Sentence examples for soccer governance from inspiring English sources

While there is a financial logic to playing in full NFL and MLS stadiums, it is hardly 'developing the game', to use the soccer governance mantra, for every event to be held in the same places every edition.

While most of the conference was dedicated to the World Cup, it was clear that someone would have to address the elephant in the room: why aren't more women involved in soccer governance?

Efforts to reform Asian soccer governance have stalled more than a year after FIFA ousted disgraced former Asian Football Confederation (AFC) president Mohammed Bin Hammam in the sport's worst corruption scandal that tainted multiple members of the executive committees of both the world soccer and the Asian soccer body.

Nevertheless, what Mr. Blatter's support did not do was ensure an independent investigation into the allegation that would have been in line with best practice rather than uphold soccer governance's policing of itself.

Instead, Sheikh Salman, a member of Bahrain's ruling family, has spent his first year in office seeking to expand his power base at the expense of soccer governance's few reformers, among whom first and foremost Jordan's Prince Ali Bin Al Hussein, whom Sheikh Salman in an undemocratic manoeuvre rather than a free and fair election, is seeking to replace as FIFA vice president.

The message is that either soccer changes its governance, or change will be forced upon it by government.

In recent years, leagues have taken to punishing players for similar acts of cheating, so this latest rule seems like a natural progression in soccer's ongoing governance.

Australia's sports minister Sussan Ley said last week the government could not consider committing public money toward any future bid overseen by FIFA until major reform of the governance of global soccer.

The risks that governance of world soccer will be called into question by the new revelations of questionable payments by Mr. Bin Hammam to Mr. Warner were enhanced by the fact that groups like FIFA and the AFC no longer fully control the issue.

"Under Qatar's Kafala employment sponsorship system, foreign migrant workers cannot change employers or leave Qatar without the permission of their current employer," said Berry on Wednesday in testimony before a US Senate subcommittee hearing on the governance and integrity of international soccer.

In place of serious discussion of her policies on the environment, on human rights, on taxes, free speech and governance; we've had only talks about soccer moms.