The governing body of international soccer announced Friday what it called a “road map” for reform that will, among other things, entail the release of controversial documents relating to a former marketing partner.
oseph “Sepp” Blatter, president of Fédération Internationale de Football Association, or FIFA, had promised a slate of reform upon his re-election in June as the body lurched from scandal to scandal. On Friday, he announced the formation of several task forces mandated with proposing reforms on a battery of issues from ethics to transparency and compliance.
The road map for approving and implementing the reform will run for the next two years. “I believe we’ve been rather ambitious with our road map,” Blatter said.
A “Committee Good Governance” that will convene at the next executive committee meeting in December will oversee the task forces. It will include members outside the sport, such as civil society groups and the public, though “we’ll have to see” how the public will be represented, Blatter said.
“We presented these changes to a vote, and it was accepted,” Blatter said in French during a press conference in which he announced the reforms (pdf).
