T&T pair can face Hammers March 26 2008
Trinidad & Tobago will not prevent Sunderland duo Carlos Edwards and Kenwyne Jones from facing West Ham this weekend.
The Blacks Cats refused to release the pair for Wednesday night's friendly international against Jamaica on medical grounds.
After Edwards (groin) and Jones (virus) were withdrawn, the Premier League club rejected a request from the Trinidad & Tobago Football Federation to have their conditions independently verified.
The T&TFF threatened to impose a FIFA sanction that would deny the Mackems use of the duo until five days after the clash in Kingston.
Enforcement of the ruling would have prevented them from featuring in the crucial top-flight showdown against the Hammers on Saturday.
But according to FIFA vice-president and T&TFF special adviser Jack Warner, agreement was reached following intervention from Black Cats manager Roy Keane and striker Dwight Yorke.
Keane and Yorke, Trinidad & Tobago's 2006 World Cup captain, persuaded Warner to drop the threat.
"We are putting all that behind us," Warner told a press conference, reported in the Trinidad & Tobago Express. "We won't invoke the FIFA regulation."
Keane's side sit just four points above the relegation zone, with seven game remaining.