FIFA Corruption Needs To Be Exposed To Public - FIFA Vice President

No less than a top official from FIFA, Jordan Prince Ali bin al-Hussein, is calling for the exposure of alleged corruption in the bids process for the FIFA World Cup 2018 in Russia and FIFA World Cup 2022 in Qatar.

The move will promote transparency and earn more public trust for the world governing body for football, according to the Jordanian official.

Prince Ali, who was not part of the Executive Committee that handled the World Cup bids, shared his thoughts on social media Twitter. Here are the relevant posts from the verified account of the FIFA official:

In the interest of full transparency, I believe it is important that the much-anticipated report on the ethics investigation..

— Ali Bin Al Hussein (@AliBinAlHussein) September 23, 2014

that is crucial to ensuring good governance at FIFA is fully disclosed and open to the public. This will only help the football community.. — Ali Bin Al Hussein (@AliBinAlHussein) September 23, 2014

move ahead in reforming our institutions in the best interest of the sport. The entire football family as well as it's sponsors and..

— Ali Bin Al Hussein (@AliBinAlHussein) September 23, 2014

and those who follow the game worldwide have a full right to know the contents of the report in the spirit of complete openness. — Ali Bin Al Hussein (@AliBinAlHussein) September 23, 2014

Prince Ali’s take is different from that of Hans-Joachim Eckert, the chairman of the Adjudicatory Chamber of FIFA’s Ethics Committee. Eckert announced mid-September 2014 that a decision for the investigation on alleged corruption on the World Cup bids will be available to the public, although the actual and specific details of the report will never be revealed publicly.

Prince Ali is also the President of the Jordan Football Association and West Asian Football Federation.

While the FIFA Ethics Committee head doesn’t agree with the FIFA VP, the head of the investigation group that tackled the alleged corruption, Michael Garcia from the U.S.A, has sided with Al-Hussein. Garcia says that exposing the 350-page report on the alleged corruption should be made public.

"As a general matter, I think that the more that is public and the more that people can see what is done and agree with what was done, or disagree with what is done, then those issues can be resolved and the organisation can move on,” Garcia from the United States said via insidethegames.biz.

“Beyond any particular case, the public have to have confidence that the process is working in a fair way.”

Alleged FIFA corruption is rampant in the sport, considered the most followed in the world today. Issues with World Cup ticket sales and game-fixing scandals involving team officials, players and referees are just among the supposed fraudulent cases in recent years.

The new alleged corruption on the World Cup hosting bids is just one of the many FIFA scandals over the years; transparency on the report will be the start of the long process of bringing public trust back to the football organisation.