Prince Ali poised to run for position at the head of the FIFA table

Prince Ali bin al Hussein

By Paul Nicholson
October 22 – Latest rumours are that Asia’s FIFA vice-president Prince Ali bin Al-Hussein of Jordan has been persuaded to run for the presidency of FIFA. If confirmed he could be the third candidate prepared to take on current FIFA president Sepp Blatter in his bid for a fifth term at the head of the world governing body.

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Horne to leave English FA

alex horne

October 22 – English Football Association general secretary Alex Horne, who has done much to try and improve relations between his federation and the game’s governing bodies, is to leave the organisation in January after serving in a variety of different roles for 11 years.

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Matt Scott: FIFA joins the dots in the fight against corruption

“Connectivity will be an enabler. Transparency for better government, education, and health.” Bill Gates

Eighteen months and 430 pages have gone into Michael Garcia’s report for the FIFA ethics committee into the 2018 and 2022 World Cup bidding, and there have been acres more pages of newsprint produced on the back of it. It was the highest-profile measure to emerge from the Independent Governance Committee’s strategic review of FIFA’s operations.

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A New FIFA President is Needed

Well, there will be one on May 29, 2015, and it seems pretty clear who the winner will be.

The bad part is that those who shriek “democracy”, “transparency” and shout for competing candidates, do nothing about it.

Enter football’s new old friend Greg Dyke. It is one thing to decry Blatter’s way of leading world football. And it is similarly easy to jump on the bandwagon but remain an onlooker.

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