Jack Warner, president of the Caribbean Football Union, announced on Monday that the region’s premier tournament will undergo a massive transformation for the 2011-12 season.
The announcement followed a CFU Congress on Monday in this ritzy Jamaica north-coast city. “The 2010 edition of this competition catapulted Caribbean football into another chapter of our great story,” said Warner, who is also a vice president of the sport’s World governing body.
“But we cannot sit idly by and allow our leading ship to sail on seas of uncertainty. Our actions plant the seeds that become our fate, and eventually blossoms into our destiny, a destiny of greatness.”
Warner hopes that the switch of dates for the tournament would allow the region’s best players to make themselves available after playing in overseas leagues, and that they contest the Finals.
The Congress also decided to review, with Concacaf, the format and regulations for the Caribbean Club Champions Cup, which decides the CFU’s three berths in the Concacaf Champions League.
The Club Champions Cup will be staged from March to May 2011, and regional bosses intend to implement changes, which would result in an increase in the participation level for the 2012 tournament. The Congress also re-elected Warner as president.