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The Board of Di­rec­tors of the T&T Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion will have to de­cide if it will con­sid­er a last-ditch bat­tle for own­er­ship of the ‘So­ca War­riors’ name af­ter a for­mer Trinidad Broad­cast­ing Com­pa­ny (TBC) em­ploy­ee, Steve Dip­nar­ine, ad­mit­ted that he was the one who coined the phrase ‘So­ca War­riors.’

Dip­nar­ine, who held the po­si­tion of mar­ket­ing man­ag­er in the ra­dio di­vi­sion of the TBC, a po­si­tion that en­tailed cre­at­ing pro­mo­tions to com­mer­cialise the rights they had for foot­ball, and in par­tic­u­lar, World Cup Qual­i­fy­ing, is­sued a re­lease on the mat­ter.

Dip­nar­ine said his sole pur­pose was to clar­i­fy the ori­gin of the name ‘So­ca War­riors’. He said on Fri­day, in no way is the re­cent­ly high­light­ed trade­mark reg­is­tra­tion a mat­ter of con­tention in a re­lease.