Interview: Personal conviction ignites Union of European Clubs’ founder’s journey
PR
Union of European Clubs co-founder Dennis Gudasic left his native Australia in the early-1990s to help Croatia’s independence struggle. Now he is at the forefront at the battle for control of European football.
Executive director of Lokomotiva Zagreb, one of European football’s talent factories, Gudasic became frustrated by its lack of representation when it first qualified for European competition and founded the UEC.
Why it matters: Since the collapse of the Super League coup, clubs beyond Europe’s elite have been challenging the balance of power in European football. UEC is one of its most important manifestations.
The perspective: Gudasic says the UEC is “absolutely perfectly in line” with the EU’s core values: Equality, access, solidarity, inclusion.
18 May 2023 - 6:18 PM
In a back room of a Brussels hotel, Dennis Gudasic, a co-founder of the Union of European Clubs (UEC), is telling about how acting on his personal convictions have driven his own life story.
It is late April, the day of the UEC’s launch, an event attended in person by more than 40 European clubs and online by 60 others, exceeding all of its founders’ expectations. The launch’s success is the culmination of months of exhausting work, but in the context of a life lived to the full, fo
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