UEFA has decided to create a “soccer council” that brings together about twenty personalities, including Zinédine Zidane, José Mourinho and Carlo Ancelotti, in charge of formulating proposals on the development of the game.
Called the ‘UEFA Football Board’, this structure was validated by the executive committee of the European Confederation which met this Tuesday in Lisbon and will hold its first meeting on April 24 in Nyon, on the sidelines of the Youth final. League. It will be necessary to think about regulatory developments or around the organization of football, ideas that can later be transformed into “bills”.
This council will be headed by former AC Milan Croatian midfielder Zvonimir Boban, UEFA’s director of professional football, who will be joined by Italian Roberto Rosetti, head of referees for the body.
In addition to Boban, Zidane, “Mou” and Ancelotti, this structure will include other big names in the discipline, in particular the Dutch Ronald Koeman, the Danish Michael Laudrup, the Czech Petr Cech, the Germans Jürgen Klinsmann, Rudi Völler and Philipp Lahm , the Portuguese Luis Figo, the Italians Paolo Maldini and Fabio Capello, or the Englishman Gareth Southgate.
