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Feb 12, 2010 Sports

National League main microscope

By Edison Jefford

The two year honeymoon of the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) National League will end soon, and what will be imminent is a relegation system that places pressure on all the respective sub-associations to perform territorially.
The ten teams from the six sub-associations that participated in the inaugural competition last year will return this year as was prescribed. However, that system will change for the 2011 National League either for better or for worse.
The ‘Win in CONCACAF with CONCACAF’ initiative will place pressure on those sub-associations to ensure that they host territorial Leagues as a means of transparently being able to promote its top teams to the National League.
The relegation system that will be introduced next year will either corrupt the occasion or contribute to the development of football. It must be said that development will not occur with the repetition of the same teams in the League.
That is the reason for the relegation system next year-to allow aspiring teams the prospect of competing at the highest level in Guyana. In that way, more teams and players are able to benefit from the rotation system of relegation and promotion thereby contributing to an overall or national process of football development.
However, realities are usually distant from idealisms. Football Associations can seriously hinder that process with their level of administration. The burden of responsibility will be theirs to ensure that subsidiary systems are in place.
In essence, the Georgetown Football Association, for example, has to have the vision that will allow for a territorial League that seeds its teams. Seeding cannot be derived from an ad hoc process of run-of-the-mill competitions.
Leagues are the most transparent ways to seed teams and it will be necessary for all those subsidiaries of the GFF to organise Leagues. This is the only way that the best teams will be able to duly graduate to the National Super League.
Before the arrival of the CONCACAF initiative, on the Georgetown FA was known to be hosting a League with the Cellink Premier League.
Every FA should have taken a step in that direction prior to the arrival of the CONCACAF event.
It would have given them time to easily adapt to the relegation system and not place them under pressure to hastily put together a League, which in the absence of, clubs will have a right to protest unfair and biased administrative practices.
The National League brought a proper system and it will be interesting to see whether the Upper Demerara FA, East Demerara FA, West Demerara FA, Bartica FA and Berbice FA will make the necessary adjustments to support the system.

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