PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – Embattled president of the Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA), Kieron Edwards is open to stepping down from his role if the membership wants him to do so.
Kieron EdwardsEdwards, who was elected in April 2024, has faced several calls for him and his entire executive to resign following a slew of disappointing results by the national teams.
The senior men’s and women’s sides, along with the Under-20 men’s team and the Under-17 boys’ and girls’ teams all failed to qualify for their respective World Cups.
In an interview with Guardian Media Sports, Edwards said while he would not resign, if the membership wants him to demit office, they will signal their intention at the TTFA’s annual general meeting (AGM) slated to be held later this year.
“There are measures in the Constitution to deal with that. I am going before the membership at our AGM later this year, and they can take the measures that they want and demand them. I have no problem with putting myself before the membership.
“The AGM is the supreme legislative body of the T&T Football Association, so I will continue to put myself forward to the membership, and they will do as they see fit,” Edwards said.
While he admitted that results had not gone the way he would have liked, Edwards said the current TTFA executive could not take all the blame.
Additionally, he said they had made significant progress in helping to strengthen their national squads through legislation.
“We have to take things into consideration and into context. We would have come into power on April 13, 2024, and the World Cup campaign started literally a few months after that. We’d have made our first World Cup campaign in the preliminary rounds, and this team was a team we inherited.
“We’ve been talking about this grandparent law, but no one did anything. We would have gone through the trenches with two different governments to ensure that this bill was passed, and it gives us the best opportunity to acquire the best talent with a Trinidad and Tobago passport,” Edwards said.
