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Saturday, March 1, 2025

Hagley calls for one-club, one-vote in T&T Football

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Walter Alibey - Senior Sports Reporter
1568 days ago
20201114
Guaya United football Director Randy Hagley

Guaya United football Director Randy Hagley

Randy Ha­gley, the Guaya Unit­ed own­er, and man­ag­ing di­rec­tor is call­ing for a one-club one-vote sys­tem to be in­tro­duced in­to foot­ball man­aged un­der the T&T Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion (TTFA) ad­min­is­tra­tion as he be­lieves it will solve many of the prob­lems af­fect­ing the sport.

Ha­gley said this should be a pri­or­i­ty for the soon-to-be-re­in­stalled Nor­mal­i­sa­tion Com­mit­tee, which will be led by busi­ness­man Robert Hadad of the HAD­CO Group of Com­pa­nies.

Ha­gley who con­trols a club that tru­ly epit­o­mizes the com­mu­ni­ty team and spir­it that is be­ing sought af­ter he told Guardian Me­dia Sports that the one-club one-vote sys­tem will stamp out cor­rup­tion which is usu­al­ly de­rived from the del­e­gate sys­tem.

The Guaya Unit­ed boss said on Fri­day: "I have been clam­our­ing for this for a lit­tle while now, you see with all this Pro League, T&T Su­per League, and all those oth­er Leagues, that del­e­ga­tion vote is a con­spir­a­cy the­o­ry. Take for in­stance me in the Su­per League, Guaya is the biggest team in the Su­per League, and at the last TTSL AGM, on­ly four clubs or five clubs vot­ed for Guaya and Pe­tit Val­ley and these are two clubs that have fol­low­ing."

He not­ed fur­ther: "These men and dem who are pres­i­dents and who­ev­er, does cook up dey pan­chay­at to make sure their team vote for who, and that is wrong. So I say, let us cut out all that kind of fool­ish­ness. Once you are a mem­ber of the T&TFA and you've reached the re­quired stan­dard that TTFA wants with re­gards to the club li­cense stan­dard which all clubs around the world is sup­posed to fol­low as it is a FI­FA guide­line, once you meet that, your club is a mem­ber of the TTFA, you have one vote. In that way, you can vote for who­ev­er you want. No­body can't buy you and feel you're do­ing some­body a favour."

With the del­e­gate sys­tem cur­rent­ly, clubs are rep­re­sent­ed by one or two cho­sen per­sons who may or may not rep­re­sent the views of the clubs in­di­vid­u­al­ly. Last year at the T&T Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion Elec­tion at the Home of Foot­ball in Bal­main Cou­va, the Su­per League was rep­re­sent­ed by eight del­e­gates though the League com­pris­es more than 21 clubs, Ha­gley said.

"Trinidad is too small for that. When you look at the pop­u­la­tion of T&T of 1.3 mil­lion, I am sure that the peo­ple who fol­low foot­ball are not half a mil­lion peo­ple and we can­not get it right. This is be­cause every­body wants to be in charge."

At present the T&T Pro League clubs each have a vote at TTFA gen­er­al meet­ings while all the oth­er mem­ber as­so­ci­a­tion and zones are rep­re­sent­ed by del­e­gates.

Ha­gley said the one-club one-vote sys­tem should be ap­plied to the Pro League, Su­per League, the six Re­gion­al As­so­ci­a­tions- North­ern FA, South­ern FA, East­ern FA, Cen­tral FA, To­ba­go FA, and the East­ern Coun­ties Foot­ball Union (EC­FU) as well as for the par­ent foot­ball as­so­ci­a­tion (T&TFA) elec­tions.

The Guaya Unit­ed boss is al­so call­ing on the TTFA to take over the ad­min­is­tra­tion of all the tour­na­ments, there­by do­ing away with the Re­gion­al As­so­ci­a­tions, Su­per League, and Pro League, and re­place them with Di­vi­sions.

He said lo­cal foot­ball should now com­prise of a First, sec­ond, Third, and Fourth Di­vi­sions.

Mean­while, Ha­gley has called for to­tal sup­port for Jame­son Rigues for the pres­i­dent of the TTSL, say­ing he has not re­ceived the sup­port of the Board of Di­rec­tors of the TTSL be­cause he is from the coun­try­side.


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