FFA Governance
that's actually not a bad idea.....poor CCM.
Review Time for process used to sack Matildas Coach.
It will not review Stajcic's termination but will use the decision as an example to shed light on processes within national team management structures.
Ten candidates are in the running to replace David Gallop as FFA CEO. Six have been mentioned repeatedly, as either interested in the role or targeted by headhunters. They are Tony Pignata, John Didulica, Brendan Schwab, Peter Filopoulos, Peter Abraam, James Johnson
— A-League Hub (@AleagueHub) September 10, 2019
[Telegraph]
TONY P!
TONY P!
TONY P!
Then the Nix will finally be safe.
TONY P!
TONY P!
TONY P!
Then the Nix will finally be safe.
And salary cap won't...
Former Joey turned FIFA, AFC and now City Football Group high-flier James Johnson has emerged as a leading contender to replace David Gallop as FFA’s chief executive.
Former Joey turned FIFA, AFC and now City Football Group high-flier James Johnson has emerged as a leading contender to replace David Gallop as FFA’s chief executive.
https://theworldgame.sbs.com.a
Would this guy be good for the Nix?
We want/need Pignata in charge!
Former Joey turned FIFA, AFC and now City Football Group high-flier James Johnson has emerged as a leading contender to replace David Gallop as FFA’s chief executive.
https://theworldgame.sbs.com.a
Would this guy be good for the Nix?
Former Joey turned FIFA, AFC and now City Football Group high-flier James Johnson has emerged as a leading contender to replace David Gallop as FFA’s chief executive.
https://theworldgame.sbs.com.a
Would this guy be good for the Nix?
Interesting credentials. At least he's a football man, not a league ring-in/mercenary like Gallop.
I don't think Tony P will be in for this?
"Some candidates have been noticably stepping-up their media interviews and appearances, and contacts within the football community. Others have already laid out a strategy for reform which has pencilled people into positions.
We understand that the shortlist is thought to include six people whom we highlight below. David Lewis reported on 1 October via The World Game that the field is more or less narrowed to two candidates, James Johnson and Brendan Schwab."
If the rumour-mill is true – and obviously, no Board member would confirm or deny this – then the play is for existing Chairman Chris Nikou to be rolled by Joseph Carrozzi who was his rival for the job almost one year ago.
CEO News - All the tom-toms are saying that person will be Brendan Schwab, current Chairman of Professional Footballers’ Australia (PFA) and CEO of the World Players’ Association in Switzerland.
Could only be the FFA -
https://www.smh.com.au/sport/soccer/ffa-board-members-quit-in-protest-over-handling-of-olyroos-scandal-20191120-p53ci0.html
"Two board members resigned from Football Federation Australia in protest at being kept in the dark over the Olyroos' Cambodian sex scandal by chairman Chris Nikou, whose position is up for a vote at Thursday's annual general meeting.
Crispin Murray and Kelly Bayer Rosmarin officially resigned as directors last month - preempting the expiry of their terms on Thursday - with FFA sources suggesting they stepped down early because of a lack of transparency regarding the incident in Phnom Penh, which has led to international bans for four A-League players.
Chris Nikou: "A very pleasing day for FFA. We've just had a quick board meeting where I've been re-elected as Chairman."
— Football Australia (@FFA) November 21, 2019
Confirming Nikou survived the rumoured challenge.
Happy 1st Birthday New Board - PS here is your report card
A year ago today, the new FFA Board was formed with the election of Joseph Carrozzi, Chris Nikou, Remo Nogarotto and Heather Reid to join the then two existing directors of Kelly Bayer-Rosmarin and Crispin Murray. It came after a vitriolic battle of more than three years as the A-League clubs – and latterly Professional Footballers’ Australia (PFA) – fought for greater representation within FFA Congress, with a promise to try to reunite the game after 15 years of disenfranchisement of many longstanding people in the football community.
Why is a state member federation president ringing around FFA Board members pushing ‘his’ candidate for CEO saying he represents all state feds - when he doesn’t?
Bonita Mersiades vis Twitter
Why is a state member federation president ringing around FFA Board members pushing ‘his’ candidate for CEO saying he represents all state feds - when he doesn’t?
Bonita Mersiades vis Twitter
Good question indeed. Am i shocked.....not any more. Disappointed. Disallusioned. Disenchanted. The ONLY Review that needs to be held should be into Congress.
Chris Nikou: "A very pleasing day for FFA. We've just had a quick board meeting where I've been re-elected as Chairman."
— Football Australia (@FFA) November 21, 2019
Confirming Nikou survived the rumoured challenge.
The only challenger was Senator Palpatine, but he did not have enough dark powers necessary for the FFA top job.
City Group executive and former youth international James Johnson appears set to become the new chief executive of Football Federation Australia, after negotiations with his rival for the post dramatically stalled.
Sports union boss Brendan Schwab is believed to have told friends that he is no longer in contention to succeed David Gallop at the helm of the governing body, after weeks of interviews had whittled a large field of candidates down to Schwab and Johnson.
It appears to leave the way clear for Johnson, head of external affairs for the City Group, to be offered the role, with Gallop having already left the FFA last week.
FFA’s board has been deliberating for more than a week over which man to choose, after a third candidate – Brisbane businessman Robert Cavallucci – himself pulled out to become chief executive of Football Queensland.
It’s understood that the FFA board was split between Schwab and Johnson, and deliberations have gone on for days, including extra background checks and references on both men.
Schwab’s supporters had pointed to a long history of strategic thought in the Australian game, including the design for an Australian Premier League that the A-League is now moving towards in many facets.
However Johnson seems set to return to Australia after a decade working first for the AFC, as head of external affairs, and then head of professional football at FIFA where he dealt with many of the world’s biggest clubs and leagues.
For the past year he has been a senior vice president at the City Group, owner of Manchester City, Melbourne City and a variety of other clubs around the world.
In his youth he played for the young Australian national teams, though injury prevented him from appearing at the 1991 U17 World Cup when Australia reached the final.
Assuming he is appointed, Johnson will inherit a very different role to the one filled for seven years by Gallop.
The imminent split of the A-League from FFA’s control will effectively halve the role, leaving the new man to concentrate on the national teams and the game’s booming grassroots.
Incoming Football Federation Australia chief executive James Johnson wants to be seen as a “circuit breaker” in a sport wracked by internal conflict for the best part of four years.He is also fully aware of what he is in for.
When asked on Friday what was more difficult, currently dealing with European governing body UEFA regarding Manchester City’s possible ban from the Champions League for breaking financial rules, previous negotiations to restart Indonesian football that included talks with president Joko Widodo or uniting Australian soccer, Johnson plumped for the latter.
“There’s one common denominator across all those,” he said. “You need to have honest and open communication and build trust with your stakeholders. I’ll have a strong emphasis on communicating with people in the sport.”Soccer in Australia is once again crying out for a saviour and the sport hopes they have found one of their own.
Johnson was officially appointed on Friday to succeed David Gallop, who left FFA last week after seven years in the role having had long his cards marked as a “non-football” person following the departure of former chairman Steven Lowy late last year.
Johnson has a decade of football administration across Australia and the world, having worked for the players’ union locally before moving to the Asian Football Confederation, world governing body FIFA and lastly this year City Football Group, the owners of Manchester City and Melbourne City, as its senior vice-president of external affairs.
Johnson’s CFG employment is also a common denominator in Australian football, with CFG director Simon Pearce, Melbourne City’s vice-chairman and a special adviser to the executive authority running Abu Dhabi, an immensely influential powerbroker in A-League circles as the competition looks to complete its separation from FFA within months.
CFG has variously supplied or organised consultants to the league, and digital and advertising advice, but Johnson played down his links on Friday.“We need to look at the facts. I won’t be a CFG person any more, I’ll be a FFA person and CEO.
The facts are I grew up in the football community and developed (as a player) in the Australian pathway, worked the players, in Asian football and in the last 11 months for CFG.
But my employment for them will cease. Those are the facts.”Johnson’s football background will earn him kudos from the football community — FFA chairman Chris Nikou said on Friday that “football is in James’ soul” — but he faces a big challenge trying to unite a fractured sport
.There has been fighting between the states and the clubs on the terms of the A-League separation, concerns about governance at FFA board level and worries about sponsors walking away, but Johnson stressed the need for unity.“If stakeholders are fighting then you are unable to communicate and you can’t move the game forward,” Johnson said.
He said it was important for FFA to have a strong relationship with the professional side of the sport, even if it will be diminished in a fiscal sense once separation from the A-League is completed.Johnson will also investigate ways to improve junior development, work on the Australian bid for the 2023 Women’s World Cup and potentially introduce a second division underneath the A-League.
The mooted model for the latter is 24 teams across two conferences comprising current state league clubs and A-League youth teams, though much negotiating is still ahead. There are also state federation and player relationships to juggle.Johnson insisted he was undaunted by the challenge, and will officially start in the role in mid-January after moving from his current home in Manchester.“I’m very excited to be coming home, excited about the opportunity … and truly believe the future is bright.
We have great participation levels, one of the best women’s national teams in the world in the Matildas, and a good Socceroos teams that has qualified for the last four World Cups.“There is a lot of hard work ahead, but I can’t wait to get stuck into it.”
Seems quite young - 38ish?
The A-League’s legal separation from FFA is reportedly three-and-a-half years away. It has been put off until the end of the current broadcast agreement to ensure there is no contractual uncertainty that could make deals with broadcasters and sponsors null and void.
https://twitter.com/AleagueHub/status/120757171618...
So Nix will be kicked out after this season? Just great that's all we need.
That's the legal separation, the operational separation has already happened and the League is already under the control of the clubs. It's a continuation of what was already announced and what was announced is that the Phoenix are there for the long haul.
This is a different ffa now with a different direction and priorities. I'd doubt they'd try and intervene on the Phoenix and sour that new relationship with the teams from the get go.
This "lesbian mafia" bullshark is an artefact of the way in which "everyone knows" that elite women's sport is more gay than the general population, but it's considered rude to talk about it; hence, the innuendo and rumours. I'm very happy that, in this country at least, Katie and Priscilla Duncan have led the charge on being public and making it No Big Deal.
Oz Football about to shot it self in the foot
Home NOW facting checking - This a 2017 article Old New = Fake News
Oz Football about to shot it self in the foot
Lynch
Liverpool leapfrog Arsenal into top four
Victoria's second tier soccer clubs are aiming to spark a national revolt to force the embattled Football Federation Australia to establish a genuine national second division and promotion and relegation through every level of the game.
FFA chiefs admitted last week that expansion of the A-League was on the back-burner for at least two years, that the cash-strapped body was looking to outside consultants for advice and that it was appealing to private equity investors to fund future growth.
Ambitious National Premier League clubs in Victoria and in other states have complained throughout the A-League's 12-year history that it is largely based on franchise entities, not member clubs, and that it is a closed shop from which traditional clubs are excluded.
They are also angry at the lack of viable transfer fees for players NPL clubs have developed and who are signed by A-League clubs. There is frustration at the way so much of the game's spending is channelled up through the prism of the A-League rather than diffused through the grassroots and in player development.
Dissent: Unrest among NPL clubs with the way the FFA is running soccer in Australia is reaching boiling point. Photo: Dominic Lorrimer
Victoria's soccer dissidents plan a meeting in Melbourne on Monday night at which they expect at least 24 representatives from Victorian NPL and NPL 1 teams to meet to discuss forming a national association of NPL clubs.
"Once we have formulated our approach here, we will be talking to clubs who feel the same way in NSW, Queensland and South Australia to establish a national body of like-minded clubs," a spokesman for the group said.
"The A-League was a game-changer when it started, but it is stagnating now and is sucking up all the money in the game. The FFA has admitted that clubs here are not like clubs in the traditional heartlands of the game, they have acknowledged that as private businesses the FFA is focused on providing the A-League teams with the opportunities to maximise revenues and make money.
"We feel too much emphasis is on that and not enough on grassroots football, building the infrastructure of the game beyond the top level and developing young players and giving them the opportunity to play at the highest level with more clubs.
"You only have to see the results of Australia's junior teams in World Cups and Olympic qualifiers in the years since the A-League started. Yes, competition everywhere has got tougher, but we hardly even qualify for these tournaments now in the men's game as the players don't seem to be coming through the way they used to.
"You saw the outcry last week when Brisbane and Western Sydney Wanderers got hammered in the Asian Champions League – even the Fox commentators were admitting there were big problems with youth development here. The A-League model is based on the leisure market and entertainment industry, not on traditional football culture, and the results are becoming clear with the Socceroos and the quality of Australian players generally."
The state federations have tended to side with the establishment in the controversies of recent years but the Victorian clubs seem prepared to take on Football Federation Victoria if necessary.
Their ultimate aim is to try and force a restructure of the game once more, so that there is a genuine national second division in which ambitious clubs could compete and win promotion to the top tier – and face relegation if they failed when they pitched in against the big boys.
"It should be all about a fairer distribution of resources and opportunity on the field. Clubs should be able to compete and get to the top if they play better, are coached better and invest wisely.
"Where is the incentive for well run NPL teams, either here in Victoria or in Sydney or Brisbane or wherever, to invest heavily in their infrastructure, produce players or grow the game. At present we can receive $7000 if an A-League team signs one of our players – that's nothing compared to the investment that might have been put into a boy who has been with a club since he was maybe 10 or 11."
Critics will argue the idea of a national second division is pie in the sky and flawed because the clubs in it will simply not have the money to spend on enhanced player wages or flights and accommodation for a lengthy season if they have to travel to Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth on a regular basis.
The Victorians say a large chunk of those costs could be met by forcing their local state federations to withhold the licensing and other fees they pay to the governing body annually.
"The FFV currently pays $1.9 million to FFA. Why should it? We don't get much for it. That money could be spent underwriting teams playing in a national second tier. We believe the FFA is mainly interested in servicing the needs of the A-League teams and the national teams, but we think the game would be better developed long term by building a real football culture through a second division and promotion and relegation."
It's an incendiary move, but the Victorian clubs have form in taking on the establishment.
A few years ago the FFA sought to restructure the game in Victoria and the FFV put in proposals to set up a series of regional-based clubs to play at the top tier of the state pyramid, freezing out many of the established Melbourne teams.
A bitter battle and legal action followed until the clubs won that fight, and the NPL was established as it now is, with many traditional clubs competing at the top.
http://www.smh.com.au/sport/soccer/victorian-clubs-plan-revolt-to-force-aleague-promotion-and-relegation-20170305-gur017.html