UEFA has decided to set up a “football council” bringing together twenty personalities, including Zinédine Zidane, José Mourinho and Carlo Ancelotti, responsible for formulating proposals on the development of the game, in particular on tactical matters. , regulatory or organizational.
Called the “UEFA football board”, this structure was validated by the executive committee of the European Confederation which met on Tuesday in Lisbon and will hold its first meeting on April 24 in Nyon, on the sidelines of the Youth League final. It will have to think about regulatory developments or concerning the organization of football, ideas which can then be transformed into “bills”.
Beautiful linen around the table
This advice will be led by former Croatian AC Milan playmaker Zvonimir Boban, director of professional football at UEFA, who will be joined by Italian Roberto Rosetti, the body’s head of referees.
In addition to Boban, Zidane, Mourinho and Ancelotti, this structure will include other big names in the discipline, in particular the Dutchman Ronald Koeman, the Dane 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. The Grandpa Avengers in action, neither more nor less.