{"id":10973,"date":"2018-02-16T00:34:59","date_gmt":"2018-02-15T15:34:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/?p=10973"},"modified":"2018-02-16T00:35:13","modified_gmt":"2018-02-15T15:35:13","slug":"australia-fa-chief-executive-opposes-league-expansion-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2018\/02\/16\/australia-fa-chief-executive-opposes-league-expansion-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia FA chief executive opposes A-League expansion plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Football Federation Australia (FFA) chief executive David Gallop has opposed the proposal to expand\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2017\/10\/06\/league-trial-yellow-red-cards-misbehaving-coaches\/\">A-League<\/a> from 10 to 12 teams.<\/p>\n<p>As reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/theworldgame.sbs.com.au\/article\/2018\/02\/14\/gallop-bemoans-poor-league-numbers\">The World Game<\/a>, Gallop has warned expansion will not solve all problems as the A-League suffers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Expansion can often have pitfalls and be a very costly venture in Australian sport &#8230; we need to think carefully about that,&#8221; Gallop told\u00a0<em>SEN<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, he\u00a0insists\u00a0football has to be marketed better in Australia to attract more viewers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Football needs to actually think about how it&#8217;s marketed, both at club level and our level as we go into the next season in October,&#8221; Gallop said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The sport has a lot of reason to be optimistic, confident about the future.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The challenge is to turn those grass roots participants into fans of the A-League.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s still a relatively young competition, it doesn&#8217;t have the generational support of the AFL and NRL.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Football Federation Australia (FFA) chief executive David Gallop has opposed the proposal to expand\u00a0A-League from 10 to 12 teams. As reported by The World Game, Gallop has warned expansion will not solve all problems as the A-League suffers. &#8220;Expansion can often have pitfalls and be a very costly venture in Australian sport &#8230; we need to think carefully about that,&#8221; Gallop told\u00a0SEN. On the other hand, he\u00a0insists\u00a0football has to be marketed better in Australia to attract more viewers. &#8220;Football needs to actually think about how it&#8217;s marketed, both at club level and our level as we go into the next season in October,&#8221; Gallop said. &#8220;The sport has a lot &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2018\/02\/16\/australia-fa-chief-executive-opposes-league-expansion-plan\/\" class=\"tribe-more-link\">Continue reading &#8220;Australia FA chief executive opposes A-League expansion plan&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":10974,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[380,110,95],"class_list":["post-10973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australia","tag-a-league","tag-australia","tag-slider"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/90"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10973\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}