BY the time the first round of matches in the 2006 World Cup Finals is over, the TnT Government may very well be faced with a bill much higher than the $10m already spent to send a huge Trini contingent to Germany in support of our boys, the Soca Warriors, who create history this weekend (Saturday), when they appear for the first time on the world’s largest football stage.

Word out of Germany is that already certain Trinis have begun embarrassing themselves and country by running up huge telephone and transportation bills from the luxurious five-star hotel where they are staying.

In fact, a TnT Mirror source disclosed that the German citizen who, through the urgings of a Trini/American friend -- who had successfully organised the trip to Germany for a Trini posse living in New York -- chipped in to help find accommodation, is now bitterly regretting the day they got involved.

“The German guy said if someone had told him is so Trinis behave he would not have believed it,” the source speaking to Mirror from Germany Friday morning revealed.

“I don’t know why we Trinis like to embarrass ourselves anywhere we go like that,” the angry source said.

Mirror learnt that the hotel has already been “turned upside down”.

“They have already made a mess of the place and on top of that, they are making endless international calls from Germany and want the government to pay for that. Imagine they are demanding two buses to carry their luggage and they getting on real bad to get that,” he said.

“It’s really shameful!”

He said he is fearful of what may happen should the Soca Warriors make it to the second round.

Mirror was told that the Trini-American who had located accommodation for Germany-bound Trinis at the request of the TnT Government, had himself been blanked when he approached them for help to send some of his company’s officials from his New York base to the World Cup.

However, the government reportedly got in contact with him when they found themselves without a place for their people to stay.

“They remembered him and called him and that’s when he called his German friend to help … and coming to the rescue was the worst mistake he made in his life.”

TnT was due to play its first game on Saturday (10) against Sweden.

The team meets England on Thursday, June 15 in the second game before the last preliminary match against Paraguay on June 20 in the hope of advancing to the second round.