Re: CE's Bell: Infantino Calls for 20-team African League...
Posted: Tue Dec 17, 2019 12:10 pm
txj, YOU MAY WANT TO CONSIDER THAT...txj wrote:Simple, it has ZERO value in reality.Cellular wrote:True! Didn't see it that way.ukwala wrote:It kills banks . All the banks that owned clubs are dead; New Nigeria bank, National bank, ACB??? In fact, it kills businesses; Leventis, Nigeria Airways, Abiola babes, Flash flamingos, etc. etc. Moral is; do not mix business and pleasureCellular wrote:I doubt if any Naijarian team will meet up with the criteria to play in such a league.Enugu II wrote:FIFA's Infantino's call for a 20-team African league echoes the ideas that Bell shared in CE not long ago about creating a newWest African league that was roundly opposed in CE because it was difficult for several to think outside-the-box.
Infantino wants to create an "African league" for clubs
https://www.time24.news/2019/11/infanti ... clubs.html
November 28, 201905
FIFA President Gianni Infantino has called for the creation of an "African league" and has called for a billion stadium investment on the continent to "bring African football to the top of the world".
"I want to bring African football to the top of the world". In Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gianni Infantino on Friday outlined two major ideas to support the development of football in Africa: the creation of a championship gathering the best clubs on the continent, but also a massive investment to build and improve stages.
"You have to take the top 20 clubs in Africa and have them play in an African league, and that league can generate at least $ 200 million in revenue, putting it in the top 10 globally overnight," he said. Italian-Swiss leader, present in Lubumbashi for the 80th anniversary of Almighty Mazembe, one of the biggest clubs in Africa. The challenge is to stop the departure of African players to other championships around the world, according to him.
"One Billion" for stadiums
As for stadiums, Gianni Infantino appealed to investors "to raise a billion so that we can equip each African country with a real football stadium to Fifa standards, international standards."
Expected Friday in Brazzaville to continue this African tour after making a stop in Mozambique, the boss of world football also said he wants to "professionalize" and "depoliticize" arbitration in Africa: "We will take the best African referees, we will the salariers ".
BTW, why did banks stop sponsoring/owning football teams in Naijaria?
On a serious note, football does not make money in Nigeria and most businesses are struggling.
But on a serious note, why don't they see it as a form of branding and marketing?
Infantino is speaking like a real expatriate totally clueless about local conditions.
What Nigeria needs is to first revitalize her domestic football and the clubs therein...
…Infantino didn't put out this proposal without first consulting with those who understand the "local conditions". I agree that Nigeria's domestic league can be revitalized (I've put out a plan for that here) but I don't see why a the wider league (I prefer regional to continental) won't work. You say so but you don't tell us why.
Bell