FIFA
FIFA: setting The right course
On 26. February is the FIFA a new President. Five candidates are competing for the succession of Joseph Blatter. At the Congress, but also far-reaching structural changes will be decided.
The next Party is already scheduled. 29. February FIFA in Zurich with a lot of Pomp and circumstance, their new Museum to open. Beautiful pictures from the heal the world of football, and a lot of praise about the Work of the world Federation are to be expected. Of mismanagement, corruption and money laundering – in short about the biggest crisis in FIFA, in its now 112-year history is nothing there to find.
Behind the FIFA are turbulent ten months. Since the Congress in may of last year, nothing is as it was. Dozens of officials have been arrested or placed under house arrest. Against other is determined. The Boss, Joseph Blatter, is locked. An end is not in sight, because the US justice and the Swiss authorities are investigating intensively. “The mud, in the FIFA is still deep.# There will be more bad conditions are revealed. There may be arrests to come”
says Guido Tognoni of the DW. The 65-year-old Swiss has eleven years as head of media at FIFA worked and is now one of their biggest critics.
Reform should be approved by
Francois Carrard wants to be a “new” FIFA
Under the enormous pressure from the judiciary, politics, and the sponsors were reforms inevitable. Under the direction of the Frenchman Francois Carrard has a 14-person Commission to a paper prepared. At the Congress on Friday, it is now discussed and decided. The key points are: The “new” FIFA should have a changed structure, a new culture, and above all more transparency. “Are decisive but not the words,” says Roland Büchel, a politician of the Swiss people’s party (SVP), “but the people who implement it.”
Controversial Candidate
Big doubts on this u-turn are, however, appropriate. At the election of the new FIFA President pulls behind the Scenes, an old Acquaintance of the Stripping: Sheikh Ahmad Al Sabah from Kuwait. The 52-year-old IOC member, and was in April, 2015 also in the FIFA Executive elected. Al Sabah holds to love in the Background, but it is one of the most powerful men of the Weltsports. How “big” his reforming zeal, he revealed in an unusual display of openness in a TV Interview: “If you are in a crisis, you will have to work closely together and strong covenants. It must all stay in the family. We can’t influence from the outside come in handy.”
Will Salman al Khalifa (r.), the successor to Blatter?
To favorites the 52-year-old Sheikh from Bahrain-born Salman bin Ebrahim al Khalifa is chosen. This is a member of the ruling Royal family and President of the Asian football Confederation (AFC). Disputed is its role in the suppression of the Arab spring in 2011. According to information from the Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy (BIRD) he should a Commission have led the regimekritische athletes punish him. As the first Großsponsor FIFA has the credit card companies VISA reacts to it. “We share their concern for the leadership of FIFA, the human rights and the need for comprehensive and fundamental reform of FIFA, said in an e-Mail to the BIRD.
The only serious rival candidate comes from Europe
Europe’s football associations to stand behind Gianni Infantino, the General Secretary of the UEFA. The 45-year-old was initially used as a placeholder for the suspended-UEFA President Michel Platini. After this for eight years, was locked, moved Infantino a full-fledged candidates. For all the Subversiveness of the Swiss, he remains a man of the “old system”. With his idea of a world Cup, which will be 40 countries enmeshed he particularly smaller associations. For FIFA critics Tognoni is this idea of “pure Wahlfängerei.”
It will be hard for Prince Ali bin al Hussein
The other competitors are likely choosing a chance: Jerome Champagne certify experts though a good election Manifesto, the Frenchman, however, has no support among the 209 FIFA member associations. For Prince Ali bin al Hussein, it will be hard, the same number of votes as in the election in may 2015, as he is against Sepp Blatter took. The 73 votes at the time were more a Protest against the “eternal Sepp” as support for the Jordanians. Tokyo Sexquale from South Africa has a rather feeble election campaign. He has not even the support of the African Confederation (CAF).
Change or demise
The extraordinary Wahlkongress on 26. February may FIFA the groundwork for the change. The expected but for months or even years to complete. Can the FIFA not, again to gain trust, then belongs to the world Federation soon find yourself in the house, that three days after the Congress is opened: to the Museum.