Football: FIFA reform body sets date for first meeting
FIFA is currently reeling from its own corruption turmoil after 7 football officials were arrested
PARIS (AFP) - FIFA s Reform Committee, which has been tasked with cleaning up football s corruption-hit world governing body, will meet for the first time on September 2-3.
The committee, created by outgoing FIFA president Sepp Blatter after a series of damaging allegations and a number of arrests of high-profile officials, will meet in Bern.
"The first meeting of the 2016 FIFA Reform Committee will be held in the Swiss capital of Bern on 2-3 September 2015," said chairman Francois Carrard in a statement.
"No further comments on the meeting will be provided at this time."
Carrard, a 77-year-old Swiss lawyer, previously guided the International Olympic Committee through its own governance reforms in the wake of the bribery scandal-hit Winter Olympics of 2002.
FIFA is currently reeling from its own corruption turmoil after seven football officials were arrested in a raid on a Zurich hotel on the eve of a FIFA congress in May.
The Reform Committee will provide a preliminary update to the FIFA Executive Committee at its regular quarterly meeting on September 24-25, FIFA said in a statement.
