The president, Aleksander Ceferin, speaks first. That's the way in a crisis.
Then the natural order: the treasurer and vice president, Sandor Csanyi; English Football **** ociation CEO Mark Bullingham. Male European football executives lined up on the Zoom screen, queueing up to save our world.
But then this emergency meeting of UEFA, European football's governing body, convened in response to FIFA president Gianni Infantino's plan to sell off stakes in its major competitions, takes a twist.
Laura McAllister, another vice president and one of two women on the governing body's 21-member executive committee, takes the microphone. She demands real action: a full boycott of FIFA competitions.
Maybe this means little to you — the fact that on an emergency call of 150 individuals actively wrestling with what they consider to be an existential threat to football's future, it is a woman who issues the call to arms.
#fifa #vice #competitions
Then the natural order: the treasurer and vice president, Sandor Csanyi; English Football **** ociation CEO Mark Bullingham. Male European football executives lined up on the Zoom screen, queueing up to save our world.
But then this emergency meeting of UEFA, European football's governing body, convened in response to FIFA president Gianni Infantino's plan to sell off stakes in its major competitions, takes a twist.
Laura McAllister, another vice president and one of two women on the governing body's 21-member executive committee, takes the microphone. She demands real action: a full boycott of FIFA competitions.
Maybe this means little to you — the fact that on an emergency call of 150 individuals actively wrestling with what they consider to be an existential threat to football's future, it is a woman who issues the call to arms.
#fifa #vice #competitions
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