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Sportshour: Fifa Foe Fum

FIFA FOE FUM

06/06/2015

Fifa Foe Fum

BBC World Service - Sportshour, Fifa Foe Fum

Is it time to disband Fifa and start football governance afresh from scratch?

Thomas Bach, the president of the International Olympic Committee said Fifa had to follow their lead. The IOC faced reform following corruption around the hosting of the 2002 Winter Olympics of Salt Lake. So what exactly can Fifa learn and what are the similarities and differences between the two giants of sporting governance. Plus, the release of the US film United Passions - the story of an organisation that has been a force for good: Fifa. We are in New York for a critical review.

Women’s World Cup: Challenging Abuse
On Mother’s Day, reporter Shauna Hunt challenged the abusive Toronto football fans who had just screamed obscenities in to her microphone. Her confrontation went viral. So as the Women’s World Cup kicks off in Canada, will female reporters be subject to further vile acts of sexually explicit abuse? Caroline Rigby met Shauna and attended the last Toronto FC match to see if anything has changed.

Freund Farewell to the Stasi
Berlin, a city so long divided between East and West, is hosting the Champions League final for the first time. To mark this achievement for the city Steve Crossman has been speaking to former German international footballer Steffen Freund who had to repel Stasi pressure to be a spy against his team mates before experiencing freedom and a unified Germany.

Performance Pants
Before you pay up to $200 on a new pair of specially made performance pants, “scientifically proven to make you go faster for longer” a word of advice. Shari Vahl heads to the Manchester velodrome to test if claims by designers of compression garments are true, or whether it is just wind.

Sporting Witness
It is 60 years since the worst disaster in motorsport history - when a driver crashed into the crowd at the Le Mans 24-hour race in France, killing 83 spectators. We hear from American driver, John Fitch. 

(Photo: The logo of Fifa seen at the top of its headquarters. Credit: Fabrice Coffrini/AFP/Getty Images)

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