{"version":"1.0","provider_name":"Mathematical 7","provider_url":"https:\/\/mathematical7.com\/m7","title":"The real reforms that FIFA needs. - Mathematical 7","type":"rich","width":600,"height":338,"html":"<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"mNMwpokFEL\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mathematical7.com\/m7\/the-real-reforms-that-fifa-needs\/\">The real reforms that FIFA needs.<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" src=\"https:\/\/mathematical7.com\/m7\/the-real-reforms-that-fifa-needs\/embed\/#?secret=mNMwpokFEL\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" title=\"&#8220;The real reforms that FIFA needs.&#8221; &#8212; Mathematical 7\" data-secret=\"mNMwpokFEL\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\"><\/iframe><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n\/* <![CDATA[ *\/\n\/*! This file is auto-generated *\/\n!function(d,l){\"use strict\";l.querySelector&&d.addEventListener&&\"undefined\"!=typeof URL&&(d.wp=d.wp||{},d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage||(d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage=function(e){var t=e.data;if((t||t.secret||t.message||t.value)&&!\/[^a-zA-Z0-9]\/.test(t.secret)){for(var s,r,n,a=l.querySelectorAll('iframe[data-secret=\"'+t.secret+'\"]'),o=l.querySelectorAll('blockquote[data-secret=\"'+t.secret+'\"]'),c=new RegExp(\"^https?:$\",\"i\"),i=0;i<o.length;i++)o[i].style.display=\"none\";for(i=0;i<a.length;i++)s=a[i],e.source===s.contentWindow&&(s.removeAttribute(\"style\"),\"height\"===t.message?(1e3<(r=parseInt(t.value,10))?r=1e3:~~r<200&&(r=200),s.height=r):\"link\"===t.message&&(r=new URL(s.getAttribute(\"src\")),n=new URL(t.value),c.test(n.protocol))&&n.host===r.host&&l.activeElement===s&&(d.top.location.href=t.value))}},d.addEventListener(\"message\",d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage,!1),l.addEventListener(\"DOMContentLoaded\",function(){for(var e,t,s=l.querySelectorAll(\"iframe.wp-embedded-content\"),r=0;r<s.length;r++)(t=(e=s[r]).getAttribute(\"data-secret\"))||(t=Math.random().toString(36).substring(2,12),e.src+=\"#?secret=\"+t,e.setAttribute(\"data-secret\",t)),e.contentWindow.postMessage({message:\"ready\",secret:t},\"*\")},!1)))}(window,document);\n\/\/# sourceURL=https:\/\/mathematical7.com\/m7\/wp-includes\/js\/wp-embed.min.js\n\/* ]]> *\/\n<\/script>\n","thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/mathematical7.com\/m7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/fifa.jpg","thumbnail_width":263,"thumbnail_height":192,"description":"As must be expected I have been following developments in FIFA since my involuntary exit from my daring quest to succeed Mr Sepp Blatter was aborted shortly after conception some months ago. It was hurtful but here I am still pounding the streets, alive and kicking! It is not surprising that nothing came out of that effort. Nigeria, indeed Africa, has just moved on to other more important matters. It is as if I never existed to start with, everybody and everything in sports back to their old ways. What a pity!   The FIFA elections will take place in a few weeks time. Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini will continue their lost battles to fight against 8-year bans imposed on them by the same \u2018monster\u2019 they created. It is the worst possible way to end their careers in football that spanned several decades despite their total stranglehold over football matters until only a few months ago when they both drank from the poisoned chalice of their private and unwritten business.   One year ago, no one could possibly have envisaged or predicted the magnitude of their fall from grace. At that time both men were revered and feared. They were the two most powerful persons in football administration, answerable to no one, accountable to no one, with the power to decide the fate of any or all of the 209 countries they superintended over. It is the monster they created that finally consumed them, and their world came tumbling down from the top of Mount Olympus. Six weeks away from the elections the field of contestants untainted by the splattering waste of the worst scandals in football history has become so thin that no one seems to even know who truly deserves to lead the organization into the future. It appears that none of the present contestants represents the authentic change that FIFA, traumatised since the beginning of the present crisis, demands and deserves at this time. Each contestant seems to carry baggage from the past. All is not lost though as I believe that there is light at the end of this dark tunnel. Already one of the contestants is singing my old song as part of his election manifesto - to introduce the concept of regional World Cup, an idea I mooted in 2003, \u2018sold\u2019 to the 5 countries along the African West coast to be led by Nigeria, that was shot down by some myopic interests even before the idea left the tarmac of implementation. That story will be told fully one day for the sake of posterity. In the aftermath of the present crisis, the world is demanding genuine reforms in FIFA. I have read a key element of a new proposal by the reforms committee that prescribes a limited maximum three-term tenure of 12 years for the president."}