Aki Riihilahti has been a strong advocate of uefa’s solidarity fund for redistribution.Aki Riihilahti develop european football. JAAKKO STENROOS/AOP
a Year allocated about 120 million 55 league in Europe.
in principle, the television market share number. 120 million 70-80 million will go to England, France, Italy, Germany and Spain.
Five of the biggest country accounts for the solidarity fund practically everything. The remaining 50 of the country may be divided to appear before 40-50 million.
HJK’s ceo Riihilahti has made a proposal that the five biggest countries should not at all solidarity fund, or a maximum of ten percent, when it was really the solidarity fund.
Now everyone is betting the league will get about 40 000 euros per year for the solidarity fund. If the proposal goes through, every betting league club should multiply the amount of.
the Champions league and European league, an annual turnover of 3.2 billion. It the biggest five countries producing television contract is nearly 70% and will receive about 60 per cent.
in Holland, Turkey and Belgium will no longer put money in the tv rights the same scale, because their companions do not play regularly in the Champions league. Still this is the next step to get relative to the big part of income. The vast majority of European countries do not get much distribution for big money.
When the going argument, the big ones can change the system.
I Can say with a clear conscience and with full confidence that I currently have more influence over what european football will go as to what Finnish football event, Riihilahti said.
Täystyrmäys
When the debate on the reform began, the big countries, the reaction was täystyrmäys. The big countries want to reduce the size, because small and medium-sized countries do not work the added value, i.e. money.
it wasn’t easy nor fun to fight, but it was kind of what I had to do. I can say in good conscience that it is the biggest achievement, what I have in football itself never got done, Riihilahti said.
the Battle lasted for two years. Riihilahti’s supporters were at the beginning low.
– the Time few people believed that can come the kind of day that joukkuem count and maamäärä would grow, when it is all the time just narrowed.
the Fight has taken Riihilahdelta about a day a week for two years.
– the end Result is the small countries in terms of excellent and perhaps give an indication that in the future, maybe the world is going to the fact that the domestic series is the basics, but little more should each be able to play in Europe, which is the only way that small can grow.
aggressively
Hard work and perseverance will be rewarded.
I’ve been driving aggressively things. Have started to call me Robin Hood -the nickname. In their opinion, robbed the rich of money, Riihilahti smiles.
– These jobs do and things to get ahead, when nothing goes to the emotions, and too tired to do the background and listen to all. This is the finns ‘ interests, and we are left with difficult discussions after a good relationship with the other, Riihilahti said.
He wants to develop football as a whole.
– there is No football, if the players, the quality, the money will focus on just a few company in the world. Football is the world’s biggest species. It is the biggest species. Not allowed to make such choices, where it just focuses on, because that’s when exposed to football because it isn’t locally relevant anymore and therefore there will be other objects of interest, Riihilahti said.
the Locality is maintained.
– If it is lost, and all in favour of only the world’s giants, so football is no longer ten years to get to that game, what everyone wants to follow. I think the evidence is between, Riihilahti said.
