KEIR RADNEDGE REPORTS: The shape of the reorganised committee structure at world football federation FIFA has been unveiled.

The central standing committees have been reduced from the 26 of disgraced Sepp Blatter’s regime to nine under Gianni Infantino who was elected to take over the presidency last February.

Most notable ‘name’ appointed to a major role is that of Pierluigi Collina, the Italian former World Cup referee and who had been head of match officials at European federation UEFA while Infantino was general secretary.

One of Collina’s last duties at UEFA was to ensure the elision of both goal-line assistants and goal-line technology at the European Championship finals in France last summer.

In the past members of the executive committee had been scattered all around the standing committees. Under Infantino’s system, however, comparatively few members of the expanded FIFA Council have been allotted to the committees.

However five of the presidents of the six regional confederations have been appointed as committee chairman. These are:

Development: Sheikh Salman Bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa (AFC [Asia], Bahrain);

Finance: Alejandro Dominguez (CONMEBOL [S America], Paraguay);

Football stakeholders: Victor Montagliani (CONCACAF (central/north America], Canada);

Associations: Issa Hayatou (CAF [Africa], Cameroon); and

Organising Committee for FIFA competitions: Aleksander Ceferin (UEFA [Europe], Slovenia). 

The one confederation president without a chairmanship is Oceania’s David Chung, from Papua New Guinea. His ‘consolation’ is an appointment as deputy chairman of the competitions organising committee.

The heads of the confederations also make up, with Infantino, what is called the ‘FIFA bureau’ which has become, in effect, the new executive committee.

One other notable point is the apparent downgrading of Cameroon’s African confederation president Issa Hayatou. He is FIFA’s senior vice-president and had been head of the all-important finance committee after the death of Argentina’s Julio Grondona in the summer of 2014.

Heading the finance committee now is Paraguayan Alejandro Dominguez, the latest president of South America’s CONMEBOL.

FIFA hopes that Dominguez has no skeletons in his cupboard after the last three CONMEBOL leaders (Nicolas Leoz [Paraguay], Eugenio Figueredo [Uruguay] and Juan Angel Napout [Paraguay]) all ended up being indicted by the United States Department of Justice in its FIFAGate corruption investigation.

As far as the composition of the committees is concerned, a FIFA statement has made the point that the new members “have been appointed by the Council on the proposal of the members associations . . . and have passed a compulsory eligibility check carried out by the review committee.

The eligibility of the governance committee members was checked by the investigatory chamber of the ethics committee.

FIFA added: “The governance, finance and development committees include at least 50pc of members who fulfil the independence criteria listed in the FIFA Governance Regulations.”

The standing committees:

Development Committee

CHAIRMAN

AL KHALIFA Sheikh Salman Bin Ebrahim

Bahrain

DEPUTY CHAIRWOMAN

NSEKERA Lydia

Burundi

MEMBERS

LABRADOR Eric

Puerto Rico

ZHANG Jian

China PR

HAMM Mia

USA

BEYALA Sophie

Cameroon

CLARKE Greg

England

CUBILLAS Teofilo

Peru

MALINZI Jamal

Tanzania

MALTOCK Lambert

Vanuatu

MIHAYLOV Borislav

Bulgaria

RAZAFITRIMO Arisoa

Madagascar

SALAH Arturo

Chile

SANGARE Sita

Burkina Faso

SMITH Andy

New Zealand

TEGMO-REDDY Leyla

Turkey

YORKE Dwight

Trinidad and Tobago

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Finance Committee

CHAIRMAN

DOMINGUEZ Alejandro

Paraguay

DEPUTY CHAIRWOMAN

FRUEAN Sandra

American Samoa

MEMBERS

BICKERTON Andrew

British Virgin Islands

WITTMAN Vanessa

USA

CAMARA Mariam

Mali

CSANYI Sandor

Hungary

PATEL Praful

India

RAOURAOUA Mohamed

Algeria

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Football Stakeholders Committee

CHAIRMAN

MONTAGLIANI Victor

Canada

DEPUTY CHAIRMAN

CHRISTILLIN Evelina

Italy

MEMBERS

AL HARBI Ahmed Eid

Saudi Arabia

BARNES Bobby

England

CAFU

Brazil

CORDEIRO Carlos

USA

DE MARIA Decio

Mexico

D ONOFRIO Rodolfo

Argentina

GANDINI Umberto

Italy

GAZIDIS Ivan

England

GOMES Fernando

Portugal

LOPEZ JIMENEZ Pedro

Spain

MURAI Mitsuru

Japan

OLAND Mads

Denmark

PIAT Philippe

France

SCHAEFER Claudius

Switzerland

SCUDAMORE Richard

England

SEIFERT Christian

Germany

SHOR Augustin

Senegal

SHAW Deryck

New Zealand

VAN DER SAR Edwin

Netherlands

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Governance Committee and Review Committee

CHAIRMAN

POIARES MADURO Miguel

Portugal

DEPUTY CHAIRMAN

MUDGAL Mukul

India

MEMBERS

CANTUARIAS Felipe

Peru

CAMACHO DE TORREBIARTE Adela

Guatemala

GRINDEL Reinhard

Germany

LEKJAA Fouzi

Morocco

PILLAY Navi

South Africa

POPPER Ron

Switzerland

WEILER Joseph

USA

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Medical Committee

CHAIRMAN

D HOOGHE Michel

Belgium

MEMBERS

SINGH Gurcharan

Malaysia

AHMED Hosny Abdelrahman

Egypt

DOHI Michiko

Japan

CHIAMPAS George

USA

FORSSBLAD Magnus

Sweden

HERRERO Maria

Spain

KABUNGO Joseph

Zambia

MARTINEZ Gerinaldo

Panama

VILLANI Donato

Argentina

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Associations Committee

CHAIRMAN

HAYATOU Issa

Cameroon

DEPUTY CHAIRWOMAN

BIEN AIME Sonia

Turks and Caicos Islands

MEMBERS

KOUTSOKOUMNIS Costakis

Cyprus

GILLIERON Peter

Switzerland

SEALEY Anton

Bahamas

SOLOMONA Laupama

Samoa

AHMAD Ahmad

Madagascar

AKHTER Mahfuza

Bangladesh

AL WAHAIBI Sheikh Salem Said Salem

Oman

ARANETA Mariano

Philippines

CRISTINZIANO Carolina

Argentina

DIJKHOFF Richard

Aruba

HAN Un Gyong

Korea DPR

HENRIQUES Brigitte

France

JOHANSEN Isha

Sierra Leone

LAIGLE Steeve

New Caledonia

THORSTEINSSON Geir

Iceland

YARDIMCI Servet

Turkey

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Organising Committee for FIFA Competitions

CHAIRMAN

CEFERIN Aleksander

Slovenia

DEPUTY CHAIRMAN

CHUNG David

Papua New Guinea

DEPUTY CHAIRWOMAN

MUNOZ Maria Sol

Ecuador

MEMBERS

AL KHALIFA Shk. Ali Bin Khalifa

Bahrain

ARIIOTIMA Henri

Tahiti

BOLKIAH Sufri

Brunei Darussalam

CHRISTENSEN Jesper Moller

Denmark

CROOKS Charmaine

Canada

DESTOMBES Sue

South Africa

GJORGJIOSKI Ilcho

FYR Macedonia

HARRISON Robert

Paraguay

PINNICK Amaju

Nigeria

REI Anne

Estonia

SHALABI-MOLANO Susan

Palestine

SUKER Davor

Croatia

SUN Wen

China PR

TAJ Mehdi

Iran

TINOCO Rafael

Guatemala

WABERI Souleiman Hassan

Djibouti

ZANETTI Javier

Argentina

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Players’ Status Committee

CHAIRMAN

HACK Raymond

South Africa

MEMBERS

REVILLA Fernando

Peru

VAN GAALEN Johan

South Africa

ABEGA Prosper

Cameroon

AL JABER Sami

Saudi Arabia

CRUZ Jose Maria

Spain

DELLER Michel

Ecuador

DODD Moya

Australia

EVERARD Louis

Netherlands

GALLAVOTTI Mario

Italy

GROSSO Leonardo

Italy

GUIMARAES Castelar

Brazil

HEUSLER Bernhard

Switzerland

JOHN-WILLIAMS David

Trinidad and Tobago

LAI William

Solomon Islands

LAMBRECHT Wouter

Belgium

LIU Yongzhou

China PR

PENICHE Anna

Mexico

ROBERTS Jason

Grenada

SCOTT-HOWMAN Andrew

New Zealand

SOUARE Antonio

Guinea

THOMSEN Claus

Denmark

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Referees’ Committee

CHAIRMAN

COLLINA Pierluigi

Italy

MEMBERS

ANDINO Amelio

Paraguay

DAMKOVA Dagmar

Czech Republic

HALL Brian

USA

MAIDIN Shamsul

Singapore

MAILLET Eddy

Seychelles

POLOSO Neil

Solomon Islands

SENEME Wilson

Brazil

STOLTENKAMP Kevin

New Zealand

TALEB BALAN Hani

Qatar

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