Sports:New FIFA secretary general vows to improve game's 'tarnished image'

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Fatma Samoura, named as secretary general of FIFA on

May 13, 2016, comes from outside the football world,

having worked with the United Nations for 21 years. By

Stephane De Sakutin (AFP/File)

Paris (AFP) - FIFA's new secretary general Fatma Samoura
on Saturday vowed "to help football restore its tarnished
image" following a spate of scandals within the game's
world governing body.
"My goal is to support the programme of president Gianni
(Infantino) and to help football restore its tarnished image,"
the Senegalese UN diplomat, named Friday as FIFA's first
ever female secretary general, told AFP.
"And to those who speak of my lack of experience, I say
give me the time to prove myself," she added in a telephone
interview from Abuja, Nigeria, where she is representing the
United Nations Development Programme at a summit to
discuss efforts to defeat Islamist militant group Boko
Haram.
"FIFA is the United Nations of football and I bring 21 years
of experience in the private sector and the UN in terms of
good governance and transparency, and the obligation to
make the different federations and FIFA accountable,"
added the 54-year-old."We must try to restore football to what it was, the most
popular sport that breaches social divides.
"And one of the things I am going to try to do is bring
greater support to women's football."
Samoura, who was named as the successor to the
disgraced Jerome Valcke at a FIFA congress in Mexico on
Friday, will take her post by mid-June after undergoing an
eligibility check administered by an independent review
committee.

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