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This article was published on June 3, 2015 at 09:30.
After the resignation most invoked in the history of football, the departure of Joseph Blatter opens a chapter very delicate for the world football. As often happens in real life, when countries find their freedom after years of dictatorship and struggling to find a balance immediate, FIFA has to deal with a sudden wave of democracy that threatens, paradoxically, to overwhelm her.
To be able to freely debate the issues of the maximum system pedatorio (the organization of the World Cup, innnazitutto) is an exercise in which managers remained within the Fifa are not used to. It needs calm, common sense and possibly new rules. Which for the moment we are not on the horizon because the vote to elect the next president could fall at the Extraordinary Congress scheduled between December and March. So with the current rules, those defended by Blatter and that allowed him to beat all odds for a quarter of a century (including the re-election of a few days ago).
The new FIFA will have to break free from the past without falling into the temptation to carry out easy revenge against those who had supported and powered the previous system. It will enhance the value of the Federations that have a real weight in terms of football, without mortifying putting them at the same level as those of all children on the playing fields. But must also take into account that most titled Federation, the Brazilian, he has just given their vote and a full support to King Joseph, indicated as the right man to ferry out the Fifa scandal. Never support was most inopportune …
The new FIFA will also continue to support, preferably with methods other than those of Blatter, the Federations of emerging countries. Cultivate them carefully will tap into a real pool of talent that are discovered each year on playgrounds dirt while they kick a ball made of rags. Just as it did seventy years ago in our country. Losing these sports federations would be a crime and a resounding failure in terms of political, because it is only through their involvement correct that you can think of a healthy growth in world football.
The heirs of Blatter will also find a new balance between the need to widen more and more the audience of spectators and the countries involved in the big events, but at the same time will have to try to use more common sense in assigning the World Cup to countries that do not allow for conditions climatic or geographical, a development quite ideal.
I am not referring only to Qatar: just talk to some veteran of Mexico 70 to get an explanation of what it means to play matches at altitude consuming every drop of energy with few possibility of recovery. And some time ago Alessandro Costacurta (not like we call it Billy …) told me the enormous difficulties of the US 94: with a scorching heat that not only made the races similar to the attendance of a Dante’s circle, but also created respiratory problems with the continuous transition from almost freezing of air-conditioned areas, typical American habit, to 35 degrees and abundant moisture rich places outdoors. For this reason I wrote that need common sense, not always the business side fits in perfectly with the needs of the sport played.
The wait is now for the new president, and many look to Michel Platini as possible candidate number one. But in addition to the new president, who must not be a despot like the previous one, it will be important to the team that will surround him. To really have a management “democratic” and the widest possible representation of the entire football world.
This is an opportunity unexpected, given that Blatter’s re-election seemed to have ended the discussion for other four years, which it should be seized without delay. Already the next few weeks will be decisive in this respect: at the Champions League final, on June 6, will gather in Berlin all the representatives of UEFA, the block more weight within the FIFA. We will begin to understand whether to expect new rules, or chaos.
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