Blatter Promises Fifa October Reform
FIFA boss Sepp Blatter’s reform plans to clean up FIFA after a year of scandal will be announced in October, he has claimed. ??
Blatter, who won a fourth term of office on 1st June as FIFA President on the back of a promised clean-up of the organisation, has chosen the Executive Committee meeting of 20th and 21st October to reveal details of exactly how he intends to move forward.??
Blatter said: ‘I will announce a road map of where we go and when we go’.
?Blatter’s former election rival Mohamed Bin Hammam withdrew amid claims he tried to bribe Caribbean voters and is now appealing a lifetime ban imposed by FIFA’s Ethics Committee.
??The bribery scandal also ended the football career of senior FIFA vice-president Jack Warner who resigned rather than face a similar punishment.??
Two more FIFA Executive members, Amos Adamu and Reynald Temarii, were suspended last November after allegations of vote-trading in the 2018 and 2022 World Cup bid races.??
FIFA is still investigating the roles played by 16 Caribbean officials in allegedly accepting $40,000 cash payments in return for voting for Bin Hammam before he pulled out of the race to face Blatter.??
After his election Blatter set up a ‘Solutions Committee’ including former United States Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and opera singer Placido Domingo.??
Last week, European Club Association chairman Karl-Heinz Rummenigge called on Blatter to do more, and quickly, or risk the same kind of fate as Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.
