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NYON: UEFA secretary general Gianni Infantino said on Friday that European football's governing body wanted to see progress in the promised shakeup in the governance of world governing body FIFA in the next three months.
FIFA president Sepp Blatter pledged to initiate wide-ranging reforms including an overhaul of the way in which future World Cup hosts are chosen amid the fallout of weeks of graft allegations in the run-up to his reelection on June 1.
“The Executive Committee takes good note of the will of FIFA to take concrete and efficient measures with regards to good governance, expects to see results within the next three months and is following the situation closely,” said Infantino, after a two-day meeting of the UEFA Executive Committee here.
The Executive Committee also fixed the financial distribution to teams participating in the Euro 2012 finals in Poland and the Ukraine at 196 million euros.
Each team will receive a minimum 8 million euro with a performance bonus at the group stage of 500,000 euro for a draw and one million euro for a win, as well as a bonus of one million euro to the third-placed team in the group.
The quarter-finalists will each receive two million euro, the semi-finalists three million, the runners-up 4.5million and the winners 7.5 million.
The next Executive Committee meeting will be on September 22-23 in Limassol, Cyprus.
