PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC– A former Trinidad and Tobago national footballer, Brent Sancho, has become the country’s new Sports Minister following a cabinet shake-up announced by Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar Monday night.
Sancho, a member of the 2006 Soca Warriors squad, replaces Rupert Griffith, who had been acting in that post following the resignation of Anil Roberts last year.
Sancho, who represented T&T at the 2006 World Cup campaign in Germany, has been at the forefront of an ongoing legal battle for monies owed to the Soca Warriors by the Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA).
In September last year, Sancho, along with 12 other members of the Soca Warriors, received cheques from the government which represented the balance of the money the court said was owed to them.
He had given the assurance that once those funds were recovered the players would reimburse the government.
Sancho is the current manager director of Central FC.
