Outgoing Football Federation Australia technical director Rob Sherman has revealed he quit because his pleas for reform were ignored by the governing body, releasing a seven-page manifesto which slams the sport's "political, bureaucratic and administrative mindset" and details the case for radical change.

FFA technical director Rob Sherman tendered his resignation after less than a year in the job.

A highly respected figure in football and coaching education globally, Sherman self-published his vision for the game through LinkedIn, declaring that the coronavirus crisis is a rare opportunity to "rewrite" the future of football in Australia and cannot be wasted.

The document is the first public commentary from the Welshman since he resigned in March after just nine months in FFA's top football-facing job, saying technical experts such as him had no opportunity to help set the organisation's strategic direction.

Everything within it, he said, had been unsuccessfully pushed by him internally at FFA.