Oust­ed T&T Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion (TTFA), which is led by William Wal­lace, will de­cide to­day on whether it will chal­lenge the de­ci­sion by FI­FA to ap­point a Nor­mal­i­sa­tion Com­mit­tee to gov­ern T&T foot­ball, or if they will just ac­cept it.

Wal­lace told Guardian Me­dia Sports yes­ter­day that his de­ci­sion will de­pend on the im­pact it will have on the sport lo­cal­ly.

"If it jeop­ar­dis­es T&T foot­ball then I am will­ing to walk away. I would not be self­ish and see the sport de­stroyed. And the good thing is that all the oth­er of­fi­cers in the TTFA are on the same page, so what­ev­er de­ci­sion we make, it must, in no way af­fect the sport,” Wal­lace said.

The foot­ball as­so­ci­a­tion At­tor­neys Emir Crowne and Matthew Gayle have been await­ing the re­sponse of the TTFA ex­ec­u­tive on what will be their next move, in light of the re­cent de­ci­sion by the world gov­ern­ing body for the sport of foot­ball, FI­FA, to ap­point a five-mem­ber com­mit­tee to gov­ern T&T foot­ball af­ter it was found to be head­ing to­wards in­sol­ven­cy.

FI­FA on March 17 agreed to ap­point a Nor­mal­i­sa­tion Com­mit­tee for lo­cal foot­ball af­ter a vis­it by a team from the FI­FA and CON­CA­CAF found that there was not a prop­er struc­ture for lo­cal foot­ball, and there was al­so an in­abil­i­ty to clear a $50 mil­lion debt that has been crip­pling lo­cal foot­ball.

The TTFA, through its lawyers, has said it will seek jus­tice on the FI­FA through the Court of Ar­bi­tra­tion for Sports (CAS) and had al­ready sent a let­ter to the FI­FA ask­ing it (FI­FA) to re­scind its de­ci­sion to send a Nor­mal­i­sa­tion Com­mit­tee. They had giv­en the FI­FA up to March 23 to re­spond but the FI­FA nev­er did.

On Fri­day, FI­FA backed up its de­ci­sion by ap­point­ing busi­ness­man Robert Hadad to head the five-mem­ber com­mit­tee. He will have as his deputy En­vi­ron­men­tal lawyer Judy Daniels and Nigel Ro­mano, an­oth­er busi­ness­man, to car­ry out FI­FA’s man­date of run­ning the TTFA's dai­ly af­fairs; Es­tab­lish­ing a debt re­pay­ment plan that is im­ple­mentable by the TTFA; To re­view and amend the TTFA Statutes (and oth­er reg­u­la­tions where nec­es­sary) and to en­sure their com­pli­ance with the FI­FA Statutes and re­quire­ments be­fore du­ly sub­mit­ting them for ap­proval to the TTFA Con­gress, and to or­gan­ise and to con­duct elec­tions of a new TTFA ex­ec­u­tive com­mit­tee for a four-year man­date.

The com­mit­tee is to be joined by two oth­er mem­bers, who FI­FA, in col­lab­o­ra­tion with the CON­CA­CAF will name in the com­ing days.

Wal­lace said yes­ter­day that in ad­di­tion to pro­tect­ing T&T foot­ball, he and his mem­bers have had to con­sid­er the huge cost in­volved in chal­leng­ing FI­FA through the CAS, as well as the reper­cus­sions they could face in chal­leng­ing the world gov­ern­ing body for foot­ball.

"We are hear­ing that we face chal­lenges of not get­ting the sup­port of the FI­FA if we are suc­cess­ful against the FI­FA through the CAS.

"I can tell you though, that we face a se­ri­ous in­jus­tice," Wal­lace told Guardian Me­dia Sports, adding that he is un­cer­tain if he will con­sid­er go­ing up for re-elec­tions when the com­mit­tee has fin­ished its man­date by the two-year pe­ri­od.

"I think it is a bit pre­ma­ture to think about that but I may see a way that I can as­sist T&T foot­ball and may con­sid­er it, I don’t know. It all de­pends on how I can help T&T foot­ball."