A proposal to increase the number of teams, from 32 to 36, in the 2006 World Cup finals was opposed.
FIFA said in a statement that it would work closely with member associations through workshops and special initiatives to "encourage female empowerment" through football.
Qatar's 2022 World Cup organising committee has denied being aware of any alleged payments by the disgraced former head of the country's soccer association to an ex-vice-president of FIFA.
Nearly $1 million in funds from soccer's global governing body FIFA may have gone missing from Guatemala's soccer federation last year, according to sources and an internal audit seen by Reuters.
FIFA are studying camera-based goalline technology as well as a "smartball" containing a computer chip.
The European football federation (UEFA) said it was "disappointed" in FIFA's decision today to ban Michel Platini for eight years over an ethics violation, expressing support for the Frenchman's right to an appeal, according to AFP.
FIFA faces more embarrassment after a member of its financial watchdog was arrested on suspicion of corruption and money-laundering in the Cayman Islands.
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Media reports suggest Sevilla's Argentine coach Jorge Sampaoli, who has never disguised his ambition to take charge of the national team and steered neighbouring Chile to the Copa America title in 2015, will step into the vacancy.
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UEFA has hit back at suggestions that it and other continental confederations have been responsible for blocking reforms.
Scandal-plagued FIFA have turned to the man who helped the International Olympic Committee (IOC) out of their corruption crisis, appointing Swiss Francois Carrard as chairman of their reform committee.
FIFA president Sepp Blatter endorsed a German proposal for stronger integrity checks to vet top soccer officials as the sport's global governing body grapples with the fallout of a massive corruption scandal.
"It is clear that there was a slush fund for the German World Cup bid," Zwanziger told Der Spiegel magazine, which first reported the allegations last week.
Two football bosses including a former president of Honduras pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to US charges they took bribes in exchange for media and marketing contracts in a scandal that has rocked the business of global football.
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