A highly respected figure in football and coaching education globally,Shermanself-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 Welshmansince 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.
It comes a day after former Socceroos captain Mark Viduka also took aim at FFA,telling ESPN that those in charge "don't have a clue about football" and did not engage enough with ex-players like him.
Sherman said football's governance and financial structures had been exposed by the COVID-19 outbreak and that the"siloed approach"of nine member federations operating under FFA made the sport"hugely inefficient".
"The dominant political,bureaucratic and administrative mindset is focused on revenue and making money,which in itself is not a bad thing so long as the football direction is clear,"Sherman wrote.
"That direction needs to be set by the technical experts and quite simply it’s not! Instead we have a culture that focuses on appeasing boards and convincing the stakeholders and media of what a good job they are doing in an effort to hold onto position and power.
"Much of the turbulence in Australian football is self-inflicted and the game operates at a level way under its potential."