FIFA is threatening to sack the current Football Federation Australia board and replace it with a committee to run the sport on an interim basis. The FFA board’s failure to appease A-League clubs and the nine-state associations could soon result in the extraordinary sacking of the board.
FIFA has the power to scrap the board under its statutes regarding member association.
The Annual General Meeting on Thursday is indeed the last chance that FFA has to avoid the world governing body to come in and “run the game” in Australia.
The meeting between the Football Federation Australia board, its member states, A-League club representatives and the Professional Footballer’s Australia union (PFA) can go two ways – further cement chairman Steven Lowy’s place or see the entire board dissolved in what would be a hostile FIFA takeover.