SOCCER-FIFA/REFORMS-FILE FIFA name ex-IOC official Carrard to head reform task force

Record ID: 135662

  • Title: SOCCER-FIFA/REFORMS-FILE FIFA name ex-IOC official Carrard to head reform task force
  • Date: 11th August 2015
  • Summary: LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND (SEPTEMBER 21, 2008) (REUTERS) FORMER INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE (IOC) DIRECTOR GENERAL, FRANCOIS CARRARD ARRIVING AT IOC HEADQUARTERS
  • Embargoed: 26th August 2015 13:00
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  • Location: Australia
  • Country: Australia
  • Topics: General
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    Former International Olympic Committee (IOC) director-general Francois Carrard has been appointed as chairman of the new FIFA reform task force, the governing body for world football said on Tuesday (August 11).
    The 77-year-old Swiss, who guided the IOC through its own corruption scandal following the vote for the 2002 Winter Olympics won by Salt Lake City, will head the group charged with reforming the scandal-plagued FIFA.
    FIFA said that each of the six continental football confederations would have two representatives on the task force, while there would also be two members appointed by FIFA's commercial partners, to be announced.
    Those named included Gianni Infantino, secretary general of European soccer's governing body UEFA, and Alasdair Bell, UEFA's legal director.
    Asia's representatives were Sheikh Ahmad Al-Fahad Al-Ahmed Al-Sabah from Kuwait, a member of FIFA's executive committee, and Australia's Kevan Gospar, former vice-president of the IOC.
    FIFA said: "Over the next six months, the committee will develop a package of reform proposals that will be put before the extraordinary elective Congress due to take place in Zurich on 26 February 2016. The work of the committee will build on the reform work FIFA has undertaken since 2011."
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