The four leagues put a call out for candidates for the FIFA presidency who will endorse their principles "within the first 100 days of the next presidential mandate". This combination of files pictures created on December 21, 2023 shows the UEFA logo (top) at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon on December 15, 2014 and the FIFA logo (bottom) at the FIFA Executive Football Summit in Istanbul on February 15, 2019. European football's governing body UEFA said they would maintain their boycott of the men's and women's World Cups on August 6, 2026 despite FIFA withdrawing the plan to open up their competitions to private investment.The four main European football leagues - the English Premier League, Spain's La Liga, Italy's Serie A and Germany's Bundesliga - called on Friday for a reform of FIFA.The sport's governing body has been mired in crisis since the revelation of a plan, since shelved, to create a commercial company FIFA Forward Enterprise (FFE), which would be open to private investors."Fundamental governance reform is essential to restore clear constitutional boundaries within FIFA, including confidence that individual disciplinary matters remain demonstrably insulated from political interference," the four leagues wrote in a statement sent to AFP."We are speaking up together, as founding members of European Leagues and the World Leagues Association, because we understand how FI...
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