2023-04-21 09:54:04
The UEFA Football Board, with Zinédine Zidane, Patrick Vieira, Éric Abidal and other big names, will meet in Nyon to provide an advisory opinion on various football matters, including refereeing.
Zinédine Zidane will not ultimately be the only Frenchman to be there. The UEFA Football Board, official name of the council of wise men wanted by the European body to reflect on various football topics, will meet for the first time on Monday 24 April. The meeting, in Nyon (Switzerland), has been made official by UEFA.
“This eminent advisory body, endorsed by the UEFA Executive Committee at its last meeting in Lisbon earlier this month, is designed to give an institutional yet independent voice of experience and expertise on fundamental football-related matters. , including the laws of the game, refereeing, match schedules, development of elite youngsters and player welfare.
When the creation of this reflection committee, which includes coaches and former great players, was announced, several names were revealed by the press. This is how the presence of Zinédine Zidane was announced, as was the supervision of the project by former Croatian captain Zvonimir Boban, current technical director of UEFA.
A reflection on hand faults
By recording the first meeting, UEFA communicated the complete list of the 24 personalities selected. With among them: Patrick Vieira and Éric Abidal. The first city was recently dismissed from his coaching duties at Crystal Palace, the second no longer holds a club position since the end of his mission as sporting director of FC Barcelona in 2020. “Members of UEFA Football Board were selected on the basis of their excellent results in club or national team, their irreproachable international reputation and their great experience.
Referee decisions on handballs will be one of the first topics discussed by these football stars, under the supervision of European chief referee Roberto Rosetti. Aleksander Ceferin, president of UEFA, had made it known in March that he wanted to clarify the great vagueness on this subject. “I absolutely don’t understand. Something has to be done in this area,” said the Slovenian leader. It will also discuss the use of video assistant refereeing (VAR) and topics related to player health.
The list of UEFA Football Board members:
· Jose Mourinho
Carlo Ancelotti
· Zinedine Zidane
Paolo Maldini
Fabio Capello
· Javier Zanetti
· Luís Figo
· Philipp Lahm
· Ronald Koeman
· Gareth Southgate
· Rio Ferdinand
· Michael Laudrup
Raphael Benitez
Roberto Martinez
· Predrag Mijatović
· Jürgen Klinsmann
· Rudi Voeller
· Petr Cech
· Juan Mata
· Robbie Keane
· Patrick Vieira
· Henrik Larsson
Eric Abidal
· Gareth Bale
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