Football

Topclubs are positioning themselves ahead of the FIFA election

At the General Assembly of the Union of European football Topclubs ECA in Paris is also about the reorganization of the Funktionärswelt. FIFA presidential candidate Gianni Infantino flying in specially from Rwanda.

On the picture of the group after the last meeting of the UEFA Executive Committee was Karl-Heinz Rummenigge is still a little lonely in the last row. In the hierarchy of football officials in the continent, the CEO of FC Bayern Munich, but has long been one of the top taken. At the General meeting of shareholders of Rummenigge-led Association of European Topclubs, European Club Association (ECA), in Paris on Tuesday is the empowerment of the associations in the midst of the Führungskrise at FIFA and UEFA once again.

“I conclude it is not, that in the future a European League based in the the big Teams from Italy, Germany, England, Spain and France play,” said Rummenigge recently. Such thoughts are currently still mainly verbal, flexing muscles, around the importance of financially strong clubs, in distinction to the governing bodies UEFA and FIFA to make clear that the Champions League or organize the Stars for the world Cup need.

High-Profile Speakers

At the meeting of the 220 clubs from 53 countries, at the Hotel InterContinental Paris Le Grand, it goes until Wednesday and also to topics such as results from the ECA working groups, or the UNESCO report on racism. The List of speakers illustrates the importance of the Top Clubs. FIFA sends in the time of crisis in the hierarchy aufgerückten Chefjuristen Marco Villiger, the UEFA even their General Secretary Gianni Infantino. The Italo-Swiss interrupts for its reiseintensiven election to the FIFA presidency and flies a good two weeks before the FIFA Wahlkongress on 26. February directly from Rwanda in France.

In the previous year, Rummenigge with the ECA, the UEFA still under the leadership of Michel Platini not only a
significantly more lucrative staggering of Start and prize money for Champions League and Europe wrested, but also two seats in its Executive Committee negotiated. Since then, the 60-Year-old also participate in the meetings of the Executive committees of the continental umbrella organization for part.

ck/jk (dpa)