Fifa setting standards for world sport

PORT LOUIS — Fifa has emerged from one of the most troubled periods in its history and is now setting the highest standards for governance in world sport, Fifa president Sepp Blatter said yesterday.

Making his presidential address to delegates from 208 of the world governing body’s 209 members at the 63rd Fifa Congress, Blatter said the wide-ranging reform process started two years had changed the organisation, but the modifications and fights against racism and the scourge of match-fixing went on.

“We have been through a difficult time, it has been a test for the world of football and for those who live in it,” the 77-year-old Swiss said.

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