FIFA Passes Reform Plans

Fifa members have approved a raft of reforms to the organisation after an overwhelming majority vote at Friday’s Congress in Zurich.

The reform package was passed after 89 per cent of members voted in favour of plans aimed at increasing transparency in Fifa activities and restoring credibility to the organisation following the investigation into corruption over the past year.

Acting president Issa Hayatou urged member associations to support the plans this week in order to prove that Fifa is committed to “a new dawn” after the indictment of a number of officials on conspiracy, fraud and racketeering charges, as well as the suspension of former president Sepp Blatter, who is appealing against the decision to ban him from football for six years over a payment made to ex-Uefa chief Michel Platini.

Of 207 eligible members associations, 179 voted yes to the reforms, despite fervent opposition from Palestine FA head Gonzalo Boye Tuset, who warned that more time should be taken to draft effective proposals to transform FIFA.

Delegates also voted in favour of the dismissal of Canover Watson from the Audit and Compliance Committee after he was convicted on charges of corruption.

 

Via Goal.com

FIFA Passes Reform Plans

GFA Prez To Leave For Zurich Today

President of the Ghana Football Association, Kwesi Nyantakyi will leave Ghana to Switzerland, Zurich for the upcoming FIFA elections.

Ghana, one of the FIFA member nations, will be represented by the Ghana Football Association at the headquarters of the world football governing body for its elections on Friday.

Mr. Nyantakyi who will vote for in the elections will join at sister associations to choose a leader to replace Joseph Sepp  Blatter who was banned from all football related issues for eight years by the FIFA Ethics Committee.

Nyantakyi will be accompanied by his vice president, George Afriyie to the event, which presidential hopeful, Prince Ali Bin Al Hussein of Jordan want postponed.

The Confederation of Africa Football, CAF, has asked member associations to give their mandate to president of the Asia Federation, Sheikh Salman Bin Ebrahim.

However, 26 member countries according to Musah Bility, president of the Liberia Football Federation, who was disqualified from the race for the top job in FIFA claim they will go contrary to CAF’s agreement.

GFA Prez To Leave For Zurich Today

26 Countries Will Disobey CAF - Bility

At least 26 African countries will defy their continental confederation and not vote for Sheikh Salman of Bahrain in the FIFA presidential election, the outspoken head of the Liberia football federation said on Monday.

Musa Bility, who himself failed an integrity check to stand in the Feb. 26 election, said he had spoken to representatives of nearly half of Confederation of African Football members.

“Let me tell you” they won’t back Salman, Bility told The Associated Press.

Liberia Football Association president Bility also said he had sent a letter to the head of FIFA’s election committee demanding he step down over a “conflict of interest.” Domenico Scala should resign because he has the same Swiss nationality as one of the candidates, UEFA secretary general Gianni Infantino, Bility said.

“None of the admitted candidates has raised this matter to date, which makes it evident that Mr. Scala’s impartiality is not put in question by any of them,” FIFA ad-hoc election committee spokesman Andreas Bantel said.

On Friday, Sheikh Salman, the Asian Football Confederation president, was publicly endorsed in the FIFA election by CAF, apparently a major boost to his chances. CAF urged its 54 member countries to vote for the Bahraini royal.

Africa, with the largest number of voting members out of the continental confederations, is set to be a significant battleground in the vote.

But Bility’s comments followed assertions by some of Salman’s rival candidates that an endorsement by CAF’s executive committee does not translate into widespread support among the confederation’s member countries.

“As a nation we have the right [to vote for who we want],” Bility said on Monday. “Our rights are not tied with the rights of the executive committee of CAF.”

Bility’s association announced in the hours after CAF’s public show of support for Sheikh Salman that it would instead be voting for Prince Ali of Jordan. Prince Ali said Egypt had also promised him its vote, while South Sudan declared its support for Infantino.

There are five candidates in the running to succeed Sepp Blatter. Salman, Infantino, Ali, former FIFA official Jerome Champagne of France and South African businessman Tokyo Sexwale. Salman and Infantino appear to be the strongest contenders.

 

Source: AP

26 Countries Will Disobey CAF - Bility

FIFA Sack Jerome Valcke

The employment relationship between FIFA and Valcke has also been terminated.

Jerome Valke who has been the General Secretary of the World Football governing body was relieved off his duties after the Ethics Committee of the Association found him guilty of wrongdoing.

Though he denied, the association cracked the whip and terminated their relationship with the Frenchman.

A statement from the football body reads:

“Valcke was provisionally released from his duties as secretary general on 17 September 2015, and on 7 January 2016, formal adjudicatory proceedings were opened against him by the adjudicatory chamber of the FIFA Ethics Committee chaired by Hans-Joachim Eckert.

“The provisional suspension imposed on Jerome Valcke on 8 October 2015 and extended on 6 January 2016 continues to be valid.

“The duties of the secretary general will continue to be assumed by the Acting Secretary General, Dr Markus Kattner.”

Valcke boss,Joseph Sepp Blatter was banned from all football related activities for eight years.

FIFA Sack Jerome Valcke