Depends if we classify NZF it as a small business or not. If we do, then fair enough.
I don't. Its a national body (an incompetent one but a national one) and perhaps thats part of the problem - people see it as a 'small business'
I was only talking in terms of salary comparison.
If your salary comparison for CEO is other small national sports bodies then NZF would be one of the top payers.
Yes, but given the football player base in this country has to be in top 3, surely.
Remembering that NZF receives money from EVERY single registered player in New Zealand each year - that's all the way from midget to senior players...
That is precisely why I invoke the issue of missing accountability in NZF = because all players pay for the NZF salaries.
I suppose there might be enough people in the country who have decent background in management and maybe even sports management who are happy to take on a job in football. My point they do not have to have a football management background to be the CEO of NZF. My analogy was based on relative success of FFA in Australia where they recruited ex oval-ball CEOs because there may not have been managers of the calibre that the new organisation (FFA as opposed to the old Soccer Australia) required.
In other words, once there is a new broom put through that cozy shop at NZF over this eligibility fiasco, we could look beyond the football guys, local English Dutch or whatever. A combination of "skills, passion, and a modest lifestyle expectation" sounds about right for the CV :-)