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ISSA poised for full membership of JFF
BY PAUL A REID Observer Writer
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
ROSE HALL, St James — Dr Walton Small, president of the Inter-Secondary Schools Sports Association (ISSA), was pleasantly surprised on Sunday when it was announced that his organisation could soon be a senior affiliate of the Jamaica Football Federation (JFF).
General secretary of the JFF, Horace Reid, announced at Sunday's JFF Congress held at the Iberostar Resort in Rose Hall, St James, that ISSA, one of the minor affiliates, could soon become a full member.
SMALL... it's an opportunity to dialogue and have discussion on a higher level
SMALL... it's an opportunity to dialogue and have discussion on a higher level
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On Monday, Reid told the Observer that full membership would see "changes in the voting privileges as well as ISSA would also enjoy all the benefits of membership".
Presently, ISSA as a minor affiliate is allowed one vote, while senior affiliates are entitled to two votes.
Small told the Observer the move came "as a big surprise. We never thought they were thinking along those lines".
Being elevated to senior affiliate status, Dr Small said, would give them "an opportunity to dialogue and have discussion on a higher level, instead of just being the recipient of information".
The Wolmer's Boys' principal said, "There are many issues that the input of ISSA needs to be heard on and addressed and if we become a full delegate it would ensure that we get the chance to air them fully."
ISSA had been working with the JFF over the past few months in an effort to get the schoolboy football competitions -- the daCosta and Manning Cup -- to fall in line with FIFA rules, and one of the decisions taken was that players would miss a game after receiving two yellow cards, instead of three cards that obtained up to last season.
There have been some constructive discussions, he said, which has led to the formation of zonal disciplinary committees in the schoolboy football competitions.
"Usually we would wait in a particular cycle for our meetings," he said, "but we have organised for different zones to have their own meetings so we can attend to issues as soon as possible."
Additionally, Dr Small said, there were still a number of issues "relating to the expectations of falling in line", one of which was the age groups of players as presently, FIFA's stipulations would see first-formers being grouped with second- and third-formers, and this "could lead to the exclusion of the first-formers, so we'll have to look seriously at how we structure events so as to accommodate the guideline set by FIFA".
One of the drawbacks, he said, would be that if the first-formers are excluded from participation, "it would be unfair for them and we want them to be included and don't want to dampen their spirits".
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BY PAUL A REID Observer Writer
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
ROSE HALL, St James — Dr Walton Small, president of the Inter-Secondary Schools Sports Association (ISSA), was pleasantly surprised on Sunday when it was announced that his organisation could soon be a senior affiliate of the Jamaica Football Federation (JFF).
General secretary of the JFF, Horace Reid, announced at Sunday's JFF Congress held at the Iberostar Resort in Rose Hall, St James, that ISSA, one of the minor affiliates, could soon become a full member.
SMALL... it's an opportunity to dialogue and have discussion on a higher level
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1/1 On Monday, Reid told the Observer that full membership would see "changes in the voting privileges as well as ISSA would also enjoy all the benefits of membership".
Presently, ISSA as a minor affiliate is allowed one vote, while senior affiliates are entitled to two votes.
Small told the Observer the move came "as a big surprise. We never thought they were thinking along those lines".
Being elevated to senior affiliate status, Dr Small said, would give them "an opportunity to dialogue and have discussion on a higher level, instead of just being the recipient of information".
The Wolmer's Boys' principal said, "There are many issues that the input of ISSA needs to be heard on and addressed and if we become a full delegate it would ensure that we get the chance to air them fully."
ISSA had been working with the JFF over the past few months in an effort to get the schoolboy football competitions -- the daCosta and Manning Cup -- to fall in line with FIFA rules, and one of the decisions taken was that players would miss a game after receiving two yellow cards, instead of three cards that obtained up to last season.
There have been some constructive discussions, he said, which has led to the formation of zonal disciplinary committees in the schoolboy football competitions.
"Usually we would wait in a particular cycle for our meetings," he said, "but we have organised for different zones to have their own meetings so we can attend to issues as soon as possible."
Additionally, Dr Small said, there were still a number of issues "relating to the expectations of falling in line", one of which was the age groups of players as presently, FIFA's stipulations would see first-formers being grouped with second- and third-formers, and this "could lead to the exclusion of the first-formers, so we'll have to look seriously at how we structure events so as to accommodate the guideline set by FIFA".
One of the drawbacks, he said, would be that if the first-formers are excluded from participation, "it would be unfair for them and we want them to be included and don't want to dampen their spirits".
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/sport...of-JFF_8089073
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