Pres­i­dent Oliv­er Camps, the TTFF will go about its deal­ing with Lat­apy in an ap­pro­pri­ate and cor­dial man­ner.

"This is what we are go­ing to be do­ing this time. We need to halt these stop gap mea­sures. It's about get­ting the right peo­ple to come in and get in­volved. Un­til the process is com­plet­ed I will not be say­ing any­thing about a na­tion­al coach. Re­ports are be­ing eval­u­at­ed. The Ex­ec­u­tive Com­mit­tee will get to­geth­er and then de­cide where we go from here. The re­ports in the me­dia about coach­es be­ing hired or fired is true at this time.

"As far as I am con­cerned, as Pres­i­dent of the TTFF, that is how I feel it should be done and that is how I will like to see the process come through with us deal­ing with Rus­sell Lat­apy in a pro­fes­sion­al man­ner . I can­not pre­vent some leaks but we will sit with Rus­sell and hold dis­cus­sions on his fu­ture in­volve­ment with the TTFF," said Camps.

"I per­son­al­ly would like to see us groom some­one like Lat­apy and not just dis­card him when it comes to his in­volve­ment with the de­vel­op­ment of our foot­ball. A foot­ball brain like his in our coun­try does not come along of­ten in a life­time," said Camps. Lat­apy has been in Por­tu­gal but spent the last few days in Scot­lan be­fore head­ing for Port-of-Spain. It has been ru­moured that if Queiroz does take up the post as head coach, that Lat­apy could be made his as­sis­tant par­tic­u­lar­ly as he al­so speaks Por­tuguese flu­ent­ly.