Participating teams receive promised football kit from K&S

Dec 03, 2012 Sports

– Director endorses ‘Wiggy’ Dover for coach’s post

Less than one week after Technical Director of the Golden Jaguars tendered his resignation, Director of the K&S football organization, Kashif Muhammad, has commended the work of his understudy, Wayne ‘Wiggy’ Dover, and posited that local football administrators should consider elevating him to the vacated position.
Mr. Muhammad was joined by his fellow Director, Aubrey ‘Shanghai’ Major, at a press conference at the Princess Hotel International, Providence ECD, Saturday morning last. The forum was convened to brief the participating teams of the yearly K&S football extravaganza as well as to give them the promised football kits.
He chronicled the arduous journey from the early days of the tournament when he and his sidekick, Aubrey ‘Shanghai’ Major decided to arrange a small ‘scrubby’ between 4 Linden teams, Top XX, Botofago, Central Hikers and Milerock, that carried a winning purse of $4,000, put up by beverage giants, Banks DIH Ltd. He spoke of the further inclusion of Georgetown teams such as Santos FC and subsequently, Camptown FC. “As the years progressed we became more innovative,” said Mr. Muhammad.
The K&S Director remembered the unacceptable situation where local ball weavers were unable to hone their skills among qualitative opposition thus stymieing their advancement. “We opened the doors where local players were given opportunities to play in Trinidad and Tobago among their counterparts in those semi-professional and professional leagues,” he further disclosed. The concomitant result was vast improvement of the local teams to the extent that they started to defeat their higher ranked Caribbean counterparts.
He credited the innovative spirit of his team for the intervention of former technical Director of the Golden Jaguars, Jamaal Shabazz, whose technical skills piloted the Golden Jaguars to the second and third rounds of the FIFA World Cup Qualifiers. We were not bringing in any profits but merely inspired by the prospects of local players acquiring opportunities to advance in their game,” said the K&S Director. Names such as Charles ‘Lily’ Pollard, Collie Hercules and Colin Nelson among others were as beneficiaries of such initiatives. It was while highlighting these achievements that Mr. Muhammad made a pitch for Dover’s appointment. Further, Mr. Muhammad took pride over his company’s achievement of hosting the great football legend, King Pele at the 20th edition of the tournament.
It was during Shabazz’ tenure with the Golden Jaguars that Dover’s skill came to the fore, and the former Technical Director decided to place him under his tutelage. Now that Mr. Shabazz has given up the position to focus on similar developmental programmes in his home country, Trinidad and Tobago, Mr. Muhammad is adamant that Dover is quite capable of filling the vacancy. The Trinidad coach has subtly endorsed this view when in an emotional gesture he peeled off a yellow jersey he was wearing at the time and handed it to Dover, a symbol of trust and confidence in his ability.
Meanwhile, representatives of 16 participating teams were also present at the forum and were presented with kits consisting of hoses, trunks, jerseys and other paraphernalia. They were then briefed on the rules and other matters relevant to their participation and the smooth running of the tournament.

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