The si­lence of the FI­FA-ap­point­ed Nor­mal­i­sa­tion Com­mit­tee Chair­man Robert Hadad has be­come a ma­jor con­cern for some tech­ni­cal of­fi­cials of the lo­cal foot­ball fra­ter­ni­ty.

Al­most six weeks in­to his tenure as chair­man, both coach­es and tech­ni­cal of­fi­cials, who agreed to speak to Guardian Me­dia Sports on the con­di­tion of anonymi­ty on Thurs­day, are call­ing on Hadad to break his si­lence and out­line what are his plans for lo­cal foot­ball both fi­nan­cial­ly and from a tech­ni­cal stand­point.

“Mr Hadad held a zoom meet­ing for tech­ni­cal staff mem­bers on April 29 and at the end of it, we left in the say way we start­ed. We don't know what is hap­pen­ing. Are we go­ing to be paid, when will we be paid, will re­sume train­ing in post-COVID-19, what is hap­pen­ing with the T&T Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion ac­counts, what is hap­pen­ing with our na­tion­al teams and the T&T Pro League, what about our plans for com­ing qual­i­fiers and tour­na­ments etc,” two coach­es asked.

The coach­es have al­so said dis­ap­point­ing­ly that there have al­so yet to hear a word from Hadad's deputy, at­tor­ney and En­vi­ron­men­tal­ist Judy Daniel, and re­tired banker and busi­ness­man Nigel Ro­mano, who is al­so a di­rec­tor and part­ner at More TT and the chair­man at Na­tion­al Flour Mills.

The two got the nod to work along­side Hadad from the world gov­ern­ing body for foot­ball - FI­FA on March 27, when it de­cid­ed to ap­point a nor­mal­iza­tion com­mit­tee to man­age the af­fairs of TT foot­ball, cit­ing a re­al risk of in­sol­ven­cy and illiq­uid­i­ty, with no con­crete plans of clear­ing a debt, al­leged to be $50 mil­lion on March 17.

Two oth­er mem­bers are sup­posed to be added to the com­mit­tee, up­on the ap­point­ment of the CON­CA­CAF and the FI­FA soon.

Hadad, the HAD­CO Group of Com­pa­nies di­rec­tor, was bap­tized in­to lo­cal foot­ball ad­min­is­tra­tion with a bat­tle through the Court of Ar­bi­tra­tion for Sports (CAS), be­tween FI­FA and the oust­ed ad­min­is­tra­tion that was led by William Wal­lace and his three vice pres­i­dent Clynt Tay­lor, Joseph 'Sam' Phillip and Su­san Joseph-War­rick.

He al­so had to put his le­gal per­son­nel on stand­by to se­cure own­er­ship of the TTFA let­ter­head, while, at the same time, chal­lenge Wal­lace for use of the foot­ball as­so­ci­a­tion bank ac­counts.

Hadad is ex­pect­ing grant and COVID-19 Re­lief funds from the FI­FA but has to wait un­til he can get used of the TTFA's First Cit­i­zens Bank ac­counts. In the lat­est saga for the ac­count, the bank has called on both Hadad and Wal­lace to walk with a le­gal doc­u­ment show­ing they have the right to use the ac­count.

The T&T Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion is in line to re­ceive US$1.2 mil­lion (an es­ti­mat­ed TT$6.7mil­lion), plus a CON­CA­CAF US$160,000 (an es­ti­mat­ed TT$1,040,000) grant, as well as an un­known amount for the re­lief fund to the Nor­mal­i­sa­tion Com­mit­tee.