UEFA can’t be both the regulator and the competition organizer – it’s actually a massive problem
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Former UEFA Executive, Alex Phillips, who has also worked for FIFA and AFC, says that the European governing body is a “pale shadow” of what it once was as a regulator.
UEFA, he says, should “separate their three main functions – competitions, regulation, development – into autonomous bodies so they can do their jobs properly without fear or favour.”
“For as long as the competition organisers are doing both the commercialising and regulating, then there will always be this conflict of interest.”
This is part one of the interview.
3 November 2021 - 3:34 PM
Is Alex Phillips the most influential football executive you have never heard of?
For more than two decades, the Londoner has exerted his influence at Deloitte, UEFA, the AFC and latterly as a consultant to FIFA, whose president Gianni Infantino he worked closely with at UEFA for many years.
He has also worked closely with UEFA president Aleksander Čeferin, AFC president Shaikh Salman, as well as Čeferin’s predecessors, Michel Platini and Lennart Johannson.
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