BB going to the stars in Bahrain

[midfielder]

Below is a link to a BB speech to over 600 business guests at a business luncheon in Bahrain .... some very big business names attended .... http://www.footballaustralia.com.au/InsideFFA/default.aspx?s=insideffa_newsfeatures_newsitem&id=24950 


You must LOL at the 30 billion people ...football .. must be going to other planets.

Anyway football gets 600 guests and a business who' who attending and it cannnot get a mention in the press ......... strange and I wonder why ? ? ?



Universal language of football

Wednesday, 19 November 2008

Ben Buckley
FFA CEO Ben Buckley
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Football is a bridge to other people and other nations according to Football Federation Australia (FFA) CEO, Ben Buckley.

Speaking at an Australian Business in the Gulf luncheon in Manama, Bahrain, where the Qantas Socceroos are set to take on Bahrain in a 2010 FIFA World Cup qualifying match on Wednesday evening, Buckley said that the global reach of football meant that it was uniquely placed to help Australia and Australian businesses.

"Football is a more universal language than English," Buckley said.

"The FIFA World Cup is contested by 208 countries around the world, and the World Cup tournament itself is watched by a cumulative audience of 30 billion people."

Buckley said that every time the Qantas Socceroos, or one of the other eight national football teams of Australia, plays another country, they are helping to build "equity in Australia as a nation, or as a 'brand'."

"The Qantas Socceroos are Australia's football diplomats who help to get Australia noticed, and who also help open doors for Australian businesses."

The business luncheon was attended by Australian business leaders in Bahrain with their clients and guests, who also went on to cheer on the Qantas Socceroos.

Companies represented included Ernst and Young, Bovis Lend Lease, Riyadh Bank, Arab Bank, KPMG, BCS Bahrain and BAE Systems.

"On the world stage, there is no other sport with the same level of global appeal or audience reach as football," said Buckley.

"There is no other sport which engages so many people from so many nations around the world, which helps all of us in relating more effectively as individuals, as corporate organisations or between governments.

Buckley said FFA believes that supporting Australian business, and promoting Australia, is an important and unique role and responsibility of football.

 

[FFC Mariner]

I think the 30 bil is the total of all the audiences for all the games..........or aliens

 

[cruiser]

Cumulative is the key word.

 

[clarence]

Ha, ha I bet Mr. Buckley had the speech or that press release - c.c'd to Rebecca Wilson with a little note attached saying something like 'suffer bitch'.

What the people in the NRL, ARU or AFL would have given, to have had such business types in the same room and being able to push their 'national' team.

Who gives a stuff whether it was given suitable column space in some rag, or even air time on the 6PM news.

The fact is Football gathered these people together, and every major event that Australia (via the Socceroos or other National Teams) is involved in, Buckley & the Foreign Affairs and Trade people can all host gatherings like this and promote both Australia, and Football. What other football code in Australia can achieve that, mmmmm, Rebecca?

 

[FFC Mariner]

ARL & AFL dont have "national" teams and ARU dont have the global reach that our game has. They know, we know it and that will be why our game will be the No1 sport alongside cricket one day.

One day

 

[clarence]

ARL & AFL dont have "national" teams and ARU dont have the global reach that our game has. They know, we know it and that will be why our game will be the No1 sport alongside cricket one day.

One day

ha ha, keep stoking the fire Greenpole...

I put the word national in quotes as they call them national teams, but the reality is much different.

As an aside, I found it rather amusing when the NRL staged the Centenerary Test earlier this year to celebrate 100 years of RL in Australia. The amusing factor was that they chose to wear the original jersey design of that first "Australian" Rl team. It was the maroon of Queensland, and the sky blue of NSW!!

The people behind RL in 1908 obviously knew their own restricted reach of their game by donning those colours instead of a more national colour (although, tbf, I don't think green and gold was accepted as national team colours in any sport until much later), and succinctly making the statement they were an amalgamation of the NSW and Qld teams. Nothing more, nothing less.

'Tis a pity that in the interceding years there's been a succession of folks in RL administration who view the expansion of their game something akin to that Brain and Pinky cartoon.

[flash=200,200]http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=cYj1nkwMp4k[/flash]

 

[FFC Mariner]

Happy to be corrected here but I dont think it was the original jumper though was it?

I am sure I read a report that the one they used in the centenary test dated from the 40's?

(mind you, their membership ads are pretty damn good)

 

[clarence]

Happy to be corrected here but I dont think it was the original jumper though was it?

I am sure I read a report that the one they used in the centenary test dated from the 40's?

(mind you, their membership ads are pretty damn good)

According to this webpage the original touring Kangaroos wore a combined NSW & Qld jersey - maroon and blue - when they toured England in 1908.

For the previous season in Australia, the rep team wore the home state colours, so it was blue when played in Sydney and maroon when played in Brisbane.
http://www.rl1908.com/Kangaroos/arl-colours.htm

 

[Redline]

It was the original...and those colours apparently were the colours of Oxford and Cambridge at the time...members of whom were prominent in the leadership of the code at the time.

 

[clarence]

It was the original...and those colours apparently were the colours of Oxford and Cambridge at the time...members of whom were prominent in the leadership of the code at the time.

More than likely the two States' colours Countryhick.

RL was shadowing RU very closely in a lot of things in those days. And back then the NSWRU would promote a tour and put together an 'Australian' team to play the GB side. The Australian team would wear sky blue, because it was a tour organised by the NSWRU and they wanted to appeal to the locals by wearing that State's colours. Same applies when the QRU promoted a tour, except the 'Australian' team wore maroon.

RL just followed on from that right up to the 1920's according to that linked webpage.

I do not know the origins of the maroon and sky blue colours for Queensland and NSW respectively, and I wouldn't be surprised if it does go back to some university old school tie network.

 

[Redline]

It was the original...and those colours apparently were the colours of Oxford and Cambridge at the time...members of whom were prominent in the leadership of the code at the time.

More than likely the two States' colours Countryhick.

RL was shadowing RU very closely in a lot of things in those days. And back then the NSWRU would promote a tour and put together an 'Australian' team to play the GB side. The Australian team would wear sky blue, because it was a tour organised by the NSWRU and they wanted to appeal to the locals by wearing that State's colours. Same applies when the QRU promoted a tour, except the 'Australian' team wore maroon.

RL just followed on from that right up to the 1920's according to that linked webpage.

I do not know the origins of the maroon and sky blue colours for Queensland and NSW respectively, and I wouldn't be surprised if it does go back to some university old school tie network.

THats what I was referring to.

 

[MattSimon]

Back to the thingy at the start of the thread.

If that's the cumulative audience figure, does it translate (in figures) to every person in the world watching at least five games? Does global GDP suffer a serious downturn during the World Cup or what?!

 

[clarence]

Back to the thingy at the start of the thread.

If that's the cumulative audience figure, does it translate (in figures) to every person in the world watching at least five games? Does global GDP suffer a serious downturn during the World Cup or what?!

Something like that. And yes, productivity DOES decrease in some countries while the WC is on. Just look at what happened here when Australia played in the last WC Finals  -there were quite a few zombies trying to work in a lot of places after all the sleep deprivation.

 

[FFC Mariner]

Happy to be corrected here but I dont think it was the original jumper though was it?

I am sure I read a report that the one they used in the centenary test dated from the 40's?

(mind you, their membership ads are pretty damn good)

Sorry, may bad. Was the Roosters "Centenary" jumper that was actually from the 40's because they thought the colours were more marketable.

(A fact I ought to have checked lol)