updated 6:24 p.m. ET Oct. 3, 2011
COLOGNE, Germany - Longtime International Olympic Committee member Dick Pound says FIFA is not being transparent about the extent of corruption within the organization and lacks the will to clean up soccer.
Having led the IOC's inquiry into the Salt Lake City bidding scandal, Pound believes FIFA is in the midst of a deeper crisis that needs to be resolved to protect the integrity of the sport.
Pound attacked FIFA in a speech to a conference in Germany on Monday, two weeks before FIFA President Sepp Blatter plans to present the anti-corruption reforms demanded after a year of bribery scandals within his executive committee.
Pound, a Montreal lawyer, says FIFA is failing to recognize "the many problems it faces," be transparent about what it finds or show "it has the will to solve them."
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