Chaired by the president of FIFA Joseph Blatter s., the Executive Committee of FIFA ended today a two-day meeting at the home of FIFA in Zurich, where it is called to the solidarity of the community to help eradicate match-fixing from the game of football.
"Nearly 300 million people play football in the world." This extraordinary popularity gives us responsibilities. One of them, one a major, is to protect the integrity of the game. Match-fixing jeopardizes exactly this. We do already many - the early warning system, our partnership with INTERPOL, the creation of a Division of FIFA security, etc. - it, but in addition to this, what is needed is the solidarity of all those involved in the game. In particular, whenever you notice a match-fixing attempt, this must be reported to the competent bodies. This is crucial, said the FIFA president.
Concerning the process of reform of governance and of the decisions taken by the Congress of the FIFA 2012, the roadmap was developed which follows in order to complete the process at the Congress of the FIFA 2013 as initially planned. A working group chaired by a member of the Executive Committee of FIFA and Chairman of the Task Force review of the statutes Theo Zwanziger and comprising the Secretaries General and legal directors of the confederations and FIFA, was established to consult 209 member associations and submit proposals for the revision of the statutes of FIFA.
As regards the World Cup 2014 ™ Brazil Cup Executive has ratified the time kick-off of the matches of the final tournament (see: http://www.fifa.com/worldcup) and changed dates from the inter-Confederal playoffs at 13 or 14 November 2013 (go: Asia c. North and South America, Central America and the Oceania v. Caribbean) and November 20, 2013 (second stage) (: South America c. Asia and Oceania v. North, Central America and Caribbean) in order to give a longer period of rest for the teams involved. The Executive also decided to create the prize money of the FIFA confederations Cup by Brazil 2013 at $ 20 million, an increase of 2.4 million dollars from the last edition in 2009. It also approved the host cities 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia ™, which will be officially announced tomorrow in Moscow.
The Executive has proposed for FIFA member associations, to introduce periodic articles of FIFA the obligation for member associations to hold general meetings (at least every two years) and adopt their own statutes in accordance with the statutes of FIFA Standard. In addition, the following decisions were taken:
-Gambia: the Standardization Committee's mandate has been extended until March 31, 2013
-Sierra Leone: a Standardization Committee will be appointed to run the day-to-day operations of the association, to redo the electoral process and to hold elections by January 15, 2013
-Maldives: the mandate of the current Board has been extended until January 31, 2013 and an electoral Committee is appointed to hold elections by 31 January 2013
Other questions:
-Football Federation of Kosovo (FFK): the folder will be finalized at the next meeting of the Executive Committee in Tokyo on December 14.
-FIFA competitions:
o the Executive stressed the success of the Olympic Football tournaments of London 2012, in particular in terms of attendance (approximately 2.2 million viewers) and women of the FIFA U-20 World Cup Japan 2012.
o 2012 FIFA U-17 women's World Cup, currently being played in Azerbaijan, has been highlighted as a good example of how to use a FIFA event to create a legacy for women's football
o the FIFA Club World Cup Morocco 2013: Marrakech and Agadir have been ratified as sites of the tournament
o FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup: the Executive is pleased to note that no less than 13 member associations are currently offers to host the 2015 edition, thus proving the growing success of this event
Finally, the Executive Branch has received detailed reports of FIFA 11 committees that held meetings this week at the home of FIFA.
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