William Wal­lace is the new pres­i­dent of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion.

Wal­lace, who is cur­rent­ly the Sec­ondary Schools' Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion boss, was elect­ed new TTFA head dur­ing the as­so­ci­a­tion's an­nu­al gen­er­al meet­ing at the Home of the Foot­ball in Bal­main, Cou­va, a short while ago.

He de­feat­ed in­cum­bent pres­i­dent David John-Williams 26-20 in the sec­ond round of vot­ing.

The oth­er pres­i­den­tial can­di­date, Richard Fer­gu­son, was elim­i­nat­ed from con­tention af­ter the first round of vot­ing by the del­e­gates, as they vot­ed in favour of Wal­lace (20), John-Williams (16) and Fer­gu­son (10) in that or­der.

Wal­lace's slate in­cludes in­cludes Su­per League board mem­ber Sam Phillip, Cen­tral Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion sec­re­tary Clynt Tay­lor and Women’s Foot­ball League (Wolf) pres­i­dent Su­san Joseph-War­rick.

Of the 47 del­e­gates el­i­gi­ble to vote in the elec­tion Sun­day, one of them was ab­sent.

More on this sto­ry as news comes to hand.