After nearly a decade of public campaigning against Football Federation Australia, Bonita Mersiades has returned to the organisation by taking up a position on the newly established Football Heritage Committee.
The former FIFA and FFA whistleblower is one of several notable figures invited to help the game preserve and acknowledge its own history.
Long-time FFA critic Bonita Mersiades has returned to the organisation.
Mersiades was a former head of corporate affairs of FFA between 2007 and 2010 when Australia was bidding to host the 2022 World Cup.
After speaking out against alleged corruption in the bidding process, Mersiades became an outspoken critic of FFA and, in particular, former chairmen Frank and Steven Lowy.
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She will re-enter the FFA offices alongside commentators Simon Hill and Andy Harper, former Socceroo Peter Katholos, former Matilda Heather Garriock as well as Jamie Warren and Trevor Thompson as part of the heritage committee.
"It's time to recognise and reconcile the past. To pay our due respects to a game that, despite the popular narrative, is 160 years old in Australia. We must celebrate our greats and our history, good and bad. Because a sport that forgets its past has no future,” Hill said.
Australian football has long been slow and reluctant to celebrate its own history and FFA director Remo Nogarotto wants a dedicated museum established in the long term to fix this.
“In the past, we have relieRead More – Source
After nearly a decade of public campaigning against Football Federation Australia, Bonita Mersiades has returned to the organisation by taking up a position on the newly established Football Heritage Committee.
The former FIFA and FFA whistleblower is one of several notable figures invited to help the game preserve and acknowledge its own history.
Long-time FFA critic Bonita Mersiades has returned to the organisation.
Mersiades was a former head of corporate affairs of FFA between 2007 and 2010 when Australia was bidding to host the 2022 World Cup.
After speaking out against alleged corruption in the bidding process, Mersiades became an outspoken critic of FFA and, in particular, former chairmen Frank and Steven Lowy.
Advertisement
She will re-enter the FFA offices alongside commentators Simon Hill and Andy Harper, former Socceroo Peter Katholos, former Matilda Heather Garriock as well as Jamie Warren and Trevor Thompson as part of the heritage committee.
"It's time to recognise and reconcile the past. To pay our due respects to a game that, despite the popular narrative, is 160 years old in Australia. We must celebrate our greats and our history, good and bad. Because a sport that forgets its past has no future,” Hill said.
Australian football has long been slow and reluctant to celebrate its own history and FFA director Remo Nogarotto wants a dedicated museum established in the long term to fix this.
“In the past, we have relieRead More – Source
