The man charged with leading with FIFA's Reform Task Force (he was appointed earlier in Aug.) is a 77-year-old Swiss lawyer who spent 14 years as director general of the International Olympic Committee.
He's also a guy who, in 2015, believes that football in the United States -- the FIFA kind -- is "just an ethnic sport", something for "girls to play in schools". And who thinks it's a good idea to say as much. In a public, on-the-record interview.
Francois Carrard was speaking to the Swiss newspaper "Le Matin" and, thinking he must have been somehow taken out of context, I looked up the original article.