By Mark Baber
August 18 – It emerged on Monday that a radical plan presented to the FIFA executive committee on July 20 by Domenico Scala, the independent chairman of FIFA’s Audit and Compliance Committee charged by outgoing president Sepp Blatter with implementing reforms, envisaged the abolition of the executive committee and its replacement by a separate management committee and governing council.
Details of the plan were leaked to Reuters by “a person with knowledge of the plan”, who said a management committee including independent professionals would be charged with ensuring FIFA’s day-to-day running, whilst a governing council would take on more of an oversight role.
The plan envisages the new governing council having less powers that the current executive committee and being elected by FIFA’s Congress, including representatives from its 209 member associations around the world, rather than from the confederations as is the case with the current ruling body.
It remains to be seen if the new Reform Committee, headed by Francois Carrard, will take up Scala’s suggestion for such a major restructuring.
Reforms aimed at limiting the terms of FIFA, confederation and national-level officials and at disclosing the salaries of officials already have widespread acceptance and may prove less controversial and more likely to be taken up by the Reform Committee when it meets in September.
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