The Azzrentice - Trebs, GSC, Miky

Good evening Azzy, I present to you the team submission from myself, GSC and Holymiky.

Our team name:

INTEGRITY
Integrity, as I’m sure you are aware, means the quality of being honest and having strong moral principles which is why we as a team chose this name to shape the future of FIFA. We feel that this name best shows our plans and our intensions moving forward and to make the footballing fans around the world start trusting and believing in FIFA again.

Our five main goals: We present our five points on FIFA. They have been put in order, with what we feel to be the most important first.

1. TRANSPARENCY OF FIFA
Ladies and Gentlemen, FIFA is a joke. A worldwide punchline that stumbles into one PR disaster after another. Confidence in FIFA is non existant. FIFA must begin earning back the trust of Football fans across the world. That starts with becoming a more transparent and open organisation. We will create a brand new organisation set up to investigate and punish those found responsible of corruption within FIFA. This organisation will be wholly independent on FIFA and have jurisdiction over everybody associated with FIFA, and is to be headed up by people with unchallengeable morals. These people will be replaced every 12 months. We also propose that every investigation carried out by this organisation is to be made public, and open to scrutiny by the outside world. They will have powers ranging from fines to suspensions and termination. By winning back trust and by that sponsors, we believe this organisation will fund itself in the long run.

2. CHARITABLE CAUSES
This links in with the earlier point that there is a lack of transparency on Fifa. According to the 2013 FIFA finances (the most recent available) 4% of the cash spent went to charitable causes, such as refereeing, amateur football, women's football etc. This is a start, as FIFA explain that their aims are to 'inspire communities... everybody has the right to play football' and promote cultural and humanitarian values. For being a big part of FIFA's aims, more money should be put into it.

We want to increase this to 10% to help these causes. FIFA spent $1.3 billion in 2013 and it is unclear how the money is spent in the report. We cannot see what the top executives make, the governors earn 5% which can be reduced by a couple of percent, and 72% was put into organising events. Is it necessary to have $2 billion set aside for Russia? I think not. The difference between 4% and 10% is a couple of hundred million. Another thing that could help to account for this is to get sponsors to be involved in such charitable causes, which I am sure they will only be too happy to do as this would be good publicity.

3. YELLOW CARD SIN BIN
We feel that a Sin Bin system should be implemented similar to orange cards however without adding any new punishments we can use the yellow card and the opinion of the referee to punish players during the game by deciding on if the level of the foul is deemed enough for a Sin Bin punishment. This would be for a set amount of time during the game and one of the advantages to this is as much as it is a punishment it will potentially give that player some time to cool off perhaps stopping them from receiving a possible red card straight away. Not only would the player be punished due to this but the team would be as well giving the opposition an advantage. We feel that this would then squeeze out the likes of diving and “Tactical fouls” especially if the player involved knows that they will be out of the game leaving their team short of a man for 10 minutes as an example.

4. RETROSPECTIVE ACTION.
With the amount of TV cameras at grounds and the increased scrutiny referees can be put under for wrong mistakes, it is time to reverse the rule stating organisations cannot take retrospective action against obvious wrong decisions if technology proves them wrong. We believe this will allow Football to clamp down on diving, something which is polluting Football's reputation.

5. WORLD CUP SLOTS
At present, the current split has Africa with 5 places, Asia 4 (with one additional play-off slot), and likewise for South America. However, Africa has approximately the same amount of teams that enter the world cup qualifying as Europe, who get 13 places. We want to increase their slots and make it fairer for countries here to qualify. While we appreciate that this may lead to one or two smaller European nations being unhappy, we feel that this will bring the world cup to the world and also give us favourable votes from these continents. Oceania would also get a 'proper' slot for the world, instead of only a play-off.


I hope you enjoyed reading our submission and we look forward to hearing your response.