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....Yes.Can I hope?
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NT and northern nsw.Wonder who the 2 no votes were from? ACT and who?
Interesting to see if an independent league will change the expansion plans or maybe open it up again to those whose bids were rejected. After all an independent A League may have vastly differing opinions on what is best for the league.
I love you all.The general manager of the Wellington Phoenix, David Dome, says the club is confident about their future in the A-League following significant changes at Football Federation Australia yesterday.
The A-League is set to break away from the FFA after the governing body accepted constitutional changes allowing more of the games stake holders onto their congress.
An independent A-League is set to be in place by March next year.
Dome says each club will now be a stake holder of the A-League.
Dome says the Phoenix will no longer have any special licence requirements placed on them that none of the other clubs have to meet.
"It gives us certainty now around the licence, it gives us certainty around the Phoenix's tenure in the A-League, we're seen exactly the same as every other club."
"It'll reassure our fans, some of our key commercial partners, who have been there since day one, it helps with the city and so you pull all the pieces together and it is certainly a very strong light at the end of the tunnel and it does give us a lot of certainty going forward."
Yesterday the FFA accepted constitutional changes which will grow the FFA Congress from 10 to 29 members.
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World governing body FIFA had threatened to intervene if the number of voters didn't grow.
More A-League club representatives will now get a place at the table.
It remains to be seen what will come of the A-League expansion process, which was supposed to select two new teams to enter the competition later this month.
The new clubs are likely to come from Sydney and Melbourne and will join the 2019-20 season.
The changes at the FFA means Steven Lowy's tenure as chairman - and his family's 15-year hold on Australian football - will end next month.
Lowy said the transformation would change the organisation dramatically.
"A philosophical shift has taken place," he said.
"I hope for the best for the game clearly but I certainly fear for the worst.
"Our game today has crossed a red line from a corporate governance model for football to one where stake holders with vested interests will compete for power and resources as opposed to those being decided for independent members of a board.
"This is a governance regime that I choose not to serve on ... I will not offer myself for re-election at the upcoming AGM."
I hope this doesn't end being a case where the devil we knew was better than the one we didn't know.
As someone whose interested in football piqued then waned in the dying days of Soccer Australia (noting that the "dying days" were actually about 5 years long), I think it'll be a long time before I stop viewing major change in the game with cynicism, fear and trepidation.
Ross Solly, who used to be - and may still be - an ABC host/reporter, wrote a really good book a good 13 or so years ago now, called something like "Shoot out: The Politics of Australian Soccer's Fight for Survival". It's a particularly interesting book because it was written before the rise of the FFA on the back of the 2006 qualification and the early days of the A-League, so there was no real benefit of hindsight with the knowledge that the game would rise. I feel like it should be essential reading for anyone who wants to be involved in the games top echelons. Those who refuse to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.