The TTFF executive committee will hold an emergency meeting for 4.30 p.m. today at the Harvard Sports Club. The meeting comes after 13 former and current national players took levy action against the Federation yesterday, removing furniture from its office on Dundonald Street, Port of Spain.

Players enforced levy action after the TTFF failed to honour an October 2011 Trinidad and Tobago High Courts judgement which gave the Federation seven days to make an interim TT$4.2 million payment, after the players took them to court in a dispute over 2006 World Cup funds. The players won judgements in the Trinidad and Tobago high courts after arguing that then TTFF special adviser Jack Warner had promised them half of the estimated 40 million raised in 2006 when the Soca Warriors qualified for the World Cup in Germany. Last night, the TTFF issued a press release. It stated that: "The TTFF acknowledges that the players have exercised their legal rights. The TTFF reiterates that as an organisation, it does not at this time have the luxury of $4.6 million to pay the players but it does acknowledge the debt."

The TTFF said it is also waiting on Warner to provide accounts on how the estimated $40 million raised during the 2006 World Cup campaign was used. Warner was chairman of the 2006 World Cup organising committee.

In an affidavit, former TTFF president Oliver Camps testified that Warner was solely responsible for the use of World Cup funds. Recently, high court justice Devindra Rampersad recently gave Warner a February 10 deadline to provide all documents associated with Local Organising Committee (LOC) 2006 accounts.

"The TTFF had hoped that 2006 World Cup Local Organizing Committee (LOC) accounts of which Mr. Warner was the sole arbiter, would have been reconciled and payments would have been made to the players. This unfortunately has not occurred. The TTFF on its own does not have the resources to fulfill this request for such payment. On the matter of the account in question, the TTFF fully expected Mr. Warner to comply with the instructions of the Court to have the accounts ready and delivered to the Court by February 10th," the TTFF release said.

The TTFF said despite recent problems, its operations will continue with the focus on the national Under-23 men's team and U-17 women's team which goes into World Cup qualifying action in May. Funds for these two teams have been guaranteed by the Ministry of Sport. The men's Olympic team is off to Tobago this weekend for a training camp and will then depart for Costa Rica and Orlando for further training camps before traveling to Carson, California to contest the final round of the Olympic qualification.