Stu­art Charles-Fevri­er, the for­mer na­tion­al youth and se­nior na­tion­al team as­sis­tant coach, has been asked to state his cur­rent em­ploy­ment sta­tus if a claim for monies owed to him for a breach of con­tract by the T&T Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion (TTFA), is to be processed.

Charles-Fevri­er, who is al­so a coach at T&T Pro League out­fit W Con­nec­tion, wrote to the FI­FA on June 4, cit­ing breach of con­tract when the foot­ball ad­min­is­tra­tion changed man­age­ment from David John-Williams to William Wal­lace in No­vem­ber, last year.

The vet­er­an coach was paid one salary for his roles as head coach of the Un­der-15 boys' team and as an as­sis­tant coach to Den­nis Lawrence on a two-year deal which was from June 2019 to June 2021.

The 61-year-old Charles-Fevri­er lost his job in Jan­u­ary 2020 when the Unit­ed TTFA de­cid­ed to re­place the tech­ni­cal staff, with a year and a half left on his con­tract.

When con­tact­ed a re­luc­tant Charles-Fevri­er, a for­mer se­nior men's team na­tion­al coach in 2002-2003, said that he de­cid­ed to for­ward his case to FI­FA af­ter sev­er­al at­tempts dur­ing meet­ings with the Unit­ed TTFA failed to bring about a set­tle­ment.

Guardian Me­dia Sports un­der­stand that coach Charles-Fevri­er of St Lu­cia, who be­came W Con­nec­tion coach in 1999 and won six Pro League ti­tles and five Caribbean Club Cham­pi­onships, is al­so seek­ing un­paid salaries for sev­er­al months.

Yes­ter­day, Eri­ka Mon­te­mor Fer­reira, FI­FA's head of Play­ers’ Sta­tus, in a re­sponse to Charles-Fevri­er's let­ter, or­dered the coach to up­date them on his cur­rent sta­tus by Sun­day, say­ing: "In or­der to com­plete the in­for­ma­tion on file, we kind­ly ask the coach, Mr Stephen Stu­art Charles-Fevri­er, to in­form us of his em­ploy­ment sit­u­a­tion as of the al­leged breach of con­tract un­til to­day and to pro­vide us with a copy of any re­lat­ed em­ploy­ment con­tract(s) along with a trans­la­tion in­to an of­fi­cial FI­FA lan­guage (Eng­lish, French, Span­ish or Ger­man), if need be, by no lat­er than Ju­ly 12, 2020."

Mon­te­mor Fer­reira al­so asked the lo­cal coach, who has guid­ed W Con­nec­tion to 43 ma­jor lo­cal and re­gion­al ti­tles over the last 21 years, to abide by ar­ti­cle five para­graph three of the Pro­ce­dur­al Rules, which pro­vides that “all per­sons par­ty to pro­ceed­ings are oblig­ed to tell the truth” to FI­FA’s de­cid­ing bod­ies.

Mon­te­mor Fer­reira al­so ex­plained that while the in­ves­ti­ga­tion to his mat­ter may have been closed, FI­FA will re­fer it to the com­pe­tent de­cid­ing body for con­sid­er­a­tion.

"It ap­pears that no cor­re­spon­dence has been re­ceived from the TTFA, in re­sponse there­to. Con­se­quent­ly, we would like to in­form the par­ties in­volved that the in­ves­ti­ga­tion-phase of the present mat­ter is now closed. This is, no fur­ther sub­mis­sions from the par­ties will be ad­mit­ted to the file (cf. art. 9 par. 4 of the Rules Gov­ern­ing the Pro­ce­dures of the Play­ers’ Sta­tus Com­mit­tee and the Dis­pute Res­o­lu­tion Cham­ber; here­inafter: pro­ce­dur­al Rules).

"Fur­ther­more, we wish to in­form the par­ties that we will pro­ceed to sub­mit this mat­ter to the com­pe­tent de­cid­ing body for con­sid­er­a­tion and a for­mal de­ci­sion. We will not fail to re­vert to the par­ties in­volved once the date of the meet­ing of the said de­cid­ing body has been con­firmed," Mon­te­mor Fer­reira ex­plained.

For­mer na­tion­al coach Den­nis Lawrence, who was fired by the TTFA on De­cem­ber 15, 2019, has al­so lodged his mat­ter with FI­FA.