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Wednesday, July 23, 2025

Boyce targets corporate TT for 2025 season

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Randolph Boyce, returns as CAFF president, previously CFA.

Randolph Boyce, returns as CAFF president, previously CFA.

Pres­i­dent Ran­dolph Boyce and his ex­ec­u­tive have earned an­oth­er term in charge of the Cen­tral As­so­ci­a­tion For Foot­ball (CAFF).

They were all elect­ed un­op­posed at the An­nu­al Gen­er­al Meet­ing (AGM) and Elec­tion of Of­fi­cers at the Cal­i­for­nia Com­mu­ni­ty Cen­tre on Thurs­day night. Boyce earned his sec­ond term in of­fice and told Guardian Me­dia Sports that their first or­der of busi­ness will be to ap­proach cor­po­rate T&T for fund­ing for this sea­son's Se­nior and Ju­nior Leagues.

There are no start­ing dates for the leagues as yet, Boyce said as they await the FI­FA Con­nect sys­tem to con­duct reg­is­tra­tion. The se­nior com­pe­ti­tion will take on a two-group for­mat in which two groups of six teams will con­test a round-robin play­off, and the two top teams will ad­vance to a semi­fi­nal and then fi­nal.

The CAFF, which usu­al­ly com­pris­es close to 20 teams, has been whit­tled down to 12 due to the im­pact of the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic.

Boyce's lead­er­ship style ap­pears to have won the hearts of the mem­ber­ship. He holds the top spot with Lystra Lara as­sum­ing the po­si­tion of gen­er­al sec­re­tary, while Ravi Ram­goolam, the then gen­er­al sec­re­tary, was moved to the po­si­tion of sec­re­tary of fi­nance, which is a new po­si­tion in­tro­duced by the par­ent T&T Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion to ease the work of the sec­re­tary.

Al­lan Lo­gan re­turned to the first vice pres­i­dent's spot and Al­lan Ram­jass came in as an ap­pro­pri­ate re­place­ment for Wen­dell Col­ly­more, who re­tired.

Mean­while, Rhon­da Fe­lix got the nod of the mem­ber­ship for an­oth­er term as as­sis­tant sec­re­tary, while the duo of Colville Mc­Sween and Paul David Noel were giv­en an­oth­er chance as or­di­nary mem­bers.

Boyce told the me­dia yes­ter­day that their re­turn as the man­agers of the sport in cen­tral could have dou­ble mean­ings.

"This could mean that the mem­ber­ship has a lot of con­fi­dence in us as a team. It could mean that they have bought in­to our phi­los­o­phy. It could al­so mean that we have a lot of un­fin­ished work to do. Be­ing un­op­posed doesn't mean you can take your mem­bers for grant­ed. I al­ways say we are there to serve our mem­bers who are the de­ci­sion-mak­ers un­der the con­sti­tu­tion," Boyce said.

Un­der Boyce and his team, the as­so­ci­a­tion al­so in­tends to use more tech­nol­o­gy as part of its op­er­a­tions. Boyce said drones, web­sites and oth­er forms of in­ter­views, etc, will be used to man­age and pro­mote their op­er­a­tions.

"We're try­ing to bridge a gap be­tween sports and tech­nol­o­gy, and we have the ex­per­tise here to do it, and we want to do a lot more with tech­no­log­i­cal man­age­ment," Boyce said.

The CAFF, which was changed from the Cen­tral Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion (CFA) un­der pre­vi­ous ad­min­is­tra­tions, al­so in­tends to as­sist clubs in the form of ad­min­is­tra­tion. Clubs that strug­gle with dai­ly op­er­a­tions will be en­cour­aged to take the ad­min­is­tra­tion cours­es be­ing of­fered by the T&T Olympic Com­mit­tee.

"We have to sat­is­fy the needs of all our mem­bers, as well as the or­gan­i­sa­tion. Peo­ple tend to down­play the im­por­tant work of the or­gan­i­sa­tion, but both are im­por­tant if they are to achieve the goals of the CAFF," Boyce con­clud­ed.


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