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Ex-FIFA adviser: Scala exit damages reform at soccer body
- Updated: June 2, 2016
GENEVA (AP) — The departure of FIFA audit panel chairman Domenico Scala in a dispute with President Gianni Infantino will hurt efforts to reform the scandal-hit soccer body, former anti-corruption adviser Michael Hershman said Thursday.
Hershman helped bring Scala to FIFA in 2012 and said his exit is ”the worst thing that could have happened.”
”One of the few shining lights we had was Domenico,” Hershman, the American co-founder of Transparency International, told The Associated Press in a telephone interview. ”Now that he has gone, my skepticism is even greater.”
Hershman spoke from Doha ahead of being announced as CEO of the Qatar-funded International Centre for Sport Security.
Scala resigned last month after his working relationship with Infantino broke down, including disputes over the presidential salary and the FIFA Council taking powers to fire elected independent officials.
Last year, Scala proposed a slate of reforms amid FIFA’s corruption-fueled crisis that was the basis of modernizing changes drafted by a panel which included Infantino.
Their work picked up on a previous round of reforms steered by a FIFA-invited …
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