FIFA: $250,000 for three meetings a year

Gianni Infantino had made a promise to reform Fifa. Cost control and credibility were the goals. In its 37 council members, however, the World Association does not seem to save money.

The World Football Association Fifa has allegedly paid almost 10 million US dollars (8.34 million euros) for its leaders in the last year. The New York Times reported that the newspaper refers to association-related sources. Each of the 37 members in the Fifa Council have therefore received as a basic salary 250,000 US dollars (208,000 euros), in addition to expenses and travel expenses. The official figures are expected in March.

The Fifa Council (Fifa Council) has been the successor of the Fifa Executive Committee since 2016, which until 2016 was the supreme decision-making body of the World Federation. In addition to President Gianni Infantino, the Council has eight vice-presidents and 28 ordinary members.

The allowances are unusually high for a committee of a non-profit organization, which only meets three times a year. They contradict Infantino's announcements that he would reform Fifa's cost structures during his term of office, thereby restoring the credibility of the association. Infantino was elected as the successor of Sepp Blatter in 2016 after the Fifa scandal.

The Times mentions KPMG's assessment that officials in similar roles in Britain's largest one hundred companies received on average only one-third of that sum.

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