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Australian FIFA Exec Moya Dodd: Reform Is 'Most Important Priority'

As FIFA's exec committee prepares to meet in an emergency session to consider the fallout from President Sepp Blatter's 90-day suspension, Australian member Moya Dodd said that cleaning up the organization after the "worst corruption crisis in sporting history is far more important than whoever takes over as president," according to Andrew Warshaw of INSIDE WORLD FOOTBALL. Dodd spoke out over the need for "robust, concrete reform" in order to save the credibility of the organization. Dodd declined on several occasions to "fall into the trap of discussing individual cases" but conceded that the FIFA brand had "certainly been damaged." Dodd: "Now the most important priority is reform. It's more important than the elections that people seem most keen to talk about." FIFA has no choice but to reform; the scale of what we've seen emerge and are facing is unprecedented. Reform needs to go ahead urgently and it's important to establish a new and settled leadership and important that it is done as soon as possible." Getting more women into positions of prominence within FIFA has become "almost a vocation" for Dodd, who said that it "might even reduce corruption." She said, "We're still an overwhelmingly male world in football. If you look at congress there are less than one percent women who vote." She dismissed calls in some quarters to "disband FIFA altogether" (INSIDE WORLD FOOTBALL, 10/19). 

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