With 20 big names, such as Zidane, Mourinho and Ancelotti, the governing body of the sport in Europe announced this new space for them to formulate proposals on the evolution of the game.
UEFA created a “Football Council” that will include 20 figures, including coaches Zinedine Zidane, Jose Mourinho and Carlo Ancelotti, to formulate proposals on the evolution of the game, the body announced today.
The Council will be called the UEFA Football Board and was validated by the UEFA Executive Committee last Tuesday in Lisbon. According to the announcement, its first meeting will be held on April 24 in the Swiss city of Nyon, headquarters of the entity, according to AFP news agency.
The council will be headed by Croatian Zvonimir Boban, director of professional soccer at UEFA, who as a footballer won four times the Italian Serie A with Milan, and with Italian Roberto Rosetti, in charge of referees, as deputy, who has the best track record of having officiated at the 2006 World Cup in Germany and the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.
In addition to Boban, France’s Zidane, Portugal’s Mourinho and Italy’s Ancelotti, the structure will also include other figures such as Ronald Koeman of the Netherlands, Denmark’s Michael Laudrup, Czech Petr Cech, Germany’s Jürgen Klinsmann, Rudi Völler and Philipp Lahm, Portugal’s Luis Figo, Italy’s Paolo Maldini and Fabio Capello, and England’s Gareth Southgate.
The group will have to analyze regulatory and organizational developments in soccer and come up with ideas that could be turned into “draft laws”.