What does Soccer Australia need to do? Will the restructure make the difference?
Tana: “I’ve always maintained that no matter what the restructure is, the end result would be merely cosmetic. My reason for this is that there is no magic number, 12, 13 or 14 pick whatever number you want. The bottom line is that the clubs need to be commercially viable and capable of supporting full time professional soccer players. Now the bottom line figure for any club to operate is 2.5 – 3 million dollars at the least. To do it with less than that you are not going to do justice to it. You are kidding yourself.” Soft Sombrero Moment May 2001 Tana on selling equity overseas… Diegos: “Is the answer in selling our clubs to larger overseas clubs? Tana: ” As for clubs that are looking at foreign ownership, I don’t agree with this idea. The foreign clubs are just accelerating their nursery program and I think that we should be looking after our own.” Soft Sombrero Moment May 2001 Tana on Stange… Diegos: “There’s much speculation about whether Bernd Stange will remain in charge of the
