"I just hope that the world of football, and FIFA as well, will really enter into transparency… Sport is inseparable from fairness," the Chancellor said in her podcast published on Saturday.
She spoke in the wake of major changes within the football's governing body. Late last month, FIFA elected the new president, Gianni Infantino, at an extraordinary congress in Zurich. As the election results were announced, Infantino pledged to build a new FIFA era with the focus on football, adding that the "crises and sad times" were over.
The FIFA presidential election took place after Joseph Blatter, who was reelected for the fifth term, announced on June 2 his resignation amid an ongoing corruption scandal in the football governing body. Infantino will not serve a full term, but will assume Blatter's term, which was to expire in 2019.
At the same extraordinary summit, where Infantino was elected, FIFA member associations approved a package of landmark reforms aimed at major improvements in the football governing body, including reforms on decision-making, human rights' aspects, monitoring of the activity of FIFA senior officials, and enhancement of the control for money flows within the body.
