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The
Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL) was among the world’s
leading football leagues that reached a decision in Paris, France on
Tuesday, December 1, 2015 to form a new global organization that has
been set up to work with FIFA on issues affecting professional football.
Chairman
of the League Management Company (LMC), Shehu Dikko was one of the 23
heads of national Professional League bodies at the meeting where the
formation of the ‘World Association of Leagues’ was announced following
the second World Leagues Forum. The first held in England. A total of 23
professional leagues were involved in the meeting, which has led to the
creation of a permanent association to liaise with world football’s
governing body.
A
working group of five leagues has been established to develop the
formal structure for the new association. The group is composed of:
Enrique Bonilla, president of Mexico’s Liga MX; Don Garber, commissioner
of North America’s Major League Soccer (MLS); Mitsuri Murai, chairman
of Japan’s J League; Christian Seifert, chief executive of the German
Football League (DFL) and Frederic Thiriez, president of the French
Football League (LFP).
This
group, chaired by Thiriez has been entrusted with finalising the
details for structuring the association by January 2016. “The
professional leagues from the whole world want to participate in the
rebuilding of FIFA and football institutions,” Thiriez said, in a
communiqué released at the end of the meeting. He added that it is
crucial professional leagues are “involved in the decision-making
processes”.
Dikko
met with officials of the Spanish La Liga on the sidelines of the
meeting to finalise bilateral agreement between the NPFL and La Liga and
also had fruitful meetings with officials of the German Bundesliga and
the English Premier League.
The
LMC Chairman said, “this meeting also provided platforms for most of
the leagues to hold bilateral talks and for us from Nigeria, it was an
opportunity to finalise discussions already initiated with the La Liga,
the Bundesliga and the FA Premier League that will assist us in capacity
building, technical training and club development”.
Dikko
also described the meeting as beneficial to global football as the four
candidates to the FIFA Presidency made presentations on their vision
for world football to the World Leagues Association.
"I
will be presenting my report to the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF)
on the presentations made by the four candidates running for the office
of FIFA President as we had time to interact with them on their plans
for football", stated Dikko.
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