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So a few things today. I awoke this morning to learn that Gianni Infantino, President of FIFA 2.0, has had criminal proceedings filed against him together with the Swiss A-G. https://www.admin.ch/gov/en/start/documentation/media-releases.msg-id-79942.html This is no surprise, as I actually wrote about it more than 6 weeks ago here: >
< https://footballtoday.news/features/the-vote-for-2023 I wrote this article specifically to shine a light on this issue & pressure Infantino over the vote for 2023. That worked. It was accurate & fact-based, just as an article I wrote in January was accurate & fact-based. >
< If you want to know more about this latter issue, you may be interested in this from @james_corbett & @JensWeinreich. https://www.jensweinreich.de/2020/07/30/how-an-out-of-touch-federation-is-trying-to-destroy-australian-sporting-hero-and-whistleblower-bonita-mersiades/ It directly impacts @ffa and @footballqld but is relevant to all of football. >
If good governance and accountability are to be more than just words on a page for organisations such as @ffa and @footballqld, they need not only to espouse ideals, but live up to them. That means dropping this "spurious action" as James and Jens refer to it, >
and allowing - if not actually welcoming - journalists, activists, whistleblowers etc to hold organisations which are *not* private entities to account. NB: @footballvic, @footballnsw, @capitalfootball @FootballTas @footballwest @footballsouthau @FootballNT
NB also: @RNogarotto @JJ_JamesJohnson @JosephCarrozzi @Reidyfour @amydugganwin @Carla_Wilshire. Here's the article again in case you missed it earlier in the thread: https://www.jensweinreich.de/2020/07/30/how-an-out-of-touch-federation-is-trying-to-destroy-australian-sporting-hero-and-whistleblower-bonita-mersiades/
