By Andrew Warshaw, Chief Correspondent
January 15 – All 53 members of UEFA will meet later this month to discuss FIFA’s reform programme which is due to be voted on at the world governing body’s annual congress in Mauritius in May.
The reforms, trumpeted by FIFA president Sepp Blatter after two years of damaging corruption claims, include an age limit for the president of 72 and limiting mandates of executive committee members to two four-year terms.
UEFA’s member associations will meet at headquarters in Switzerland on January 24 to make sure they are comfortable with the reform process.
“UEFA wants to ensure that the FIFA statutory reform process maintains its good governance objectives and that this is explained to our member associations in a clear and transparent way, to enable them to make their position clear,” said UEFA general secretary Gianni Infantino.
“These matters have been discussed at confederation level but we now need our member associations to put forward their views. Once we have heard the UEFA member associations’ opinions, these will be presented to the UEFA Executive Committee at its meeting on the following day.”
Also on the agenda at the exco meeting is likely to be UEFA president Michel Platini’s highly publicised plans for a pan-Continental Euro 2020 tournament of at least 12 cities, though it is not yet clear whether further details will be announced then – or at the subsequent UEFA executive committee meeting in Sofia in March.
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