Corruption in FIFA? Part 1: Vote Rigging

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Published: December 3, 2010

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The issue of corruption within FIFA has become a hot topic in recent months, following the Sunday Times sting operation that caught out two members of the executive committee and the Panorama programme by Andrew Jennings that accused a further three members of accepting bribes from ISL back in the '90s.

Sepp Blatter and FIFA have resisted calls for a thorough investigation for years, but the pressure on them is becoming almost too much to resist.

The FIFA executive committee is the main decision-making of the organisation and, amongst other things, is responsible for deciding the hosts of the World Cup. It consists of the president of FIFA, eight vice-presidents and a further 15 members, appointed by the various confederations and associations.

Sepp Blatter is the president of FIFA and has been since 1998 when he succeeded former president and mentor, Joao Havelange, who was named honorary life president. The vice-presidents include senior vice-president Julio Grondona, who is head of the Argentine Football Federation, the head of the Confederation of African Football (CAF), Issa Hayatou, Jack Warner, the President of the Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football (CONCACAF) and Reynaud Temarii, the President of the Oceania Football Confederation amongst others.

Amongst the other members of the committee, we find the likes of Ricardo Teixeira, the President of the Brazilian Football Confederation; Nicolas Leoz, the President of the South American Football Federation (CONMEBOL); Mohamed Bin Hammam, the President of the Asian Football Confederation; and Nigerian Amos Adamu.

There are a number of other characters from outside of the executive committee that play a part in the story. We have former head of marketing at FIFA and current General Secretary, Jerome Valcke.

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