Chairman of The Football Association (FA) and England’s bid to host the 2018 World Cup Lord Triesman - who raised the agenda of debt in football at a time when the financial crisis was deepening in 2008 - will open day two with a keynote speech.
Don Garber, commissioner of Major League Soccer and an influential figure on the US World Cup bid team, will discuss the development of the professional game in the US and will join the debate around how best to narrow the wealth gap between professional leagues around the world.
Hassan Al Thawadi, CEO of Qatar’s bid to host the 2022 World Cup, will join a panel of leading Middle Eastern investors on what it would mean to win their bid and on the wider contribution the Middle East is making to the funding of sport worldwide.
Other speakers setting the news agenda include Jack Warner (President of CONCACAF and FIFA Executive Committee Member), Sir David Richards (Chairman of the Premier League), Jeremy Darroch (CEO of BSkyB), Danny Jordaan (South Africa 2010 World Cup Organising Committee CEO), Sunil Gulati (President of the United States Soccer Federation), Tim Leiweke (CEO and president of AEG) and Andy Anson (CEO of the England 2018 World Cup bid).
