A boy jumps to catch the ball in a soccer field beside the Guaiba lake in Porto Alegre, June 19, 2014. REUTERS/Edgard Garrido
ZURICH (Reuters) - The vast majority of national football associations (FA) are failing to make basic information public, creating a potential breeding ground for corruption, anti-corruption watchdog Transparency International said in a report on Thursday.
Transparency said that 81 percent (167) of FIFA's 209 affiliated FAs have no financial records publicly available, 85 percent (178 FAs) published no annual reports of their activities and more than one in five did not even have a website.
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