GENEVA — FIFA has named Francois Carrard, who helped oversee cleaning up the International Olympic Committee after the Salt Lake City bidding scandal, as the chairman of a group that will propose reforms of soccer’s corruption-hit governing body.
Carrard, former director general of the International Olympic Committee, was chosen Tuesday to lead a team of 12 officials picked by the six soccer continental confederations, plus two chosen by World Cup sponsors.
The selection of the new FIFA executive committee member Sheik Ahmad al-Fahad al-Sabah of Kuwait as a member of the reform team confirmed the IOC powerbroker’s growing influence in world soccer.