Football Australia explored selling off rights to the Matildas, Socceroos and the A-Leagues for 99 years in what would have been an unprecedented privatisation of football in Australia, Guardian Australia can reveal.
The deal could have also involved commercialising the data of all Australian football participants, including children as young as four, in a proposal that raised significant privacy concerns.
A slide deck prepared for a working group of the FA board in late 2020, seen by Guardian Australia, reveals plans for the establishment of a new legal entity, a “special purpose vehicle”, to control the sport’s major assets.
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2023/ ... privatised
I would just like to say piss off "Football Australia" and never consider anything like this again.
The game and all that it is is not yours to sell off like trinkets.
