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Anti-corruption


New British bribery legislation will also affect international football transfers

30 March 2012

At the Soccerex conference in Manchester, UK, Lawyer Andrew Trollope urged football clubs to draw up anti-bribery and corruption policies. Steve Menary reports from the conference.[more]




Gun threat and desperation as police try to take over Mario Goijman’s home

17 March 2012

The Argentinean whistleblower must leave his house for good on Monday. Play the Game launches an appeal to FIVB and international sport to accept mediation.[more]




2012: A promising start for the villains of sport

16 February 2012

Comment: FIFA and the IOC have recently wasted a couple of good opportunities to discourage minor and major crooks at the start of the Olympic year.[more]




New report calls for governance reforms in cricket

07 February 2012

FIFA is not alone in having its governance practices scrutinised. The International Cricket Council (ICC), the world governing body for cricket, has received an independent review on its governance calling for fundamental reforms.[more]




Pieth will hunt down the “gangsters” in FIFA

27 January 2012

During the past two years, FIFA has experienced a wealth of scandals which lead football’s governing body to create an independent Governance Committee charged with reforming FIFA. But the Chairman of the Committee, Mark Pieth,...[more]




FIFA must help Trinidad and Tobago’s Football Federation clean up corruption

25 January 2012

Former T&T national goal keeper and TTFF technical director Lincoln Philips calls for a reform of the Trinidad and Tobago Football Federation (TTFF) and appeals to FIFA to take the lead by installing a Normalisation Committee...[more]




Champagne intervenes in debate on FIFA reform

16 January 2012

FIFA’s former director of international relations, Jérôme Champagne, has joined the debate on reform of the world body by sending his personal diagnosis on the problems and potential solutions to all 208 FIFA members.[more]




Journalists refuse to meet with FIFA’s Independent Governance Committee

06 January 2012

Four reporters specialising in investigating corruption in FIFA and international football have declined an invitation to co-operate with FIFA’s Independent Governance Committee. Instead they list a number of suggestions how FIFA...[more]




New in the knowledge bank: The need for reform in FIFA

09 December 2011

FIFA has become an international commercial behemoth, but it has been at the expense of the reputation of world football and without regard for the forgotten stakeholders of the game – the players and fans – argues the former...[more]




FIFA opens revolving door for anti-corruption heavyweight, leaving main dilemma unresolved

30 November 2011

Analysis: An internationally leading expert in anti-corruption, Swiss professor Mark Pieth, is appointed to lead FIFA’s governance committee while Transparency International backs out.[more]




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