FIVB President Ary Graça and Director General Fabio Azevedo are both in the spotlight of Brazilian authorities for business deals made in their time as top officials in their home country.
FIFA’s ethics committee today decided to ban the FIFA president, vice-president and secretary general for a provisional 90-day period pending investigations.
Analysis: India has the potential to emerge as the next superpower in sport, but corruption and the lack of governing reforms have come in between. Murali Krishnan analyses sports politics in a country that has been called sport’s ‘sleeping giant’.
UNESCO’s most important task in sport in the years to come will be to make sure that the intentions of a new international charter on sport and physical activity are realised. Play the Game is invited to be part of that process.
Comment: Will the newly elected president of the International Athletics Federation, Sebastian Coe, be able to bring the sport back on its feet? Andreas Selliaas analyses Coe’s background and comments on his mounting challenges.
FIFA has appointed former IOC director general Dr. François Carrard as independent chairman of the 2016 FIFA Reform Commission. The composition of the commission has already sparked critique.
By Jens Sejer Andersen- International director, Play the Game
21.07.2015 /
FIFA’s attempt to dig up the reforms it recently buried only emphasizes the shortcomings of an organization that remains unable to reform itself from the inside
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