Council of Europe: report on "Football Governance: Business and Values"

• "To achieve transparency, fairness and solidarity in football financing, including reform of the transfer market;
• ensure the hosts of major events comply with stringent human rights, social and environmental obligations;
• protect players, particularly young players, from abuse or exploitation;
• promote gender equality and end discrimination in the sport," are the detailed practical recommendations to FIFA, UEFA and other major bodies involved in football in the report by the Culture Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), published on 02/12/2021.

"The committee said FIFA's plan for a World Cup every two years could have 'disastrous consequences for world football', and urged it not to proceed without the agreement of European stakeholders and the IOC," explained the Council of Europe in the report drafted by Lord George Foulkes (United Kingdom / Socialists, Democrats and Greens Group).

"The report, which was unanimously adopted, is due to be debated and voted on at the January (2022) plenary session of the Assembly, which brings together…