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The FIFA has secretly today its main sponsors briefed on promised reforms. The conversation took place at the headquarters in Zurich.
This was reported by Reuters.
Improve Imago
Representatives of the major lenders AB InBev, Adidas, Coca-Cola, McDonald’s and Visa were informed about how the global football in the future to improve its tarnished image.
During the meeting, FIFA has stressed once again that the future policy about transparency, reform and cooperation with its valued partners. Furthermore, the union will not comment on “internal discussions”.
Lenders demanded clarification
Three major lenders FIFA demanded last month in a letter to clarify the intended improvements within the world football . They also insisted on an independent reform commission. That request FIFA has already met.
The committee of fifteen members led by Chairman François Carrard, former director of the International Olympic Committee, has 2 and 3 September in Bern planned the first meetings.
In discredited by bribery scandal
The FIFA touched the end of May, just before the president election in Zurich, again discredited by a major bribery affair. A series of FIFA officials, including some highly placed, was arrested during a raid on a hotel in Zurich. Major sponsors of the FIFA spoke openly their doubts about the continuation of cooperation.
In early June, Blatter stepped on, four days after he was re-elected as FIFA president. The election, which he took on his only remaining opponent, Jordan’s Prince Ali Bin Al-Hussein, was held in the week of the corruption scandal around the union was revealed.
Blatter decided to resign on the day that the name of Jérôme Valcke, its secretary-general, was associated with the transfer of bribes to Jack Warner, one of the arrested (former) officials. After the press conference, reported several media that Blatter himself was the subject of corruption investigations, something previously not (yet) seem no
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