Caribbean Times 25th Issue - Friday 28th October 2016
Caribbean Times 25th Issue - Friday 28th October 2016
Caribbean Times 25th Issue - Friday 28th October 2016
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14 c a r i b b e a n t i m e s . a g<br />
<strong>Friday</strong> <strong>28th</strong> <strong>October</strong> <strong>2016</strong><br />
Dispute over imported players in<br />
ABFA domestic league continues<br />
By Marver Woodley<br />
The debate on the importation<br />
of players during<br />
the Antigua and Barbuda<br />
Football Association domestic<br />
season continued on<br />
Thursday where the <strong>Caribbean</strong><br />
Football Union general<br />
secretary, Neil Cochrane<br />
weighed in on the issue.<br />
Speaking during an appearance<br />
on the Thursday<br />
edition of the Good morning<br />
Jojo Sports show, Cochrane<br />
said that calls on<br />
the outright ban of imported<br />
players is unreasonable<br />
especially given the strides<br />
made towards regional integration.<br />
Cochrane said “I feel it<br />
is a serious disruption when<br />
someone wants to say cut in<br />
total people coming into to<br />
play, it cannot be, not when<br />
we fought and signed all of<br />
these treaties of regional<br />
integration and now people<br />
have come with a skill<br />
certificate to work in your<br />
country that is ridiculous.”<br />
The general secretary<br />
who is a key figure in the<br />
Key Villa said the goal<br />
should be to get all players<br />
into leagues across the region<br />
as the main goal and<br />
to not look at the situation<br />
as a backward step but a<br />
forward moment in the<br />
right direction.<br />
However, Cochrane said<br />
he would support a call for<br />
a cap, to limit the number<br />
of overseas based players<br />
allowed to take to the field<br />
for any one team at the<br />
same time.<br />
Earlier this week coach<br />
of the Liberta Blackhawks,<br />
Rowan Benjamin called<br />
for an outright ban on the<br />
importation of players for<br />
the domestic season saying<br />
that it restricts the development<br />
of young players.<br />
Former player Ivor Luke<br />
was the first to seek out on<br />
the issue saying that the action<br />
should be dismissed,<br />
predicting that more and<br />
more young players will<br />
be neglected by the clubs<br />
making it harder for them<br />
to graduate to the national<br />
teams.<br />
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