Eleven for­mer sport­ing per­son­al­i­ties will be in­duct­ed in the First Cit­i­zens Sports Foun­da­tion Sports Hall Of Fame lat­er to­day at a gala cer­e­mo­ny from 6.15 pm at the Hy­att Re­gency Ho­tel, Port of Spain, and among them will be the man who has scored the most goals for T&T in foot­ball Stern John.

John, who has scored 70 goals for T&T and has been cred­it­ed as the main man in the 2006 'So­ca War­riors' team qual­i­fy­ing for the World Cup in Ger­many, will join the elites in sports in T&T. Apart from John, the oth­ers to join this elite group are for­mer na­tion­al crick­eter Louise Browne-Jack­son, ath­let­ics ad­min­is­tra­tor Dou­glas Barzey, who will re­ceive his award posthu­mous­ly, ex-crick­et cap­tain and open­ing bats­man Daren Gan­ga, Bryan Davis, 1898 "Strike Squad" de­fend­er Clay­ton Mor­ris, An­gus Eve, Mr race horse Bri­an Hard­ing, Stephanie Pow­er and for­mer na­tion­al spin­ner Ran­ji Nanan.

Yes­ter­day John said he was hap­py to have been cho­sen to be among the best sports­men ans women in T&T. "It's a fan­tas­tic feel­ing to be recog­nised for your achieve­ment. And to add to this, the hall of fame rep­re­sents the best sports­men and women in T&T" John said.

John be­gan his ca­reer at the Arou­ca Gov­ern­ment Pri­ma­ry School as a mul­ti-tal­ent­ed sports­man in crick­et and foot­ball be­fore mov­ing to Five Rivers and then El Do­ra­do Sec­ondary where he fo­cussed on foot­ball, par­tic­u­lar­ly be­cause of his goalscor­ing abil­i­ty. He helped El Do­ra­do, nick­named 'The Blue Thun­der' to the East Zone In­ter­col ti­tle be­fore he was el­e­vat­ed to the na­tion­al team where he grew in promi­nence.

He scored a num­ber of goals for T&T, Colum­bus Crew, Not­ting­ham For­est and oth­er clubs in the Eng­lish First Di­vi­sion to be recog­nised as a dead­ly goalscor­er.

The clos­est scor­er to him for T&T was An­gus Eve who was a dis­tant sec­ond with some 30 goals to his name. Dave Lamy, a mem­ber of the foun­da­tion said spe­cif­ic at­ten­tion has been paid to rel­a­tive­ly young sport achiev­ers. He ex­plained that a num­ber of peo­ple have re­ceived recog­ni­tion for their achieve­ments in sport when they are old and oth­ers when they have died.

To be con­sid­ered for in­duc­tion in the hall of fame ath­letes are re­quired to sub­mit in­for­ma­tion on their achieve­ments and must not be ac­tive­ly in­volved in the sport. The foun­da­tion will al­so con­duct their in­ves­ti­ga­tion to ver­i­fy the in­fo, by speak­ing to peo­ple and do­ing google search among oth­ers.

Mean­while there are con­cerns of bias with­in the se­lec­tion of ath­letes for this year's in­duc­tion process. Top hock­ey queen Sta­cy Sui Butt is claim­ing that her ap­pli­ca­tion to be among the group of in­ductees in Jan­u­ary was not con­sid­ered be­cause of­fi­cials told her that she can­not be ac­tive­ly in­volved in sports present­ly. Sui Butt who has for years now, called it quits on her ca­reer, now plays for recre­ation in the T&T Hock­ey Board tour­na­ment.

How­ev­er she not­ed that while her ap­pli­ca­tion was not con­sid­ered, one of tonight's in­ductees is a cur­rent play­er with a team in the Su­per League Foot­ball Tour­na­ment. She is claim­ing bias, say­ing that she point­ed it out of­fi­cials of the sports foun­da­tion but her plight was ig­nored.

She called for the foun­da­tion to be hon­est, fair and trans­par­ent in its se­lec­tion process so that oth­er lo­cal ath­letes do not suf­fer as she has.