The FA's Chairman, Geoff Thompson, member of the UEFA Executive Committee since 2000, was elected to the position of Vice President of UEFA at the 2002 UEFA Congress in Stockholm.
Thompson fills one of the four Vice Presidency posts to support UEFA President Lennart Johansson, alongside Per Ravn Omdal of Norway, Angel Maria Villar Llona of Spain and Senes Erzik of Turkey.
There are 52 other English representatives on other UEFA Committees and Panels. The International Relations Team process feedback from meetings and co-ordinate distribution of UEFA correspondence to the 6 FA Divisions.
The FA’s International Development Programme ties in closely with UEFA-CAF Meridian Project in Africa, whereby England is partnered with Malawi, Botswana and Lesotho for long-term football development purposes.
In the future we hope to extend our development work to Eastern Europe by complementing UEFA’s Eastern European Assistance Bureau initiatives.
Albania
Ian Wright / Mark Bright Ambassadors Goodwill Visit in advance of WCQ (03/01)
Goodwill boost for Albania
Austria
Austrian goodwill visit
Azerbaijan
Azeri goodwill visits
Bosnia
The healing game
Israel
Combating racism
Football 4 Peace
Portugal
Community fund-raiser
The FA's Lisbon reception
Lisbon community boost
Russia
FA Ambassadors Goodwill Match: An over 35s team travelled to Moscow to play in a match for the ex Russian football star, Konstantin Beskov’s 80th birthday and to mark 55th Anniversary of the Dynamo Moscow tour of UK
U19 match in England (11/01)
Coach Attachments to be arranged
FA stadium safety
Russians to take English lessons
Serbia
The healing game
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UEFA links
Infrastructure projects approved