{"id":11100,"date":"2018-02-21T22:07:19","date_gmt":"2018-02-21T13:07:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/?p=11100"},"modified":"2018-02-21T22:07:19","modified_gmt":"2018-02-21T13:07:19","slug":"league-clubs-urge-fifa-ban-australia-fa-working-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2018\/02\/21\/league-clubs-urge-fifa-ban-australia-fa-working-group\/","title":{"rendered":"A-League clubs urge FIFA to ban Australia FA from working group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2018\/02\/18\/league-expand-two-new-clubs-since-2019-20-season\/\">A-League clubs<\/a> urged FIFA to act swiftly on reconstructing\u00a0Football Federation Australia (FFA), as <a href=\"https:\/\/theworldgame.sbs.com.au\/article\/2018\/02\/21\/league-clubs-warn-games-collapse\">reported by AAP<\/a> on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The clubs have started their private meeting with a delegation, which included two FIFA representatives \u2013 Nodar Akhalkatsi and Luca Nicola \u2013 and the Asian Football Confederation\u2019s Ravi Kumar, to fix Australian football\u2019s governance issues.<\/p>\n<p>During a two-and-a-half-hour meeting, the\u00a0chairmen of the 10 clubs tried\u00a0to persuade the delegation to ban\u00a0FFA from participating in the congress review working group, which is the softer alternative to sacking FFA chairman Steven Lowy and his board.<\/p>\n<p>The clubs will also reportedly propose for other changes to FFA\u2019s governance, including greater financial transparency and more independent arbitration processes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A-League clubs urged FIFA to act swiftly on reconstructing\u00a0Football Federation Australia (FFA), as reported by AAP on Wednesday. The clubs have started their private meeting with a delegation, which included two FIFA representatives \u2013 Nodar Akhalkatsi and Luca Nicola \u2013 and the Asian Football Confederation\u2019s Ravi Kumar, to fix Australian football\u2019s governance issues. During a two-and-a-half-hour meeting, the\u00a0chairmen of the 10 clubs tried\u00a0to persuade the delegation to ban\u00a0FFA from participating in the congress review working group, which is the softer alternative to sacking FFA chairman Steven Lowy and his board. The clubs will also reportedly propose for other changes to FFA\u2019s governance, including greater financial transparency and more independent arbitration &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2018\/02\/21\/league-clubs-urge-fifa-ban-australia-fa-working-group\/\" class=\"tribe-more-link\">Continue reading &#8220;A-League clubs urge FIFA to ban Australia FA from working group&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":11101,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[298,110,768,1243],"class_list":["post-11100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australia","tag-afc","tag-australia","tag-fifa","tag-football-federation-australia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11100","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=11100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11100\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}