Ke­iron Ed­wards, the East­ern Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion (EFA) pres­i­dent is giv­ing up his po­si­tion as pres­i­dent of the East­ern Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion (EFA) to con­test the up­com­ing An­nu­al Gen­er­al Meet­ing (AGM) and elec­tion of of­fi­cers of the T&T Su­per League, sched­uled for Sep­tem­ber 19.

Ed­wards, a mem­ber of EFA out­fit Mal­abar FC which com­pet­ed in the Su­per League back in 2012, 2013 and 2014, said he was asked to en­ter the Su­per League and as­sist in the progress of the com­pe­ti­tion and bring re­sources to the league, and he ac­cept­ed.

His en­try in­to the lead­er­ship con­test comes af­ter a pro­pos­al and a sec­ond­ment from two of the pow­er­ful Su­per League con­tenders, Ed­wards said, but he stopped short of re­veal­ing the names of the teams sup­port­ing him.

"I'm now putting to­geth­er a slate. It's not ful­ly fin­ished, we have a cou­ple more days to put to­geth­er the slate to run, but we're on the right track.

Four per­sons have al­ready been nom­i­nat­ed from the team and we're hop­ing to have the bal­ance next two days to con­test the elec­tions," Ed­wards ex­plained.

To date, on­ly Ryan Ot­t­ley, the De­fence Force foot­ball man­ag­er is down to con­test the po­si­tion of pres­i­dent as in­cum­bent Clay­ton Mor­ris has de­cid­ed not to seek re-elec­tion and Jame­son Rigues, the beat­en can­di­date in last No­vem­ber elec­tion al­so de­cid­ed not to con­test the po­si­tion.

The east­ern foot­ball boss is now equipped with a man­i­festo which he promis­es to share with the clubs clos­er to the nom­i­na­tion date, said to be 14 days be­fore the elec­tion date.

He told Guardian Me­dia Sports on Wednes­day that he has a clear vi­sion to move the Su­per League for­ward, Ed­wards, who ap­pears to have a clear path which has been made by the con­sti­tu­tions of both the EFA and the Su­per League said: "The con­sti­tu­tion gives way for on­ly ful­ly func­tion­al mem­bers of the Su­per League to pro­pose and sec­ond nom­i­na­tions and that was done by two clubs. The con­sti­tu­tion clear­ly speaks for the EFA in terms of how that process would hap­pen. There are no chal­lenges with that. There is a clear process and we will fol­low the con­sti­tu­tion. We are al­ways guid­ed by the con­sti­tu­tion which gov­erns the sport. There is a con­sti­tu­tion here in the EFA and we will be guid­ed by that too."

Ot­t­ley, two weeks ago said he will con­firm his can­di­da­cy in the com­ing days. Ed­wards said his fo­cus is not on Ot­t­ley or who­ev­er else throws their hat in­to the ring, but rather the short­com­ings of the league and its in­abil­i­ty to progress.

Known to be out­spo­ken on a num­ber of foot­ball-re­lat­ed is­sues, in­clud­ing the Unit­ed TTFA and FI­FA court bat­tle last year, Ed­wards said he will leave his case up to the Su­per League mem­ber­ship to de­cide.

Ed­wards said that the EFA ex­ec­u­tive has giv­en him the clear­ance to con­test the Su­per League pres­i­den­cy, and he promis­es that is­sues of club reg­is­tra­tion and com­pli­ance which have haunt­ed clubs for many years will be a thing of the past if he's elect­ed.

"The whole is­sue of reg­is­tra­tion for clubs is a ma­jor is­sue or tour­na­ment fees. The first thing I would do if I'm vic­to­ri­ous would be to ac­quire sup­port and spon­sor­ship to re­move reg­is­tra­tion for the next four years, so that would be one ease up. Usu­al­ly, clubs would pay be­tween $35,000 to $50,000 to reg­is­ter for the Su­per League, which will be no more. So clubs would be start­ing by keep­ing $35,000 to $50,000 in their cof­fers im­me­di­ate­ly. The next thing is the is­sue of com­pli­ance. Through­out the T&T Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion, there is an is­sue when it comes to com­pli­ance. And be­ing part of the east zone we would have been one of the few zones that would have had per­sons con­nect­ed to the FI­FA con­nect sys­tem, and that is where we re­al­ly suf­fer as a na­tion when it comes to play­ing foot­ball, and that is be­ing com­pli­ant. The Su­per League has had its own is­sues when it comes to com­pli­ance, there are a num­ber of clubs sus­pend­ed right now be­cause of com­pli­ance.

Com­pli­ance nor­mal­ly hap­pens at the end of March, so we will en­gage a team every year in Feb­ru­ary to as­sess and deal with com­pli­ance, prob­a­bly get au­di­tors, get per­sons to do sem­i­nars with clubs, walk them through the process and make sure that all clubs play­ing in the SL are com­pli­ant.

We will al­so treat with the is­sue of en­sur­ing that clubs cre­ate rev­enue. We need to cre­ate rev­enue streams with­in foot­ball, whether it's via tele­vi­sion, via spon­sor­ship of uni­forms, so that clubs can start off the league. If clubs could have $20, 000- $30, 000 based on play­ing in the league, we will have a more self-suf­fi­cient league," Ed­wards con­clud­ed.