NGOs, academics, writers, whistleblowers and football supporters’ groups are among those who today condemned serious ongoing misgovernance at football’s world governing body FIFA in a joint statement published on the ten year anniversary of the notorious arrests of senior FIFA officials in Switzerland.| FairSquare
FairSquare’s major October 2024 report Substitute: The Case for the External Reform of FIFA, has prompted a lengthy response from world football’s governing body. An email to FairSquare from FIFA’s Chief Legal and Compliance Officer, sent on 31 October 2024, the day after the publication of Substitute, stated that the report “misunderstood and mischaracterised many […]| FairSquare
FairSquare is offering its full support to a proposal, made this week by eminent legal scholars, for the European Union to regulate sport, which outlines the possible text of a European Sports Act.| FairSquare