FIFA have passed a number of reforms to prevent corruption as they prepare to elect a new President.
In an extraordinary congress held today, the football body is attempting to restore some of its image and prestige after the scandal that involved, among others, former President Sepp Blatter and UEFA President Michel Platini in an investigation on fraud, racketeering and money laundering.
FIFA have passed a number of reforms to prevent corruption as they prepare to elect a new President.
In an extraordinary congress held today, the football body is attempting to restore some of its image and prestige after the scandal that involved, among others, former President Sepp Blatter and UEFA President Michel Platini in an investigation on fraud, racketeering and money laundering.
Their opening statement of the congress spoke of 'extraordinary times and extraordinary circumstances', and in an effort to respond to these changing times they have now passed a bundle of reforms.
The reforms are to be wide in scope and they are intended to curb the powers of the president and increase transparency, keeping public records of the salaries received by their employees.
The executive committee will be renamed FIFA Council and will include wider gender representation, with more women sitting on the board. The reforms were approved today by a majority of 89 per cent in the vote.
The congress will continue this afternoon with the election of the new President. The candidates include former FIFA general secretary Jerome Champagne along with Prince Ali bin al-Hussein, the President of the Jordanian Football Association, currently backed by the USA and Australia.
The other candidates are South Africa's Tokyo Sexwale, Swiss lawyer Gianni Infantino and FIFA vice-president Sheikh Salman.