FIFA Executive Committee
The FIFA Executive Committee is an institution of FIFA. The 25 - member committee is the highest decision-making body of international football.
Composition and duties
The FIFA Executive Committee has since 2013 ( Art. 30 FIFA Statutes ) 25 Members:
The term of office of the members of the Executive Committee shall be four years. It begins after the establishment by Congress. An installed member of the Executive Committee can be removed only by the FIFA Congress out of office.
The Confederations are the following places:
- CONMEBOL: Vice President (1 ) Members ( 2)
- AFC: Vice President (1 ) Members ( 3)
- UEFA: Vice President (3 ) Members ( 5)
- CAF: Vice President (1 ) Members ( 3)
- CONCACAF: Vice President (1 ) Members ( 2)
- OFC Vice President: (1 ) Members ( - )
The Executive Committee meets at least twice a year. It determines the venues and dates, and sets the carried out by FIFA competitions formats. The Committee shall convene the delegates from FIFA and appoints the Secretary General.
Members
History
The executive members in 2010 were on average ten years in office. In May 2012, the 62nd FIFA Congress Lydia Nsekera, President of the National Football Association of Burundi, the first woman in the Executive Committee.
Since 2011 there were twelve resignations from the FIFA Executive Committee. Franz Beckenbauer ( Germany ) and Junji Ogura (Japan) waived in 2011 for re-election. Geoff Thompson (England ), and Chung Mong- joon (South Korea) have not been nominated in the same year for the FIFA Executive Committee. Eight resignations were in connection with allegations of corruption:
- In October 2010, the two members of the FIFA Executive Reynald Temarii were ( Tahiti) and Amos Adamu (Nigeria ) by FIFA provisionally suspended on corruption investigations, according to a report Sunday Times they were ready to cast their votes in the award of the Football World Cup 2018 and 2022 to sell. In November 2010 Temarii was expelled for a year and Adamu for three years by FIFA from all football activities. Objections to the locks were rejected by the FIFA Appeal Committee in February 2011.
- In May 2011, Mohamed bin Hammam were (Qatar ) and Jack Austin Warner (Trinidad and Tobago) provisionally suspended on corruption investigations. Bin Hammam was expelled in 2012 because of vote-buying before the presidential election in 2011 of the FIFA Ethics Committee on lifetimes of all activities in football. Jack Warner came because of the charges against him back at his own request in June 2011 of all international offices.
- Ricardo Teixeira had to explain his resignation from the FIFA Executive Committee because of numerous corruption charges in March 2012 under great public pressure. He along with his former father- and the long-term FIFA President João Havelange (Brazil ) receive approximately CHF 22 million bribes from the ISL. He escaped both a criminal conviction as well as the ban by FIFA's ethics committee.
- Chuck Blazer abandoned in April 2013 after allegations of corruption on a re-election. He was locked before the end of his fourth term of office end of May 2013 by the FIFA Ethics Committee due to an ongoing investigation for 90 days for any activities in national and international football.
- Manilal Fernando was closed in April 2013 because of several violations of the FIFA Code of Ethics for eight years for all national and international activities in football by the FIFA ethics committee.
- Nicolás Leoz declared in April 2013 his resignation as a member of the FIFA Executive Committee and as president of CONMEBOL. He made it personal and health grounds of appeal. According to the bribery list of ISL him between 1997 and 2000 about one million CHF were paid bribes. With his resignation, he came to a ban by FIFA's ethics committee before.