“In addition, the recommendation by the Committee to enhance the number of participating teams in the FIFA World Cup from 32 to 40 without prior consultation with the clubs (in full knowledge of the impact this will have on the professional club game), is proof that the proposed reforms are not at the required standard allowing for a new and modern FIFA”.
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Football’s world governing body FIFA met in Zurich on Thursday to endorse a series of proposed reforms that promise to change the way the organisation is run..
Earlier Thurs., two Federation Internationale de Football Association vice presidents – Juan Angel Napout from Paraguay & Alfredo Hawit Banegas of Honduras – have been taken in to custody & as many as 16 Federation Internationale de Football Association officers have been focused for arrest as Swiss authorities raided Zurich’s Baur au Lac hotel, in accordance to published reports.
“According to the US arrest requests, they are suspected of accepting bribes of millions of dollars”, the justice ministry said.
Some of those comments seem to relate directly to FIFA’s decision to award a World Cup to Qatar, which has built a rich society on the backs of slavery and human rights violations, and where homosexuality is illegal.
“Clubs are not prepared to be further ignored”, it concluded. Its president Sepp Blatter is among officials who have been suspended by its own ethics committee. “The culture change has to begin within FIFA and filter through to the confederations and FIFA’s football associations”.
Members of the Council and of all FIFA’s standing committees will be subject to compulsory and comprehensive integrity checks conducted by an independent review committee.
The reforms also include a proposal to separate FIFA’s political and management functions, with a new FIFA Council replacing the Executive Committee and setting the organization’s overall strategic direction. It also complained that the proposal had come without the clubs having been consulted first.
Much of FIFA’s leadership has already been implicated in widespread fraud uncovered in massive investigations by both the United States and Switzerland.
FIFA’s widespread corruption scandal is hitting the bottom line hard, as world football’s governing body reported £67 million (around $100 million) in financial losses for the 2015 calendar year.
Updated versions of the match schedules should be approved in March 2016, during the meeting of the Organising Committee for the FIFA World Cup.
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“What is important is to ensure renewal of terms”. Supporters of the proposal – mainly from Asia and Africa – say expanding the tournament would add global balance to the event, which as it stands is almost half filled with teams from Europe.
