Lowy explains FFA position to soccer fans
Aug 5, 2017 - 7:06 AM Football Federation Australia chairman Steven Lowy has warned that the code risks slipping back into the dark days of the NSL if an independent A-League is allowed to form.Three days before a FIFA delegation arrives to rule on the future structure of the sport, Lowy issued a 2000-word statement spelling out how the game would be damaged if more money was poured into the competition.
Lowy said that the game must decide whether it is "managed on behalf of all of those who participate in and love the game or is controlled by narrow interests".
"Will we work together and take Australia's largest participation sport to a new level of success on the local, national and international stage or will we return to the bad old days of self-interest and suffer the inevitable results?," he questioned in the statement.
Clubs are essentially pushing back against FFA and want a new congress structure to get more say and ultimately more money into the competition.
But Lowy said the game simply couldn't afford to go down that path.
The delegation from FIFA will rule on whether compromise can be reached on the sharing of power in FFA's Congress -- the annual meeting that elects the board.
The A-League clubs have been offered only three votes out of a proposed 13 by the FFA.
The National Soccer League or NSL ran from 1977-2004 and was Australia's first national competition but was plagued by disjointed governance and cliques within the code.
Source: AAP
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