Paraguay hosts FIFA-CONMEBOL Professional Football Conference

On 12 and 13 Jul 2017, FIFA staged a two-day Professional Football Conference in Asuncion, Paraguay, in partnership with CONMEBOL, welcoming comparison member of South America’s 10 inhabitant associations. Representatives from clubs, leagues and actor bodies around a universe also came together, formulating a singular height for an sell of best use in general bar football.

The conference, moderated by former Mexican inhabitant women’s organisation captain, Monica Gonzalez, enclosed a accumulation of critical veteran football topics such as tellurian bar football benchmarking and best practices on bar and actor contractual brawl resolution. FIFA’s recently published 2017 Global Club Football Report was also presented. A accumulation of display formats where used, including panels, interviews, organisation discussions and a keynote debate from former Colombian general and stream FIFA Legend, Juan Pablo Angel.

In seeking to maximize a advantages for any discussion member and boost stakeholder engagement, FIFA invited special guest and speakers including, Jose Maria Duran from Getafe CF in Spain, Steven Bryce from ASOJUPRO (FIFPro) in Costa Rica and Pedro Correia from Liga Portugal. Each orator supposing singular insights into their organisations and experiences.

Club football pivotal to football’s development
As FIFA Vice President and Football Stakeholders Committee Chair, Victor Montagliani, said: “FIFA’s 2.0 vision highlights a significance of effective partnership with stakeholders by formulating channels to concede suggestive and constructive discourse to residence pivotal issues confronting bar football, and this discussion is an instance of putting this prophesy into practice.”

“The expansion of bar football is a pivotal motorist to rise a diversion during all levels. Club football professionalisation, including projects such as bar chartering and inhabitant brawl fortitude chambers, were pivotal topics discussed during a new Football Stakeholders Committee and play a essential purpose in ensuring long-term fortitude and augmenting competitiveness on and off a margin of bar football.”

The discussion follows a 2016 FIFA-CONMEBOL Club Licensing Seminar that launched CONMEBOL’s bar chartering system. As CONMEBOL General Secretary Jose Manuel Astigarraga said: “This discussion continues a efforts by CONMEBOL and a inhabitant associations with a support of FIFA, to entirely exercise bar chartering in time for a 2018 editions of CONMEBOL’s Copa Libertadores and Sudamericana tournaments.

“CONMEBOL is undergoing an expansion that will also advantage veteran football and bar football in a region. It will emanate financial clarity and integrity, urge veteran clubs’ government by a newly determined Club Licensing complement and support member associations as good as other stakeholders concerned in football in South America.”

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