Our sports heroes in 2020

While my back was turned, a lot of sports personalities have aged drastically. And some of the younger ones have actually taken off. They used to be quiet, faded, a shade dull as a high-born old lady wistfully recalling their dancing youth. With that in mind, Dancing Brave looks into the future and asks: Where are they now (Twenty years later or less)? Ronaldo, is sulking away on a deserted beach in the West Indies, with cohorts Nick Faldo, who after finding Brenna Copelak (and dumping his wife) has lost his form and also with David Beckham who after falling out with Posh Spice, was given a red card, and eventually marching orders by most teams in England after failing in Spain. All three men spend their days fishing in a pirogue and live together in a small hut.
 
Jack Warner (2020) — Still in control of football in the region, but at least with two helpers to assist him with the wheelchair going downstairs. Poor fellow though, now he has to actually buy tickets to attend a sporting function because football is no longer the number one sport in the world, having been replaced by chess. Stephen Ames (2015) — Still the best golfer in the Caribbean, still not supported by his local body, and still having trouble with his visa problems as Government Officers sit around, discussing their personal business propositions and are ignorant of the part they can play in helping him. Brian Lara  (Moka 2010) — On  the Golf course, this once popular champion, continues to try every form of technological gimmickry to recapture the magic of old, except hurling the ball  down the fairway with a pelota basket. Alas for his legion of friends (??) and admirers (brown-nosers), his putts stubbornly (like him) refuse to drop.

By the way he was dropped from the West Indies team in 2006, just before the World Cup, and turned to Golf. The Executive of the NAAA (Olympic Games 2012) — There is no athlete on the Trinidad and Tobago teams, but in keeping with previous history, the officials will still attend in their numbers, some 15 of them. Leslie “Tiger” Stewart (Madison Square Garden 2010) — He has just placed his left glove on, with the aid of one of the three spectators present, to watch his boxing match in the Veterans category for the “Light heavyweight Veteran Boxing Title.” His match against the now deaf and almost incoherent Mike Tyson promised if anything, a lot of laughs, some sighs, a few butts and one or two bites. Everald “Gally” Cummings (England 2010) — Cummings stands by proudly, a broad smile on his face, hiding the sadness that he has led another Caribbean country, not Trinidad and Tobago to their first World Cup appearance.  Cummings, an early proponent of the Afro, now wears his hair in perm. Bertille St Clair (Brisbane 2010) — Now content to make his money abroad after he was sadly and unjustly sacked by the TTFA (or is it FCOTT), he appears to have settled in well, to life after football.  He now runs a nursery for malcontent children, calling on his experience with the administrators in Trinidad and Tobago football.
 
Ato Boldon (Los Angelos 2010) — A popular talk show host, giving his guests (when there is longer than half hour for the show) as good as he gets.  Among those on his programmes are Jules Bernard and Douglas Camacho in a face off, even if it is twenty years too late. Mansingh Amarsingh (Chagua-nas 2009) — Continues to know more than the rest in table tennis but his services are still being ignored, even as our tennis goes further and further downhill. Dexter St Louis (Guyana 2009) — At 40-odd, still looking to win his first Caribbean Singles title for Trinidad and Tobago after so much promises win or lose — will still have French Wine celebrations. Gene Samuel (Maraval 2010) — It has taken a long white, much too long, but thankfully good sense has prevailed and the Government (whoever they be) have given this glorious cycling champion, a proper home.  Samuel is right to feel more relief than over-zealous joy.
David Nakhid (Tunapuna, 2010)  —  He has been offered the unenviable job of coaching Trinidad to the next World Cup. Nakhid was a craftsman on the pitch and thinks about the offer for a short while, before returning to repair his roof. A lot of these sight seeings could go all wrong in the future, depending on the penchant in Trinidad and Tobago for success above all else.
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