If you were FIFA president...

[Guest]

what would you change? How would you make football better?

 

I have my own ideas, but i'd prefer to hear someone else put forth theirs and get roundly mocked, before stating mine  :-D

[foxfanazer]

Coward

I'd make it so you have to have at least 5 domestic players in your playing squad, pretty sure they are trying to encourage that already.

I'd like to see how much we can improve our game with the help of technology. Not popular with the traditionalists but with the amount of money on the line in some games we can't just leave it to the interpretation of one man and his assistants

Oh and get rid of those useless officials behind the goal. What do they actually do?

[AyewJoking]

give qatar their money back and bring football home

[Jimothy]

Tighter shorts for women and any racism incident to be sorted with a handshake.

[bovril]

Implement a serious, zero-tolerance policy against cheating, diving etc. It's the one thing that really ruins the game.

[Ross-Kemp]

I would immediately cap ticket prices at £20 - This is more than enough to pay to watch any game of professional football.

I'd ensure strict rules are put in place regarding racism both at club level and international level, break the rules, you're banned from the competition.

I'd bring in a board of ex-professionals as the executive committee, including Beckham, Collina, Figo, Kristine Lilly, Sun Wen etc...

[ramboacdc]

control on ticket prices, bring the game back to the fans.

wage cap across the world. 

a rule that a part of transfer income has to go back into maintaining the match day experience for fans (seats/stadium upkeep etc) 

invest in smaller countries to help bring them up to the standards of UEFA/CONMEBAL (africa,asia etc) 

root out any corruption and remove them from the game

for UEFA, have a minnows tournament during the WC/Euro competition for low ranking countries to qualify for the qualifiers (san marino/gibralter/latvia etc) it isn't right they turn up at wembley, play 10 at the back and hope for the best its not football and its not entertaining. 

any racism they are banned from the sport for a certain amount of time (smallest ban 1 calendar year)

[stripeyfox]

6 points for a win for Leicester

[the zorro]

Bring in video technology, cap ticket prices, scrap financial fair play.

[Freesolo]

Wage caps and foreign players cap. 

[fuchsntf]

1st change the President voting system.

No single person,even if proved good, brilliant when in office, should not be in the seat longer than 6 years.

( 4yrs ,+ 2yrs extention if deemed 'right commitment for the circumstances'

FIFA presidency, should not be a dictatorship, only a leading spokesman for the commitee.

There are and have been enough candidates, with great, or just common sense ideas.More ideas will come to the fore, because not ones individual doggedness, will push them out.

Every 4 yrs after WC, needs for changes no matter how small, through natural developement of the game and the society, will then get decent hearings.

I dont know how, but we need to get rid or cancel out this unwritten policy of Jobs for the boys.

No ex-political functionaries, to be on commitees.Only ex-managers, club owners, players, ex refs, making up the majority of the backbone of the commitee.IMO...not less than 75%. If they only want to stay commitee members then serve in office no longer than 10yrs. If a commitee members serves 10yrs then runs and becomes President for extra 4. So be it.

Countries with greatly larger populations hence more supporters, should take and be given preference.Not meaning the smaller countries should not be heard or listened to.Maybe just maybe be given a large responsibilty between the smaller nations a major mandate to help on descision on technical changes in monitoring ball and player movement.

By nature they will see what is financially possible for the poorer nations, but not denying the right of bigger clubs or nations,

to use in their competitions.

African, middle-east, some oceanic nations, having their Cross-nation competitions (ie African cup), should be allowed to stage

a lesser (or zero) technical monitoring of their competitions, because of financial restraint, without preventing the finacially

secure nations in their competitions to use all rescources available, but rightly slowly expect sponsorship through fifa to

eventually provide, if need be alower level of monitoring play.Why throw money away because of a too expensive vanity.

Give fourth official, and goal line refs , not less but more power, and more leeway and answerability to onfield ref to use all

of his assistants.

Allow LCFC with sponsor to buy Messi

Force Hodgeson to play our own Mr Vardy.

not much really is it.

Make it easier to sack any commitee member, for any misdeeds.

[Nick]

Make a set of professional occupational standards for football players like lawyers doctors accountants social workers etc

 

Let's pay footballers their market value but make them act like responsible professionals who can be role models to our youth.

[Strokes]

I'd emulate sepp blatter, and ruin everyone love of the game.

[Vlad the Fox]

Wage cap

Maximum transfer fees

All transfers to be negotiated by mediaters employed by FA’s, therefore doing away with agents.

Foreign players cap.

And a complete overall of FIFA, making it transparent and up to date.

[Steve_Guppy_Left_Foot]

Would change the entire process on how major competitions are awarded, bidding just lends itself to bribery, whether it's bungs or going to under developed countries and helping them at grass roots financially. They should pick a continent, the teams who want it and can prove they are capable of staging it go in to a hat, you pick one out and hey presto, a guaranteed corrupt free award of a World Cup.

 

Wage cap, no footballer should earn £300,000+ a week or even close to that.

[Jimothy]

Give the continent of Australia, or Oceania or whatever it's called at least one guaranteed World Cup spot, to make it a true World Cup. Yes most the teams might be shit and yes it might mean New Zealand (or Australia if they rejoined) a guaranteed place for the next few world cups, but it's only fair to include everyone.

[Guest]

Apart from the corruption, sexism, rampant commercialism and general rottenness of world football, what really could do with sorting out is the sheer tedium of the World Cup. I think back to 2010 in SA and the most interesting thing I can recall is fernando torres tripping over his own foot. I seem to remember somebody getting kicked the chest, and two or three embarrassingly bad goalkeeper mistakes. And that for me pretty well sums up international football.

 

Naturally, I have a wonderful plan for sorting this out. When I mention it down the pub it often prompts people to look at me in such away as to suggest they think i'm an idiot, and then to say as much. But bear with me, coz it's fairly genius.

 

If i were fifa president I'd restructure international football to be more like domestic football. Less tournament, more league. Here's why:

 

Essentially we spend four years building up to the next world cup. This comprises largely of meaningless friendlies (two teams of substitutes, neither caring that much), and almost as meaningless qualifiers (seeded teams playing against guaranteed 'no-hopers')  Whereby a strong/seeded team would only fail to qualify by extraordinary laziness or or staggering incompetence. So even before qualifiers are played we all ready know the best teams will be going, accompanied by a number of "filler" teams.

 

Once we get to the World Cup proper, we spend the first two weeks weeding out the filler (hello, good-bye. you were invited, but not exactly welcomed). All the matches beyond this point can, and often are, reduced to "hold out for a draw and hope you win on penalties". Which neither proves which team was the better, nor is it very entertaining. The FA Cup at least provides some giant killers and entertaining football. The WC provides little more than hyped up penalty shoot-outs.

 

And what exactly do any of the teams outside the Top 6 or 8 have to play for? What point is there in qualifying if you're almost certainly going to go home within 2 weeks? What do Wales, for example, with the likes of Gareth Bale and Aaron Ramsey have to look forward to? What progress can they build on year by year? Get butchered in qualifying and then sit around for two years watching other people play?? What good is that? 

 

This is where a league system, in some form, would be beneficial. The scheduling, ranking and length of season would take some tweaking obviously, but even if we based it off current fifa rankings and split them into leagues of 12 or so, international football would be far more exciting and the actual rankings would be a more honest reflection of talent. Plus every single match would matter (just as the domestic league does) and the competition more evenly balanced. Lower ranking nations would have something to play for - promotion, or to avoid relegation. 

 

 

In short I think international football misses out on a lot of what makes football exciting, and competition meaningful. Imagine if domestic football didn't have a league, only the FA Cup. That's basically the situation with the World Cup.

 

 

That's my idea. Please love it.

[Guest]

Believe it or not, that was actually the condensed version.

[Hollism]

So there basically wouldn't be a World Cup?

[Vacamion]

Don't the qualifiers already operate as leagues?

[Hollism]

Think he means not having a World Cup finals. Rather 'leagues' that last say 24 months. Every FIFA team is put in its league, about 10 leagues of 15. And at the end of the season there are a couple of promotions/relegations. The winner of 'Division One' is the winner of the 'World Cup'.

Correct me if I'm wrong mate.

[fuchsntf]

Apart from the corruption, sexism, rampant commercialism and general rottenness of world football, what really could do with sorting out is the sheer tedium of the World Cup. I think back to 2010 in SA and the most interesting thing I can recall is fernando torres tripping over his own foot. I seem to remember somebody getting kicked the chest, and two or three embarrassingly bad goalkeeper mistakes. And that for me pretty well sums up international football.

 

Naturally, I have a wonderful plan for sorting this out. When I mention it down the pub it often prompts people to look at me in such away as to suggest they think i'm an idiot, and then to say as much. But bear with me, coz it's fairly genius.

 

If i were fifa president I'd restructure international football to be more like domestic football. Less tournament, more league. Here's why:

 

Essentially we spend four years building up to the next world cup. This comprises largely of meaningless friendlies (two teams of substitutes, neither caring that much), and almost as meaningless qualifiers (seeded teams playing against guaranteed 'no-hopers')  Whereby a strong/seeded team would only fail to qualify by extraordinary laziness or or staggering incompetence. So even before qualifiers are played we all ready know the best teams will be going, accompanied by a number of "filler" teams.

 

Once we get to the World Cup proper, we spend the first two weeks weeding out the filler (hello, good-bye. you were invited, but not exactly welcomed). All the matches beyond this point can, and often are, reduced to "hold out for a draw and hope you win on penalties". Which neither proves which team was the better, nor is it very entertaining. The FA Cup at least provides some giant killers and entertaining football. The WC provides little more than hyped up penalty shoot-outs.

 

And what exactly do any of the teams outside the Top 6 or 8 have to play for? What point is there in qualifying if you're almost certainly going to go home within 2 weeks? What do Wales, for example, with the likes of Gareth Bale and Aaron Ramsey have to look forward to? What progress can they build on year by year? Get butchered in qualifying and then sit around for two years watching other people play?? What good is that? 

 

This is where a league system, in some form, would be beneficial. The scheduling, ranking and length of season would take some tweaking obviously, but even if we based it off current fifa rankings and split them into leagues of 12 or so, international football would be far more exciting and the actual rankings would be a more honest reflection of talent. Plus every single match would matter (just as the domestic league does) and the competition more evenly balanced. Lower ranking nations would have something to play for - promotion, or to avoid relegation. 

 

 

In short I think international football misses out on a lot of what makes football exciting, and competition meaningful. Imagine if domestic football didn't have a league, only the FA Cup. That's basically the situation with the World Cup.

 

 

That's my idea. Please love it.

No hate it....

There is nothing wrong with the basic idea.The corruption has given some people the idea that everything is wrong.

Blatters fight to make the World cup, A real WORLD CUP.was probably his big success.He failed because he forgot

common sense, and honour.

Africa nations in football have grown immensly over 45yrs.Small new eastern european countries have been able to show

their own ball skills, away from communism, and facism.Smaller S.American nations have again come to life, or shown

great evolvement.Small nations have had their good periods, moments and relevant successes...Turkey, Costa Rica, Algeria, Ecuador, S.Africa, N.Zealand, Columbia. The Amis and Aussis have grown tremendously.

The only thing or change I want to see, is that the real minnos should have their own cup, with their final winners qualifying

for the qualifiers. Each member FA, like oceanic, Africa, S.America , Europe etc, selecting and organising themselves who these

minnows are, through ratings and real performances.

If you took this line, Wales, Scotland might suffer, but 1st ranking level would be the amount of proffesional players and clubs, exist in any given nation.

A mini WC would give the lawyers, painters, bus drivers a better chance to play in a winning team at International level, and

if their nation developes, a chance to be Involved in the big finals.

Primarily they would have a real chance of being mini WC cup winners, which they could not have dreamed of before.

[Guest]

Think he means not having a World Cup finals. Rather 'leagues' that last say 24 months. Every FIFA team is put in its league, about 10 leagues of 15. And at the end of the season there are a couple of promotions/relegations. The winner of 'Division One' is the winner of the 'World Cup'.

Correct me if I'm wrong mate.

Basically correct, but I wouldn't necessarily get rid of the WC completely. Tournament football has it's own special appeal, but it's not always a good measure of a team's ability.

 

A reduced world cup, with less hype would do nicely. If international football was say 80% league and 20% tournament based, i think it would be far more meaningful and entertaining. Coz nobody in their right mind would say Portsmouth was the best team in England in 2008, but it was still fun to see them win a trophy.

[Stadt]

I'd be rich as **** through all the bribes and embezzlement

[Guest]

No hate it....

There is nothing wrong with the basic idea.The corruption has given some people the idea that everything is wrong.

Blatters fight to make the World cup, A real WORLD CUP.was probably his big success.He failed because he forgot

common sense, and honour.

Africa nations in football have grown immensly over 45yrs.Small new eastern european countries have been able to show

their own ball skills, away from communism, and facism.Smaller S.American nations have again come to life, or shown

great evolvement.Small nations have had their good periods, moments and relevant successes...Turkey, Costa Rica, Algeria, Ecuador, S.Africa, N.Zealand, Columbia. The Amis and Aussis have grown tremendously.

The only thing or change I want to see, is that the real minnos should have their own cup, with their final winners qualifying

for the qualifiers. Each member FA, like oceanic, Africa, S.America , Europe etc, selecting and organising themselves who these

minnows are, through ratings and real performances.

If you took this line, Wales, Scotland might suffer, but 1st ranking level would be the amount of proffesional players and clubs, exist in any given nation.

A mini WC would give the lawyers, painters, bus drivers a better chance to play in a winning team at International level, and

if their nation developes, a chance to be Involved in the big finals.

Primarily they would have a real chance of being mini WC cup winners, which they could not have dreamed of before.

I would like to point out that I disliked the World Cup before the Blatter stuff, going all the way back to 2010 when I realised I really wasn't enjoying it that much. Granted I do support England so it's kind of inevitable...

 

I see what you're saying with a mini WC,though it doesn't really help those teams who are fair-to-middling, stuck in no man's land of somewhere lower than 20th in the rankings.

 

And it doesn't address another issue with the WC, the fact that the really important matches only take place 3 weeks out of every 4 years. Meaning you could be one of the best teams for 3 years running, but a bit of bad luck and some untimely injuries and within 2 games you could be back to square one. 'better luck next time, see ya in 4 years'

 

I do like the idea of minnows having a shot at the big teams, but knock out stages probably provide that better.