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What should FIFA do about corruption?

4 January 2011 in Anti-corruption movement, Sport

Sylvia Schenk, senior advisor for sport at Transparency International offers some suggestions on what makes a good anti-corruption programme. Clearly Sepp Blatter, the head of FIFA, football’s governing body, spent the holiday season mulling over the impact of the corruption scandal at FIFA. Sport plays an important role in the lives of fans and players […]

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FIFA: No way back. Es führt kein Weg zurück

1 December 2010 in Lobbying, Sport

By Sylvia Schenk, Transparency International’s Senior Advisor on Corruption in Sport. German original below. Should one actually feel sorry for FIFA? For days now you could watch FIFA desperately trying to keep the balance amidst corruption revelations. The planned decision regarding the hosts of the World Cups in 2018 and 2022 on 2 December in […]

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Blowing the whistle on match-fixing

2 December 2009 in Accountability, Sport, Whistleblowing

Sylvia Schenk, a former German Olympic athlete and lawyer, is a senior advisor to Transparency International, the anti-corruption NGO and chair of TI Deutschland, TI’s German chapter. What a surprise: there is match-fixing in football and the authorities appear to be taken aback. This was not supposed to happen. Four years ago when German referee […]

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