‘Flawed’ funding system keeping smaller nations on sidelines of FIFA civil war

Former Papua New Guinea international Alex Davani says some of the smaller soccer federations have kept quiet during FIFA’s civil war because they fear losing the funding that is vital to their operations.

Davani, a former deputy general secretary of Football Australia, believes global soccer’s development funding system is flawed and hopes the discussions prompted ​by Gianni Infantino’s abandoned FIFA Forward Enterprise proposal might create the environment for reform.

The 11-member Oceania federation was scheduled to meet ‌on Wednesday ‌to discuss the row that has split world soccer apart, and Davani thinks it is in a ​tough spot.

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