Minister Cudjoe lamented that “the future of our local athletes must now suffer because of the egos and actions of a few jokers.”

Thursday’s decision by FIFA is the culmination of months of butting heads with the TTFA.

After disbanding the TTFA’s board and appointing a normalization committee back in March of this year, former TTFA President William Wallace took the matter to the local courts seeking to overturn the decision.

The move to go to a local court, FIFA said, “jeopardized not only the future of football in Trinidad and Tobago but endangers the overall global football governance structure, which relies on the Court of Arbitration for Sports (CAS) as the exclusive forum for resolving disputes of this nature”.

On Thursday, FIFA described his actions as a “grave violation of the FIFA Statutes”

The TTFA was given an extended deadline to withdraw the matter by September 23rd, however the refusal to do so led to FIFA’s suspension.