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FOOTBALL and FIFA: TIME of CHANGE Alisher Aminov FOOTBALL AND FIFA: TIME OF CHANGE Alisher Aminov Alisher Aminov (born 1962 in Tashkent, USSR) The graduate of famous «Pahktakor Tashkent» football school. In 1980-s worked in several Sovi- et football clubs as a manager. In 1990-s started the career in business, from 1998 to 2003 – the vice-president of one of the biggest Russian banks «Rosbank». Since 2003 – the vice-president of research center «Institute of independent examination and law». In 2004 returned to football and worked out comparative analysis of football development in Soviet Union and Russia. In 2007 headed the working group of the Committee of Russian Football Union, responsible for projects, focused on football development. In 2008 was elected the president of «Football Development Fund». Twice – in 2010 in 2012 – participated in elections of Russian Football Union president. Ac- cording to experts, author of the best election programme in the history of Russian Football Union. In 2015 was appointed vice-president of «International fund for legal initiatives». One of the most well-known, consecutive and authoritative oppositions and critics of modern football system in Russia and Post-Soviet area. Ph.D. in Economics. 3 Сontents Performance analysis of post-Soviet football associations. Systemic problems . 6 Presidential elections in post-Soviet countries’ associations . 8 Systemic problems of professional football. Conclusions and propositions . 13 Analysis of sport results of the teams from the former USSR. .14 Rankings of national teams of the post-Soviet countries . 14 Number of local players and foreigners in professional clubs, average age . 16 Association club coefficients (UEFA) . 17 Analysis of FIFA management system . 20 Current structure. .20 Proposals to change the FIFA management, Confederations and National Associations . 21 The status of youth football in the former Soviet Union. .22 Coach training analysis. Suggestions . 24 Scientific and methodological support of football in the former Soviet Union . 25 Economical model of associations and professional football . .27 Compliance to Financial Fair Play . 34 Analysis of the management efficiency in football associations and professional football. Analysis of manager training in FIFA and former USSR. Suggestions . 36 The FIFA draft program: Master of Football Administration (MFA) . 38 Program of development of football refereeing . 40 Corruption in football . 43 Analysis of football cases in CAS . 46 FIFA development programs . 47 New international tournament for former USSR countries . 49 FIFA Football Centers Program . 51 Role of the players’ unions . 59 Conclusion . 61 4 My main motive for developing a program for FIFA, confederationsand national associations is the strong disagreement with the situation in football in the post-Soviet states and in FIFA. Football in the countries of the former Soviet Union is in deep crisis and faces systemic prob- lems. We can see that many football officials don’t understand the essence of the problems and furthermore don’t see strategic ways of development, and regular management errors only aggravate the situation. The structure of FIFA, confederations and national associations is cumbersomeand inefficient. All of these don’t favour the development of world football. No football expert can make complex evaluation of all world confederations working process. Based on experience of my work in Russia and my research of the post-Soviet associations, I tried to analyze the systemic problems in these countries. Significant part of these problems on all levels is caused by current FIFA activity, and we can’t overcome the crisis without radical changes in the system of governance of FIFA and national associations. Other countries face similar problems. Football associations, leagues and clubs of the post-Soviet states function using the archaic Soviet model, many of them couldn’t reorganize in accordance with the modern reality or couldn’t develop their own competitive models. 5 Performance analysis of post-Soviet football associations. Systemic problems Relations between state and football public organizations Football in the post-Soviet countries is directly linked to the state. Presidential elections, key decisions, financing professional football – all these can’t be made without direct participation of state. Here is the review of the main examples of state interference in the activity of football’s pub- lic associations. Football in the post-Soviet countries is divided into four levels of management and deci- sion-making. This is how it works in Russia: State level: president of Russia, cabinet of ministers, sports ministry: legislation and financ- ing. Russian football union is a public organization, member of FIFA, responsible for football in the country from grassroots and children’s football to professional club competitions and na- tional teams. It develops and controls all football regulations (subject to FIFA requirements). Professional competitions: Russian national team, professional football leagues (RFPL – the Russian Football Premier League, FNL – the Football National League, second tier, PFL – Pro- fessional Football League, third tier) which include professional football clubs and the Profes- sional Footballers’ Union. Regional and interregional football associations, responsible for grassroots, children’s and youth football. Analysis shows that today’s legislation doesn’t maintain the main principle which should guar- antee rights and duties and differentiate the authorities of the main football institutions in decision-making. For example, according to Paragraph 14 of the Russia’s Law on sport, 84 regional associations have the right of casting vote on all questions at the superior governing body of the Rus- sian Football Union (75 percent of votes). Despite professional clubs being members of the Russian Football Union, this law doesn’t allow them to have more than 25 percent of casting votes; and if the Professional Footballers’ union joined the Russian Football Union, it would get no more than 1 vote from approximately 500. As a consequence, there is the same imbalance in the Russian Football Union executive com- mittee. Despite the fact that the leagues unite professional clubs, they are not really inde- pendent organizations because all their decisions require ratification by the Russian Football Union executive committee. 6 7 Presidential elections in post-Soviet countries’ associations Football associations’ presidential elections in the post-Soviet countries can’t be held without state interference. Presidents of associations are appointed and dismissed in accordance with instructions from the first persons of state. Position of an association’s president is often occupied by state officials. Here are the examples of state interference in football associations: RUSSIAN FOOTBALL UNION № Name Period Candidates for the position Position at a state office when occupying the posi- tion at RFU 1 Vyacheslav 02.1992 – 04.2005 3 (elections in 1998, three can- – Koloskov didates withdrew) 1 (elections in 2003) 2 Vitaly 04.2005 – 11.2009 2 (elections in 2005, two candi- Member of the Russia’s Coun- Mutko dates withdrew) cil of the Federation (2005 - 2008), Minister of Sports 3 Sergey 02.2010 – 06.2012 2 (elections in 2010, one candi- - Fursenko date withdrew) 4 Nikolay 09.2012 – 05.2015 2 (elections in 2012, three can- - Tolstykh didates withdrew) 5 Vitaly 09.2015 – 2016 1 (elections in 2015, one candi- Minister of Sports Mutko date withdrew) All RFU presidential elections, starting from 2005, were snap elections. No president (1-4) has worked for his allotted period. De facto all of these elections were un- contested. In 2010 the Russian president Dmitry Medvedev prohibited to occupy positions in the state offices and in public organizations at the same time. But now the president Vladimir Putin and the prime minister Dmitry Medvedev have sanctioned combining Minister of Sports and RFU president positions again. Nobody can argue that Russia is an authoritarian country and all main decisions are made by the president. We don’t go into the question whether it’s good or bad. Probably, Russia is the country where the authoritarian form of state government is preferable; but unfortunately, all kinds of public organizations including sports associations also fall under the sword of authoritarianism. 8 We can see how one of these sports public organizations – the Russian Football Union – turned into the structure where the organization’s chief executives, at the command of coun- try leaders and the Minister of Sports, continuously violate the main principles of football associations: openness, publicity, professionalism, collective decision making, competition between programs of candidates for the key positions. Today they vote unanimously for the candidates offered by the political authorities, tomorrow they vote in the same manner for their dismissal. Layout of RFU presidential elections in 2005 9 Layout of RFU presidential elections in 2010 The RFU executive committee makes all key decisions, it consists of 33 members: 11 from the regional associations, 11 from the clubs, 11 including the RFU president – other members. In the last 6 years the RFU executive committee included few state officials and heads of state companies: Name Period State position held during the period Victor Zubkov May 2010 – August 2012 Senior Deputy to the Prime minister Sergey Ivanov May 2010 – August 2012 Senior Deputy to the Prime minister Sergey Stepashin May 2010
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