US monitorship move may be best chance of Fifa reform: lawyers

New York

US prosecutors could eventually try to impose a court-appointed monitor on Fifa to ensure that soccer's corruption-hit governance body cleans up its act, according to lawyers who have helped troubled companies and other entities to reform. Fifa's decision last week to establish its own task force to propose reforms has been blasted by critics who say the organisation has shown over many years it is incapable of transforming from within.

Leading Fifa sponsors Coca-Cola Co and Visa Inc have joined labour union and anti-corruption groups in demanding Fifa agree to the establishment of a fully independent reform commission. Visa CEO Charlie Scharf said on Thursd…