The Manicou Report

Wim Rijsbergen

So it’s official that Leo is no longer the coach of the Trinidad & Tobago Football team and is now going off to coach the Polish National Team (Wojciech, thanks for stealing our coach, man). His aim is to get them into Euro 2008 and so he’ll coach them for an initial period of 2 years.

Our new coach will be Leo’s assistant Wim Rijsbergen – yet another person who’s name will take me 6 months to learn to spell. Wim Rijsbergen is also a former national player for Holland. He asked to, and will be assisted by Anton Corneal and Dutchman Jan Van Deinsen.

However we have not completely lost Leo. He will still stay on as an adviser to the TTFF and will attend matches on a “need to” basis.

Playing for Holland

So although I wish that Beenhakker had stayed, we haven’t lost everything we had going into 2006. I also have a lot of trust in Jack Warner (when it comes to football matters) and I’m sure he’ll do everything he can to help the T&T go to South Africa in 2008. The four-year contract did surprise me a little though, but if he thinks that Rijsbergen is worth a four-year contract, then I’m all for it.

In any case it will be something new.

*Yeah Ed, thanks for the note. The shorts are a little brief (no pun intended). I think I can see what he’s thinking.

That’s true about Jack though. He is a little bit of an opportunist. I amend my statement to be, “I trust him when it comes to his wishes for the fate of the Trinidad & Tobago Football Team”.