SOME of the leading figures in the organisation of world football will be arriving in T&T tomorrow when the centenniel celebrations of the TT Football Federation (TTFF) will reach fever pitch.

Among those flying in will be FIFA president Joseph Sepp Blatter, UEFA president Michel Platini and English FA chairman Lord David Trieman.

Two other top dignitaries coming in are Winnie Mandela, ex-wife of former president of the Republic of South Africa, Nelson Mandela and CEO of the South African Local Organising Committee for the 2010 World Cup, Danny Jordaan.

Blatter, Platini, Lord Trieman, Mandela and Jordaan, accompanied by FIFA Vice president Jack Warner and TTFF president Oliver Camps, will on Friday pay a courtesy call to President George Maxwell Richards, Prime Minister Patrick Manning and Minister of Sport and Youth Affairs Gary Hunt.

Later on Friday, the group will be present at the signing of the Memorandum of Understanding between FIFA and the University of the West Indies and will also be among the 1200 persons in attendance at the dinner and awards function at the Dr Joao Havelange Centre of Excellence in Macoya, from 7.30 pm.

President Richards, Minister Hunt, Blatter, Platini, Warner and Camps, along with president of the Guatemala Football Association Oscar Arroyo, will meet the players of T&T and Guatemala before the kick off of the World Cup qualifier on Saturday at Hasely Crawford Stadium, from 5.30 pm.

Tomorrow, the T&T Under-17 football team will play Brazil’s U-16 football team at the Marvul Lee Stadium in Macoya.

The four-day celebrations will end in Tobago on Sunday with a match featuring a Tobago Youth XI and Brazil National Under-16 team at Dwight Yorke Stadium , from 5 pm.