I have often learnt from the experts in the business of sport, that: “If all is going wrong, the correction process is to take each component out of the bag of mistakes, pull them separately, correct them properly and pull them together again.
It's easy to recognise mistakes in the business of sport, seeing that the interest of the masses is eagerly keeping their eyes on eventual success regardless.
To explain the deficiencies of the Football Association can only be corrected through the use of the policy which I mentioned earlier.
The process of electing a president is absolutely essential and can only be achieved by club voters studying the weaknesses which are ever so frequent and seek the satisfactory qualification of the chosen ones.
The situation has reached to a state where the personalisation process has begun with contenders for the head positions using criticism in a manner that is often intended to embarrass each other and damage the image of a final light at the end of the tunnel.
Personally, my observation of the role of the current TTFA administrators starts from the lack of interest incompetent management, where most of the nominees for positions are way short in one or all areas of the wide scope of duties which need expert handling.
Do not expect that the regular canvassing among the club representatives to produce the job which is needed at the Office. If this approach had to be corrected, then the strength of the nominees have to be tested for his/her ability to have qualifications or successful experience while doing that job.
For a start, sports management is a profession in itself, and even when the clever ones acquire their studies, the challenge will be a new experience for them. This means that experts must be targeted to lead the pack.
Now that FIFA has identified the incompetence of the present rulers, this is the time that the National Olympic Committee must do the job which parliament has given to that committee. But maybe the same process is utilised by the NOC, judging from the numerous mistakes which have affected sports at most levels. The two areas which have been identified in terms of the Club Champions league and the non-qualification of coaches are challenged.
The club championships problems are self-explanatory. The so-called Professional league has failed continuously because the structural process of the league has been weak and short of business acumen.
These two professional leagues attempted to use the strength of money to earn a place to the top of Football. They have had no history of the club building and apparently, are way out of sync on the financial process. Hence the reason why almost ALL the pro clubs have either dropped out at some time because of the absence of funds.
Then these same clubs are seeking to ask the government to finance the franchise in which they were investing.
They forgot to seek professional assistance from the successful pro leagues of the outside world.
They honestly believed that bringing some apparent talented players would bring the thousands which are expected of professional football. That has failed and their error of judgment came from their misjudgement of many of the chosen coaches who needed to learn more of the game being a “Team Game” and not the guy who can shoot and dribble alone.
I make no apologies to observe the vast interest of prospective coaches, but the business of coaching is more complex than playing the game itself.
Those who previously thought that failure to produce the quality of play they were receiving, was the absence of basic fundamentals, the growing understanding for the youngsters between 14 and 17 years old.
Add to this, the psychological issues when dealing with players whose varying lifestyles, their positive or negative portions of bio technique will be the forerunners for tactical injection to eleven players on the field whose job is to understand each other and the simple forms of communication in team form at all times.
As far as licenses are concerned, even as simple as they may be included in the management process, the job has not been done properly causing FIFA to observe their shortcomings. As we speak, the large clubs in the outside world are in search of partnering with organised Academies in the Caribbean. But they also have the problem when they asked about the qualified coaches for the institutions.
The diehard supporters have been distraught over the failure of our upliftment of the country's football which has taken national teams to various World Cup finals, some medallists in Pan American and Central American games.
They are not even providing the value for supporters for each club to cheer them on at every game.
I severely blame the absence of proven success of the past where names and clubs of superstars have seeped into the midst of the game the world over and lessons were not documented on camera or elsewhere.
My friends, if you wish to know who are “the culprits responsible for our football demise”, let us all look in a mirror.