"No, unequivocally not!'' Andrew Bascome may have already thrown his hat into the ring for the position of Bermuda senior national coach, however one clearly not interested in applying is Robert Calderon, the country's last head man.

Calderon, who resigned his position immediately following the Island's shock exit from World Cup qualifying last April, also raised questions as to the recent $1.3 million action plan proposed by the Bermuda Football Association.

"I'm not interested at all in being national coach, and I'm less interested based on what I see in the paper,'' said Calderon, a former Bermuda international midfielder. "One does not need to be a rocket scientist to read between the lines, because it appears, based on the blueprint in the paper, that the position is a secondary role.

"The senior national coach position is secondary, whereas the meat of the coaching responsibility will be in youth development. That is painfully clear if you look at the salary and the commitment of $200,000 for the teams they've already identified to put in training ... all under 19.'' However, the former coach added that he had no problem with the emphasis being placed on the development of our youth teams, but noted the need for this to be stated forthright, rather than be left to one's imagination.

Further, he intimated how there probably existed no real hope of attaining the $100,000 required to pay a full-time technical director.

"My sense is that they will not find $100,000 for a technical director and you will end up with a senior coach and a youth development coach, that's my guess ... a calculated guess and an assumption,'' said Calderon.

"Because, if you look at the figures they've attached to the post, i.e.

$15,000 for senior coach and $17,000 for youth development, that in itself tells you -- or should -- the ranking order in terms of hires and also the responsibilities they see being attached to those positions.'' Also raised was the possibility of a clash between senior national coach and the director of youth development if the pair do not share similar visions of playing style and direction.

And in the absence of a technical director to oversee all programmes of soccer this was likened to the scenario of a rudderless ship.

"I don't know what prototype they would be using, and it may have reaped some success for some country in the world ... but I'm very much unaware of that country,'' continued Calderon. "If the youth developer is responsible for youth development only and you don't hire a technical director, but hire a coach responsible for senior football only, then I've never seen anything like that.

"If a person wants to take the job for more than one season -- maybe on a three-year contract renewable based on performance -- you would think they'd want to have some significant input on what is being done at the levels below them.

"If they're not, then why not? Why then even bother having a senior coach? "It's like having a Brazilian as senior national coach and an English youth developer, and asking the Brazilian national coach to say `That's something I can live with'.

"I can't imagine Alex Ferguson not having final say on everything that happens in football at Manchester United as the senior coach within that structure.'' Even more provocative was the proposed notion that the BFA have, in fact, already identified their director of youth development, and have a succession plan for the individual to gradually progress into a senior national level role.

Calderon reiterated the need for the governing body to be more transparent in this regard, rather than engage in `cloak and dagger' tactics.

"If there is succession plan for the person -- that is the youth development coach into the senior role -- then it's only fair that the person taking the senior role clearly understands all they're doing is a stop-gap job, otherwise it's dishonest.

"Again, this is only through reading between the lines that one can come to the conclusion that that's probably what their doing ... and it's nothing wrong with having a succession plan.

"But when you hire someone for a senior role, or as technical director, they have to be clearly apprised -- or at least advised -- of what they're doing, where the parameters lie, where the job begins and ends.'' Robert Calderon: not vying for national team coach job.