Well-known Ukrainian sports journalist Igor Linnik spoke about the need to reorganize the football industry in Ukraine.
Igor Linnik“Just as in the course of a great and bloody war it is necessary to think over and plan the structure of the post-war world, so the football of Ukraine faces the task of rebuilding its own future.
The current football management system in Ukraine was formed back in the years of the Ukrainian SSR and adopted the most characteristic rudiments of the Council of Deputies - in the presence of pseudo-collegiate governing bodies, the head rules alone, and the responsibility for his mistakes or inaction is common, that is, a draw.
In the early 90s, the system of sports committees still dominated, descending to the regional and district level. And it was this bureaucratic system that filled the local federations with cadres, who ate up any budget allocations (the top had enough to live on), and then, congregating in Kyiv, arranged something like an all-Ukrainian assembly of football bureaucrats - the so-called Congress of the FFU, and then the UAF.
These remnants of the soviet bedlam still lie at the basis of the managerial pyramid of football in Ukraine, although the conditions in which it has been living for the last 25 years have changed dramatically.
Fortunately, there are no more public finances in our football. It exists on the funds of a business that, for some reason, does not participate at all in managing the sphere of its own investments. Football is ruled by risk-free public figures and - as a result of this organized illiteracy and irresponsibility - political appointees from time to time find themselves at the top of the pyramid, ranging from Prime Minister Pustovoitenko, watching Konkov or Pavelko under investigation.
Of course, all the troubles of Ukrainian football are rooted in its own lack of rights in the face of this controlled confusion.
After all, it’s not enough to kick Pavelko out of the House of Football! It is necessary to change the model of the internal structure of the pyramid. Otherwise, instead of one misunderstanding, another will appear, or another appointee will be thrown into football, as always, with a very limited term of office (until the next change in the political cycle) and subsequently inevitable shameful disgrace...
To get out of this vicious circle, it is necessary, first of all, to stop this senseless madness. And, first of all, the main investors of Ukrainian football are interested in this - football clubs and their owners.
In my opinion, sooner or later, clubs still cannot avoid involvement in the management process - at least situational, but active involvement - in order to normalize it, to reboot the system.
Apparently, the UAF will have to go through again - initiated precisely by the clubs! (after all, only circles close to them have trained new cadres) - a founding conference. Or a reinvention.
Then for a certain period, perhaps for one election cycle, the football of Ukraine can be managed on an equal footing by professionals and public figures (in order not to lose sight of, including mass, amateur and other varieties of live football) - say, in the proportion of 50 /50 (organizationally it may look different).
The main thing is to bring the management system of our football in line with the requirements of the time during this cycle, laying in it safeguards against a return to organized irresponsibility. If this is not done, then the football of Ukraine will face an even deeper fall,” Linnik wrote on his social Facebook page.
