Technical director Derek Broadley will be given the boot by the Bermuda Football Association at the end of his three-year contract.

Broadley had been hoping to prolong his stay beyond March 2011 when his current deal expires, but he appears to have been forced out by outgoing president Richard Calderon and the executive council.

The BFA confirmed yesterday's decision to ditch Broadley just days after he had left the Island for a family vacation.

In a further twist, the news comes a month ahead of the BFA's annual general meeting where Calderon will officially step down as president midway through his four-year term.

Broadley was apparently unaware of yesterday's developments until he was contacted by The Royal Gazette last night.

This newspaper sent him a copy of the BFA's statement, and, at the time of going to print, Broadley had yet to respond to our requests for comment on the matter.

Although the timing of the announcement may be a little strange the BFA decision's not to keep Broadley on is not altogether surprising.

Over the past few months Calderon and Broadley's once close friendship has become increasingly strained with the pair reportedly no longer on speaking terms.

And, as long ago as January, Calderon felt the need to issue a public statement claiming there was no rift between the two, whose relationship goes back a number of years to when Broadley was head coach at Reading Rage – a team Calderon used to own a stake in.

In a statement issued last night the BFA said they intended to replace Broadley with a part-time overseas replacement for a two-year period, before appointing a full-time Bermudian technical director.

"The executive council under the recommendation of the player development committee has decided that the three-year contract with technical director Derek Broadley will not be extended," said the statement.

"The association has decided that it will seek the services of an international technical development specialist to provide mentoring and technical assistance for a two-year period.

"In doing so, our coaches will be afforded reasonable autonomy, while simultaneously being required to follow an agreed strategic action plan.

"It is expected that the consultant will visit Bermuda three to four times a year to evaluate our coaching and development programmes, conduct coaching seminars/courses and provide sustained guidance and direction to the coaching fraternity in Bermuda.

"At the end of the two-year period, the association will be well placed to confirm in office a Bermudian technical director."

There have been strong rumours that top UEFA advisor, Jacques Crevosier, will be the man who provides the BFA with 'monitoring and technical assistance' as well as acting as a tutor to a future Bermudian technical director, likely to be Devarr Boyles.

Ironically, Broadley has long maintained Boyles should be his successor and has been grooming the ex-Devonshire Cougars coach for the job since he joined the BFA as youth director little more than a year ago.

The BFA statement continued: "Firstly, it must be stated that Derek requested that the executive council give consideration to his future with the association at least one-year prior to the end of his current contract which the executive council agreed was the appropriate course of action to take, considering that Derek would need to consider his future and that of his family.

"The decision not to extend Derek's contract was partially based on the fact that the association's long-term vision is to have a Bermudian assume the role of technical director and that Derek's guidance during his three-year tenure with the association was to provide the impetus for this vision to be realised."

The impending exit of Broadley, a no-nonsense straight talker, will likely lead to plenty of upheaval.

He was largely responsible for drawing up the BFA's current Strategic Plan, completely restructuring the domestic game along with establishing the Island's first ever national academy.

Broadley implemented the BFA's first in-house training course for youth coaches who are now required to have completed the association's D-Licence before working with young players. At the turn of the year more than 160 Bermudian coaches were in the process of taking the course.

Along with Paul Scope, Broadley was also instrumental in forging a partnership between the Bermuda Hogges and the BFA, which saw the club switch from the USL Division Two to the Premier Development League (PDL) last season.

The ex- Crystal Palace academy director joined the BFA as technical director in March 2008 during Larry Mussenden's –presidency.