Carlo Ancelotti and Zinedine Zidane Panoramic
About twenty former great players will be responsible for formulating proposals on the game.
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, we learned on Friday from of the instance.
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 “draft laws”. This council will be led by the former Croatian playmaker of AC Milan Zvonimir Boban, director of professional football at UEFA, who will have at his side the Italian Roberto Rosetti, the head of the referees of the body.
In addition to Boban, Zidane, “Mou” 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.
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