The last stand After a week of turmoil for FIFA, it has left many of the outside footballing world question their credibility (if they hadn’t been questioning it before last week’s events), not least the European footballing governing body, UEFA who are debating what action to take. This proposed action by UEFA is a result of Sepp Blatter being re-elected for the fifth time. Obviously it’s not solely down to Blatter being re-elected, it’s many others thing too during his controversial tenure with the final straw coming after 14 FIFA delegates were arrested on money laundering and fraud charges and many more arrest look set to follow. So what next for UEFA
Well according to some reports UEFA are considering breaking away from FIFA and rival the World Cup with a Euro+ tournament happening in that time frame. It is a proposal supported by Denmark’s UEFA Ex-co member Allan Hansen who wants a full breakaway. So if this is backed by other members the calendar may see the Euro 2016 in France go ahead as planned, then instead of the majority of European nations attending the Russian World Cup in 2018 there could be an expanded European Championships with invites to other rebelling nations from other confederations across the World. In a way it could be similar to this year’s Eurovision song contest where Australia were invited to take part and I’m sure the Socceroos would be on the guest list for the Euro+ tournament too. Whatever happens I feel the breakaway can’t come soon enough as there’s a disease in FIFA which is difficult to eradicate and will slowly kill our beautiful game. The only way is to take drastic action and turn the attention away from FIFA.
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