Mr. Boxhill speaks

[Karl]

<TABLE id=AutoNumber1 style="BORDER-COLLAPSE: collapse" borderColor=#111111 cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="51%" border=0><TBODY><TR><TD width="85%"><H2 align=center>The New Game Plan</H2></TD><TD width="5%"></TD></TR><TR><TD width="10%"></TD><TD width="85%"></TD><TD width="5%"></TD></TR><TR><TD width="10%"></TD><TD width="85%"></TD><TD width="5%"></TD></TR><TR><TD width="10%"></TD><TD width="85%"><H1>THE NEW GAME PLAN</H1><P class=MsoBodyText>Internationally, football is a profitable business, locally it is a failing enterprise. Against this background, our team led by Crenston Boxhill is seeking to gain operational responsibility for what we dub Jamaica Football Incorporated, managed for the people of Jamaica by the Jamaica Football Federation.<P class=MsoNormal>As a business, the national football programme should provide tangible returns to its major stakeholders - the people of Jamaica. So often we hear the lament of “not enough support for Jamaican football” from the top leadership of the Jamaica Football Federation (JFF). The question we are asking is, since 1998 what have the Jamaican people been getting for their investment? The answer, history lessons (constant reminders of our World Cup qualification in 1998.)<P class=MsoNormal>While reaching the finals of the World Cup in France was a signal triumph for Jamaican football, we have skillfully managed to fritter away the goodwill and potential made possible by this remarkable feat. Five years after our historic journey to France and Jamaican football is on life support.<P class=MsoNormal></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>Boxhill - 2003

[Karl]

RE: Mr. Boxhill speaks

<P class=MsoNormal>The challenge now is to bring Jamaican football to renewed vitality. What is now needed is a radical shift in strategy. It requires a new team. Can the current administration effect the changes necessary for the future success of Jamaican football? The answer is a resounding, no. This current administration does not enjoy the confidence of the key stakeholders in Jamaican football. Bringing about the necessary changes will require the participation of all Jamaicans. This can only be secured in an atmosphere of trust. The low level of public trust invested in the present administration makes it ill equipped to fulfill this mandate.<P class=MsoNormal>The JFF has placed far more emphasis on administration than on development. The record of the present administration is a litany of misplaced priorities. The secretariat of the JFF occupies luxuriant New Kingston surroundings, while the players toil in a largely inhospitable environment.<P class=MsoNormal>We have to create the conditions which allow individual associations to make money. Associations should be magnets of economic activities, helping to foster goodwill while generating revenue.<P class=MsoNormal>Will the Boxhill team rely on contributions from such bodies as CHASE and the Sports Development Foundation (SDF)? Of course we will. What is different is that our administration will bring about the necessary levels of accountability and transparency to prevent potential benefactors from referring derisively to the JFF as “The Black Hole of New Kingston.”<P class=MsoNormal>Investment is a function of confidence currently in short supply at the JFF. No one is accusing the current administration of any wrongdoing. Yet in the absence of transparency people are likely to reach strange conclusions. Trust, once lost is hardly ever recovered. It is futile putting new wine into old wineskin. We need a fresh start.<P class=MsoNormal>The development of a comprehensive national programme must be our number one priority creating the kind of infrastructure which will promote the nurturing and transition of players from the junior level to the national senior teams. This programme will cater to Jamaican players regardless of age, gender or origin. The current administration has committed our resources and its existence to winning matches; hence the blind reliance on overseas based players. With our impressive string of losses, the question to the administration must now be “On what do you base your existence?”<P class=MsoNormal>We should hasten to say that we are thankful for the contribution our overseas-based players have made to the heightened exposure of Jamaican football. Yet we must admit that their services were not optimally utilized. Foreign-based players should be a source of inspiration and experience. They should complement local talent, not supplant it. That said we must move vigorously to develop home grown talent in order to capture the economical benefits which flow from transfer fees, endorsements and the creation of a well-supported professional league. <P class=MsoNormal>This should be done with the judicious use of overseas players. Without the introduction of these measures, Jamaican football will remain comatose.<P class=MsoNormal>We will have to look beyond gate receipts and grants to finance our national programmes. Major sporting entities such as the NBA or the West Indies Cricket Board are also reliant on media to supply a significant part of their revenues. Having the appropriate media alliances will be contingent on our producing players of the necessary star quality to at

[Jamaica2099]

RE: Mr. Boxhill speaks

They are on Hitz now talking about the upcoming NPL season. I hope TVJ SN airs it later like they did the Digicel Cup launch.

[Gamma]

RE: Mr. Boxhill speaks

whoever wrote that has taken a very narrow view!:blink:

[Shatta]

RE: Mr. Boxhill speaks

Gamma you mean to say "The forum member who wrote that"

Dem really think say dem a fool anyone now? Look from when dem inna office and every which day dem come up with new pronouncements and no actual concrete plan of action.

Dem man deh born with sight and lacking vision and they will never ever see it because dem heart no clean and dem selfish.

respect