We did not block FIFA reforms - UEFA


  • Football
  • Wednesday, 01 Jul 2015

UEFA Secretary General Gianni Infantino gestures during a news conference after UEFA Executive Committee meeting in Prague, June 30, 2015. REUTERS/David W Cerny

PRAGUE (Reuters) - UEFA has hit back at suggestions that it and other continental confederations have been responsible for blocking reforms aimed at cleaning up soccer's scandal-plagued world governing body FIFA.

UEFA general secretary Gianni Infantino said there were enough mechanisms in place to ensure that only officials with a clean past were elected on to FIFA committees.

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