T&T Pro League's chief ex­ec­u­tive of­fi­cer, Dex­ter Skeene, is "re­al­ly ex­cit­ed" about the fu­ture of the Dig­i­cel Pro League, fol­low­ing a Board of Di­rec­tors meet­ing on Tues­day. Skeene's pro­pos­al to change the play­ing days and league sea­son was con­firmed. At a pre­vi­ous Board meet­ing, the di­rec­tors had agreed to the pro­pos­al (to change the league cal­en­dar and play­ing days) in prin­ci­ple but the mat­ter was re-opened as some di­rec­tors sought clar­i­fi­ca­tion on as­pects of Skeene's plan.

The for­mer na­tion­al strike squad for­ward be­lieves that the abil­i­ty of the men at the top of lo­cal pro­fes­sion­al foot­ball to work to­geth­er in pur­suit of com­mon ob­jec­tives rather than self-in­ter­est au­gurs well for the sus­tain­abil­i­ty and vi­a­bil­i­ty of the league. "It is up to me and the staff to im­ple­ment and ex­e­cute the new strate­gic mar­ket­ing plans that will sup­port the changes. I am pas­sion­ate about the need for the League to be pro­gres­sive in its ap­proach to fur­ther de­vel­op­ing the pro­fes­sion­al foot­ball in­dus­try. It has not been an easy bat­tle thus far and as I shared with the di­rec­tors the league has come too far to turn back now."

The new cal­en­dar will run be­tween April 2010 to April 2011 for the up­com­ing sea­son with Dig­i­cel Pro League Cham­pi­onship games be­ing played on week­ends. Skeene is con­fi­dent the league will have a bet­ter mar­ket­ing and play­er per­for­mance plat­form with the once a week games. "The cur­rent spon­sors are look­ing for­ward to the new op­por­tu­ni­ties. An im­por­tant suc­cess fac­tor re­mains the League's ac­cess to foot­ball fields in the re­spec­tive com­mu­ni­ties. In this re­spect we will con­tin­ue to di­a­logue with the Sport Com­pa­ny as they are the ones with the man­date to build new and up­grade ex­ist­ing fa­cil­i­ties."

An­oth­er crit­i­cal suc­cess fac­tor is the T&T Pro League clubs and play­ers go­ing in­to the com­mu­ni­ties and build­ing re­la­tion­ships. "The change in play­ing days and sea­son sched­ule in and of it­self will fail if the oth­er strate­gic ac­tions are not com­plet­ed. The clubs have to em­brace the com­mu­ni­ty build­ing ef­forts, in ad­di­tion to con­tin­u­ing to work at rais­ing the stan­dard of foot­ball to an even high­er lev­el. Many chal­lenges, but it is a dawn of a new day in the mis­sion that is pro­fes­sion­al foot­ball in T&T," said Skeene.