JFF clarifies Carl Brown compensation offer issue
KINGSTON, Jamaica — The Jamaica Football Federation (JFF) is clarifying statements regarding its efforts to engage the services of former coach of Jamaica’s senior men’s football team, Carl Brown, on a temporary basis.
This comes after Brown made statements about the compensation package of US$100 per day that he was reportedly offered for the duration of the agreement, which he says he found insulting and disrespectful.
Media reports are that Brown said he was very disappointed with the JFF’s approach and that he did not know that he would have seen the day when the JFF would sink to that point.
In a news release Monday, the JFF admitted that its president, Captain Horace Burrell, contacted Brown to get an indication of his availability.
However, the JFF said Brown indicated the need to speak with his present employers and return a call to Burrell.
“Although Coach Brown has indicated he made three attempts to call the president, there is no record of those calls coming through,” JFF said.
In the interim, the federation said that they thought it appropriate to formalise its approach to Brown and did so in an email sent by their general secretary, which Brown declined because he thought it insulting, the JFF said.
“On hearing this, the president called Coach Brown. In a conversation lasting 45 minutes, the president apologized for the misunderstanding emerging from the email. He explained that in the absence of the discussion on first his availability and his overall package, the email listed one area of certainty, the per-diem allowance. The president made every effort to have Coach Brown change his decision,” JFF continued.
The federation said that it was always the intention of the president that, on hearing of Coach Brown’s availability, the terms of his engagement would have been discussed and finalised with him.
It said that all head coaches of the national senior team are offered: accommodation during match engagement, ground transportation, a salary, and a per diem allowance.
According to the JFF, that course of action may vary depending on specific contracts and that all of those areas would have been the subject of discussion with Coach Brown.
