Interview: ECA’s Charlie Marshall on multiclub ownership, organisational reform and European football’s most important development in years
Charlie Marshall, CEO of the ECA
In a wide-ranging Off The Pitch interview, European Club Association CEO Charlie Marshall gives an in depth insight into the issues facing European football.
ECA’s joint venture with UEFA has been described as “the most important development in European football in recent times”: Marshall tells us what it’s all about.
Why it matters: After facing an existential crisis after the Super League affair, the ECA is becoming bigger and more powerful than ever, and the newly proposed joint venture with FIFA may increase this.
The perspective: As it targets 500 members, ECA is facing increased scrutiny over internal democracy and who ultimately benefits from its work.
5 April 2023 - 2:00 PM
There are plenty of things that can be said about the European Club Association (ECA), but one criticism that cannot really be levelled at it is that its leaders go missing.
Two years (and what seems like a lifetime) ago, barely a week seemed to pass without its former chairman, Andrea Agnelli, sticking his head above the parapet, arguing for bigger and bigger chunks of the pie for Europe’s leading clubs.
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