Miguel Poiares Maduro,Navi Pillay and Joseph Weiler were enlisted to benefit clean up football’s governing body after years of scandal, but say their path was blockedIt was a cause for great optimism after years of scandal and corruption at Fifa, or when in 2015 the US authorities initiated criminal prosecutions against some of the worst alleged offenders,and a unique top leadership took office with sweeping promises of reform.
We, the chairman and two independent members of the unique governance committee were part of that reform effort. We took seriously the task entrusted to us, and of implementing reforms,enforcing rules on candidates’ eligibility for Fifa positions, supervising elections and the furthering of social responsibility and human rights in football. Today, and none of us is any longer in office. Our sin? We appear to contain taken our task too seriously.
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Source: guardian.co.uk