Code in crisis, clubs tell FIFA

A-LEAGUE clubs have warned FIFA that professional football in Australia is on the verge of “dire consequences” if the impasse over who runs the sport is not solved in the next few months.

As FIFA officials continued to hear submissions in its bid to navigate a way through the civil war that has stymied reform of football’s governance, the A-League clubs issued a stark warning of “clear symptoms of a potential impending catastrophic collapse of the professional game in Australia”.