FIFA outline new proposals at Zurich conference
Thursday 3 December 2015 14:38, UK
FIFA's executive committee have approved several new proposals, including limiting presidential terms to a maximum of three.
Presidents will now only be able to hold office for a maximum of 12 years, while measures have also been agreed to increase financial accountability and ensure there are at least six women on the newly-devised FIFA council.
The governing body has also been discussing plans, at the meeting in Zurich, to increase the number of teams at a World Cup to 40.
FIFA have also said they want to implement a "clear separation of "political" and management functions".
In that framework, the FIFA executive committee would be replaced by the FIFA council and be "responsible for setting the organisation's overall strategic direction" while the general secretariat will "oversee the operational and commercial actions required to effectively execute that strategy".
There will also be compulsory and comprehensive integrity checks for all members of FIFA's standing committees, conducted by an independent FIFA review committee.
FIFA's acting secretary general Markus Kattner confirmed the reforms, to be put to FIFA's Congress in February, would see the salaries of the president and senior officials made public.
He outlined a two-year timetable for implementing the changes with FIFA recognised as a "modern, trusted professional organisation" by December 2018 after a successful World Cup in Russia.
