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I think you're mistaking me for the original person you responded to. However, this is flat our wrong: > FIFA isn’t involved in regulating the confederations
by sofixa 4y ago
I think you're mistaking me for the original person you responded to.
However, this is flat our wrong:
> FIFA isn’t involved in regulating the confederations or the members or the clubs
Of course it is. It makes the rules that are implemented by the federations (stuff like 5 subs, the new loan regulations), and it also is the one providing the main funding for the majority of smaller football association (so even if it didn't have any de jure power over them, and it absolutely does, it would have still had de facto power with financing).
- smcl 4y ago> stuff like 5 subs No this is flat out wrong, since the laws of the game are governed by IFAB, of which FIFA is a member alongside the Football Associations of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. And even then it seems they're flexible in some regards - for example the Scottish FA permitted five subtitutes before IFAB updated the laws and the English FA had a similar trial in the past permitting four subs - both have fiddled with extra stuff like VAR. I'll grant that FIFA have brought in restrictions on international loan signings - though that's hardly controlling the game the way the original comment implied