Alexandra Wrage Resigns from FIFA Anti-Corruption Role

FIFA anti-corruption adviser Alexandra Wrage has resigned due to a perceived lack of progress from the organisation in improving internal transparency.

Wrage is the president of international compliance expert TRACE and she took up the advisory role to aid the introduction of modernising reforms in the wake of the bribery and World Cup vote-buying scandals.

She has now left due to FIFA’s approach to handling corruption.

A statement on TRACE’s website read: “[FIFA] remains the closed society that fuelled its problems to begin with.”

In the past Wrage had expressed her concerns at FIFA rejecting proposals to modernise, herbal including greater transparency over salaries, bonuses and more women candidates for high-profile posts.