He was speaking in Rome at a conference with the world football governing body Fifa on how to deal with the issue.
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Legal experts from the world football governing body Fifa arrived in Johannesburg on Thursday to help with that effort.
The 36-year-old is the youngest member of the executive committee of football's world governing body and is also president of the West Asian Football Federation (WAFF), which covers the Middle East. region.
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But what action will the Confederation of African Football, the continent's governing body, take?
"We're very aware of all of this, " said Steve Hatchell, president and CEO of the National Football Foundation, the Hall's governing body.
The Rovers team was in essence an All-Ireland XI and the Northern Ireland governing body Irish Football Association had opposed the staging of the game.
Villa Park was part of the bid, but football's governing body Fifa picked Russia to stage the 2018 event.
The Republic of Ireland football governing body also said that it was "incorrect" to claim that existing 10-year ticket holders who purchased in 2004 and 2006 had not paid for their tickets in full.
The resulting furore prompted football's world governing body, Fifa, to investigate the introduction of goal-line technology, which was used for the first time in a Club World Cup match last December.
The president of football's world governing body added that goal-line technology and extra referees would be considered for the South Africa finals.
The Welsh Rugby Union says it has made one bid with the Rugby Football Union - England's governing body - and a separate bid with the other home nations for the 2015 showpiece.
Kasuve and Swaleh travelled to Morocco to represent Kenya at the congress of football's governing body.
The allegations mean a third of football's world governing body executive committee - eight of the 24 members - have been accused of acting improperly, and in some cases taking bribes, in relation to the 2018 and 2022 World Cup bids.
The choice of Smith delighted those who had been calling for the successor to Uefa-bound David Taylor to be a "football person", mirroring the appointment of Michel Platini by European football's governing body.
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The club say that the pair have been suspended from international competition by football's world governing body Fifa, pending the outcome of a disciplinary hearing.
But under the guidelines of football's world governing body FIFA, what is said between them is not recorded.
The president of football's world governing body Fifa said any organisational problems would be overcome and also downplayed fears over crime.
FIFA, the governing body for world football, does not meet that description.
In the conflict within the Kenyan Federation the sports minister has sided with the chairman Alfred Sambu, who also has the backing of world football's governing body Fifa.
Fifa president Sepp Blatter said he was against the plans, but Premier League chief executive Richard Scudamore is still planning to discuss the proposals with world football's governing body.
Of course the governing body of world football, Fifa, whose leader once told us that players should just shake hands and avoid name calling, pays the same lip service to the promised eradication of race-fuelled disagreements, but nothing changes.
The backlash against Liverpool striker Luis Suarez continued on Monday with reaction from his club, Merseyside Police, and even Downing Street before English soccer's governing body, the Football Association, formally charged him with violent conduct for biting Chelsea defender Branislav Ivanovic in a game on Sunday.
The official backlash against Liverpool striker Luis Suarez continued on Monday with reaction from his club, Merseyside Police, and even Downing Street before English soccer's governing body, the Football Association, formally charged him with violent conduct for biting Chelsea defender Branislav Ivanovic in a game on Sunday.
Back on May 11, FIFA president Sepp Blatter proclaimed that the vote-selling scandal that has devastated world football and its governing body had to be resolved in time for the June 1 presidential election.
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The crisis comes as a delegation from European football's governing body, Uefa, is due to visit Dublin on Monday to see the prospective venues and plans for the tournament.
And what applies to the game's governing body also holds for the clubs and associations that run football around the world.
Apart from some Brazilian soccer stars having apparently lost their passion for the game, the main cause has a lot to do with a lack of motivation and corporate expertise at the governing body, the Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF).
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European football's governing body Fifa and its rule-making arm, the International Football Association Board, ordered a trial of the system last year as an alternative to using video replays.
Residents near the site proposed by Fifa, football's governing body, threaten legal action to stop its construction.
This was also covered in the FA statement Friday as English football's governing body sent out general advice.
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