PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC) – Trinidad & Tobago’s midweek drubbing by the United States has prompted a crisis meeting of the local football federation, with head coach Francisco Maturana’s job expected to come under the microscope.

The meeting, which will be held next Thursday at CONCACAF’s offices here, will be chaired by the country’s football mogul Jack Warner, who also serves as a special adviser to the T&T Football Federation.

Warner, who was a guiding force behind T&T’s debut at the 2007 World Cup, expressed his frustration about the team’s results in the 2010 World Cup qualifying final round following the 3-0 defeat in Tennessee on Wednesday night.

“I think it was way below expectations of a team that is aspiring to be among the qualifiers for the World Cup Finals in South Africa next year,” said Warner, also a FIFA vice-president and CONCACAF president.

“My concern is that we are not getting the required results. Results are all that matter at the moment and we have to start getting the right ones from the next match.”

The meeting is expected to be attended by members of the national team’s technical staff and other executive members of the TTFF.

Maturana, who has twice taken his homeland Colombia to the World Cup Finals, has come under criticism from local media and members of the football fraternity over his team selection.

T&T, who have never won on US soil, were sunk by a hat-trick from teenaged American striker Jozy Altidore who scored in the 13th, 71st and 89th minutes to steer the hosts to a comfortable win at the LP Stadium.

The defeat left T&T at the bottom of the six-team standings on two points and without a win in three matches.

With tough matches against Mexico and Costa Rica coming up in June, T&T face a difficult road ahead if they are to become the first English-speaking Caribbean side to make a return trip to the FIFA World Cup finals.

The USA top the table with seven points followed by Costa Rica (6) Honduras (4) and Mexico (3) with seven matches still to be played by each team.

The World Cup qualifiers have already claimed one coaching casualty with Mexico having axed Sven-Goran Eriksson after a run of poor results.