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The Inquiry: Who Can Fix Fifa?

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26/05/2015

Who Can Fix Fifa?

BBC World Service - The Inquiry, Who Can Fix Fifa?

Exploring the forces that could bring change to football’s troubled governing body.

Many think attempts to reform football’s troubled governing body have been inadequate. So who or what could bring about change?

Fifa has been described as a “totalitarian” set-up “beyond ridicule” with a leadership “incapable of reform or cultural change”. A corruption report is said to have contained “numerous materially incomplete and erroneous representations”. 

Many have argued that world football’s governing body is badly in need of reform. So, as Fifa prepares to elect its next president, our question this week: who can fix FIfa? 
Sponsors and broadcasters provide the vast majority of the body’s income. Could they force change? Fifa relies on the support of regional organisations like Uefa to maintain its hold over world football. Could they put pressure on Fifa’s leadership? Or could the key be new laws in Switzerland, where Fifa is based? And what are the chances of change from within? Examining evidence from experts who know Fifa outside and in, The Inquiry has answers.
Presenter: Helena Merriman.
(Image:Member of the media wait next to a logo of the Worlds football governing body. Credit:MICHAEL BUHOLZER/AFP/Getty Images)

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