Expdonaloaded Sports News; Corruption In World Football: Scala: FIFA officials must stop playing Methuselah

A bigwig of world soccer governing body, FIFA, Domenico Scala, has declared that the biggest problem facing the game is the fact that officials literally turn themselves into modern day Methuselahs in office. Scala who is FIFA’s head of audit and compliance committee told BBC Sports yesterday that to stem this tide the body must introduce term limit. Scala recently made recommendations for an eight-part reform process, which includes a limit of three terms of four years for the president and the executive committee.
In his words:”A number of issues have their root cause in the fact that people have stayed for far too long.” Sepp Blatter was FIFA president for 17 years before stepping down in June. The 79-year-old, who will leave FIFA in February 2016, was in power for a total of four terms and was elected for a fifth before resigning. Senior vice-president and executive committee member Issa Hayatou has been in place for 25 years with Spain’s Angel Maria Villar Llona also an ex-co member for 17 years. Swiss-Italian Scala was set to be appointed as head of a FIFA taskforce set up to tackle corruption following the start of two ongoing criminal investigations. But after questions over the independence of the reform process, former International Olympic Committee director-general Francois Carrard was assigned with the role.