The fu­ture of na­tion­al coach Ter­ry Fen­wick is like­ly to come in­to ques­tion, af­ter Wednes­day's al­leged al­ter­ca­tion in which he was al­leged to have at­tacked T&T Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion (TTFA) Me­dia Of­fi­cer Shaun Fuentes min­utes be­fore a press con­fer­ence on the foot­ball field at the Ato Boldon Sta­di­um in Bal­main, Cou­va.

A day be­fore the T&T team was sched­uled to leave for the Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic for its open­ing World Cup qual­i­fy­ing match with Guyana on March 25, Fen­wick was due to ad­dress the me­dia, but al­leged­ly be­came in­censed when Wired 868 jour­nal­ist Lasana Liburd ap­peared at the venue for the press con­fer­ence sched­uled to be­gin at 9 am.

Liburd's pres­ence sent Fen­wick in­to a fit of rage. And in the full view of the me­dia, the Eng­lish-born coach al­leged­ly ver­bal­ly at­tacked Fuentes, ac­cus­ing him of invit­ing Liburd to the event.

Me­dia per­son­nel present said they heard Fen­wick shout­ing and us­ing ob­scene lan­guage to­wards Fuentes and say­ing that he (Fen­wick) will not par­tic­i­pate in the press con­fer­ence once Liburd was present.

An au­dio record­ing that Guardian Me­dia Sports ob­tained, sur­faced af­ter the al­leged in­ci­dent in which the per­son gave an ac­count say­ing that Fuentes was head-butted by the coach and ver­bal­ly abused.

Chair­man of the FI­FA-ap­point­ed Nor­mal­i­sa­tion Com­mit­tee Robert Hadad sub­se­quent­ly or­dered a re­port from Fuentes.

Late on Wednes­day af­ter­noon, TTFA is­sued a state­ment which said: "The T&T Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion wish­es to state that fol­low­ing an in­ci­dent at the se­nior team train­ing ses­sion in­volv­ing men’s Na­tion­al Head Coach Ter­ry Fen­wick and Di­rec­tor of Com­mu­ni­ca­tions and Team Press Of­fi­cer Shaun Fuentes on Wednes­day morn­ing at the Ato Boldon Sta­di­um, the mat­ter has been ad­dressed at a meet­ing in­volv­ing the two in­di­vid­u­als, team man­ag­er Adri­an Ro­main and the Nor­mal­i­sa­tion Com­mit­tee chair­man Robert Hadad.

"The TTFA fur­ther ad­vis­es that the mat­ter was blown out of pro­por­tion as Fen­wick on­ly chose to ex­press his dis­ap­proval of a cer­tain mem­ber of the me­dia fra­ter­ni­ty be­ing present at a sched­uled Me­dia Brief­ing on the eve of the Team’s de­par­ture for the Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic for the up­com­ing CON­CA­CAF World Cup qual­i­fi­er against Guyana.

"Apolo­gies were ex­changed and Fen­wick and Fuentes have since agreed to put the in­ci­dent be­hind them and con­tin­ue the fo­cus on the Team’s up­com­ing as­sign­ments in the Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic and Puer­to Ri­co. Both Fen­wick and Fuentes pro­ceed­ed to con­duct them­selves pro­fes­sion­al­ly and sub­se­quent­ly host­ed the me­dia brief­ing be­fore the me­dia present at the venue."

Two weeks ago, Hadad told Guardian Me­dia Sports that he ad­dressed con­cerns raised by the play­ers about per­son­al is­sues and the team's prepa­ra­tions fol­low­ing a Guardian Me­dia re­port. He con­firmed that he reached out to the team cap­tain Khaleem Hy­land about the is­sues.

This is not the first time Fen­wick has been al­leged­ly in­volved in a phys­i­cal al­ter­ca­tion lo­cal­ly.

In 2005, the then San Juan Jabloteh coach was cap­tured on tele­vi­sion el­bow­ing W Con­nec­tion's Brazil­ian mid­field­er Gef­fer­son Da Sil­va Goulart while he was cel­e­brat­ing a goal against Jabloteh in the Toy­ota Clas­sic fi­nal at the Hase­ly Craw­ford Sta­di­um in Mu­cu­rapo. Fen­wick's ac­tion re­sult­ed in a 10-game ban by the T&T Pro League.

At­tempts to reach Hadad for com­ments on yes­ter­day's in­ci­dent proved fu­tile.