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National Team Football Coach Gone, Again!
posted (March 6, 2013)
Tonight, 7News has confirmed that the National Team Coach, Leroy Sherrier, who was trying to mend fences with the football community in Belize, has decided to leave once again.

The last time he spoke to us, he had announced that he was in the very final stages of negotiating - and signing - a contract with the Football Federation of Belize where he would have been given security of tenure. Well, it seems that he could not come to an agreement with the National Team Committee, the body which exists separate from the FFB, and which governs the matters of the national team.

Reliable information to our newsroom is that while in negotiation with the Committee, Sherrier could not accept any contract drafts they presented because they allegedly put him at a disadvantage.

Well, the frustration built, and because FFB President Ruperto Vicente, who supports Sherrier, didn't want to meddle in the affairs of the committee, Sherrier walked. He reportedly left Belize today, and it has created a void, which the FFB will address in an emergency press conference tomorrow.

It is important to note that Sherrier had the full support of Vicente, who chose not to dictate to the Committee what the terms of the coach's contract should have been.

Vicente has reportedly offered Sherrier the option, if he should so choose - and while it is still available - to return to the post of head coach.


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