UEFA urge FIFA to make governance changes

UEFA have called on FIFA to implement “concrete” changes in governance within the next three months.

The world football governing body have been beset by allegations of corruption in recent weeks, with Asian Confederation president Mohamed Bin Hammam and CONCACAF counterpart Jack Warner provisionally suspended pending a full investigation into bribery accusations.

An ethics committee decreed FIFA president Sepp Blatter had “no case to answer” and he was re-elected unopposed – Bin Hammam having withdrawn from the race – but Warner’s stand-in Lisle Austin has since been suspended from duty himself.

At the conclusion of the June meeting of UEFA’s executive committee, general secretary Gianni Infantino told reporters: “The UEFA executive committee has taken note of the will of FIFA to take concrete and effective measures for good governance. It hopes to see results within three months and it is following the situation closely.

“We want whatever it is FIFA chooses to do to be concrete.”