Exclusive - FIFA Has Strongest Administrative Model, Cricket Can Learn From It: Dave Cameron

FIFA, which runs the global sport football, has set an example for his administrative model. Unlike cricket which has its member nations as a part of the global governing council, FIFA has divided its national associations into six regional confederations across the globe — Asia, Africa, Europe, North and Central America and the Caribbean, Oceania and South America.

Former Cricket West Indies president Dave Cameron, who is in the running for the post of ICC chairman, said that football has the strongest model. He also said that cricket is divided in too much of individual countries and can take inspiration from the model that FIFA has been running over the years.

“Yes, absolutely. I think football is the strongest model, simply FIFA. Simply because it has done across countries. Unlike NFL, NBA…. all the owners in the United States…. even if their not born there,” Dave Cameron told Cricket Addictor in an exclusive interview.

“But they have done businesses in the US…so FIFA is the best model to look at and FIFA’s model is global and they have fine regions…. I think we have not done it in cricket, there are too much individual countries,” he added. 

Cameron served as a director of Cricket West Indies between 2002 and 2019. He has a great experience in the administrative role. He was the vice president to Julian Hunte between 2007-13 before beating the incumbent to take up the role of president in the year 2013.