WORLD soccer governing body FIFA has turned to Francois Carrard, who helped oversee cleaning up the International Olympic Committee (IOC) after the Salt Lake City bidding scandal, to chair a group leading reforms.

    The 77-year-old Swiss will head the group charged with reforming the scandal-hit FIFA.

    FIFA said that each of the six continental soccer confederations would have two representatives on the task force, while there would also be two members appointed by FIFA’s commercial partners, to be announced.

    Those named included Gianni Infantino, secretary general of European soccer’s governing body UEFA, and Alasdair Bell, UEFA’s legal director.

    Asia’s representatives were Sheikh Ahmad al-Fahad al-Ahmed al-Sabah from Kuwait, a member of FIFA’s executive committee, and Australia’s Kevan Gospar, former vice president of the IOC.

    FIFA President Sepp Blatter, who is due to stand down in February when a new election will be held, said Carrard was the “right man” with a “proven track record.”

    FIFA said: “Over the next six months, the committee will develop a package of reform proposals that will be put before the extraordinary elective Congress due to take place in Zurich on Feb. 26, 2016.”

    (SD-Agencies)