It’s a break for lunch.<\/p>\n
Pointing enthusiastically at the now-empty boardroom, FAW president Mike Jones paid tribute to Davies’ contributions in their morning session.<\/p>\n
“He spoke this morning – and there are quite a lot of people who don’t speak in there,” Jones highlighted.<\/p>\n
“You always find in a community of people that some will have louder voices than others, some are quite comfortable standing there and talking, and some aren’t. <\/p>\n
“But he actually spoke up this morning, which is a good indication of what’s to come.<\/p>\n
“As a professional player, if Ben tables some issue that we would never have found out if we didn’t have him on the council, it can keep pushing us to best practice.”<\/p>\n
Mind you, Davies is not your typical professional footballer.<\/p>\n
For keen observers of the Welsh game, his transition into governance feels like a natural evolution.<\/p>\n
A thoughtful and articulate figure who holds a degree in Business Management, he has previously represented Welsh cultural interests on wider public platforms, including a visit to Downing Street.<\/p>\n
Clearly impressed, Jones sees a bright future within the organisation and beyond for Davies, capped 104 times by Wales since debuting aged 19. <\/p>\n
“Ben does some work for Uefa, as I do, and we were together last year at some of the congresses,” he added.<\/p>\n
“I understand his passion and why he wants to be here. It’s early days, but I’m expecting big things from him”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It’s a break for lunch. Pointing enthusiastically at the now-empty boardroom, FAW president Mike Jones paid tribute to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":949680,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-949679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=949679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949679\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/949680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=949679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=949679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=949679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}