{"id":365549,"date":"2024-02-05T23:41:18","date_gmt":"2024-02-06T00:41:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=365549"},"modified":"2024-02-06T01:03:19","modified_gmt":"2024-02-06T01:03:19","slug":"a-leagues-bosses-come-clean-on-axing-half-their-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=365549","title":{"rendered":"A-Leagues bosses come clean on axing half their staff"},"content":{"rendered":"

The bosses who axed more than half the Australian Professional Leagues' (APL's)\ufeff workforce last month have broken their silence on the messy saga.<\/p>\n

Roughly 50 per cent of the 80-odd people employed by the APL were cut<\/a> as the $30 million in-house media arm KeepUp was disbanded less than three years after it was created.<\/p>\n

Three weeks after that bomb dropped on Australian football, new A-Leagues<\/a> commissioner Nick Garcia\ufeff spoke to the Sydney Morning Herald<\/a> to offer an explanation.<\/p>\n

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"I don't think it was whether it worked… I think, just at this time, it's not commercially sustainable," Garcia said.<\/p>\n

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"The overarching point here is we're a football business, not a media business.<\/p>\n

"We exist to create a great competition that our clubs thrive in and fans love to watch.<\/p>\n

"The first thing about the A-Leagues strategy is it leads with a football strategy, and that is about being really clear about the sort of league you are.<\/p>\n

"In the men's we're a development league, first and foremost. In the women's league we are potentially a destination league in Asia, but much more focused on retaining the great national team players rather than attracting international players.<\/p>\n

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"But over everything, we're about developing stars of the future."<\/p>\n

KeepUp was designed to be a central news hub for \ufeffAustralian football fans, focusing on homegrown competitions while peppering content from Europe and Asia also.<\/p>\n

Garcia says the strategy "did work to a degree" but the new bosses want to focus entirely on the A-Leagues, rather than catering for football more broadly.\ufeff<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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