PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC) — Jack Warner says he faces a difficult decision about his future, following re-election to the Trinidad & Tobago Parliament as part of the United National Congress coalition that also elected the country’s first female Prime Minister on Monday.

Warner is one of the most powerful men in the sport of football. He is the de facto head of the sport in his native T&T in his role of special advisor to the T&T Football Federation, president of the Caribbean Football Union, president of the Confederation of North, Central, and Caribbean Area Football, and a vice-president of the sport’s World governing body, FIFA.

Warner defeated Ronald Heera of the People’s National Movement for the Chaguanas West seat in the T&T Red House, and as chairman of the UNC is expected to claim a cabinet post in the administration of Kamla Persad-Bissessar, which has left him unusually undecided.

“The Prime Minister has been asking me, and I have not been able to answer her yet,” said Warner.

“Whatever I do in life, I like to give 150 per cent, and if I agree to be in the Cabinet, it means that my entire football career would come to end.

He added: “After over 20 consecutive years of involvement in football, I am a little indecisive about if I should give it up now, or not.

“If I could serve two masters, that would be the ideal thing. I would much prefer an advisory role to Cabinet, rather than being part of the Cabinet.”

Warner noted that PM Persad-Bissessar has discussed privately with him that she would like him to play a major role in the new Government of T&T.

“She says she wants me to sit down at her right side,” he said.

“She wants me to be there, and to administer a ministry, one that can be effective, and produce change, that you can see, that you can quantify, that you can feel, that you can touch.”

Warner however, gave no indication, which particular ministry of government the new T&T PM would like him to oversee.

Persad-Bissessar’s UNC-led People’s Partnership coalition won 29 seats in the 41-seat T&T legislature with 53 per cent of the vote, ousting the government of the PNM’s Patrick Manning, who held the post of Prime Minister for 13 of the past 17 years.