U.S. Soccer president Sunil Gulati made a rare public statement on Wednesday — participating in a Q&A session with Democratic political consultant
“I’m not doing any media today,” Gulati said.
Gulati is a member of the FIFA executive committee and a leading member of its reform wing. But hehas rarely spoken about the current state of FIFA, sending U.S. Soccer CEO in his place to the Senate hearing on FIFA in July.
“At FIFA, obviously, especially since May,” he said, “theDepartment of Justice and the Swiss government have intervened, there’s been a lot of turmoil, and we’re going through a process now to try to set forward a number of changes, reforms, that wouldprevent that from happening in the future. I think a lot of those will pass at the FIFA Congress, next February. And there’s plenty of good things the organizations have done in shepherding thesport.”