There is certainly an element of Robin Hood about it. Jerome Champagne More Quotes by Jerome Champagne More Quotes From Jerome Champagne In Cape Verde, the football association was sharing a small three-floor building with other sports federations, there was nothing, if you got there now to Cape Verde, FIFA built a headquarters with offices, in another wing you have dorms so that people attending courses are able to stay on-site. We convinced the government to restore the national stadium, we put in an artificial field. Jerome Champagne sports Look at the difference in so many cases of football associations not having headquarters or fields or technical centers before FIFA started investing in 1999. governments don't suppress the (British) NHS (National Health Service) or the French social security because some people may cheat the system. Jerome Champagne sports What makes football and sport magical is ... the uncertainty of the result, and we have less and less uncertainty these days, in some countries we already know at the beginning of the season who will win the league. Jerome Champagne sports It is a two-speed football with an increasingly unbridgeable gap separating the ultra-elite of the wealthiest ones and the remaining 99 percent of clubs. Jerome Champagne sports If we continue along this track, it will be the capacity of FIFA to govern football which will be at stake, we need a strong governance. If we want to prevent football by being managed only by private interest, and if we want to correct the current imbalances, we need FIFA and we need a strong one. Jerome Champagne sports It's not possible to boycott FIFA, the players want to play the World Cup, public opinion wants to play the World Cup, mr Bernstein and Mr Rauball should join the effort of making the necessary changes. Boycotts never function. I'm more worried about the image of FIFA and its capacity to govern, to be credible. Jerome Champagne sports
