FIFA denied on Friday reports in German media that president Gianni Infantino was under investigation for a possible ethics violation.
FIFA's new secretary general Fatma Samoura vowed "to help football restore its tarnished image" following a spate of scandals within the game's world governing body.
Domenico Scala, a Swiss businessman who led reforms to clean up scandal-plagued FIFA, quit his post at the global soccer body, saying its independent watchdog committees had lost their independence.
FIFA on Friday named Senegalese UN diplomat Fatma Samoura as the first female secretary general in the history of the male-dominated world football organisation.
Gianni Infantino on his first visit to Qatar as FIFA president insisted on Friday that the 2022 World Cup would be hosted there as planned.
UEFA president Michel Platini on Wednesday made a formal appeal against his six-year ban from football at the Court of Arbitration for Sport, the tribunal said.
Gianni Infantino insisted that FIFA's reform package would close the door on a chapter of pain at world football's governing body and usher in an era of joy.
FIFA’s new president Gianni Infantino yesterday faced the mountainous task of reforming and uniting world football, with a pile of crises from the scandal-ridden Sepp Blatter era needing urgent action.
Europe's Gianni Infantino and Asian football leader Sheikh Salman bin Ebrahim al Khalifa led the five man battle for votes ahead of crisis-stricken FIFA's landmark vote on Friday for a new president.
